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OpenAI Presence Is a Bet on Governed Agents, Not Just Better Models
OpenAI Presence packages policies, permissions, evaluations and human escalation around enterprise voice and chat agents. The product is a bet…
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OpenAI Is Retiring Atlas. The Browser Is Becoming a Capability Layer
OpenAI is retiring its Atlas browser and moving browser-agent capabilities into ChatGPT and Codex. The strategic shift is from owning…
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Policy Exceptions Need Owners, Evidence and Expiry Dates
Policy exceptions are necessary, but unmanaged exceptions become permanent policy drift. Each one needs a narrow scope, accountable owner, evidence…
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OpenAI Has Slowed Astra Over Critical Cyber Risk. Here Is What That Means
OpenAI says it cannot rule out Critical cyber capabilities in Astra. The important story is what that threshold means, which…
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Human Oversight Is a Workflow, Not a Name on a Register
Meaningful human oversight requires evidence, authority, timing and an escalation route. A reviewer’s name alone is not a control.
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Policy Search Is Not Policy Evidence
AI can find relevant policy text quickly. Governance begins when an organisation can show which version was authoritative, why it…
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AI-Assisted Coding Needs a Spectrum of Human Review
AI can accelerate software delivery, but the level of human review should rise with the consequence of being wrong.
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AI Transparency Is an Operating Workflow, Not a Label
The EU AI Act’s transparency duties are now live. The work is not simply a label: it is an owned…
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OpenAI’s Astra Claims Are Extraordinary. Here Is What Has Actually Been Shown
OpenAI has attached a name to its next major model family and an unusually ambitious claim to its capabilities. Astra,…
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The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident: Why AI Evaluations Need Production-Grade Security
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident shows why advanced AI evaluations need the same containment, monitoring and response discipline as high-risk production…