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Applied AI: Documents, Images, and Multimodal Input

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of November 1, 2026. An accounts payable team automates invoice processing with a vision model. It reads scanned invoices, extracts the vendor, date, and total, and posts them to the ledger. For three weeks it works beautifully. Then an auditor finds a $7,340 invoice paid as $1,340: a smudged 7 on a faxed scan, read confidently as a 1, and written into perfectly valid JSON. Down the h… Read More

Applied AI: Privacy and Data Governance

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of November 1, 2026. It describes common practice, not legal advice. In the spring of 2023, engineers at Samsung pasted internal source code and meeting notes into ChatGPT to get help debugging and summarizing. Within weeks, the company banned generative AI tools on its devices and networks. The story became the standard warning about AI and confidential data, and it shaped a generat… Read More

Applied AI: Long-Running and Background Agents

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of November 1, 2026. A procurement team gives an agent a job: review 40 vendor contracts, email each vendor to confirm renewal terms, and produce a comparison by morning. Two hours in, at contract 31, the server running the agent restarts for a routine deploy. The run is gone. Someone starts it again, the bill doubles, and 30 vendors receive the same email twice. Nothing about the mod… Read More