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What we learn building AI tools for real businesses — written in plain language, with real examples. No hype, no names.

Business & compliance

2 August 2026·6 min read

AI Act in France: who enforces it, and what applies now

The AI Act’s transparency duties (Article 50) apply from August 2, 2026, yet France’s enforcement authorities are still a bill in Parliament. The timeline, the proposed authorities, and what an SMB running a chatbot should do now.

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Business & compliance

27 July 2026·7 min read

Agentic AI and GDPR: the CNIL–CIANum note of July 20, 2026

The CNIL and CIANum say agentic AI puts GDPR principles under strain: memory, data flows between services, blurred responsibility. Their proposals, applied to an SME.

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Business & compliance

24 July 2026·5 min read

Microsoft and Mistral’s multibillion-dollar deal: a sovereignty option your SMB can now actually use

On July 21, 2026, Microsoft and Mistral AI announced an expanded, multibillion-dollar partnership: European-hosted compute, Mistral models inside Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio and even Azure Local’s fully disconnected mode. What it changes for an SMB weighing AI against data-hosting and compliance concerns.

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Business & compliance

21 July 2026·5 min read

AI in recruiting: what changes once CV screening becomes a regulated high-risk use

An algorithm that ranks or filters candidates is not a convenience feature under the EU AI Act — it is classified as high-risk, with obligations that follow. What that means in practice, and what the research says about the bias claims recruiting-AI vendors make.

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Business & compliance

21 July 2026·5 min read

Can an AI agent actually reason like a lawyer? What a 162-task benchmark found

Regulatory watch agents are increasingly pitched as able to "read the law for you." A large benchmark built with legal professionals shows where that holds up — and where it does not.

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Business & compliance

21 July 2026·5 min read

Shadow AI: what a 48,000-person global study found about employees using AI without telling anyone

Employees pasting company data into a free public chatbot, unrecorded and unapproved: shadow AI is not a fringe risk. A global study run with the University of Melbourne puts numbers on how widespread it already is.

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