Seventy: Sunday, 8 November 2026

Sunday, 8 November 20266 stories made this week’s top highlights.
Top highlights of the week

UK regulator puts AI agent mistakes on your company, not the vendor

Why it mattersIf you let AI agents handle customer refunds in the UK, the CMA says you carry the legal blame for their breaches.

Watch nextWatch whether the CMA turns this guidance into action against a named company.

Seventy's viewBefore agents touch refunds, name an owner for their conduct and train them like new staff.

30 Oct 202617 sec read

UK Competition and Markets Authority

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Rising in the data · a signal, not a prediction

Early signals

  1. RAG & retrieval8 stories from 3 sources this week, about 4× the usual pace.
  2. Anthropic4 stories from 3 sources this week, about 4× the usual pace.

Counted across everything Seventy read this week, not only what made an issue: at least four stories from three sources, at twice the usual pace or more.

That's the whole issue.

2 stories, about 28 sec. Nothing was left out to fill the time.

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Words of the day

access rules
Policies that define which people or software accounts may view, change or act on particular data and systems.
audit logs
Tamper-resistant records of who or what did what and when in a system, used for security review and compliance.
Gemini API
Google's programming interface that lets developers call Gemini models from their own software.
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