:: NOTES
Technical writing from NSS — research notes, analysis, and arguments we found worth making in public.
| DATE | CATEGORY | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| February 27, 2026 | AI | Claude Cowork: Seven Use Cases, ExaminedNEW! Anthropic's Claude Cowork pushes AI into every department — financial analysis, legal review, HR onboarding, sales automation. A look at which of those use cases hold up in practice. |
| February 26, 2026 | AI | Mapping Where Agentic AI Actually Pays Off Twelve workflow opportunities across three departments and four priority tiers — a framework for working out where autonomous agents earn their keep, and where they do not. |
| February 25, 2026 | AI | Agentic AI and CAPEX: Running the Numbers Legacy workflows lock capital in depreciating assets. Autonomous agents are pitched as the way out, with 30–60% CAPEX reductions claimed. Here is where those numbers come from and what they assume. |
| November 19, 2025 | INFRASTRUCTURE | Own or Rent: AI Infrastructure Economics Over Five Years The total economics of AI infrastructure over five years produce a less obvious picture than either vendor claims. A breakdown of the real costs — cloud versus owned hardware. |
| November 19, 2025 | SECURITY | Four Regulated Industries Rethinking Cloud AI Healthcare systems, financial institutions, defense contractors and law firms share one requirement: certainty about where data sits and who can reach it. How each is evaluating its AI posture. |
| November 18, 2025 | INFRASTRUCTURE | Vendor Lock-In When You Build on Someone Else's Models Everyone built on the Google Maps API, and then the pricing changed overnight. The same dynamics are forming in enterprise AI. How to measure vendor dependency before it becomes structural. |
| November 3, 2025 | SECURITY | Where Your Data Actually Goes on a Cloud AI Request A single AI query can touch infrastructure across several jurisdictions. Tracing that path — and being able to demonstrate it — is a prerequisite for handling sensitive data at all. |
| October 15, 2025 | SECURITY | Is Your AI Vendor Training on Your Data? Every interaction with a hosted model leaves a trail of proprietary knowledge somewhere. How to establish what your vendor is actually doing with it, and what your options are. |
| September 26, 2025 | SECURITY | The Anthropic Copyright Settlement and Training-Data Liability Anthropic's copyright settlement raises real questions about liability for training data. What the ruling establishes, and how to think about your own exposure. |