AI & Data News

• An agent is not a chatbot with more steps. It can be a thousand times the tokens
• Six things at LEAP 2026 were actually running. Almost everything else has a date on it
• Open-source AI governance now runs through a company that sells accelerators
• Adobe's $4 billion Saudi offer is a distribution strategy priced as a giveaway
• How to test an AI banking demo at Money20/20 instead of watching one
• Sovereign AI meant at least four different things at LEAP 2026
• GPT-6 Astra assessed: what OpenAI has published, and what it has deliberately not
• Why capable agents are harder to watch than capable models