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Ideas, playbooks and field notes on Adobe Experience Cloud, customer data and AI.

July 21, 2026 · Data

€7.1 billion in fines, 19 states, one deadline: 2 August

The EU AI Act hits full force on 2 August. GDPR fines have passed €7.1bn. Nineteen US states now have privacy laws.…

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July 16, 2026 · Data

AI that remembers you: brilliant, until you ask where it keeps the memory

The newest enterprise agents keep a running memory of your customers and your business. Helpful — as long as you decide what…

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July 12, 2026 · Data

AI can finally read a spreadsheet the way it reads text

Google’s new TabFM predicts on a table it has never seen — no training, no tuning. For anyone sitting on rows and…

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July 9, 2026 · AI

The open models just caught up. Here’s what that actually changes

Grok 4.5, DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.6, GLM-5.2 — a wave of models, several of them open, now rival the big names. Good…

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July 4, 2026 · CDP

Your tools just hired agents. Is your data ready to be their boss?

Agentforce now sells inside ChatGPT, Claude works in Slack, and Microsoft and AWS are spending billions to put agents in the tools…

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June 30, 2026 · AI

Three new AI models in a week. ‘Which is best?’ is the wrong question

Claude Sonnet 5 landed on 30 June; GPT-5.6 is rolling out; more follow this week. Before you switch anything, here is the…

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June 29, 2026 · AI

Teaching Claude to remember: how to stop the same mistakes coming back

You correct Claude and tomorrow the same mistake is back. Here is how memory really works — CLAUDE.md vs the automatic memory,…

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June 29, 2026 · AI

Claude Skills in depth: what they look like with and without

The longer guide to Claude Skills — with side-by-side example pictures of the same task done with a Skill and without one,…

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June 28, 2026 · AI

AI is now copying AI. The lesson is older than the scandal

Anthropic says a rival siphoned 28 million conversations from its AI. The lesson for your business is older and simpler than the…

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June 27, 2026 · AI

$269 billion vanished in a week. Your AI plan shouldn’t change

A wild week wiped $269bn off Alphabet and saw GPT-4.5 retired overnight. Here is why none of the AI chaos should change…

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June 26, 2026 · AI

Agentic AI just went live — the scary part isn’t the AI

On 26 June, agentic AI stopped being a roadmap item and started running real businesses. The scary part is not the AI…

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June 25, 2026 · AI

Generative AI personalisation: useful, on-brand, not slop

AI can flood you with hollow slop, or write content that feels genuinely personal. The difference is what you feed it: your…

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