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November 2022 (chatbot interaction); February 2024 (ruling)

Air Canada Chatbot Ruling: When a Tribunal Decided AI Output Is Still Your Output

The Air Canada chatbot ruling is the Applied AI accountability case that ended the argument over whether a company can disclaim its own chatbot. In February 2024, the British Columbia Civil Resolution…

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January 2025

DeepSeek-R1 Release: When AI Economics Shifted in a Single Trading Day

The DeepSeek-R1 release is the Applied AI inflection point that challenged frontier AI's competitive moat. On January 27, 2025, Nvidia stock dropped roughly 17 percent in a single session, erasing app…

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March 2024 (adoption) through August 2027 (full application)

EU AI Act Implementation: First Horizontal AI Regulation Goes Operational

The EU AI Act is the Applied AI regulatory framework that established the first cross-sector legal regime for artificial intelligence. The European Parliament adopted the Act on March 13, 2024, the Co…

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September 2024

OpenAI o1 Release: When Test-Time Compute Became a Tunable Knob

The OpenAI o1 release is the Applied AI capability shift that introduced reasoning models with adjustable thinking time. In September 2024, OpenAI released o1-preview and o1-mini, models that allocate…

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March 2023 to May 2023

Samsung ChatGPT Data Leak: When Consumer AI Became an Enterprise Exfiltration Channel

The Samsung ChatGPT data leak is the Applied AI shadow-IT case study that prompted enterprise bans on consumer LLMs. In April 2023, Samsung Electronics confirmed that engineers had pasted proprietary…