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Two people at a grey table going over printed forms, with a smartphone and a tablet lying beside the papers, the kind of business information staff weigh up before pasting it into ChatGPT
AI Security 8 min read

Is ChatGPT Safe for Confidential Information? What Each Plan Does With Your Data

It depends on the plan. This explainer sets out what OpenAI states for Free, Plus, Business, Enterprise and the API on training, retention, admin controls and data residency, the risks that remain on every plan, and when a private deployment is the safer choice.

#AI security#data sovereignty#AI governance
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Close-up of a network switch with fibre optic transceivers and cables plugged into its ports, standing for the way Copilot requests can be routed between data centre regions
Sovereign AI 10 min read

Microsoft Copilot Flex Routing: What It Means for the EU Data Boundary and How to Turn It Off

Flex routing lets Microsoft process EU and EFTA Copilot prompts outside the EU Data Boundary when demand peaks. What Microsoft's documentation says about the default, the admin setting that turns it off, and how it relates to the EU Data Boundary, Advanced Data Residency and Multi-Geo.

#Microsoft Copilot#data residency#data sovereignty
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A row of ventilated metal equipment enclosures with a blue cable running between them, a reminder that power delivery and heat removal shape an on-premise AI server deployment as much as the GPUs inside it
AI Infrastructure 11 min read

On-Premise AI Server: How to Choose, Size and Cost an LLM Server (2026)

A buyer's guide to the on-premise AI server: what it has to run, which GPUs and how much VRAM, how to size it by number of users, the power, cooling, networking and storage it needs, the software stack, and what the hardware costs.

#on-premises AI#AI infrastructure#local AI infrastructure
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A yellow cube printed with a low, medium and high risk gauge resting on a white computer keyboard, representing likelihood-and-impact scoring in an AI risk assessment
AI Governance 18 min read

AI Risk Assessment Template: Questionnaire, Scoring and Checklist Mapped to NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act

A copy-ready AI risk assessment template in nine sections, from system description to residual-risk sign-off, plus a likelihood-and-impact scoring method, a 20-question vendor questionnaire and a one-page checklist. Each section is mapped to the NIST AI RMF functions, ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act.

#AI risk management#AI governance#EU AI Act
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A row of red ring binders with barcode labels on an office shelf, a reminder of how much company knowledge an enterprise AI search tool has to index and keep behind the right permissions
Enterprise AI 11 min read

Enterprise AI Search Tools in 2026: 9 Platforms Compared on Connectors, Permissions and Hosting

A buyer's list of enterprise AI search platforms, from Glean and Microsoft Copilot Search to open-source Onyx and self-managed Elastic, compared on connectors, permission-aware results, deployment, data residency and published pricing. Verified October 2026.

#enterprise AI#enterprise search#private RAG
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An illuminated yellow sign reading Bank on a dark building facade at night, standing in for the credit and insurance decisions that the EU AI Act classes as high-risk
AI Compliance 13 min read

EU AI Act for Banks and Insurers: Credit Scoring, Life and Health Pricing, and the 2027 Deadline

Assessing the creditworthiness of individuals, setting their credit scores, and underwriting or pricing life and health insurance are high-risk uses under Annex III of the EU AI Act, with obligations from 2 December 2027. The exceptions, the deployer duties and their financial-sector adjustments, the FRIA, who supervises, how DORA and model risk management fit, and a checklist.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#financial services AI
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A bedside patient monitor showing vital-sign waveforms and readings on a dark screen, representing medical device software that the EU AI Act can treat as high-risk through the MDR
AI Compliance 12 min read

EU AI Act for Healthcare and Medical Devices: MDR, IVDR, Annex III and What Hospitals Must Do

AI in a medical device becomes high-risk under the EU AI Act through Annex I when the MDR or IVDR requires a notified body. This guide covers the 2 August 2028 date set by the Digital Omnibus, how one conformity assessment covers both laws, MDCG 2025-6, the health uses in Annex III, pharma, and the duties of hospitals as deployers.

#EU AI Act#healthcare AI#AI compliance
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A recruiter in glasses takes notes on a clipboard beside her laptop while interviewing a candidate across an office desk, the kind of hiring step the EU AI Act treats as high-risk once AI scores or filters applicants
AI Compliance 11 min read

EU AI Act for HR: Recruitment, Workforce AI and What Employers Must Do by December 2027

AI that recruits, selects, promotes, dismisses, allocates work or monitors staff is high-risk under Annex III of the EU AI Act, with obligations from 2 December 2027, and emotion recognition at work is already banned. What employers owe as deployers, when a fundamental rights impact assessment applies, how GDPR Article 22 fits, and a buying checklist.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#AI governance
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AI Compliance 12 min read

EU AI Act Prohibited Practices: The Article 5 List, Examples and a Screening Checklist

Article 5 of the EU AI Act has banned eight AI practices since 2 February 2025, and the Digital Omnibus adds two more from 2 December 2026. What each ban covers, where the Commission's guidelines draw its edges, the fines, and how an enterprise screens its AI inventory.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#AI governance
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