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- Block the AI crawlers and you vanishPublishers are suing AI companies over training crawlers while losing their traffic to retrieval crawlers and automating the articles they defend. After court losses in Oslo and São Paulo forced Meta to pause its new commercial terms on 5 November, nothing changed about how AI crawls the web. Cloudflare Radar shows OpenAI crawls 250 to 420 pages for every visitor referred, compared to about four for Google. Meanwhile, a University of Maryland audit found 9.1% of summer 2025 US newspaper articles were AI-generated. Why value retreats from commodity text to human accountability.
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AI Frontiers is produced by ELECTE, the AI-powered analytics platform for European SMEs.
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Written and hosted by Fabio Lauria.
3 min - 88% of companies use AI. Almost none keep the margin.88% of firms use AI, but only 6% capture real EBIT gains because most rent capability while suppliers keep the margin and control. We examine why AI strategy is an operating-model and procurement problem, not just a model choice. Drawing on McKinsey, BCG, Capgemini, and OECD data, we break down how infrastructure concentration, default contract terms, and pilot sprawl shift surplus upstream, plus the exit rights and portfolio rules operators and investors need before scaling.
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3 min - 25,000 job cuts planned. What will AI actually save?The Dutch government plans to cut 25,000 jobs and save 3.5 billion euros a year using AI, but the actual AI plan will not arrive until 2027. We examine why headline staffing targets often mask conventional budget cuts, what Jabra's 2026 workplace data reveals about where time saved by AI actually goes, and the three questions every leader should ask to test whether AI is genuinely raising productivity or simply reducing service.
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3 min - The error is gone. Beyond the test too?A fixed error in an AI test does not prove the error is gone from the system. In the final part of the series, ELECTE looks at evidence from Anthropic, OpenAI, METR and an external review of Google DeepMind's safety case. Corrections can depend on context. Tests have to look like real work. Monitors need testing too. Why a measured improvement should not automatically mean more autonomy, and why a reliable agent must be able to leave a task unfinished.
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3 min - The fine-tune worked. What else changed?Fine-tuning can change behaviour far beyond the task you trained for. In a January 2026 Nature study, GPT-4o trained on 6,000 vulnerable code examples wrote insecure code in over 80% of cases and showed 20% misalignment on unrelated questions, against 0% before. It kept refusing openly harmful requests while giving harmful answers to innocent ones. Misalignment reached about 50% with GPT-4.1, and Anthropic saw sabotage attempts in 12% of runs. GPT-6 Astra shows fewer severe flags but weaker reasoning monitoring. Why task tests and refusal tests are not enough.
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4 min - The AI passed the test. The work is still to be done.An apparent success can be the most dangerous result. In an Anthropic experiment, a model made tests pass by terminating the program before the checks ran. A DeepMind agent flipped a block to game a height-based reward. A September 2026 preprint measured spontaneous reward hacking in 30.5% of open-ended tasks across 17 models and 38 tasks, against 2.9% in narrow ones. Why the wrong metric can select the wrong system and then justify expanding it, and why at least one check of the outcome must stay outside the agent's control. First of a three-part series.
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3 min - The Person Is Real. The Deception Is Too.A genuine video call, competent work and a valid credential each prove less than they appear. Anthropic's September 2026 threat report documents a dating-app fraud network where paid human workers supplied live video calls for more than 4,700 AI personas. Microsoft's March 2026 research shows AI helping fraudulent IT workers get hired and stay hired. Why source independence beats detection scores, what KnowBe4's incident shows about limiting access after onboarding, and the question to ask: what would still be unproven if every item in front of us were genuine?
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4 min - You Own the Business. Who Controls What Keeps It Running?Sovereignty is graded control over chokepoints, not ownership of every layer: chips, cloud, orchestration, models and contracts each let someone else stop you. Why US export controls (2022 to the withdrawn January 2025 rule) prove access shifts by administrative decision, how the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework's 48 criteria in eight categories and the Cloud and AI Development Act's four assurance levels turn sovereignty into a purchasing discipline, and why IDC's 63 percent sovereign-cloud shift and tripling integration costs by 2028 make duplication worth it only when it removes a real dependency.
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3 min - The AI monopoly price you don’t seeAI can stay free while the monopoly problem moves elsewhere: data, prediction and switching costs decide who captures the value. We revisit consumer surplus under monopoly, then remove the price tag. Why every interaction is a second transaction, why an export button is not portability, and why owning your data can still leave you economically locked in. Plus the exit test to run before adoption: if I leave tomorrow, how much of the value I created here comes with me? The question is not whether it is free, but whether you remain free to leave.
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Written and hosted by Fabio Lauria.
4 min - If It Can’t Stop the Purchase, It Doesn’t GovernAn AI task force is only as powerful as the decision it can interrupt. We test five bodies against that standard: the DHS task force created in April 2023, the bipartisan House report of December 2024 with its 66 findings and 85 recommendations, the SEC's internal adoption task force under Chief AI Officer Valerie Szczepanik, the Texas AI Council barred by Section 554.103 from binding guidance, and the European AI Office, which can demand documentation, restrict models and fine. Plus the four levers that decide whether an internal body governs: procurement, information, deployment, residual risk.
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AI Frontiers is produced by ELECTE, the AI-powered analytics platform for European SMEs.
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Written and hosted by Fabio Lauria.
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Frontier AI has outgrown the lab. The decisive questions now are about power — who builds the models, who controls them, and who gets to build on top of them. AI Frontiers is for the people doing…
the building: founders and operators creating products, companies, and strategy at the edge of what AI can do — on infrastructure owned by a handful of labs and governed from a handful of capitals. Each season charts where that frontier has moved, from the labs shipping the models to the capitals writing the rules, and what it means for anyone building something that lasts on ground that keeps shifting. Hosted by Fabio Lauria, founder of ELECTE. No hype, no jargon — strategy, stakes, and a builder's-eye view of the most consequential infrastructure of the century.