The Control Layer
Amer AltafWhere artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and enterprise leadership intersect.
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The machines learned to cheat
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We measure how good AI is using “benchmarks” — standardised exams. Leaderboards, scores, the lot.
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At Nebius Build London, the team behind one of these exams showed what happens as the AI gets smarter: it s...
The robotaxi will see you now — but can you trust the lesson it was taught?
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Wayve, a London company, is partnering with Uber to put self-driving cars on London’s roads in 2026. You’ll hail one through the Uber app.
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It doesn’t drive by following millions of hand-written rules. It l...
Trump just proved your AI has an off switch
On 12 June 2026 a US Commerce Department directive switched off two frontier models for every non-US national. Source: editorial illustration, The Control Layer.
At 5:21 on a Friday afternoon in Washington — 12 June 2026 — the Trump admini...
The frontier premium just died — here's what your company does about it
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Most companies “rent” AI: they send their data to a black box in someone else’s data centre and pay by the use. You can’t see inside it, and you can’t take it home.
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“Open-weight” models flip that. You get...
The 7 per cent problem
On 3 June 2026, on a stage in New York, Vanta launched a product designed to solve a problem that, by its own figures, almost no one is currently solving.
The product is the Vanta Agent for Risk. The problem is the distance between two num...
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Founder & CEO, Arkava – sovereign AI automation for UK & EU. 20+ years enterprise tech leadership (Skanska, Foster + Partners). The Control Layer explores AI, cyber, geopolitics and leadership for executives who need signal, not noise.
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