ai-governance
In late March 2026, the Fundrise Innovation Fund - a closed-end fund trading under the ticker VCX, holding small stakes in SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Anduril, and a handful of other pre-IPO companies - started trading on a stock exchange. Within four days, the price had been bid up more than
ai-ethics
Pope Leo XIV has issued what appears to be the first papal encyclical specifically addressing artificial intelligence. Magnifica Humanitas - 42,300 words, signed 15. May 2026., presented to the world on 25. May 2026. with the author himself in attendance - calls for AI to serve humanity rather than
ai-governance
AI governance discourse tends to treat its ideological opposition as a matter of preference - people who value innovation over precaution, speed over safety, growth over regulation. This is a charitable reading. A more accurate reading identifies a coherent ideological programme that treats democratic oversight of technology not as a
openai
A California jury has ruled unanimously against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its leadership. The verdict took less than two hours. Musk lost. But not on the question that matters. The jury did not find that OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion was legitimate. It did not rule
supply-chain
In the thirty days between late April and late May 2026, the following software supply chain incidents reached public disclosure: a poisoned PyTorch Lightning release targeting AI training credentials; compromised Ruby Gems and Go modules stealing CI/CD pipeline credentials; a self-propagating worm through npm packages; AI-generated malware embedded in
ai-security
Anthropic's Project Glasswing - combining Claude Mythos Preview with automated security analysis - has produced over 10,000 vulnerability findings in widely deployed production software within a month of launch. Of those, roughly 1,700 have been confirmed as valid true positives, with over a thousand classified as
the-agent-governance-gap
The Government of Malta has announced that it will provide all citizens with access to ChatGPT Plus through a partnership with OpenAI. Malta thus becomes the first EU member state to offer a US commercial AI system as a universal public service. There is a condition: citizens must first complete
the-agent-governance-gap
There is now empirical evidence for something that governance practitioners suspected but could not quantify: AI agents lose their grip on constraints the more complex the task becomes. This is, in the annals of things-we-probably-should-have-tested-before-deployment, a fairly significant entry. A paper published in May 2026, "Constraint Decay: The Fragility
the-agent-governance-gap
In April 2026, an autonomous AI coding agent - Cursor running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 - deleted a startup's production database. The agent found an unscoped API token, guessed a destructive command, and executed it. Nine seconds. Three months of backups, gone. The founder asked
the-regulators-gift
Or: How I Paid $365 for a Blood Test and Learned More About European Regulatory Policy Than About My Cholesterol