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Brussels Blinked: The EU AI Act’s High-Risk Deadline Just Moved, but the Compliance Clock Has Not Stopped
When maddaisy examined the shift from AI principles to penalties in February, the EU AI Act’s August 2026 deadline for high-risk AI systems sat at the centre of the analysis. That date — 2 August 2026 — was the moment when compliance stopped being theoretical and started carrying fines of up to seven per cent…
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CTOs and CHROs Are Climbing the Pay Table. That Tells You Where Boards Think Risk Lives Now.
For decades, the path to being among a public company’s five highest-paid executives ran through operations, sales, or running a business unit. Technology leaders and HR chiefs were important, certainly — but they were support functions, not the positions that commanded top-tier compensation. That hierarchy is shifting. New research from The Conference Board, published this…
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The Three-Tool Threshold: BCG Research Reveals Where AI Productivity Gains Turn Into Cognitive Overload
For months, the evidence that AI tools are intensifying work rather than simplifying it has been accumulating. maddaisy has tracked this story from the UC Berkeley research showing employees absorbing more tasks under AI, through the organisational failures that leave workers unsupported, to the implementation problems that bake burnout into the system from day one.…