Shadow AI: why blocking no longer keeps you in control
Shadow AI is exploding: 49% of employees use AI without permission and even leadership looks the other way. Blocking no longer works — this approach does.
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I regularly share insights on AI, strategy and the choices organisations need to make now to stay relevant.
The invisible store: how AI agents are turning online retail upside down
Agentic commerce shifts the e-commerce battle from visibility to selection. What Google's UCP, ChatGPT shopping research and Bol's Billie mean for your webshop.
AI Training Obligation 2026: Your Organization Must Act Now
Article 4 of the EU AI Act mandates AI literacy training for every organization that uses AI. Enforcement by national regulators starts in August 2026.
Dark Patterns Ban and Mandatory Cancel Button: June 19, 2026
The dark patterns ban takes effect on June 19, 2026 with a mandatory cancel button for financial services websites. What does EU Directive 2023/2673 mean for your business?
OpenClaw Strategy: The Wake-Up Call Every CEO Needs Now
What's your OpenClaw strategy? Jensen Huang posed this question at GTC 2026. Companies without an AI agent strategy risk repeating the fatal mistakes of businesses that missed the internet wave.
AI Skills Are the New Phishing — Here's How to Protect Yourself
AI skills are small pieces of software that enable your AI assistant to act rather than merely talk — and they represent a serious security risk. Three documented incidents, one practical solution: have Claude build the skill itself.
Software on Demand: You Ask, It Exists
At Friends of Search, Frederick Vallaeys showed how his team sends the same prompt to four AI agents simultaneously and picks the best output. This is not workflow optimisation — this is a fundamentally different way of building software. What does Software on Demand mean for your work?
Autoresearch: the end of A/B-testing as we know it
On March 6, 2026, Andrej Karpathy published a 630-line Python script. Within a week it had 30,000 stars. It's called autoresearch — and it changes everything we thought we knew about optimisation.
Everyone Can Build Now. But Not Everyone Has Something to Say.
Vibe coding democratises the building of tools. But the moment your tool needs up-to-date data, you hit a wall of expensive APIs and unreliable LLM knowledge. The new dividing line: do you have data that is worth building for?