Issue 005

For those five days, nobody really knew what OpenAI would look like the following week. Most of its staff threatened to leave and Microsoft offered Altman a job. It makes for a great film, but there's a useful reminder in there too: AI companies are fast becoming infrastructure, while still being companies with boards, people and priorities that can change surprisingly quickly.

That isn't a reason to avoid them. It's a reason to know where you've come to depend on one, and to keep enough of your data and systems under your own control that you could change your mind.

The UK has done something similar too. Since February, if a decision that really matters is made about you with no human involved, you can challenge it and ask for a person to take another look. The interesting part is what counts as a human being involved. The regulator's draft guidance says it has to be genuine rather than a box-ticking exercise, and the final version is still being written.

AI helping to make decisions about people feels inevitable but AI making the final call doesn't. Seeing that become law in California is interesting in itself, and it probably won't be the last rule written about how AI is used at work.

It's the first new car since the 2024 rebrand, which arrived with a new logo, an ad campaign without a single car in it, and the Type 00, a striking concept that got Jaguar more attention than it had seen in years. Not all of it was kind, but two years on, they appear to be sticking to their guns.

Tanvir loves it. Naz isn't so sure. So many new cars now look the same that it's genuinely hard to tell them apart. Whatever you make of the Type 01, you'd notice it from a mile away.