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Six Weeks From August, EU AI Act Deployers Don't Have The Provider Evidence Article 26 Requires
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Six Weeks From August, EU AI Act Deployers Don't Have The Provider Evidence Article 26 Requires

Article 25 governs the handoff. Most insurers, lenders and HR platforms have not asked their providers for what they will have to produce on day one of the high-risk regime.

Lois Vance · · 6 min read
The SEC's Crypto Reset Is A Rulemaking Test, Not A Slogan
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The SEC's Crypto Reset Is A Rulemaking Test, Not A Slogan
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DORA's First Incident Report Makes AI Cyber Risk A Supervisory Coordination Problem
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DORA's First Incident Report Makes AI Cyber Risk A Supervisory Coordination Problem
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W Social Tests AT Protocol's Operator Layer
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W Social Tests AT Protocol's Operator Layer
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W Social Tests AT Protocol's Operator Layer
Tech WORLD
W Social Tests AT Protocol's Operator Layer
The useful question is not whether Europe needs another social app. It is whether AT Protocol lets media operators se...
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Brazil AI Data Centers Are Now A Sustainability Accounting Problem
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Brazil AI Data Centers Are Now A Sustainability Accounting Problem
Brazil's AI infrastructure story has stopped being about grid capacity and started being about how operators count wa...
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Saudi Arabia's AI Rules Move From Policy To Self-Assessment
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Saudi Arabia's AI Rules Move From Policy To Self-Assessment
SDAIA is connecting AI adoption, personal-data compliance and ethics review through practical tools rather than anoth...
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Unknown AI Agents Put Identity Inventories Under Strain
Enterprise AI-agent risk is moving from prompt safety into inventory, permissions, lifecycle control and decommission...
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AI Phishing Turns Control Drift Into The Security Signal
Email security is not losing because phishing got poetic; it is losing when payloads, relationships and user behavior...
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Shadow AI Is Becoming The New Data-Loss Channel
Enterprise data security is moving from files and email into prompts, uploads, browser sessions and personal AI accou...
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The SEC's Crypto Reset Is A Rulemaking Test, Not A Slogan
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The SEC's Crypto Reset Is A Rulemaking Test, Not A Slogan
The draft strategic plan gives digital assets a policy home, but the useful signal is whether the agency can turn tha...
· 7 min
DORA's First Incident Report Makes AI Cyber Risk A Supervisory Coordination Problem
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DORA's First Incident Report Makes AI Cyber Risk A Supervisory Coordination Problem
Europe's financial regulators are treating major ICT incidents as cross-border evidence, not local outage paperwork, ...
· 5 min
Colorado's July 2026 AI Compliance Reports Set the Operational Floor for National Carriers
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Colorado's July 2026 AI Compliance Reports Set the Operational Floor for National Carriers
Colorado's amended Regulation 10-1-1 creates the first hard July 1 2026 deadline for US insurers to file attested AI ...
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India's Securities Regulator Is Wielding AI Before It Writes The Rules
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India's Securities Regulator Is Wielding AI Before It Writes The Rules
SEBI's in-house surveillance tool Sudarshan has produced its first named enforcement action — a structural inversion ...
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The EU AI Act's Credit and Insurance AI Obligations Are Coming — But the Clock Just Moved
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The EU AI Act's Credit and Insurance AI Obligations Are Coming — But the Clock Just Moved
A 7 May 2026 provisional political agreement delays the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations for credit-scoring and life...
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Japan Is Pegging Crypto Exchange Reserves To The Securities Formula
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Japan Is Pegging Crypto Exchange Reserves To The Securities Formula
The FSA's Financial System Council just recommended that licensed crypto exchanges hold liability reserves on the sam...
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India Puts AI Cyber Risk Inside The Financial-Sector Control Stack
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India Puts AI Cyber Risk Inside The Financial-Sector Control Stack
SEBI's cyber-suraksha.ai task force and RBI's Q-SAFE panel show India treating AI-speed vulnerability discovery and q...
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Hong Kong Just Made A Crypto Exchange The Only Retail Secondary Venue For A Regulated Fund
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Hong Kong Just Made A Crypto Exchange The Only Retail Secondary Venue For A Regulated Fund
The SFC's 20 April circular routes secondary trading of tokenised SFC-authorised funds exclusively through licensed V...
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CLARITY Is The Crypto Market-Structure Bill, Not The Stablecoin Victory Lap
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CLARITY Is The Crypto Market-Structure Bill, Not The Stablecoin Victory Lap
GENIUS set the issuer reserve floor; CLARITY is the harder fight over venues, jurisdiction, DeFi boundaries and marke...
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Basel Sets The ICT Floor. The AI Attacker Line Is The Subtext.
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Basel Sets The ICT Floor. The AI Attacker Line Is The Subtext.
The Basel Committee approved an ICT incident-management report this month and, in the same minute, named frontier AI ...
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Korea Wants Banks To Own The Won Stablecoin. MiCA Picked The Opposite.
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Korea Wants Banks To Own The Won Stablecoin. MiCA Picked The Opposite.
South Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act would make commercial banks the structural anchor of every won-pegged stablecoi...
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ECB 2026 Reverse Stress Tests Force 110 SSM Banks to Reverse-Engineer Geopolitical Shocks
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ECB 2026 Reverse Stress Tests Force 110 SSM Banks to Reverse-Engineer Geopolitical Shocks
Supervisors set the 300 bp CET1 depletion target; banks must construct and defend the geopolitical scenario that prod...
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CLARITY Is The Crypto Market-Structure Bill, Not The Stablecoin Victory Lap
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Basel Sets The ICT Floor. The AI Attacker Line Is The Subtext.
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