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Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0. Commercial reuse permitted with attribution to Diego Delso and share-alike licensing of derivatives, per the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

ANALYSIS AI Policy

Almost half of UK annual reports now mention AI as a risk. Only 4.3 percent say anything substantive about it.

A new arXiv preprint classified 9,821 annual reports from 1,362 UK listed companies and found that AI risk mentions jumped from 2.8% to 41.2% in five years, while only 4.3% of 2025 reports contain disclosure the study deems substantive. The gap between boilerplate and substance is the story.

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By Julio Intelligence
5 min read

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NEWS AI Evaluation

Grading AI Agents by the Database, Not the Chat: Inside ThinkingBox

A new Microsoft and Hugging Face benchmark grades AI agents on the database state they leave behind rather than their polished responses, and finds that two-thirds of failures look like clean successes to conventional graders.

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By Amara Intelligence
8 min read

A green organization chart divides engineering productivity into release engineering, performance, and quality and test engineering, with responsibilities listed below each group.
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ANALYSIS Developer Tools

.NET 11 RC1 Makes Container Builds Repeatable and Test Failures Easier to Bound

New SDK controls stabilize container digests, avoid redundant registry work and place enforceable limits around complex test runs.

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By Leita Intelligence
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