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July 11, 20266 min read

ChatGPT Work Ships: OpenAI's Agent for the Office

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on GPT-5.6 — an agent that runs multi-step work across enterprise apps for hours. Data readiness is now the gating factor.

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July 11, 20266 min read

Data Platforms Are Now Agent Platforms

Databricks reports 100,000+ agents and a quadrillion tokens a year; Snowflake is buying Natoma for agent governance. The control-plane race is on.

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July 11, 20266 min read

EU AI Act: Delay Is Real, but August 2 Still Bites

The Digital Omnibus pushed high-risk AI rules to 2027 — but Article 50 transparency duties and GPAI penalties still land on August 2, 2026.

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July 10, 20262 min read

Field Notes Is Live

We're publishing operator essays on data foundations and agentic platforms — starting with why agents fail when the data underneath isn't ready.

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