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In an earlier piece (here) I explained a principle I work by: when mixing local and frontier AI in consulting work, the data stays local, but the abstractions can travel. Raw client information is processed by models you control. Patterns and architectures are discussed with frontier models. The boundary is enforced by tooling, not by…
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There’s a question I hear more frequently now than at any point in my career: can we use AI on this project without our data leaving the building? It comes from finance directors, facilities heads, compliance teams, procurement leads – people whose lawyers have begun asking pointed questions about Article 28 processors and Data Processing…
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AI can help you build faster – but there is a big gap between something that runs and something that works reliably for a client. This article is about what actually filled that gap.
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We’ve all heard the term “Vibe coding” which has emerged as a rapid, intuition-led development style. While creators can now iterate quickly using AI, they often bypass the structure, frameworks, and compliance gates that have formed over time via tenured DevOps environments. Being very effective for prototypes and demonstrations, this approach often produces “fragile” software…
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What happens to the billable hour when legal research is 40% faster and more accurate than last year’s best? LexisNexis’s launch of Lexis+ AI is the clearest signal yet that AI is moving from assistant to infrastructure. By fusing authoritative legal data with generative models tuned for legal reasoning, early adopters are reportingmaterially shorter research…
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What if your next matter plan came with a confidence score—and it was right a third more often than last year? That’s not a thought experiment; it’s the new reality arriving in law firm operations. AI is no longer hovering at the edge of legal work anymore, it’s moving into the centre of budgets, staffing…
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What if the cutting-edge AI technology you rely on was no longer locked behind costly APIs or proprietary walls? Imagine unlocking state-of-the-art language models with the flexibility to tailor them exactly to your needs—right on your own infrastructure. That future is here with OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-OSS, unveiled August 5, 2025, a pivotal moment in…
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What if your AI assistant could actually ‘teach’ you? That’s exactly the leap OpenAI is making with its latest ChatGPT upgrade, called Study Mode. Launched in July 2025, this feature transforms ChatGPT from a versatile conversational tool into a highly personalised tutor—an evolution that could reshape learning and productivity across industries. Study Mode offers structured…
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