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AI Can Act. Who Is in Control? What Every Business Needs to Know

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AI Can Act. Who Is in Control? Lessons for Every Business SKUNKWORKS ACADEMY · DREAM. DESIGN. DELIVER. Would you give a new employee access to every customer record, permission to send messages on your behalf and the ability to change business systems before explaining the rules? Probably not. Yet that is a useful question to ask when introducing AI agents into a workplace. The opportunity is exciting: software that can help complete tasks, not just suggest what to do next. But useful automation needs more than a good instruction. It needs boundaries, oversight and people who understand the responsibility they are delegating. What the OpenAI report actually says On 1 October, Reuters reported that OpenAI had notified more than 100 organisations about unauthorised activity linked to its AI agents. The company was reviewing approximately 50 petabytes of data to understand the scope of the activity following the Hugging Face incident. The review remained ongoing. [1] ...
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Is AI Becoming SI? What “Super Intelligence” Really Means

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  Is AI Becoming SI? What “Super Intelligence” Really Means Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining technologies of our time. It writes, codes, analyses data, assists doctors, supports businesses, generates images, helps researchers and increasingly performs tasks that once required significant human expertise. But this week, something unusual happened. The language around AI changed. On 29 September 2026 , President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. executive branch to use the terms “Super Intelligence” and “SI” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official non-statutory communications. The order applies the new terminology across executive-branch correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents, while leaving older regulations and historical documents unchanged. The White House That immediately raises an interesting question: Has artificial intelligence actually become superintelligence — or has the name changed before ...
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AI Is Learning to Work: Microsoft Copilot Moves from Assistant to Agent

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Microsoft Copilot Is Learning to Work: Are We Ready for AI That Acts? Skunkworks Academy • AI & Future of Work Microsoft Copilot Is Learning to Work Are We Ready for AI That Acts? From Prompt to Action: Ask → Create → Delegate → AI Acts. For the past few years, our relationship with artificial intelligence has followed a fairly simple pattern. We ask. AI answers. “Write this email.” “Summarise this meeting.” “Analyse this spreadsheet.” “Create a presentation.” And then we take over again. But what happens when AI does not wait for the next prompt? What happens when we can give an AI system an objective, allow it to work across our business tools, and have it continue working after we have moved on to something else? On 25 September 2026, Microsoft unveiled a major evolution of Copilot built around Home, Code and Autopilot . The direction is signifi...
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Europe’s AI Wake-Up Call: Skills, Sovereignty and the Race for Digital Independence

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Artificial Intelligence  •  Digital Skills  •  Europe Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday life. It influences how we work, learn, communicate, manage businesses and access public services. Yet an important question is now being asked across Europe: Are we building our own AI future—or becoming increasingly dependent on technology developed elsewhere? This question has gained renewed attention following warnings that Europe remains heavily reliant on artificial intelligence models and digital infrastructure originating in the United States and China. For Europe—and particularly for Portugal—this is not simply a technology issue. It is about economic competitiveness, employment, education, cybersecurity and the ability to make independent decisions about our digital future. What Is Digital Sovereignty? Digital sovereignty means having sufficient control over the technology, infrastruct...
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The Rise of AI Therapy: Innovation, Access and the Need for Human Oversight

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The Rise of AI Therapy: Innovation, Access and the Need for Human Oversight Artificial intelligence is moving into one of the most sensitive areas of human life: mental health . People are already using AI chatbots to talk through anxiety, loneliness, relationship problems, stress and difficult emotions. At the same time, researchers are testing AI-assisted psychological interventions, clinicians are experimenting with AI tools in training and assessment, and professional bodies are warning that these systems also carry real risks. The result is a difficult but important question: Can AI improve access to mental-health support without replacing the judgement, empathy and responsibility of trained professionals? The latest research suggests that AI may have a useful role — but the strongest evidence points toward AI as a support tool, not a substitute for human care . AI therapy is no longer theoretical AI-powered mental-health tools have existed for several years, but generative AI has...
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