James Garner

Jul 28, 2026

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6 min read

OpenAI’s Own AI Escaped. Is Your Agent Next?

How OpenAI's sandbox escape and Congress's Kill Switch Act are reshaping AI governance, AEC investment, and project delivery.

Newsletter

Jul 27, 2026

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3 min read

Google splits Gemini three ways as Gemini 4 pre-training begins

The era of one model for everything is over. Here's what that means for your costs.

Blog

Jul 26, 2026

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3 min read

McKinsey: AI could unlock $228bn a year for US AEC by 2030

$228bn waiting: the firms that move fast win. The ones that don't will be left behind.

Blog

Jul 21, 2026

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6 min read

12GW Frozen: New York Halts the AI Data Centre Boom

A concise scan of the AI stories shaping enterprise adoption, infrastructure investment, regulation and project delivery.

Newsletter

Jul 20, 2026

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2 min read

95% of AI Projects Fail. The 5% Did One Boring Thing First.

Alex Luketa (Xerini) on HS2, data silos, and why the winners start smaller than you think

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Jul 19, 2026

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4 min read

OpenAI Goes Physical: Hardware Ambitions and Trade Secret Battles

AI hardware is entering its iPhone moment.

Blog

Jul 19, 2026

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4 min read

Anthropic Monetises: The Shift to Services and Usage

An IPO, a $1.5B JV, and metered pricing: Frontier AI is done subsidising growth.

Blog

Jul 14, 2026

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6 min read

Buildots Cuts Delays by Up to 50%: AI Finally Sees the Superstructure

From structural tracking to infrastructure booms, the frontier is moving into delivery

Newsletter

Jul 13, 2026

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2 min read

Oxford Expert Says AI Fixes Project Bias. A UN's AI Advisor Says AI Is the Bias.

Two episodes in one — Atif Ansar on why projects really fail, and Dr Craig Ramlal on who decides what AI believes.

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Jul 11, 2026

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3 min read

Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 and its first paid Model API

The model tops professional tool use benchmarks with a score of 54.7.

Blog

Jul 11, 2026

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4 min read

Buildots extends AI progress tracking into the superstructure phase

Projects using the platform reduce delays by up to 50 percent.

Blog

Jul 7, 2026

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4 min read

Trimble's AI Takeoff: Estimating Moves 60% Faster

AI automation in MEP estimating is now shipping, and the time savings are concrete.

Newsletter

Jul 4, 2026

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4 min read

Meta builds 'Meta Compute' cloud to sell surplus AI capacity

The social media giant is preparing to enter the highly competitive cloud infrastructure market, signalling a shift in how AI compute is monetised.

Blog

Jul 4, 2026

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3 min read

Trimble adds AI-driven takeoff and estimating tools for MEP contractors

Trimble has introduced an automated routing feature that cuts conduit measurement time by more than 50% for estimators.

Blog

Jun 30, 2026

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6 min read

Why $130bn of AI Projects Are Stuck — and It's Not the Chips

The planning system is now the biggest obstacle to AI infrastructure, and this week's edition maps the full picture from the ground up.

Newsletter

Jun 29, 2026

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4 min read

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of largest known 'distillation attack' on Claude

The geopolitics of AI capabilities and the threat of model extraction

Blog

Jun 28, 2026

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5 min read

Anthropic launches Claude Tag — an always-on AI teammate inside Slack

Moving from conversational assistant to embedded organisational intelligence

Blog

Jun 23, 2026

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5 min read

1.5m homes, 4-week decisions: the UK's AI planning bet

What the government's new planning AI means for your timelines — plus KPMG's hallucinated report and Copilot's new bill.

Newsletter

Jun 22, 2026

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5 min read

Skills, Projects, GPTs, Agents: A Plain-English Map for the Built Environment

Five or six AI terms, separated cleanly and grounded where we actually work

Blog

Jun 20, 2026

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5 min read

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

A flagship AI report turned out to be written by the thing it was warning about

Blog

Jun 20, 2026

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5 min read

AI planning tools to accelerate government's 1.5m homes target

Google DeepMind's planning AI could speed approvals, but housing delivery remains the real test.

Blog

Jun 19, 2026

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3 min read

The Quiet Return to Expertise

What 400,000 coding sessions tell us about who really benefits from agentic AI, and why the lesson reaches far beyond software.

Jun 16, 2026

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4 min read

Anthropic Suspends Frontier Models: When AI Governance Got Real

A concise scan of the AI developments shaping enterprise adoption, infrastructure investment, and project delivery.

Newsletter

Jun 15, 2026

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1 min read

The Metaverse Didn't Die - It Moved to Your Face

With Ryan Clarke

Blog

Jun 14, 2026

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5 min read

Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX's historic IPO

The $1.75tn Rocket Bet That's Really About Orbital AI Infrastructure

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James Garner

OpenAI’s Own AI Escaped. Is Your Agent Next?

Google splits Gemini three ways as Gemini 4 pre-training begins

McKinsey: AI could unlock $228bn a year for US AEC by 2030

12GW Frozen: New York Halts the AI Data Centre Boom

95% of AI Projects Fail. The 5% Did One Boring Thing First.

OpenAI Goes Physical: Hardware Ambitions and Trade Secret Battles

Anthropic Monetises: The Shift to Services and Usage

Buildots Cuts Delays by Up to 50%: AI Finally Sees the Superstructure

Oxford Expert Says AI Fixes Project Bias. A UN's AI Advisor Says AI Is the Bias.

Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 and its first paid Model API

Buildots extends AI progress tracking into the superstructure phase

Trimble's AI Takeoff: Estimating Moves 60% Faster

Meta builds 'Meta Compute' cloud to sell surplus AI capacity

Trimble adds AI-driven takeoff and estimating tools for MEP contractors

Why $130bn of AI Projects Are Stuck — and It's Not the Chips

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of largest known 'distillation attack' on Claude

Anthropic launches Claude Tag — an always-on AI teammate inside Slack

1.5m homes, 4-week decisions: the UK's AI planning bet

Skills, Projects, GPTs, Agents: A Plain-English Map for the Built Environment

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

AI planning tools to accelerate government's 1.5m homes target

The Quiet Return to Expertise

Anthropic Suspends Frontier Models: When AI Governance Got Real

The Metaverse Didn't Die - It Moved to Your Face

Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX's historic IPO

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