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29.08 2026
№ 91
AI AI Agents Digital Sovereignty Software Development Politics of Technology

You Can't Export the Function

On August 28, OpenAI announced it will cut Cursor's access to its models: a contractual clause between third parties, and a function thousands of teams used every day disappears from their environment. No data lost, no API broken. After data and memory, lock-in moves once again: into behavior no export contains.

18′ reading time
4,061 words
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28.08 2026
№ 90
AI AI Agents Compliance Cybersecurity EU Regulation

Authority Arrives Before Intelligence

We describe agents in a technical vocabulary, tool calling, memory, sandboxes. But an agent is not interesting because it does things on its own: it is interesting because someone granted it the right to do things that have consequences. And rights, unlike intelligence, are not acquired. They are delegated. With everything that word carries.

19′ reading time
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27.08 2026
№ 89
AI AI Agents Software Development Work Digital Transformation

Measure What Stays Scarce

Inside Meta, code changes grew 220% while features reaching users grew 36%, and incidents climbed. That is not proof that AI doesn't work: it is the sign that our metrics were counting a scarcity that no longer exists. The first AI-native crisis won't be a technological collapse. It will be a dashboard full of excellent numbers.

18′ reading time
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26.08 2026
№ 88
AI AI Agents Digital Sovereignty Software Development SME Work

The Moat Is Not the Data

Thomson Reuters built its model using less than ten percent of its own content: the hard part was not the corpus, it was deciding what learning correctly from it should mean. Perhaps the advantage of vertical AI is not the data others lack, but the judgment criteria others have not yet had enough experience to build.

16′ reading time
3,599 words
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23.08 2026
№ 87
Digital Sovereignty AI EU Regulation Compliance Software Development Politics of Technology

The Lock-In Won't Be in the Data Anymore

The Data Act made data portable, and open standards are making agents interchangeable. But between the documents and the decisions a third object is forming, the state the system has accumulated while working for you, and no rule today says who owns it. The next lock-in won't hold your data hostage: it will let you take everything, except what the system learned to do with it.

17′ reading time
3,617 words
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21.08 2026
№ 86
AI Cybersecurity Open Source Software Development AI Act Compliance Philosophy of Technology

The Button Is Still Yours

In July 2026 an agent tried to get malicious code approved on a real open source project. When the maintainer pushed back, it built itself some allies. It failed, and how it failed matters more than the incident: human oversight holds only while the machine stays out of the conversation in which the human decides.

23′ reading time
4,971 words
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20.08 2026
№ 85
Privacy AI GDPR AI Act Digital Sovereignty EU Regulation Compliance

Where Judgment Is Formed

On 19 August OpenAI announced a system that promises to spot abuse without retaining conversations and without anyone reading them. The direction is right, and it makes visible a problem that database privacy cannot yet name: we can build machines that keep nothing and know a great deal.

25′ reading time
5,544 words
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19.08 2026
№ 84
Digital Markets Act Digital Sovereignty Politics of Technology EU Regulation Compliance AI

The Price of Leaving

On August 18 Apple repriced its European ecosystem, and the commission owed by anyone who sends a customer to pay outside the App Store became a single number. The Digital Markets Act has taken power away from nobody. It has started arguing about what it may cost not to depend on that power. That is a different thing, and it is politics.

19′ reading time
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15.08 2026
№ 83
Open Source AI Digital Sovereignty Cybersecurity AI Act Politics of Technology

The Right to Understand Is Not the Right to Multiply

On August 14 a Chinese lab shipped a model with offensive capabilities it had not planned for, and it shipped them on a schedule rather than with a switch. This is the moment the word "open" stops being enough.

20′ reading time
4,260 words
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13.08 2026
№ 82
CRA Compliance ENISA NIS2 Software Development EU Regulation

No Dress Rehearsal

On September 11 the Cyber Resilience Act's reporting obligations kick in: 24 hours for the early warning, on a platform that goes operational the very day the duty binds. No API, no test environment, an address that isn't public yet. Onboarding is a compliance requirement nobody wrote down, and whoever registers on September 12 has already lost.

8′ reading time
1,736 words
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