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A new Crunchbase and HumanX report shared with the HumanX community is worth reading past the headline. It presents a case for a European AI investment boom, and the topline numbers back that up: European AI startups took 55% of … Continue reading → The post Europe’s VCs and Regulators Have More in Common Than They Think first appeared on @stuartgh .
What the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident tells us about the risks organisations have learned to live with. In short What changed. Ordinary security flaws that had never caused trouble became easy to reach, because the system hunting for them could keep … Continue reading → The post Ordinary Weaknesses, Machine-Speed Consequences first appeared on @stuartgh .
An industry trial involving BlackRock, JPMorgan, Citi and other financial groups suggests tokenised money-market funds could release cash tied up in derivatives margin. The opportunity also creates a critical role for pricing providers such as RedStone. Wall Street’s enthusiasm for … Continue reading → The post The Race to Reinvent Collateral first appeared on @stuartgh .
It started with a LinkedIn post by Lena Späth, Head of Platform at First Momentum Ventures. Her fund had run a program with other VCs for PhDs looking to spin companies out of their research — workshops, in-person sessions, structured … Continue reading → The post The Fit Problem: Why AI’s Next Frontier Isn’t Better Answers first appeared on @stuartgh .
There is a phrase that has been doing an enormous amount of quiet work in AI governance for the last few years, and it is starting to buckle under the weight of it. The phrase is “human-in-the-loop.” It is supposed … Continue reading → The post Human-in-the-Loop Doesn’t Work first appeared on @stuartgh .
Why execution-boundary AI governance needs upstream assumption testing Most AI governance still begins in the wrong place. It starts with rules, which is an understandable instinct, because rules are visible — they can be written down, audited, checked, enforced, and … Continue reading → The post Does AI Governance Need an Assumption Layer? first appeared on @stuartgh .
The MVP Was the Easy Part Steve Blank has been teaching Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad for sixteen years. This year, for the first time, teams walked in on day one with MVPs that looked finished, not rough prototypes, not wireframes, but … Continue reading → The post AI Is Giving Us What We Want, Not What We Need first appeared on @stuartgh .
Before you speak to an investor or get feedback from a customer your business may already have been read, analysed — and judged. Before an investor opens your deck, before a customer compares you to a competitor, before a potential … Continue reading → The post What AI Sees When It Looks at Your Business (And Why You Should Look First) first appeared on @stuartgh .
AI: A Bubble, But Not a Bubble (written with help from ChatGPT-5) Or: Why the “bubble” narrative around AI misses something deeper The question keeps coming up: is artificial intelligence (AI) currently in a speculative bubble that’s destined to burst, … Continue reading → The post AI is a bubble that is not going to burst (but it’s still a bubble) first appeared on @stuartgh .