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AI agents are reaching beyond the chat window, bringing new questions about who controls the systems they can access. Google Home’s agent integrations and Mandiant’s security architecture put those boundaries in focus, while Virginia’s data-centre measures raise questions about the physical footprint of AI services. The edition also explores machine forecasting as a product category and the role of proprietary data in ad-tech consolidation. In this edition — jump to a story ...

As AI systems gain autonomy, oversight, security and physical capacity become harder to separate. OpenAI’s approach to reporting model misalignment and Anthropic’s account of autonomous cyber operations put those risks in focus, while sovereign-AI consolidation and data-centre energy flexibility expose the infrastructure decisions behind deployment. The edition also looks at proposed remedies in ad tech, where control over platforms and access to competition remain contested. In this edition — jump to a story ...