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      <title><![CDATA[Stateless, Secure, and Extendable. What the MCP Release Changes for Enterprise Agents.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I spent an evening at AI House Amsterdam for the MCP Release Party. Here is what the 2026-07-28 specification actually changes for enterprises, and what it does not fix, from someone running ten agents in production.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI Agents</category>
      <category>AI Enablement</category>
      <category>Enterprise AI</category>
      <category>MCP</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Pilot Is Not Failing on the Model]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The demo worked. The production system does not. So the team swaps in a newer model, rewrites the prompt, and runs the demo again. The model is rarely the problem. Nobody wrote down what good means, so nobody can prove this version is better than the last one.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI Infrastructure</category>
      <category>Data</category>
      <category>Enterprise AI</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Is Answering Your Customers. It Is Recommending Someone Else.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The web is splitting into a human web and an agent web. Your expertise needs a front door on both, and most of the web is being locked out of the layer that names you.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
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      <category>Agent Experience</category>
      <category>Answer Economy</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[One Person on Your IT Team Used Grok. Your Repo Is in Someone Else's Bucket.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[You did not approve Grok Build. You did not procure it. It is not on your vendor list. None of that matters. One engineer installed it, pointed it at a repo, and the whole thing left the building, full git history included. Here is what was actually proven, what you are exposed to, and what to do in the next 72 hours.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI Policy and Compliance</category>
      <category>Data</category>
      <category>Enterprise AI</category>
      <category>Platform Engineering</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Had an AI Hire an AI to Manage My AI. Meet the Director.]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/i-had-an-ai-hire-an-ai</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Part three of three. The system could not improve itself, so I created a Director role and let one AI hire another to fill it. What happened next was not a technology problem. It was a management problem, and it taught me more about deploying AI than anything else I have built.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI Agents</category>
      <category>AI Enablement</category>
      <category>AI Management</category>
      <category>Multi-Agent Systems</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The EU AI Act Is GDPR 2.0. Most Companies Are Reading the Delay Wrong.]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/eu-ai-act-gdpr-2-0</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The EU pushed the high-risk deadline to December 2027 and a lot of executives exhaled. That is the mistake. The bans are already live, the transparency rules hit August 2026, and the delay did not touch either one.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI Policy and Compliance</category>
      <category>AI Strategy</category>
      <category>Enterprise AI</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[My AI Agents Dream Every Night]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Part two of three. How nine agents share one mind, why some of it lives in a database and the rest in a folder of plain text files, and what happens at two in the morning when the system quietly tidies its own memory.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI Agents</category>
      <category>AI Enablement</category>
      <category>Memory</category>
      <category>Multi-Agent Systems</category>
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      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Built a Nine-Agent Company on a Refurbished Mini PC]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/i-built-a-nine-agent-company-on-a-refurbished-mini-pc</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The honest story of an autonomous agent ecosystem, built solo, on an 8GB box that used to be someone's office desktop. What it is, why it exists, and how nine AI agents got stood up in fourteen minutes. They did not, really. Keep reading.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI Agents</category>
      <category>Composable</category>
      <category>MACH</category>
      <category>Multi-Agent Systems</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What We Learned at the AI+ Expo: A Global Look at Where AI Actually Stands in 2026]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three days, more than 20,000 people, and one settled question. Not whether AI matters, but what to do with it, and what happens to the organizations that get it wrong. What we heard, in plain language.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (John Macchione)</author>
      <category>AI Infrastructure</category>
      <category>AI Strategy</category>
      <category>Enterprise AI</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Door Nobody Thought to Lock]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I made three videos for queer founders this Pride. Here is what they have to do with starting this company.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Founders</category>
      <category>Pride</category>
      <category>Queer Tech</category>
      <category>Sales and Marketing</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Three AIs, One AC Unit, and a Lesson About Trust]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three AI models. One question about a portable AC unit. Three completely different answers. What it taught me about picking the right LLM, giving real context, and the one feature most people never use.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>AI Enablement</category>
      <category>LLMs</category>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Data Is a Mess. Start Your AI Project Anyway.]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/inherited-data-ai-cleanup</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most companies are told to clean their data before starting an AI project. That advice is expensive, slow, and wrong. Here's how to bake data cleanup into the AI rollout itself.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>AI Enablement</category>
      <category>Data</category>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <category>Data and Analytics</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Not Everything Needs AI: A Guide to Deterministic vs Intelligent Workflows]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/deterministic-vs-ai</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI isn't the answer to everything. Learn when deterministic logic outperforms AI in your workflows, how to avoid AI runaway, and where intelligence actually earns its token cost.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>AI Enablement</category>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <category>Workflows</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
      <category>Platform Engineering</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[We Built a Free MACH & AI Readiness Assessment. Here's Why.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fidget Labs built a free interactive assessment that scores your composable maturity and AI readiness against 600 enterprise leaders. Here's the story behind it and what the data reveals.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Assessment</category>
      <category>Composable Architecture</category>
      <category>MACH</category>
      <category>Digital Experience</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What 3D Printing Can Teach Us About AI Enablement]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/3d-printing-ai-lessons</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to avoiding expensive mistakes in AI adoption]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>AI Enablement</category>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Digital Experience: From CMS to DXP to MACH to... What's Next?]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/evolution-cms-dxp-mach</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you're still trying to figure out the difference between a CMS, a DXP, and MACH architecture, or wondering why everyone keeps talking about "composable", you're in the right place. Let's trace the evolution of digital experience platforms from the early days of content management to the AI-powered future that's already knocking on your door.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>CMS</category>
      <category>Composable</category>
      <category>DXP</category>
      <category>MACH</category>
      <category>Digital Experience</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Myth of the Greenfield Project: Why Your "Fresh Start" Is Already Connected to Everything]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/myth-of-greenfield-projects</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every enterprise leader dreams of the greenfield project. A blank canvas, no legacy baggage, pure innovation. Here's the uncomfortable truth: in enterprise technology, greenfield doesn't exist. But that's actually good news, if you know how to work with it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>Composable</category>
      <category>Digital Transformation</category>
      <category>Enterprise</category>
      <category>MACH</category>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <category>Digital Experience</category>
      <category>Platform Engineering</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Effectively Apply AI in Your Work in 2026]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/how-to-effectively-apply-ai-in-your-work-2026</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Practical strategies for integrating AI tools into your daily workflows without losing the human touch]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Digital Transformation</category>
      <category>Productivity</category>
      <category>Applied AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Avoiding Headless Heartache: A Survival Guide for Your MACH Journey]]></title>
      <link>https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/avoiding-headless-heartache</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[So you've decided to go composable. Congratulations! You're about to join a growing movement of enterprises breaking free from monolithic madness. But before you dive headfirst into headless, let's talk about the heartaches we've seen, and how to avoid becoming another cautionary tale.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>hello@fidgetlabs.io (Kerrigan Baron)</author>
      <category>Composable</category>
      <category>MACH</category>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <category>Digital Experience</category>
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