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15 March 2026 · 6 min

Markdown Was Never Meant for This

A formatting shortcut for bloggers now underpins how we talk to AI, build websites, and store knowledge. Markdown's accidental rise tells us something important about how infrastructure really gets built.

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15 March 2026 · 7 min

The Deepfake You Never Need to Make: How the Liar's Dividend Is Destroying Trust in Evidence

The biggest threat from deepfakes is not the fakes themselves. It is the permission they give everyone to dismiss real evidence as fabricated.

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14 March 2026 · 6 min

The Entry-Level Vanishing Act: How AI Is Closing the Door on Young Workers

AI isn't laying off junior workers. It's ensuring they never get hired in the first place, and the long-term consequences could be devastating.

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13 March 2026 · 7 min

When Your AI Agent Goes Rogue, Who Exactly Is Responsible?

An AI agent applied to 278 jobs in a week without anyone's meaningful consent. The governance frameworks that should prevent this do not exist yet, and the ones being built solve the wrong problem.

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9 March 2026 · 6 min

The AI Productivity Lie: Why the Most Enthusiastic Adopters Are Burning Out First

AI tools were supposed to make work easier. New research suggests they are making it harder, and the people hit worst are the ones least able to push back.

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7 March 2026 · 6 min

The Supply Chain You Never See

The AI industry runs on a hidden workforce of data labellers and content moderators, many earning less than $2 an hour in conditions designed to stay invisible. A recent UN report makes that invisibility harder to maintain.

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2 March 2026 · 7 min

The Deal That Revealed the Difference: What the Anthropic-Pentagon Standoff Actually Means

The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to remove safety guardrails. Hours later, OpenAI signed a deal with nearly identical red lines. The contradiction tells us everything about where AI ethics stands in 2026.

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1 March 2026 · 5 min

The Anticipation Tax: Paying for AI That Does Not Work Yet

Companies are cutting jobs based on what AI might do, not what it actually does. Workers are paying the price for efficiency gains that have not materialised.

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27 February 2026 · 6 min

Your AI Is Not My AI

The endless 'which AI is best' debate misses the point entirely. The right AI tool is the one that fits your brain, your work, and your life.

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25 February 2026 · 7 min

Your AI Strategy Has a Single Point of Failure

AI pricing is subsidised, unstable, and not guaranteed to last. Building your workflow around a single vendor is a risk most teams are not thinking about.

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23 February 2026 · 5 min

AI Should Enhance Your Trusted Tools, Not Replace Them

The rush to adopt AI is leading teams to rip out systems that work. A smarter approach is to layer intelligence on top of what you already trust.

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22 February 2026 · 4 min

Will 2026 Be the Year AI Stops Being Optional?

Every major technology follows the same arc, from novelty to advantage to expectation. AI is somewhere on that curve right now. The question is where.

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