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Laptop displaying an AI intake record beside call-center documentation with a stress-score field marked for review.

AI Governance & Ethics

Start Your EU AI Inventory With Uses That May Be Banned

Before ranking hundreds of AI systems by risk, identify uses that may be prohibited outright. A focused interview can expose issues hidden by product names and vendor claims.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A laptop displaying a credit denial notice beside printed underwriting records and a consumer credit report.

AI Governance & Ethics

An AI Credit Denial Needs a Reason, Not a System Name

A model name or risk score does not tell an applicant why credit was denied. A defensible notice connects the outcome to specific factors and preserves the records needed to challenge them.

Irene Vasko · 7 min read

Laptop showing an invoice portal beside a vendor page, with an agent tool-call log open on a second screen.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

A Web Page Can Turn Your Browser Agent Against Its Tools

Indirect prompt injection turns page content into commands for an AI agent. Authenticated sessions raise the stakes because the agent may already have access to files, email, purchases, or account settings.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read

A browser window showing a store return policy beside an agent action log and a blocked navigation notice.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

Hidden Webpage Text Can Hijack a Browser Agent’s Task

A browser agent abandoned a return-policy lookup after reading an instruction planted in the page. Layered controls limited the damage, but only one preserved the task.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read

An RTX-equipped Windows laptop transcribing a 60-minute meeting in Buzz beside a digital audio recorder.

Consumer AI Hardware

When Your Laptop Can Replace Paid Transcription

Run one 60-minute recording locally before canceling a transcription subscription. Processing speed matters, but speaker labels, language support, battery use, and privacy usually decide the result.

Devin Oyelaran · 8 min read

A laptop displaying a performance summary beside an open meeting transcript and employee review notes.

AI Governance & Ethics

AI Performance Summaries Need More Than a Warning

When email, chat, or meeting summaries become performance evidence, a generic AI notice is inadequate. Workers need access to the record, correction paths, retention limits, and a real appeal.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing an inbox beside a workflow record with message, draft and checkpoint IDs.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

Why Inbox Agents Repeat Work After a Restart

An agent can change an inbox, lose its working context, then repeat the same actions. Checkpoint design determines whether it resumes cleanly or leaves duplicate drafts and missing work.

Mara Quintero · 7 min read

Support ticket text beside structured fields for issue type, order number, summary and selected internal tool.

AI Industry & Models

Use a Smaller AI Model Until the Accuracy Breaks

Smaller models can classify, extract and route routine work with less delay and expense. The useful boundary appears only when each task is tested separately.

Tobias Lund · 7 min read

Procurement screen beside a terminal showing a model file hash, prompt version, and deployment log fields.

AI Governance & Ethics

Open Model Weights Still Leave Auditors in the Dark

A downloadable model checkpoint reveals parameters, not where the training data came from or how a deployed system behaved. Use this checklist before accepting an AI transparency claim.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

An accounts-payable screen showing a prepared payment beside an audit log entry and approval status.

AI Governance & Ethics

An AI Agent Should Not Move Money Until It Logs This

A chat transcript is not an audit trail. Before an agent submits a payment, its log must preserve the evidence, authorization, and exact action that crossed the boundary.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop displaying an AI request log beside a printed support policy manual and customer ticket queue.

AI Industry & Models

Prompt Caching Makes Big Manuals Cheaper for Small AI Apps

A support assistant can reuse the computation behind a static policy manual instead of processing it from scratch. The savings depend on keeping that manual at the start of every request, unchanged.

Tobias Lund · 7 min read

Camera-equipped glasses beside a phone showing privacy settings and a charging case on a table.

Consumer AI Hardware

Set Up AI Glasses Before Their Camera Leaves the House

A privacy-first walkthrough for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, covering the capture light, voice history, contacts, cloud processing and the conversation to have before recording anyone.

Devin Oyelaran · 8 min read