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16 July 2026 · Model Evaluation
Building the Ed-o-meter: Notes on Writing My Own LLM Benchmark
The harness, the tasks, the decisions that turned out to matter, and the mistakes — written down mostly because the mistakes were more informative than the results.
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5 July 2026 · Technology Strategy
Locked-Down Fable Disappoints, Cheap-as-Chips GLM-5.2 Unsafe, GPT-5.5 Wins as the All-Rounder
GPT-5.5 passed 28 of 28, GLM-5.2 passed 26 at an eighth of the cost, and Fable 5 refused five perfectly benign tasks
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2 July 2026 · UK AI News
The UK AI Policy Landscape: What Enterprise Leaders Need to Track in 2026
There is no UK AI Act, and none is coming. What exists instead is an estate — regulators, compute money, sandboxes, institutes — that only makes sense viewed whole.
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2 July 2026 · UK AI News
AI Growth Labs: What the UK's Regulatory Sandboxes Mean for Your Sector
Regulatory sandboxes for AI open to legal services this summer, with other sectors to follow. What direct access to your regulator buys, and what to do before applications open.
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2 July 2026 · Enterprise Adoption
The Agent Governance Gap: $202m Budgets, 26 Percent Cost Visibility
Q2 2026 data shows agent deployment plateauing, orchestration doubling and employee resistance quadrupling — with the money committed before the controls exist.
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2 July 2026 · Technology Strategy
Is Claude Fable 5 Worth It for Enterprise Coding?
Fable 5 leads every coding benchmark here by a wide margin, at double the price of Anthropic's own Opus 4.8. Whether the premium is worth it, and where GLM-5.2 does the job just as well.
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1 July 2026 · Technology Strategy
How to Sandbox AI Agent Code: Firecracker, OpenSandbox, Docker, SmolVM and nono Compared
The brief said microVMs, but only two of the five are. A decision guide to the four isolation models for running AI agent code — and how to pick the right one.
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6 June 2026 · Technology Strategy
Multi-Agent Orchestration Frameworks Compared: ruflo, Aperant, Sandcastle, Mission Control and Maestro
An evidence-based comparison of five multi-agent orchestration tools — ruflo, Aperant, Sandcastle, Mission Control and Maestro — by popularity, use case, hosting and community feedback.
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30 May 2026 · Technology Strategy
GSD, BMAD, OpenSpec, or GitHub Spec Kit: Choosing the Right AI Development Framework
Four spec-driven AI development frameworks have emerged as the serious options for structured AI coding. They share a starting principle — and diverge sharply on everything else.
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21 May 2026 · Enterprise · Technology Strategy
Claude Memory and Dream: Evidence, Architecture and Risk
Reported deployment gains, system architecture, and the governance risks of persistent, self-editing agents.
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15 May 2026 · UK AI · Enterprise
UK AI Regulation Tightens: What the ICO Guidance and Parliament's Inquiry Mean for Employers
The ICO, Parliament, and the DRCF are reshaping what UK employers must do when AI touches decisions that affect people.
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8 May 2026 · Enterprise
The Enterprise AI Reality Check: Why 79% of Organisations Aren't Seeing ROI
AI funding hit $300 billion in Q1 2026. Meanwhile, 79% of organisations face significant adoption challenges. Here is what the successful 29% are doing differently.
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29 April 2026 · UK AI · Enterprise
UK Sovereign AI: What the Government's £500m Bet Means for Your Organisation
Liz Kendall's £500m Sovereign AI programme frames compute concentration as a national security risk. Here is what it signals for enterprise technology strategy.
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24 April 2026 · Technology Strategy
GPT-5.5 and the Age of Autonomous Task Completion
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is the first mainstream model designed for AI that acts rather than assists. Here is what the governance and workflow implications mean for enterprise teams.
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22 April 2026 · Enterprise · Technology Strategy
A2A Protocol: An Enterprise Architecture Decision Guide
What A2A standardises, where interoperability still stops, and how to evaluate vendor support in architecture and procurement.
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20 April 2026 · AI · Global
Global AI Adoption: How Different Countries Are Embracing Artificial Intelligence
From US velocity to EU caution, Chinese state strategy to Middle Eastern sovereign ambition — a country-by-country breakdown.
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19 April 2026 · AI · Cybersecurity
Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: What the Security Evidence Shows
Reported vulnerability findings, limits of the available data, and implications for security teams.
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13 April 2026 · AI · UK
UK AI Companies: A Field Guide to Ten Organisations
An unranked selection used to examine what the UK ecosystem produces and where it remains constrained.
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12 April 2026 · AI · Software Engineering
RAG vs GraphRAG: Which Retrieval Architecture Is Right for Your AI Application?
Retrieval-augmented generation transformed enterprise AI. Now GraphRAG is challenging the assumptions it was built on.
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5 April 2026 · AI · Enterprise
Copilot Studio vs Azure AI Foundry vs AWS Bedrock
A practical guide to choosing the right enterprise AI platform for your organisation.
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14 March 2026 · AI · Education
The UK's AI Skills Gap: The Biggest Opportunity of the Decade
73% of UK adults have had no AI training at all. Here's where the opportunity lies — and where to start.
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27 May 2026 · AI · Software Engineering
GitHub Copilot vs Claude Code vs Cursor
A practical comparison of three AI coding tools — with real-world pricing models and costs at scale.
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10 February 2026 · AI · Policy · UK
The UK's Public AI Infrastructure: Government Institutes Shaping the National AI Ecosystem
From the Alan Turing Institute to the AI Security Institute — what the UK's publicly funded AI bodies actually do and why they matter.
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18 February 2026 · AI · Enterprise · Microsoft
Microsoft Foundry: Architecture, Governance and Trade-offs
A decision guide to Foundry's control plane, model and agent services, Azure advantages, operational costs and trade-offs.
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22 January 2026 · AI · Enterprise
Generative AI Adoption by Industry
A sector-by-sector breakdown covering financial services, healthcare, retail, legal, charities and more.
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12 November 2025 · AI
AI-Assisted Web Development: Where It Helps and Where It Fails
Where coding and content tools save time, where they create risk, and which review controls matter.
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