Intercom built the AI disclosure the EU AI Act requires. Then shipped it switched off by default. It's in their own help center, dated June 30, 2026. If you adopted Fin after mid-2025, the label telling your customer they're talking to a machine defaults to hidden. Read more below buff.ly/Z0ht7BJ

This Week In AI Docs: Intercom Built the AI Disclosure Article 50(1) Requires. Then Shipped It Switched Off.

Issue 34 | August 19, 2026 | One vendor made AI disclosure removable. The other made it structural. That single choice decides who knows they are talking to a machine.

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It's been two weeks since Article 50 went into effect. After reading through and clicking through links, I ran into some issues that could potentially affect a lot of users who are looking to implement these changes. Check out on Mondays for more details. https://bit.ly/3SfwUkf

Article 50 Has Been Enforceable for Two Weeks. The Commission’s Own Page for It Says the Text Has Not Been Updated.

Monday, August 17, 2026 | Analytical. This week, I ran my method on the regulator instead of on a company and found failure modes.

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Check out today's Building In Public article where I give an honest breakdown of Sprout Social's Essentials tier versus Buffer's free plan, from a full-time creator paying for her own tools. briitoeknee.substack.com/p/i-spent-30...

I Spent 30 Days Inside Sprout Social’s $79 Plan. Here are my thoughts.

August 14, 2026 | Building in Public | About a 5-minute read

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Anthropic now watermarks every line of text Claude writes. It has not shipped a way for you to read the watermark. That gap is this week's grade in The Documentation Engineer. Check out my article for more details. bit.ly/4wAmdao

Anthropic Watermarked Every Word Claude Writes. It Has Not Shipped a Way to Read the Watermark.

Issue 33 | Wednesday, August 12, 2026 | Two labs answered the same regulation in the same week. Each one shipped; the other was skipped.

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Took a short break from social media to ground myself. Sometimes we need to step back and recharge. I can't wait to share my new updates with you all 💚

Just keep swimming.....

In this week's issue, I graded xAI against OpenAI on the same eight criteria, in the same order, before either letter was assigned. One of them shipped a free public verification tool and wrote down, in plain language, the five reasons it might come back empty. https://bit.ly/4q11KcT

This Week In AI Docs: xAI Ships a Cost Field on Every Response. It Has Never Shipped a Provenance One.

Issue 32 | Wednesday, August 5, 2026 | Article 50 of the EU AI Act applied three days ago, and the distance between what companies filed in Brussels and what they told their users is now measurable.

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The EU AI Act deadline that hit this weekend is not the one everyone spent two years preparing for. https://bit.ly/4pVuBPJ

The EU AI Act’s Transparency Rules Applied Yesterday. Every One of Them Lands in the Interface.

Monday, August 3, 2026 | Analytical

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Today I officially finished my MIT AI Safety Fellowship!!! I have learned SO much from this experience and connected with some highly intelligent people from all around the world. I am so grateful to have been selected to study with some of the top minds in this field.

Midjourney fails on AI transparency. Gemini does better, but still leaves questions. A new checklist shows what the EU AI Act actually demands. https://bit.ly/4g1xI5p

This Week In AI Docs: Midjourney Bans You From Misleading Anyone. It Refuses to Help You Prove You Didn’t.

Issue 31 | July 29, 2026 | Four days before Article 50, one major image generator ships with no marking, while Google signs the EU transparency code and argues with it.

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Check out my latest article, where I discuss the incident between OpenAI and Hugging Face and compare the disclosures each company gave users. https://bit.ly/4fC5g8G

OpenAI’s Model Hacked Hugging Face. The Victim Wrote the Better Disclosure.

Monday, July 27, 2026 | Analytical

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This week, for my building-in-public article, I dive into what the creator economy looks like for individuals entering it from different angles: what it looked like for me and how I am navigating it as someone who was previously a corporate employee. https://bit.ly/4fteKTS

The Creator Economy Runs on Five Types of Creators. I Am Not the One You Think.

Friday, July 24, 2026 | Building in public

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Check out the latest edition of the Documentation Engineering Newsletter https://bit.ly/4wVOUPp

This Week In AI Docs: Adobe Solved AI Provenance. Its own help page never mentions the Law That Made It Necessary.

