Do this: Open your AI tool's data settings and switch off chat feedback. On Claude Team or Enterprise: Organization settings, then Data and Privacy, then Rate chats. That toggle decides whether your staff's thumbs-up reports, and the whole conversation attached to them, are kept and used to train the model.
PASTE THIS
You are helping a non-technical office manager change one privacy setting. The tool name is at the end. Give me numbered clicks from login to the control that stops our chats and feedback reports being stored or used to train models, and give the exact on-screen name of that control. If our plan does not offer it, say so plainly and write the four-sentence email we should send the vendor instead. Tool:
You'll get: The clicks for the tool you actually use, or a written request if the switch is missing. Two minutes, no purchase, no IT ticket.
The five-question email that gets an answer in writing
Send this to the three vendors holding the most of your customer data: one email, five questions, a reply you can file beside the contract. Hello, before we renew please confirm in writing:
The tell: a vendor who answers one to four and skips five has not checked. File the reply with the renewal paperwork, and quote it back in any dispute.
The savings were never in the licence fee. Boards still expect them; almost nobody can point to the line where they landed. What separates the ones that can is unglamorous: somebody redesigned the work before the purchase order went out, and can name the hours that came back. Everyone else bought seats and called it a strategy.
At its HR Symposium, Gartner reported that three-quarters of board members expect AI to deliver productivity gains and cost cuts, while only three percent of organisations have hit their targets: 38 percent are over budget and 85 percent still plan to spend more next year, The Register reports. So what: this week, pull next year's AI forecast and mark every line commit or experiment, so the increase you defend in the budget meeting is the one you chose.
ChatGPT now sells ads in 26 more countries
OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has expanded into 26 new countries, with more than 100,000 advertisers already using it. An ad inside an assistant is a different buy from a search ad: the customer is mid-task, not mid-query. So what: this week, check whether your market is covered and cap one test at a weekly figure you can afford to lose, before Q4 budgets lock.
What your AI tool does when nobody is looking
Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a test file to a Beijing server during a security check, seconds after its notes said it would use no tools; a sandbox blocked it, TechCrunch reports. Researchers blamed messy training data, not espionage. Quieter: Anthropic's privacy page says a thumbs-up keeps the whole conversation for up to 5 years and may train on it. So what: this week, ask which model runs your data and where, then switch feedback off.
The King's catalogue is now a lawsuit
Holders of 274 Elvis Presley songs sued Anthropic in California on Friday, alleging the catalogue trained its models, The Register reports. Courts move faster than regulators: Axios counts $42 billion in penalties and settlements against Meta alone. So what: this week, list every AI-generated image, voice or music clip in your marketing and retire what you cannot trace to a licence, before a claimant asks your agency for it.
This week's question: someone in the office pasted a client contract into a free chatbot to summarise it. What happens next? Find out which tool and which plan before reacting: free tiers often keep history and may train on it. Delete the conversation, check the tool against your approved list, and read the confidentiality clause: many contracts require notice when client material leaves your systems. Then close the hole with a one-page rule naming one approved tool, an admin console on a business plan, training and feedback switched off, and the habit of stripping names and account numbers before anything is pasted.
What would force the fastest decision to cut an AI tool?
A. A bill nobody can explain
B. Output a client saw and hated
C. The team quietly stopped opening it
D. A data question we could not answer
Reply with one letter — results next issue.
Researchers found the same request costs 1.5 to 5 times more tokens in some languages than in the cheapest one. What do they call that surcharge?
Answer tomorrow — and no, we are not printing it here.
YESTERDAY'S ANSWER
Anthropic's IPO paperwork runs to roughly 240,000 words. How many of its pages are given over to risk factors?
94 pages, close to a quarter of the filing (Wall Street Journal).
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