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Worth Reading – Enterprise AI Has a Data Problem, Not a Model Problem
ByMike McBride September 19, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

If I’m being honest, every time I hear someone say they don’t like Copilot because ChatGPT or Claude is just better, I have to wonder about that. The models available inside Copilot aren’t that different, but there is one big difference. Copilot has access to all your email, OneDrive documents, SharePoint files, etc.

That’s been a selling point for Microsoft, but it might also explain why the results differ. Your data might be making the results worse than when you use a different tool that isn’t connected to your Microsoft environment.

What is your AI using as its source of truth?

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Mental Health | SocialNetworking

Worth Reading – Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
ByMike McBride September 18, 2026September 18, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The problem wasn’t trying to keep kids safer by limiting the time they spent away from home unsupervised; it was not giving them alternative ways to build the same connections and skills. When I read about social media bans, I have the same question. How are we replacing the connections to friends, family, supportive communities, and educational information? Because if we aren’t, we’ll protect them from one thing and create other issues.

If not social media, then where?

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Artificial Intelligence | LawFirms

Worth Reading – AI ROI For Law Firms: There’s Not Any
ByMike McBride September 16, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Stephen is also right to point out that the industry really hasn’t figured out how to make this work. Clients increasingly want firms to use AI to reduce billable hours; lawyers don’t want to use technology that makes it harder to meet their billable-hour requirements.

This sounds like an impasse. One that will require some innovative thinking and partnership between firms and clients.

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Security

Worth Reading – ‘Just Record Every Meeting’ Is The New Norm. It’s Also A CIO Headache
ByMike McBride September 12, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If your data gets breached, how many people will you have to notify? Not just the transcript of what they said, but the recording of them- the audio of their voice, etc. has been breached as well. We don’t often talk about the risk that creates, but it does. Deepfake audio and video tools don’t require much existing video or audio of someone to generate convincing fakes. How much liability do you have for content you lost in a breach if it’s used that way?

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Security

153 Million Drivers Licenses for Sale – You’ll Never Guess Where They Came From
ByMike McBride September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

This should, but won’t, end the discussion about the safety of age verification laws. What privacy advocates warned would happen as we continued to force everyone to verify their identity online has happened, and 153 million people worldwide have had their data breached. That’s a nightmare. A nightmare many of us saw coming.

Has any single online age-verification law been pulled back since this news came out? I haven’t seen any announcements about that, if it happened.

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Career

Worth Reading – Companies that roll back DEI don’t perform better financially, study says
ByMike McBride September 8, 2026September 7, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

I feel like we knew this, and that the entire thing was just performative, not based on any kind of data: “Large corporations appear to have folded under pressure for no financial gain,” a public policy scholar wrote. https://www.hrdive.com/news/companies-dei-roll-back-dei-performance-uc-berkeley/828590/ Some people have been screaming from the rafters for years that diversity programs meant hiring unqualified…

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