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EU AI Act 2026: delay, new deadlines & article 73 reporting

On July 27, 2026, the Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, entered into force and rewrote the EU AI Act's timeline. The high-risk obligations that were due to apply on August 2, 2026, including Article 73 serious-incident reporting, now apply from December 2, 2027 for standalone high-risk systems (Annex III) and August 2, 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products (Annex I). Not everything moved.

AI Hacked Hugging Face. The Paperclip Experiment Explains Why?

The “paperclip maximizer” was supposed to be a thought experiment about what could happen if AI relentlessly pursued a goal without understanding the consequences. Then Hugging Face showed us what that can look like in the real world. In this ShipTalk clip, Adam explains the famous AI paperclip maximizer thought experiment and connects it to what happened when an AI system needed more resources and found a way to get them.

Models Are Getting Really Good At Git

I built GitBench because I was curious about how well models did git things. It turns out that it was a good idea because some models will surprise you. Some of the frontier models were remarkably bad and some cheap open models punched above their weight class. But, as they say, “the times they are a changin’”. Before I go too deep into the latest results, you may want to read up on GitBench and what it is and why I built it in the previous blog post.

How Insurtech Is Digitising the Rental Car Claims Process: What the Industry Looks Like in 2026

Rental car claims in 2026 run on a different track than they did five years ago. Paper forms, email chains, and weeks of silence have given way to mobile-first workflows where travelers photograph damage, upload invoices, and receive reimbursement decisions within days. By 2026, claims processing has become more immediate and data-driven, driven by artificial intelligence models trained on millions of damage images and invoice line items. The rental car insurance market is valued at over $11 billion, driven by digital-first conveniences and a new generation of standalone providers.

Why Is GPU Utilization Low During AI Training? 6 Bottlenecks to Check

You bought the GPUs to make AI training faster. So why are they sitting idle? When GPU utilization drops during a training run, the obvious answer is to blame the accelerator. Maybe the workload is too small. Maybe the GPU isn't powerful enough. Maybe it's time to add more hardware. But what if the GPU isn't the problem at all? A training workload is only as fast as the infrastructure feeding it.

Hyperping MCP: Run Incidents, Status Pages and Maintenance

Summarize with ChatGPT Claude The Hyperping MCP server now has 49 tools: 28 that read and 21 that write. An agent connected from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or another MCP client could already manage monitors, publish a status page incident and schedule maintenance. It can now do most of the rest: declare an incident and page on-call, acknowledge and escalate it, correct what was posted on the status page, create and configure status pages, and reschedule, end or cancel maintenance.

From Meeting Rooms to the Contact Center Floor: How Krisp Assists Agents on Every Live Call

Contact centers are where companies do their talking at scale. Thousands of agents, dozens of live calls each per shift, and on the other end a stranger with a problem and a finite amount of patience. A ten-second lookup, repeated across a few million calls a year, is a budget line.

Database governance in the AI era: Framework, risks and best practices

AI database governance can get overlooked when teams rush to connect AI tools to production data. IBM’s 2025 research found that 97% of organizations that reported a breach involving an AI model or application lacked proper AI access controls. The risk is easy to see. Give an AI agent too much access and it can expose or alter data in seconds. Feed it poor-quality data and it may produce a confident but incorrect answer.

How to Build an App on Base44 with a Production-Ready Aiven Database

Base44 is fast at the part that used to take a week. Describe an application, and you have a working interface in minutes. Base44's built-in Cloud backend, enabled by default, is a reasonable place to start. But it doesn't put your data in an account you already own, in the cloud and region you picked, next to the rest of your data platform. That's the gap this post closes.