AI agents can leak personal information without anyone asking them to. In November 2026, a Claude Code issue showed the agent putting a developer’s account email in HTTP User-Agent headers when websites asked automated visitors to identify themselves. Filters on outgoing commands help, but keeping unneeded personal data out of the model’s context is the […]
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Human Attention Is the Scarce Resource in the Age of AI Agents
Human attention, not model intelligence or computing power, may be the real limit on AI agent productivity. One developer can comfortably supervise a couple of agents, but every extra agent adds questions, approvals and progress reports. DeepSeek’s Super-agent design uses a Router, Workers and a Watchdog to cut that coordination, and points to a better […]
AI Is Becoming a Race of Flags, Not Just Models
Governments are buying equity in frontier AI labs rather than funding them with grants. Canada committed up to C$1.6 billion for a stake in Cohere, Chinese state investors supplied about 27% of DeepSeek’s US$15.8 billion round, and Washington has debated taking stakes in American labs. Frontier model work is being treated as national infrastructure, which […]
AI Vendors Want Their Agents Trusted, Just Not Their Contracts Tested
When an AI agent makes a costly mistake, most enterprise contracts leave the customer holding the risk. Vendors are building agents that act on their own, while their terms make customers responsible for checking outputs and limit what vendors owe when things go wrong. Before an agent touches financial systems or customer records, settle accountability, […]
Google’s $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines’ email archive
Google has bid $10 million in bankruptcy court for Spirit Airlines’ internal records: roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages, plus spreadsheets and documents written by employees doing their jobs. The first wave of large language models learned from the public web, so they can explain a business without knowing how one actually runs. […]
Apple’s $429 Kitchen Timer
Apple HomeView is a $429 smart display for the kitchen counter, shipping 13 November, with a seven-inch screen, an A18 chip and a Siri that recognizes up to six people by face. Amazon shipped the same idea in 2017 and Google in 2018, so Apple is nearly a decade late and betting the AI closes […]
Verification Is the Next Bottleneck
AI coding agents build faster, and they ship bugs at the same speed. The code isn’t the problem. Testing habits built for a slower pace are. Four things help: write the acceptance criteria before any code exists so the agent can’t grade its own homework, back the demo video with a Playwright run that checks […]
Can Propane Power Canada’s AI Data Centres?
Propane can power an AI data centre, but only a small one. The Canadian Propane Association’s own report puts its best opportunity at about 5 MW or less, plus replacing diesel backup, and the arithmetic explains why. A 100 MW site running on propane would need close to 15 tanker deliveries a day. A 3 […]
Dear Algorithm, the new approach to recommendations
For twenty years, recommendation systems have worked by watching what you do and inferring what you like. The Netflix Prize proved how hard that gets: a polarizing film like Napoleon Dynamite broke the math because viewers with nearly identical taste reacted in opposite ways. Now the platforms are trying something simpler. Spotify’s Taste Profile, YouTube’s […]
The AI Skills Shortage Is in Implementation
The AI shortage that matters is not models or AI engineers. It is people who can sit with a team, understand how the work actually gets done, and turn that into something reliable staff will use every day. The frontier labs already hire for this and call it Forward Deployed Engineering. A federation like YMCA […]
Move fast and break things, Facebook to Meta
Meta spent 2026 trying to become an AI-native company, and its own internal numbers tell the story. Software changes up 220 percent year over year. Changes that actually reached users up 36 percent. Major technical and security incidents up 40 percent. Employee time spent cleaning them up, up as much as 70 percent. None of […]
Canada Is Finally Giving Trade Documents a Digital Original. Now It Has to Keep the Infrastructure Open.
Bill C-39 contains a proposed Enabling Digital Trade Act, and it does something a PDF never could: it creates a digital original that is unique, controllable and transferable. That matters because a negotiable bill of lading controls the cargo, and a file that copies perfectly can’t answer who holds that control. The Act also lets […]
Apple Photos approach to building evidence of reality
Detecting AI-generated images is an arms race the detectors keep losing. Apple Reference Image takes the opposite approach: the iPhone’s camera sensor cryptographically signs what it captures, Private Cloud Compute carries that evidence through computational photography, and the finished JPEG arrives with a chain of custody back to physical hardware. It does this without embedding […]
Microsoft Doesn’t Want AI to Become Data
Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct makes one claim that matters more than all the safety language around it: AI should remain a tool rather than becoming a new category of entity. Star Trek spent seven seasons asking what we owe a machine that starts to look like a person. Microsoft is arguing we […]
Claude, Spies and Weapons: Anthropic’s Latest AI Threat Report
Anthropic’s September 2026 threat report reads like a Tom Clancy plot, except the operations are real. Chinese defence researchers built electronic-warfare modules and modelled strikes on Taiwanese air defences, Iranian security agencies profiled dissidents and scouted U.S. naval targets, a handful of operators ran agent swarms against roughly 50 organizations, and seven Chinese AI labs […]