Meta’s Model Capability Initiative tips workplace monitoring into algorithmic management territory. For EU employers, that means Article 88 GDPR, Article 22, works council consultation and the AI Act’s Article 26(7) all apply at once. Three controls to add before the next workforce monitoring pilot goes live.
A US State Department cable on Chinese AI distillation has turned model provenance into an immediate vendor due diligence question for EU deployers. Three concrete asks for every supplier this quarter, and where the EU AI Act helps but does not finish the job.
The European Commission awarded €180 million in sovereign cloud contracts assessed against its new Cloud Sovereignty Framework and SEAL levels. A working reference for procurement teams.
A US court ruled that AI chatbot interactions are not privileged and can be compelled as evidence. Most organisations’ AI acceptable use policies are not ready for this. Here is what to fix.
The Australia-Anthropic MoU signals a new regulatory pattern: governments negotiating direct access to AI usage data. EU governance teams should prepare now.
Starling Bank’s AI moves money. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund keeps humans in charge. Both are deploying agentic AI but with very different governance choices. Here is what changes when AI starts acting, not just recommending, and what your oversight framework must address.
