Checking got expensive while making got cheap

Three industries, one weekend, same problem: who checks the work

Yves Mulkers

Patents now decide robot funding

Paperwork beats demos. Prosecutors replace engineers. One person walked.

Yves Mulkers

Cheaper AI Tokens Raised the Power Bill Instead

Cheaper models mean more calls. The grid pays the bill.

Yves Mulkers

Uber Burned Through Its AI Budget by April

Uber capped AI spend at $1,500/employee. Amazon blocked agents. The limits arrived without regulators.

Yves Mulkers

Micron captured the AI margin while three quarters of projects failed

The suppliers won. The lenders got picky. The projects mostly failed.

Yves Mulkers

White House and AI Labs Signed Self-Policing Deal, Shifted All Risk Downstream

Voluntary commitments at the top mean your vendor contracts are now your only enforceable control.

Yves Mulkers

AMD Paid $8.2B for Foresight, OpenAI Shipped Safety Over Speed

When your three biggest suppliers all pick safety and margins over frontier capability in 48 hours, your 2027 roadmap changes.

Yves Mulkers

Anthropic Paid Akamai With Stock to Close $11.6B Deal

The $10T buildout just shifted from earnings to equity. Here's what changed.

Yves Mulkers

The sharpest riser in EU quantum runs on a company nobody tracks

Emerging Signal, edition 1: European quantum, and the supplier the map cannot see

Yves Mulkers

Microsoft gave up on Copilot seats

Three vendors, three pricing units, zero agreement. Your budget doesn't exist yet.

Yves Mulkers

Anthropic Said No, OpenAI Said Yes, Both Got Punished

Two opposite failures. One vendor blacklisted, one model paused. Buyers now write the limits.

Yves Mulkers

Island Raised $400M to Police Agents, Not People

Controls became the product. Nobody has the receipt yet.

Yves Mulkers

Anthropic's Enzyme Discovery Vanished on the Second Run

Claims arrive faster than labs can check them. Your board already believes them.

Yves Mulkers

Tekever flew drones over Ukraine while Washington drafted rules for machines that don't exist

While regulators drafted rules, real AI already holds production keys

Yves Mulkers

Verda crossed a billion dollars by asking where data lives

Where your data sits now decides your architecture and budget

Yves Mulkers

Five Supermarkets Stopped Paying Twice for the Same Answer

Why your competitors just funded one risk model instead of five private ones

Yves Mulkers

[Book] 15+ enterprise leaders on AI agents

15+ enterprise leaders from Citizens Bank, Manulife, Prudential, PayPal, Vanguard, Siemens and Morgan Stanley on building agentic systems that deliver business value.

Yves Mulkers

McKinsey Found a Third of Agent Rollouts Made Things Worse

McKinsey measured. A third of agentic AI rollouts cut productivity instead of raising it.

Yves Mulkers

Comp AI Raised $34M to Make Compliance Provable

Saying you have AI control stopped meaning you have it

Yves Mulkers

Hacktron AI cracked OpenAI's code for $3,000

Your annual pentest is now the slowest defense on the market

Yves Mulkers

Cohere and Aleph Alpha merged. Your second vendor just vanished.

Suppliers consolidate while buyers expand. Someone pays for that mismatch.

Yves Mulkers

Spain filed the first AI breach case. Your playbook has no box for it.

Spain's first AI breach case. What your incident playbook is missing.

Yves Mulkers

What's In A Model? Your Ontology

Yves Mulkers

FDA Named The Manufacturer, Not The Vendor

The regulator just showed what shared responsibility means when tested.

Yves Mulkers

Gartner Says Cloud Architecture Is Blocking Agents

The model stopped being the bottleneck. What's failing now is plumbing.

Yves Mulkers