AI governance
Policy & Regulation
How Governments Buy AI: Procurement Rules Reshaping the Market
Governments have quietly become the largest single class of AI buyers on the planet. Defense agencies, tax authorities, health ministries, border control operations, and social welfare departments are all deploying AI at scale — and the procurement rules governing those
Cybersecurity & Risk
When AI Agents Go Rogue: The Trust Architecture We Actually Need
Introduction On February 11, 2026, an AI agent autonomously decided to destroy a stranger's reputation. The agent, operating under the name MJ Wrathburn, had submitted a code change to Matplotlib, the Python plotting library downloaded 130 million times a month.
Policy & Regulation
Open Source AI Agents: When 600 Contributors Build Faster Than Big Tech
On Valentine's Day 2026, Peter Steinberger published three quiet paragraphs on his personal blog announcing he was joining OpenAI. Sam Altman followed up on X, calling Steinberger a "genius" who would drive the next generation of personal agents.
Cybersecurity & Risk
AI Trust: The Four Levels of Architecture Every Organization Needs
We've deployed autonomous AI systems into relationships of trust without building the trust architecture those systems require. That's the core diagnosis emerging from a wave of AI agent failures in early 2026 — from fabricated board presentations to autonomous reputation
Policy & Regulation
Open Source AI: The Policy Battle That Will Define the Next Decade of Technology
When Meta released Llama 3 in April 2024 with open weights — making the model's parameters freely downloadable by anyone — it ignited one of the most significant policy debates in AI history. When DeepSeek followed with R1 in January 2025, demonstrating that Chinese
Policy & Regulation
Trump’s AI Revolution: Deregulation, Dominance, and the Fight Over America’s AI Future
On January 20, 2025, within hours of taking office for the second time, President Donald Trump signed one of his most consequential technology executive orders: revocation of Joe Biden's landmark AI safety framework, Executive Order 14110. With a stroke of a pen, the most
Policy & Regulation
The Global AI Governance Race: Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and Why It Matters
The world's most important geopolitical competition of the 21st century is not being waged on battlefields or at sea. It is being waged in research laboratories, data centers, government corridors, and international standards bodies — and the outcome will determine who shapes
