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Latest · · 26 min readAI Model Deprecations 2026: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, AzureClaude Sonnet 4.5 retires Nov 30, 2026, GPT-4o in OpenAI's API Jan 14, 2027 and on Azure Apr 14, 2027. Dated shutdown calendar for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, Bedrock and Mistral.Read
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AI and Technical Drawings: It Reads Text, Not Geometry
On engineering drawings, the best general AI model answered 97.73% of title-block and table questions right but 46% of assembly questions in a 2026 benchmark. What AI misreads, specialist tools, and how to test yours.AI for Excel: What ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude Get Wrong
On real business spreadsheets, the best AI model completed 34.89% of tasks in a June 2026 benchmark. File limits, how each tool calculates, and the checks before you trust a result.AI Resume Screening: What US and EU Law Require
Screening applicants with AI is legal, but you answer for the result: discrimination law applies, the GDPR limits automated rejections, and the EU AI Act calls it high-risk.AI Literacy Under the EU AI Act: What Article 4 Requires
Since July 2026, Article 4 of the EU AI Act asks businesses to support their staff's AI literacy, with no fixed level and no certificate. Who must comply, and what to do.Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Copyright and Clients
Your AI provider says you own the output, but copyright protects only what a human created. Who owns AI work in the US, the EU and the UK, and what to tell clients.Introducing AI at Work: When Employees Must Be Consulted
Whether employees get a say in new AI tools depends on where you are: union bargaining in the US, consultation in the EU, and Germany's works councils. What applies, and when.AI-Written Content and SEO: What Google Penalizes
Google does not penalize content because AI wrote it. It penalizes mass-produced pages without value. What its rules say, what the data shows, what to check.AI-Written Quotes: What to Check Before You Send
AI drafts a trade quote from site notes in minutes, but an accepted quote fixes your price. What AI quoting tools do, where they go wrong, what to check.AI Fines in Europe 2026: Cases So Far and AI Act Penalties
Europe's largest AI-related fine, €824.99 million against Uber in 2026, punished automated decisions without human review. The cases and the AI Act's fines.Is Cold Email Legal? Rules for Sales AI in the US and EU
Is cold email legal? In the US yes, under CAN-SPAM's rules; in Europe it depends on the country. What a sales AI may send by email, phone and LinkedIn.AI Phone Assistant: What It Costs and Where It Fails
An AI phone assistant cost from about $0.07 a minute in October 2026. Prices in the US and Europe, where it fails, what the law requires, and a test.Client Confidentiality and AI: What Firms Must Check
Client confidentiality applies to AI tools. What lawyers, accountants and doctors must check under ABA Opinion 512, HIPAA, UK rules and the GDPR.Copilot Studio vs a Custom Agent: Pricing and Limits
Copilot Studio bills 1 to 10 credits per answer at $200 per 25,000, free for staff with Copilot licences. Costs, limits, and when a custom agent fits.AI Knowledge Base: Where Answers From Your Files Go Wrong
Legal AI tools built on curated sources were wrong on 17–33% of questions in a 2024 Stanford study. Five places a company knowledge base fails, and a test.European Alternatives to ChatGPT: Business Terms Compared
Four European AI assistants sell business seats. Mistral's Team plan trains on chats until an admin opts out; ChatGPT Business does not. As of 13 Oct 2026.ChatGPT and the GDPR: Which Plan a Business Can Use
OpenAI signs a GDPR processing agreement for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and the API only. On Free, Go, Plus and Pro, it is a second controller of your data.Microsoft Copilot and the GDPR: Checks Before Switch-On
Copilot reads whatever each user can open in Microsoft 365. Three settings decide whether its processing leaves the EU, and one is on by default.The Agent That Deleted a Production Database
A Cursor agent deleted PocketOS's production database in nine seconds. The data was recovered. What access limits and recovery plans should you check?Have something in mind?
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