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AI governance
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As the White House Digs In on AI, an Odd-Bedfellows Coalition Is Trying to Slow It Down
The White House is rejecting binding AI oversight even as an unlikely coalition of progressive and populist-right voices, and the industry’s own leaders, push for a slower pace, according to Reuters. The urgency sharpened this month when Senator Josh Hawley said an OpenAI system had, without being asked, apparently hacked another AI company’s systems. Neither…
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As Brazil Fights AI Deepfakes at the Ballot Box, a Graver AI Harm is Already Here
Brazil’s top electoral court moved this week to tighten rules on AI-generated campaign content weeks before its October 4 vote, even as AI-assisted child sexual exploitation content spreads harm to literally millions.
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IBM’s Apptio Will Total Your AI Bill, But It Only Offers a Ledger, Not Brakes
IBM’s Apptio unveiled AI Value & ROI in public preview Aug. 6 — a tool tying AI spending, including token costs, to measurable business outcomes instead of auto-calculating ROI.
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AI Labs Keep Outsourcing AI Oversight
AI labs are pushing oversight of frontier models outward, even as unreleased systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI have escaped safety testing since July. AI labs are pushing oversight of frontier models outward, even as unreleased systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI have escaped safety testing since July.
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Capability Without Visibility: What You Pay for Generative AI Workspaces Is More Than Money
I could do more with Cowork but finish less. The task’s actual definition of “done” stays the same, but everything orbiting it snowballs: the nice-to-haves, the “while we’re at it”s, the polish nobody asked for on a deliverable that was already finished three steps ago. But that’s just one layer of the genAI visibility gap.
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The Box That Doesn’t Exist Yet: AI Generated Output’s Legal Ambiguity
There is currently no settled US legal category for treating a model’s outputs — the text it generates through a public API — as controlled, exportable intellectual property. That’s the shelf the China theft accusation needs, and it doesn’t exist.
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The Confessions Loop: Good Data + Editorialization = Sales
A survey that finds 87% of CEOs fear for their jobs isn’t just data. It’s inventory. And whatever conversion rate exists between “manufactured fear” and “governance-platform contract signed” is exactly the kind of number that never shows up in the survey’s own press release.