GDPR-Compliant ChatGPT Alternatives: What Are Your Options?

GDPR-Compliant ChatGPT Alternatives: What Are Your Options?

Key Takeaways Data protection is the biggest AI hurdle: 77 percent name it, ahead of skills shortage (70 percent) and cost (58 percent). Two guardrails, not a roadblock: Data protection and data security belong along the sides of the road – not across it. No...
Why Do 95% of AI Projects Fail?

Why Do 95% of AI Projects Fail?

Key Takeaways 95 percent deliver nothing: An MIT study analysed around 300 AI implementations. Between 30 and 40 billion dollars produced no measurable result. Technology is not the bottleneck: AI projects almost always fail on the process and on measurement, almost...
How Do You Roll Out AI Agents Safely?

How Do You Roll Out AI Agents Safely?

Key Takeaways Agents act instead of just answering: That is exactly what makes them useful – and the fastest growing attack surface in your company. Five rules from the German BSI: Least privilege, human in the loop, logging, sandboxing and an emergency plan...
Shadow AI: The Invisible Risk Inside Your Company

Shadow AI: The Invisible Risk Inside Your Company

Key Takeaways Shadow AI is already here: According to the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), one in four companies is affected. Employees use private AI tools without approval, and the real number is higher. Bans make it worse: Lock systems down and...
Martin Mall on Leadership, Courage and Uncertainty

Martin Mall on Leadership, Courage and Uncertainty

Key Takeaways The bottleneck is never the technology: When it comes to change and AI, people and leadership decide the outcome, not the tools. Uncertainty is a matter of perspective: What most people picture as their worst fear is, for a skydiver, the best moment of...
Less Is More: Why Does AI Thrive on Simplicity?

Less Is More: Why Does AI Thrive on Simplicity?

Key Takeaways Less is more — also for AI: The more outdated data sits in a mailbox or folder, the less reliable an AI’s answers become. AI is a probability machine and reaches for what is most frequent, not what is most current. Delete instead of hoard: Delete...
How Can You Create Websites with AI?

How Can You Create Websites with AI?

Key Takeaways Creating websites with AI is genuinely practical today – Thorsten Jekel rebuilt his own site entirely with AI.You don’t need to know HTML; the site keeps running on WordPress, including all its plugins and extensions.Claude Design extracts a design...
How Do You Get Stable Internet on the Road – Even in a Camper?

How Do You Get Stable Internet on the Road – Even in a Camper?

Key Takeaways For reliable internet on the road, the provider comes first: for maximum reliability Thorsten Jekel uses Deutsche Telekom with a large data flat rate and several SIM cards.Abroad, local data SIM cards (at the airport or in mobile stores) are often much...
What Are the Latest Developments in Microsoft Copilot?

What Are the Latest Developments in Microsoft Copilot?

Key Takeaways Microsoft Copilot polarizes: some consider it weak, others value it because the data stays in the EU – the truth lies in between.Microsoft does not rely on its own AI model for Copilot, but uses models from providers such as OpenAI – and now also...
Microsoft Copilot vs. Langdock: Which AI Platform?

Microsoft Copilot vs. Langdock: Which AI Platform?

Key Takeaways Microsoft Copilot integrates AI directly into Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams – ideal for companies fully committed to Microsoft 365.Langdock is a German, GDPR-compliant AI platform that bundles several leading models (e.g. GPT, Claude, Gemini) under one...