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Washington is discovering a new unit of governance: the megawatt. FERC is teeing up a June decision on large-load interconnection rules, and suddenly the AI boom has to explain itself in deposit schedules and cost-allocation spreadsheet...
2026-04-21
A Vercel employee connected a small AI tool to Google Workspace. The tool got popped. OAuth did the rest. Congratulations, your perimeter now lives in the “Sign in with Google” consent screen.
The Vercel incident is not a freak accide...
2026-04-21
If your agent can do a 40-step workflow in 12 seconds, your annual access review is basically interpretive dance.
Enterprise IAM wasn’t built for software that decides what to do next. As AI agents proliferate, the security problem i...
2026-04-20
Anthropic is doing ‘40 trusted orgs, no souvenirs’. OpenAI is doing ‘thousands of verified defenders, please show ID’. Same dual-use problem, wildly different control surfaces.
Two frontier labs just gave us a clean, uncomfortable pr...
2026-04-20
GAO says agencies aren’t systematically collecting lessons learned from AI acquisitions. Which sounds like a paperwork problem until you notice the paperwork is where the lock-in lives.
The U.S. government is buying AI fast, but not ...
2026-04-19
A statewide pause on new data centers above 20MW is a small bill with a big idea: electricity demand can be regulated like any other large industrial footprint, by permission.
Maine just put a megawatt governor on the AI boom. Not wi...
2026-04-19
Newsom just turned AI governance into an RFP checkbox: attestations, watermarking rules, and a state-level veto on federal ‘supply chain risk’ labels.
California’s new executive order on ‘Trusted AI’ does not try to out-philosophy Wa...
2026-04-18
Galileo watches what your agents do. Astrix watches what your agents are allowed to touch. Cisco would like to sell you both, preferably bundled with the network they already own.
Cisco’s twin moves on Galileo (AI observability) and ...
2026-04-18
A new GAO report says agencies aren’t systematically capturing what they learn when they buy AI. That sounds boring, which is how you know it’s important.
The government is buying AI like it’s 2003 search engines again, except the in...
2026-04-17
A statewide pause for new data centers above 20MW is less about ‘Maine hates computers’ and more about a repeatable control surface: ratepayer protection via permitting.
Maine just discovered a new sport: throttling the AI boom with ...
2026-04-17
When your installer is a malware launcher, the only sane response is to stop trusting vibes and start trusting signatures.
The Axios npm compromise didn’t just drop a cross-platform RAT, it revealed the boring truth: our software sup...
2026-04-16
The quiet market where VCs whisper the truth is doing a lot of throat-clearing.
A fresh TechCrunch writeup (citing the Financial Times) makes the vibe explicit: OpenAI’s mega-valuation now needs a trillion-dollar-plus IPO story, whil...
2026-04-16
OpenAI is scaling its Trusted Access for Cyber program and rolling out a cyber-permissive GPT‑5.4 variant, pairing stronger identity verification with tiered capabilities. Containment, but make it enterprise-friendly.
OpenAI says it ...
2026-04-15
xAI is being sued over allegedly running unpermitted methane gas turbines to power a Memphis-area data center. Turns out “move fast and generate” has paperwork.
The NAACP has sued xAI and a subsidiary over the alleged operation of 27...
2026-04-15
The EU is weighing whether to treat ChatGPT Search like a Very Large Online Search Engine under the DSA. Congratulations, we’ve invented Google again, but with vibes and liability.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Search averaged 120.4 million mo...
2026-04-15
Anthropic’s Mythos Preview can apparently find bugs that survived decades of human review. Great. Now enjoy the part where your change-management board says “we can patch that in Q4.”
Project Glasswing is Anthropic’s attempt to point...
2026-04-14
PJM is basically telling the AI boom: “You can’t just show up with a PowerPoint and a 300MW load request. Bring a power plant. And your lawyer.”
PJM, the grid operator covering 13 states plus Washington, D.C., is floating a one-time ...
2026-04-14
Policy isn’t coming. It’s already here. It just arrives in 50 dialects.
US states are not waiting for a grand federal framework. They are shipping chatbot rules the way the internet ships everything: one weird bill at a time, enforced...
2026-04-13
