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Private AI, argued from the vendors’ own words.
What the vendors’ own documentation says about your data, custody and continuity — quoted, dated, and re-checked on the day it publishes. Alongside what we ship, and what it costs to keep.
October 29, 2026 · ai act · regulation · associations
Where the record stands
Two years of the AI Act, read end to end. What actually changed for a member association, what did not, and the one piece of work that has been the same since August 2024.
October 28, 2026 · ai act · regulation · compliance
Six days before the deadline
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force on 27 July 2026, six days before the high-risk rules were due. What a deferral teaches an organisation that has already missed two deadlines.
October 27, 2026 · ai act · regulation · europe
Agreement in May, law in July
The political agreement of 7 May 2026 was reported as the end of the story. It was the middle of it — and the gap between agreement and publication is where most organisations lost the thread.
October 26, 2026 · ai act · regulation · europe
The Omnibus nobody asked for
On 19 November 2025 the Commission proposed to rewrite the timetable of its own flagship regulation. The interesting question was never whether it would pass, but why it was proposed at all.
October 23, 2026 · ai act · regulation · procurement
The day the model became somebody else's problem
On 2 August 2025 the obligations moved upstream to the model providers. For a deployer, that changed less than the press releases implied and more than most associations noticed.
October 22, 2026 · ai act · regulation · training
AI literacy is an obligation, not a training course
Article 4 has applied since February 2025 and is the cheapest obligation in the Act. Almost nobody can produce the evidence for it.
October 21, 2026 · ai act · regulation · associations
What the prohibitions actually banned
On 2 February 2025 the AI Act stopped being a plan and started being law. The banned practices are narrower than the headlines and wider than most associations assumed.
October 20, 2026 · ai policy · governance · associations
An AI policy for a membership organisation
Most sector AI policies are prohibition lists staff route around within a month. Two pages, five decisions, three clauses that change behaviour.
October 20, 2026 · ai act · article 4 · ai literacy · evidence
AI Act Article 4 — the evidence that actually satisfies it
Live since February 2025 and never deferred. Why a completion certificate is not evidence, and the four items that actually are.
October 20, 2026 · gdpr · member data · ai act · custody
Can we put member data into an AI tool?
One question, three separate laws — and the AI Act is not the one that answers it. The categories that can never leave the building.
October 20, 2026 · ai act · regulation · associations
The eighteen months nobody prepared for
The AI Act came into force in August 2024 and most member associations treated the deadline as 2026. The part that reached them first was the part nobody read.
October 20, 2026 · ai act · deployers · governance · associations
Who is responsible for AI Act compliance as a deployer?
The duty sits on the body, not on a badge. Where it lands, what discharges it, and why "our supplier handles that" is the sentence that causes trouble.
October 13, 2026 · open source · sovereignty · tooling
Somebody rebuilt the Adobe suite, and gave it away
The creative suite — and Word, Excel, PowerPoint and AutoCAD with it — has been reimplemented from scratch and released free. Here is what it is, what a Centurion did with it, and the parts that are not ready.