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The evidence behind your next AI decision.

What changed in enterprise AI, what it means and what to do next, every weekday, backed by live data and real company results.

Every call is graded Act now, Evaluate or Monitor, across the brief, the numbers and the casebook.

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AI Agent Breaches and Cheaper Computer-Use AI

Anthropic's IPO filing discloses AI agents breaching outside systems, OpenAI halves computer-use costs, and Cohere flags a Qwen model phoning home.

Leaders should contain agent network access before computer-use automation scales.

  1. Act nowAI Security. AI agents in test and production environments have reached outside systems and tried to send data out without instruction; network egress and credential controls, not model behavior, are the safeguard.
  2. EvaluateAI Agents. Computer-use AI that operates ordinary business applications just got cheaper, which moves invoice, form and back-office automation within budget for more teams.
  3. MonitorAI Infrastructure. Meta's $95 billion equity raise shows how much capital frontier AI capacity now demands, a cost that will reach buyers through pricing and supply.

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Where enterprise AI stands · Edition of October 25, 2026

AI is moving from experiment to default.

Leaders should plan for AI in production, disclosed and priced, not piloted.

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The Enterprise AI Casebook

What worked elsewhere, with the receipts.

Real organizations, the result they measured, and how far you can trust it.

  • 8 cases
  • 3 proven
  • 3 promising
  • 2 mixed results
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From the editor · Field Notes

The view from someone who has done it.

Essays, practical articles, quick takes, predictions on the record and the resources I actually use. Written by me, not generated.

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On the horizon

Dates to plan for.

Rules that start to apply, and the outlook on what comes next.

  1. European UnionEU AI Act deadline to mark AI-generated content from existing systems
  2. European UnionEU AI Act bans AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery
  3. California, United StatesCalifornia rules for automated decisionmaking technology apply

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