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OpenAI lost a monopoly this week. It went straight for the next one.
ian zeinSubstack

OpenAI lost a monopoly this week. It went straight for the next one.

Microsoft and OpenAI ended their exclusivity on Monday. Hours later, news leaked that OpenAI is building its own phone. The race is no longer to win the model. It is to conquer the user.

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Storage is not intelligence. Structure is.
ian zeinSubstack

Storage is not intelligence. Structure is.

Why "throw it all in the prompt" is the same mistake as "file it all in SharePoint."

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The agent works on day one. The trouble starts in week three.
Arjé CahnSubstack

The agent works on day one. The trouble starts in week three.

Field notes from three of my own quietly failing agents.

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Take a look in our Lab
ian zeinSubstack

Take a look in our Lab

Aimable Lab is a great way to share what we are cooking up

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GPT-Rosalind is great news
ian zeinSubstack

GPT-Rosalind is great news

Ungoverned specialised AI is the same trust problem in a nicer suit

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The AI Act is a to-do list, not a stop sign
ian zeinSubstack

The AI Act is a to-do list, not a stop sign

Pavle Bojkovski's annotated reading makes the shape of it obvious. Three things to put in place, and your team can finally use AI on the work that matters.

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Trusted Intelligence #2: Bart built Aimable into Excel this week
Arjé CahnSubstack

Trusted Intelligence #2: Bart built Aimable into Excel this week

What's happening in AI, from the team making it safe to use on sensitive data.

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Arjé CahnSubstack

Our AIs Run the Household and the Business

Real experiences with personal, family, and business AI agents. What works, what fails, and why safety matters more than you think.

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The New Yorker just exposed OpenAI
ian zeinSubstack

The New Yorker just exposed OpenAI

Here's what it means for every organisation using AI

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Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum fame, runs AI on his own laptop
ian zeinSubstack

Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum fame, runs AI on his own laptop

Here's why that matters for your organisation

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Anthropic stopped covering OpenClaw in Claude subscriptions
ian zeinSubstack

Anthropic stopped covering OpenClaw in Claude subscriptions

Here's how AI pricing actually works

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Introducing the Aimable Newsletter
Arjé Cahn

Introducing the Aimable Newsletter

A weekly look at AI through the eyes of the team building Aimable. What we're seeing, what we think about it, and what it means for organisations using AI on sensitive data.

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Trusted Intelligence #1 - What’s Happening in AI
Pim VerschoorSubstack

Trusted Intelligence #1 - What’s Happening in AI

A look at AI through the eyes of the team building Aimable.

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Arjé CahnSubstack

We stopped writing prompts. We started recording conversations.

No consultants. No workshops. Just conversations, a phone recorder, and iteration.

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Software isn't dying. But a lot of software companies are about to find out they were never essential.
ian zeinSubstack

Software isn't dying. But a lot of software companies are about to find out they were never essential.

The panic in the market is real.

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Your AI assistant can be turned against you with a hidden line in an email
Ian Zein

Your AI assistant can be turned against you with a hidden line in an email

Researchers demonstrated a prompt injection attack against Microsoft Copilot. Hidden instructions in emails make the AI generate phishing links and exfiltrate internal data.

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WebMCP: the web just became agent-ready. Now what?
Bart EversSubstack

WebMCP: the web just became agent-ready. Now what?

What is it?

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On-prem never left. We just stopped talking about it.
Ian Zein

On-prem never left. We just stopped talking about it.

The same pattern that played out with cloud infrastructure is repeating with AI. Not everything belongs in someone else's cloud.

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A US judge ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million ChatGPT logs. That checkbox didn't help.
Ian Zein

A US judge ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million ChatGPT logs. That checkbox didn't help.

Turning off training doesn't mean your data is safe. A federal court just proved it.

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Where AI gets its facts, and why that's a problem for your business
Ian Zein

Where AI gets its facts, and why that's a problem for your business

Over 40% of LLM citations come from Reddit. If your organisation relies solely on public models, you're exposed.

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Splitting wood, thinking about watts per query
ian zeinSubstack

Splitting wood, thinking about watts per query

The Aimable team spent a day in the forest at my cofounder Arjé’s place, splitting wood and enjoying the quiet.

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