Issue 30 | Wednesday, July 22, 2026 | Newsletter

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The countdown is closing in on article 15. Here's what you need to know in my latest Substack article. https://open.substack.com/pub/briitoeknee/p/thirteen-days-until-article-50-the?r=656r5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Thirteen Days Until Article 50. The Law Sets a Floor for AI Disclosure, and the Floor Is Low.

Monday | July 20, 2026 | Analytical

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Check out this interview I did with Technical Writing Uncensored as we discuss The AI Transparency Problem Nobody's Talking About 💚 youtu.be/rPZuobbMJX8?...

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Article 50 takes effect in 18 days, and the company doing the most about it wrote down exactly why that will not be enough. https://bit.ly/4pn1TqN

This Week In AI Docs: Midjourney Made You Promise Not to Mislead Anyone. Then Never Told You How.

Issue 29 | July 15, 2026 | Article 50 takes effect in 18 days, and the company doing the most about it wrote down exactly why that will not be enough.

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The Digital Omnibus took effect this month. It moved the conformity assessments and technical files for high-risk AI, the hiring tools, credit scoring, and law enforcement systems out to December 2027. It did not move Article 50. https://bit.ly/45254L8

The EU Delayed the Hard Part of Its AI Law. The Part It Kept Is About You.

Monday | July 13, 2026. What the Digital Omnibus moved, what it refused to move, and why the split is the clearest proof yet that a governance framework is not the same thing as a working explanation.

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GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

Here's my late but still information-packed post Friday-ish "Building in Public" blog for the Documentation Engineer, where I walk you through a project that I built for a job that I didn't end up getting.... open.substack.com/pub/briitoek...

I Didn’t Get the Job... But DID Get a Better Understanding of System Design.

Friday-ish, July 11, 2026 | Building in public

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This week in AI documentation: same buyer, same governance maturity, two completely different grades. See where Salesforce and HubSpot land, and what it costs to keep your limitations buried instead of built in. open.substack.com/pub/briitoek...

This week in AI Docs: I Graded Two CRM Platforms on AI Documentation for the First Time. The Gap Surprised Me.

Issue 28 | July 8, 2026 | Newsletter | Two companies. The same buyer. Wildly different ideas about what users deserve to know before they trust the AI.

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I have been in tech since 2012… what started as a job for survival eventually opened so many doors for me to grow and find a specialty that really felt like home. I have always had a passion for writing and teaching; I just never imagined that there was a way to do that in tech.

The US government suspended Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 overnight. Most AI companies go quiet when that happens. Anthropic didn't. Here's the grade, and why it matters before August 2. open.substack.com/pub/briitoek...

What Anthropic’s 19-Day Shutdown Taught Me About Crisis Documentation

Monday, July 6, 2026 | Analytical Article | When the US government suspended Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 overnight, Anthropic’s public statement did something almost no AI company does under pressure

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This last year has been about trusting the process and believing in myself, and for someone who has lived in survival mode most of her life, this has honestly been one of the scariest stretches yet.

June was the month that I started taking my content creation journey seriously and pursuing it full-time. Here's what I learned and how I'm going to step things up for July. open.substack.com/pub/briitoek...

The Floor, Not the Ceiling: My First Month as a Full-Time Creator

$270.72 and Six Interviews That Said No. Here Is Q2.

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Really about to rock out with my locs out this Month 🤗

I'm either going to hit my $10,000 content creation goal, secure a full-time role in my career field, or both. Either way, I'm going to end July better than I started it. Here's to a powerful month!

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Reality is... I know I make this Founder/Entrepreneur life look easy... as most ppl tend to do on social media..but deep down i'm still just a girl who would love to secure a 9-5 to help fund her 5-9 🥲

People really think Freelancing or Entrepreneurship is "easier" than having a 9-5..No, the hours are longer, there are no benefits, pay is not guaranteed, and honestly...when you are just getting started, there is no such thing as clocking out...but it's rewarding when you WIN 😮‍💨

Both Microsoft 365 Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise land at D- on this week's five procurement questions, not because they hide their subprocessors, but because both go silent on what their AI does poorly and who fixes it when it breaks.

I Graded the Documentation Your Procurement Team Actually Needs. Two Giants Landed on the Same Grade.

Issue 23 | July 1, 2026 | Newsletter | Monday I promised to grade two companies against the five vendor questions. Both hit the exact same score for the exact same reason.

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