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Four colleagues around a meeting-room table reviewing a spreadsheet on a wall screen, representing a compliance review of EU AI Act Article 50 transparency duties for enterprise AI assistants Latest
AI Compliance 6 min read

EU AI Act Article 50: What Enterprise AI Assistants, Chatbots and Agents Must Disclose

Article 50 of the EU AI Act has applied since 2 August 2026, whatever a system's risk class. Who counts as the provider when an enterprise builds its own assistant, what people must be told and when, how synthetic content is marked and labelled, and what evidence to keep.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#AI governance
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Three padlocks of increasing size lit from red to green, one closed and two open, representing the graded safe and unsafe verdicts that open-weight guard models return inside an on-premises AI platform
AI Security 6 min read

Open-Weight Guard Models for On-Premises AI: Llama Guard, gpt-oss-safeguard, Qwen3Guard and Granite Guardian Compared

Guard models are safety classifiers that screen prompts, responses and agent actions. Which open-weight guard models an enterprise can run on its own infrastructure in 2026, what each one checks, where the checks belong in an agent pipeline, and what they cannot do.

#AI security#open-weight models#local LLM
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A row of compact computers racked side by side with blue network cables, representing the isolated execution environments that AI agents need when they run code in private infrastructure
AI Infrastructure 6 min read

Sandboxing AI Agents That Run Code: Containers, gVisor and MicroVMs in Private Infrastructure

An agent that writes and runs code is executing untrusted input on your infrastructure. How the isolation options compare, what a sandbox must control besides the kernel boundary, and how to run agent code execution safely inside an on-premises AI platform.

#AI security#enterprise AI agents#AI infrastructure
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AI Infrastructure 12 min read

AI Gateway Comparison 2026: Kong, LiteLLM, Portkey, Cloudflare, Vercel, Azure, AWS and Self-Hosted Options

An LLM gateway comparison for platform and security teams: nine gateways checked against their own documentation for routing, limits, caching, guardrails, MCP support, licence and where they can run. Verified September 2026.

#AI gateway#LLM gateway#model routing
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AI Governance 12 min read

Best AI Governance Tools in 2026: AI Governance Software Compared by What It Governs

A buyer's comparison of AI governance software, grouped by what each product actually governs: the inventory, the compliance workflow, the data underneath or the agent at runtime. Every vendor claim was checked against that vendor's own pages in September 2026.

#AI governance tools#AI governance software#AI risk management
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Software Development 12 min read

Best Local LLMs for Coding in 2026: Open-Weight Models Compared

Ten open-weight coding models you can run on your own hardware, checked against their model cards in September 2026 and compared on license, parameters, context, tool calling, memory needs and the coding agents that can use them.

#local LLM#agentic coding#open-weight models
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Blue and black cables plugged into hardware ports, standing in for the MCP servers that connect AI agents to enterprise systems
AI Security 11 min read

Best MCP Servers for Enterprise Teams in 2026: A Vetted List and an Approval Checklist

Official MCP servers from GitHub, Microsoft, Atlassian, Slack, Google, AWS and Salesforce, with the transport and authentication model of each, and the checklist a security team should run before any agent is allowed to call one. Checked against maintainer documentation in September 2026.

#MCP servers#Model Context Protocol#MCP security
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AI Security 11 min read

DeepSeek On-Premise: A Provenance and Risk Review Before You Self-Host V4

Self-hosting DeepSeek weights is a different risk decision from using DeepSeek's app or API. This review covers the September 2026 lineup, what public-sector restrictions actually cover, a provenance checklist for the weights, and the GPU arithmetic.

#DeepSeek#open-weight models#local LLM
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Close-up of a memory module with DRAM chips and gold edge contacts, a reminder that memory capacity and bandwidth decide which local models a desk-side AI system can run
AI Infrastructure 11 min read

DGX Spark vs Mac Studio vs Ryzen AI Max+ 395: Local LLM Hardware Compared (2026)

NVIDIA DGX Spark, Apple's M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studio, and AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 systems compared from their spec sheets: memory, bandwidth, stated compute, software stack, clustering, power and price, and where each fits in an enterprise AI plan.

#local AI hardware#DGX Spark#Mac Studio
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AI Platforms 10 min read

Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: Architecture, Skills, Security and Fit

A neutral comparison of the two most popular open-source personal agent harnesses: how OpenClaw's gateway and Hermes Agent's learning loop differ in architecture, skills, memory, channels, local models, sandboxing, security record and stewardship, and which suits which job.

#Hermes Agent#OpenClaw#agent harness
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