FIELD NOTES
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Operator-grade notes on AI — sourced from our research corpus, refreshed on a standing monitoring schedule, written to be useful the same day you read them.
The EU AI Act's GPAI rules are in force. Your procurement timeline just moved.
The General-Purpose AI obligations under the EU AI Act took effect on 2 August 2025. Most operators still haven't traced the contractual consequences through their AI stack. Here's the practical read-out.
The agentic governance stack: what Apollo and Leibo tell us about deploying AI agents
Two research programs — Apollo Research's scheming evaluations and Joel Leibo's multi-agent social-simulation work — are the most useful frameworks we've found for reasoning about safe agent deployment. Here's the operator's read.
India's AI regulatory stack: DPDP, RBI FREE-AI, IRDAI, and SEBI — what operators need to know
India doesn't have a single AI law. It has a patchwork — DPDP as the data-protection base, RBI's FREE-AI framework for financial services, IRDAI for insurance, and SEBI guidance for markets. Here's the one-page map.