Category: Governance

AI governance frameworks, oversight models, accountability structures, and organisational control over AI use

Europe’s First Uber Robotaxi Still Has A Safety Operator France excludes OpenAI from cyber work Ten Days To Answer A European Production Order Your Vendor Can Leave You Holding The Provider Obligations UK growth: AI vendors, not AI users Two clouds. One jurisdiction. No regulator paused Astra. OpenAI did. US productivity up 1.4%, cause unproven Moldova’s GDPR law lands on 23 August

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AI Adoption Tripled. Depth Didn’t.

Official ONS data shows AI adoption in UK business has almost tripled since 2023, yet depth has barely moved. Most firms run one or two narrow use cases. Here is why breadth flatters your board, and why the real gap is a people problem, not a technology one.
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Regional AI Models: One Product, Several Systems

Apple Intelligence has been cleared for China, where it will run on Alibaba and Baidu models rather than Apple's own. One brand, two systems. That split turns a product detail into a documentation problem for anyone deploying AI across borders.
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Safety by Design: The EU Flips the Burden of Proof

A special EU expert panel wants to flip the burden of proof for online child safety. Providers would have to show a service is safe by design before children under 13 could use it, and the same design features the Commission just cited against Meta are in scope.
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Data Sovereignty: Europe Asks Who Can Reach Your Data

The European Commission has opened a targeted consultation on data sovereignty, running to 8 September. It asks who can reach European data and under whose law. The policy outcome is uncertain. The internal exposure map an honest answer requires is valuable whatever Brussels decides.
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Frontier AI Safety: Illinois Sets the Bar

A single US state has set a new bar for frontier AI safety, with recurring independent audits of the largest developers. European organisations are not bound by it. But the evidence it forces into the open changes what governance teams can now ask of their AI vendors.
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Digital Omnibus: the AI Act Delay That Makes 2026 Busier, Not Quieter

The Council adopted the Digital Omnibus on 29 June, pushing high-risk AI Act obligations to 2027 and 2028. But the transparency and literacy duties that bite in 2026 did not move, and two new bans arrive sooner than the relief.
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