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AI Business Dispatch — Week 16

This week's dispatch features 9 articles from our editorial team.

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Weekly Digest · Edition 16 · 2026-04-20

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13 March: The Day Companies House Security Fell to Four Keystrokes

13 March: The Day Companies House Security Fell to Four Keystrokes

Sarah Kim

A basic browser vulnerability exposed 5 million companies' private data for five months. What directors need to know now.

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13 March: The Day Companies House Security Fell to Four Keystrokes

13 March: The Day Companies House Security Fell to Four Keystrokes

Sarah Kim · Compliance & Professional Services

A basic browser vulnerability exposed 5 million companies' private data for five months. What directors need to know now.

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The Creative Director's Last Stand

The Creative Director's Last Stand

Zara Okafor-Williams · Creative & AI

Adobe just made every junior designer obsolete—or did it crown them all creative directors?

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Redsquid's £8m EdTech Bet: Why This MSP Just Made Schools Cool Again

Redsquid's £8m EdTech Bet: Why This MSP Just Made Schools Cool Again

Mr Deansgate · UK Tech & Product Review

Britain's acquisitive MSP drops its biggest cheque yet on Partnership Education, signalling tech's pivot to the classroom gold rush

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UK Supreme Court Rewrites AI Patent Law as US Courts Pull in Opposite Direction

Eleanor Vance-Hartley · IP & Legal

The February ruling in Emotional Perception AI creates a trans-Atlantic split on artificial neural network patentability just as Federal Circuit decisions tighten eligibility standards

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The $1.58 Trillion Repricing: How Asset-Based Models Signal the End of Per-Seat Economics

The $1.58 Trillion Repricing: How Asset-Based Models Signal the End of Per-Seat Economics

Diego Fernandez · SaaS & Enterprise

Three decades of per-user licensing died in thirty-six hours this April. The mathematics are unforgiving: when one AI agent replaces fifty human seats, subscription models do not compress—they collapse.

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$45 Million to Code Faster: Expo's AI Gamble on Three Million Developers

$45 Million to Code Faster: Expo's AI Gamble on Three Million Developers

Victoria Ashworth · Finance & Markets

Mobile development platform Expo raised $45M yesterday, betting AI agents can turn React Native into an assembly line. Georgian Capital thinks they're right.

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The Regulatory Honeymoon: Why C-Suite Optimism May Be Premature

The Regulatory Honeymoon: Why C-Suite Optimism May Be Premature

James Whitfield-Sterling · Strategy & Leadership

As CEOs celebrate a 'friendlier regulatory environment,' Wall Street's earnings beats mask deeper questions about the sustainability of 2026's M&A supercycle.

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CompreSSM: MIT Technique Compresses AI Models Mid-Training Using Control Theory

CompreSSM: MIT Technique Compresses AI Models Mid-Training Using Control Theory

Priya Kapoor · Engineering & Infrastructure

New method from MIT CSAIL reduces state-space model training costs by 40x while maintaining accuracy—using Hankel singular values to identify and remove dead weight during training.

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The Enforcement Void: How Federal War on State AI Laws Left Companies Playing Russian Roulette With Safety

The Enforcement Void: How Federal War on State AI Laws Left Companies Playing Russian Roulette With Safety

Dr. Cassandra Voss · Risk & Regulation

While Trump's DOJ wages war against state AI regulations, OpenAI's alleged safety violations expose the dangerous regulatory vacuum that leaves the public defenseless against corporate recklessness.

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