AI Policy
Your AI Auditor Now Needs a License From California
AB 1405 and SB 813 require anyone who performs a compliance AI audit in California to register with the state. No audit is mandatory yet, but the license already is.
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AI Policy
California's Chatbot Child Safety Law Outpaces the EU's Own Rules
California's Adam's Law forces AI companion chatbots into suicide-risk crisis protocols and annual audits by July 2027. The EU AI Act only requires a disclosure.
Cybersecurity
Your NIS2 Threat Model Just Assumed the Wrong Attacker
Anthropic disrupted a Claude-powered espionage cell run partly by two Hunan university students. It hit fifty organizations like a state service.
Infrastructure
Skild's Robot Assembles Blackwell From One Video
Skild AI's S1 model learns a new robot task from a single video. NVIDIA and Foxconn now use it to help assemble NVIDIA's own Blackwell chip systems.
Capital
Five Billion In Defense Money Is Now Chasing GPUs
The Pentagon office built to finance rare-earth mines and battery plants is in talks to lend Fluidstack $5 billion. It has never financed compute before.
Capital
Silver Lake Merges Its Own Firms, No Regulator Asks Why
Silver Lake is merging Cegid and Silae, two companies it already fully owns, into a 10bn euro group serving 2 million European businesses. Common ownership means no arm's-length merger review.
Digital Sovereignty
Nvidia and Palantir Call It Sovereign, Germany Already Said No
Nvidia and Palantir launched a sovereign AI stack for supply chains on September 10. Germany's own military rejected Palantir for the exact dependency this stack does not remove.
Capital
Bending Spoons Just Bought Your Whiteboard Too
Bending Spoons is paying $1.355 billion for Miro, its second acquisition in five weeks. If your team runs on Airtable, Evernote or WeTransfer, the same owner now runs your whiteboard.
Gaming
PIF's Next Merger May Skip Brussels Entirely
Saudi Arabia's PIF already controls both Electronic Arts and Savvy Games. If it merges them, EU merger law may never get a say.
Cybersecurity
Your License Photo Sat On Their Server For A Year
IDScan confirmed hackers stole over 153 million driver's licenses from its cloud, exfiltrated quietly for more than a year. Here is what an EU business using a similar vendor should check now.
Law & Regulation
The Merger Filing Nvidia Never Made
The DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal was structured to dodge merger review, and the same gap likely exists in EU law too.
Cybersecurity
The Bug That Broke The Thing Patching Depends On
A zero-day in the Windows Update Stack itself, the mechanism you cannot disable without losing future patches, was exploited before Microsoft's September fix shipped.
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The Operator Brief
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