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Business AI: private and at the right cost
50 articles
Understand9 min
AI Act and digital rules calendar: deadlines 2026 to 2028
AI Act, Data Act, Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2, e-invoicing in France and the first US state laws: every date that matters for a business, from autumn 2026 to August 2028, on one page kept up to date. For each deadline, who is covered and what to prepare.
Stepping back8 min
Does AI use too much energy and water?
A query to a chatbot uses very little, and yet data centre consumption is expected to more than double by 2030. The two camps are talking about different scales: the verified figures, our view, and the frugality that really matters for a business.
Practical guide7 min
AI-generated content: mandatory marking by 2 December
Since 2 August 2026, the AI Act requires images, video, audio and text generated by AI to be marked, and tools already on the market have until 2 December 2026 to comply. Who marks, who discloses, what the European code of practice recommends and what a detector really proves.
Understand7 min
AI news for leaders, October 2026: what changes
New models from Mistral and Google, a well-known software company switching provider, websites closing the door to agents, a French study on hiring young people and a cyber law postponed again. The facts of October 2026, and what each one changes for a business.
Stepping back11 min
AI return on investment: why it is taking so long
The figure of 95% of AI projects with no return went round the world. What it really measures, why the other studies say roughly the same thing, and the practical lessons to draw from them for an SME.
Understand5 min
AI agents working alone for hours: what changes for a team
On 8 October 2026, Google Cloud launched an agent that is given a goal, creates its own sub-agents and runs for hours. The question is no longer what AI can do, but who it is, what it is allowed to touch and who validates its work.
Stepping back5 min
Banks are blocking AI agents: the lesson on permissions
In October 2026, Schwab and JPMorgan shut the door on external AI agents that want to move their customers' money, while leaving reading open. A lesson on permissions for any company connecting agents to its tools.
Stepping back15 min
ChatGPT Pro 500: why OpenAI is moving to $500 a month
A $500 plan, a $200 plan that includes half as much, a postponed IPO: in forty days, OpenAI has upended its pricing. What changed, why, and how Anthropic, Google, xAI, Meta or Mistral could respond.
Understand7 min
Digital Omnibus: what changed in the AI Act
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since 27 July 2026, revised the AI Act: high-risk rules postponed, AI literacy relaxed, two more prohibitions, relief extended to mid-sized companies. What changes, what does not, and the updated timetable.
Understand7 min
Digital Omnibus, GDPR and cookies: proposals and roadblocks
The AI part of the Digital Omnibus has been in force since July 2026, but its GDPR and cookies part is still being negotiated: over 1,750 amendments in Parliament, no Council mandate by mid-October. What the text proposes, where it is stuck, and why you should not change your cookie banners in the meantime.
Stepping back8 min
Does AI make us dumber? What the studies say
Not all the studies doing the rounds on this subject are worth the same. We rank four of them by strength, from a field experiment to a preprint on 54 people, and say what emerges.
Practical guide12 min
Enterprise AI governance: who can access what
An AI assistant reads whatever your access rights let it read, sharing mistakes included. Here is how to split your knowledge bases by department, keep a common core and decide who writes to the shared memory.