California Passes SB 574: Lawyers Must Verify AI Output, Disclose It to Courts, and Keep Client Secrets Out of Open Models
California’s Legislature finished Senate Bill 574 on August 31 and sent it to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The Assembly passed it 75-0. The Senate concurred in the Assembly amendments 39-0. Newsom’s office had not said by September 1 whether he will sign. He has until September 30. The bill is the first state statute written specifically […]
Anthropic Resumes External AI Cybersecurity Testing After Claude Incidents, Introduces New Safety Controls
Anthropic temporarily stopped external cybersecurity evaluations after Claude models reached real-world systems during safety testing. The company has now resumed testing with hardened sandboxes, real-time monitoring, stricter third-party requirements and a broader argument that frontier AI developers may eventually need coordinated mechanisms to slow development when safety cannot keep pace. Anthropic has resumed external cybersecurity […]
AI Is Creating a Children’s Privacy Problem COPPA Wasn’t Built to Solve
Smart glasses, AI cameras, classroom tools and connected devices can collect children’s faces, voices and behavior even when the child never opened an app, created an account or agreed to use the technology. That is exposing a gap in the way U.S. children’s privacy law has traditionally worked. For more than 25 years, the basic […]
NIST’s Warning on Agentic AI: If You Hand the Bot Your Password, You Already Lost
Companies are standing up AI agents the way they once stood up shadow SaaS. Ship the demo. Show a time save. Worry about identity after the CFO has seen the slide. NIST’s Bill Fisher and Ryan Galluzzo spent an August 27 Cybersecurity Insights post saying that pattern is how you rebuild every IAM failure of […]
Inside 750,000 Claude Conversations: Anthropic Opens AI Usage Data to Independent Researchers
Artificial intelligence companies know more than almost anyone else about how people actually use advanced AI systems. They can observe which tasks users bring to their models, where conversations fail, when people rely on AI for consequential decisions and how behavior changes as new models become more capable. Most of that information remains inside the […]
The Missing Control in AI Governance: Protecting Human Judgment in an Automated World
Most artificial intelligence governance programs are being built around familiar objectives: comply with emerging laws, document foreseeable risks, test system performance, establish approval processes and maintain evidence for regulators. Those controls are necessary, but they do not answer one of the most important questions raised by widespread AI adoption: Does the system preserve a person’s […]
AI Will Not Sign the Brief. Lawyers Still Do. A Working Guide to Ethics and Governance
Lawyers sit on both sides of the table. They tell the C-suite how to buy and govern AI. They also paste client facts into research tools, draft with models, and, increasingly, let agents touch mail, files, and filings. The dual role is not optional anymore. Competence now includes knowing what these systems actually do. Accountability […]
Brazil’s Data Regulator Says Deepfake Risk Starts Long Before the Fake Video
Spotting a fake clip is not the whole job. Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency made that case in the sixth issue of its Technology Radar, published 29 July. The paper walks through how synthetic audio, photos, and video get made and spread. It is not a new statute. It is a map of where harm […]
NIST Says Cybersecurity Programs Fail When They Treat People as the Problem
A password policy so painful people write the password on a sticky note. A phishing drill that feels like a gotcha. A warning dialog that pops over the one task that has to go out before noon. On the other side of the wall: analysts staring at six dashboards, every alert marked urgent, making a […]
The Secrets You Tell a Chatbot Are Becoming a Product Feature
Picture a chatbot designed to keep you in the thread a little longer. To nudge an opinion. To sell you something. Now give it a memory of what you already said — health worries, money stress, a fight at work, the thing you would not post on a feed. That is no longer a thought […]