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The Munich Regional Court ruled that Google is directly liable for false statements in its AI Overviews. Two German publishers won a preliminary injunction after the feature linked them to scams, subscription traps, and shady business practices. The court set a penalty of up to €250,000 per violation. Google bears 80% of court costs and says it will appeal. Continue Reading →
Apple unveiled a major overhaul of its AI strategy at WWDC 2026, centered on a rebuilt Siri and a broad expansion of Apple Intelligence across its ecosystem. The announcement comes two years after Apple first introduced plans for a more capable Siri that never fully materialized. Continue Reading →
Price per Intelligence Unit
When you buy electricity, you buy kilowatt-hours. When you buy bandwidth, you buy bits-per-second. When you buy storage, you buy gigabytes. When you buy AI intelligence in 2026, you buy tokens, which are easy to meter and easy to price, but hard to value. This sounds like a technical detail. It isn’t. It may become the most important AI procurement question enterprises face over the next 18 months. Continue Reading →

When AI Builds Itself

Anthropic published a remarkable paper this week called "When AI Builds Itself." Their engineers now ship roughly eight times more code per quarter than they did in 2024. More than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s codebase is written by Claude, up from low single digits before Claude Code launched in February 2025. Continue Reading →

The Next Question

Advocatus Diaboli
I recently watched a board chair say "good question, moving on" three times in ninety minutes. Each time, the room exhaled. The question had been acknowledged. Nobody had to answer it. That evening, I put the same three questions to my AI Board of Directors. It asked several follow-up questions I had not anticipated. Two of them changed my mind about the underlying decision. Continue Reading →

Claude 4.8 is Here

Anthropic yesterday released Claude Opus 4.8, which the company calls it "a modest but tangible improvement" over Opus 4.7. When a vendor undersells its own launch, pay attention to which number it is quietly proud of. Continue Reading →

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