Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! It has been over a month since my last newsletter, and quite a bit has happened since then. I am finally done (for the time being) with the manuscript for my monograph on technology-neutral regulation. On slightly less important news, the European Commission issued on 3 June its Tech Sovereignty Package, which features…
MiFID II tahrif edilemez iletişim kaydı ile EU AI Act otomatik loglama (m.12/19) aynı noktada buluşuyor: kanıtlanabilir bütünlük. Beş pratik adım ve 2 Ağustos 2026 takvimi.
Organizations racing to embed AI into business operations are realizing that the risk management frameworks they’ve relied on for decades aren’t built for the behaviors, failure modes, and ethical complexities AI systems introduce.
Fortunately, a new generation of AI-specific frameworks has emerged to give organizations a structured way to identify where AI can go wrong, what controls to put in…
The job market has been quietly reorganizing itself around one technology. Generative AI isn't just changing how companies operate — it's spawning entirely new career categories that didn't exist three years ago. Whether you're a developer eyeing a pivot, a product manager looking to stay relevant, or a complete newcomer curious about where to start, the landscape of gen ai jobs offers more entry…
I’ve spent the better part of the last eighteen months in conference rooms with CIOs working through their AI strategy. The conversations all start in the same place — model selection, vendor evaluation, agent frameworks — and they all eventually arrive at the same uncomfortable question.
“Where is this actually going to run?”
The question lands awkwardly because it sounds like it should have…
For most of my career, governance operated on the assumption that technology evolves slowly enough for oversight processes to keep pace.
Policies are written. Architecture reviews happen. Security teams validate controls. Compliance mappings are documented. Audit cycles verify implementation.
That model worked reasonably well for traditional enterprise systems.
It breaks down quickly once AI…
I’ve spent years building compliance into security products. FedRAMP and Department of War Impact Level authorizations, vulnerability management pipelines: They all follow the same pattern. Build the product, then prove it meets requirements. The compliance layer sits outside the engineering workflow. It reviews what already exists.
That model worked when the product stayed static between…
As if IT leaders didn’t have enough to contend with as demand for enterprise-wide AI increases, a volatile geopolitical climate now mandates that they adopt a more global-centric mindset on everything from their tech supply chains and regulation to distributed infrastructure and workforces.
Lately, the news has spoken volumes about the Iran war’s impact on technology — drone strikes damaging AWS…
The European Union is delaying key AI obligations for high-risk systems while tightening rules on deepfake and watermarking, highlighting how commercial and political pressure is reshaping the bloc’s landmark AI law.
The Trump administration is in early discussions about whether advanced AI models should be vetted before public release, according to reporting from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Axios.
The conversations center on systems capable of facilitating cyberattacks, particularly models that could help users identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Officials are considering…
The Trump administration is in early discussions about whether advanced AI models should be vetted before public release, according to reporting from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Axios.
The conversations center on systems capable of facilitating cyberattacks, particularly models that could help users identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Officials are considering…
A major shift is underway in artificial intelligence—not in technology, but in regulation. This week’s developments out of Europe and the United States reveal a growing disconnect between how fast AI is advancing and how slowly governments can agree on the rules. For businesses, that gap is quickly becoming one of the most consequential risks […]
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Somewhere in your organization’s hiring stack, there is probably an AI system producing candidate scores. If you’re a leader who helped evaluate or approve that system, here’s a question worth sitting with: If one of those scores got challenged, by a candidate, an internal audit or a regulator, could your team explain how it was produced?
Not “the vendor said it’s accurate.” Not “the model was…
The global landscape of artificial intelligence has officially split; a digital iron curtain has descended across the Atlantic. On one side, users in the United States, Singapore, and India are waking up to a seamless digital existence where Google Personal Intelligence manages their calendars, summarizes nested email threads, and anticipates travel needs before a single […]
For decades, enterprise technology followed a familiar arc. A new capability would emerge as a specialty tool, useful to a handful of power users, managed by a dedicated team, funded through a departmental budget line. Over time, if the technology proved its value, it would graduate: First into a shared service, then into the core technology stack and finally into the fabric of how the…
European Union's participation in a State Department effort to secure global AI supply chains remains uncertain.
Enterprise spending on generative AI has surged over the past year, but for many CIOs, the hardest conversations are only now beginning. Boards and CFOs are no longer asking whether the organization is investing in AI. They are asking what it’s getting back — in measurable financial terms.
According to analysts at Forrester Research, genAI budgets have increased substantially year over year, yet…
Unternehmen sind keine bloßen Datenverarbeiter; sie sind lebende Organismen. Jede Organisation trägt eine Geschichte in sich, eine Chronik aus jahrelangen strategischen Entscheidungen, mühsam gelernten Lektionen und Prozessen, die durch Versuch, Versagen und Erfolg gehärtet wurden. Dieses über Jahrzehnte akkumulierte „institutionelle Wissen“ ist das wertvollste Asset jeder Organisation. Es…
Most AI regulations passed in the last few years are already irrelevant, but enterprises should think ahead with rudimentary governance plans for quicker compliance, said legal experts in two panel discussions at Nvidia’s GTC trade show last week.
Current AI regulations target frontier models, high-risk models, and transparency. They typically focus on LLMs and the prevention of voice and video…
SMPTE’s AI Taskforce, EBU, and the ETC have updated the AI Engineering Report to keep pace with the rapid evolution of AI in broadcast, highlighting new standards for interoperability and advanced applications in the newsroom, reports David Davies
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Today, the era of the “borderless” cloud is hitting a wall. For years, the mandate for CIOs was simple: move to the cloud to gain speed and scale. But as we transition from experimental generative AI to production-grade agentic workflows, a new constraint has emerged.
The mantra is shifting from “cloud-first” to “nation-first”. With the full enforcement of the EU AI Act and India’s Digital…
AI is being leveraged across organizations to boost productivity, accelerate innovation and optimize business processes. The problem is that adoption has outpaced discipline. Only a minority (23.8%) of organizations have formal AI risk frameworks in place, which is precisely how unauthorized, “shadow AI” takes root, leading to untracked data exposure, compliance friction and poor decisions built…
As 2026 unfolds, the era of optional governance for artificial intelligence is rapidly ending and enforceable AI regulation is becoming a reality for companies operating in major markets worldwide. Across the United States, Europe, and Asia, new AI laws and compliance frameworks are moving from draft to enforcement, fundamentally reshaping how businesses must develop, deploy, […]
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I keep hearing the same emerging tech story repeated: better models, smarter copilots, more autonomous agents. The demos look impressive, but they often miss what is happening inside real organizations.
From where I sit, the challenge is no longer whether AI works. It is whether we can run it responsibly once it is embedded in day-to-day…
The German Federal Cabinet has approved a draft legislation to implement the EU’s AI Act, designating the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) as the country’s central AI supervisory authority.
Under the draft AI Market Surveillance and Innovation Promotion Act (KI-MIG), Germany will establish its national framework for regulating AI system development and deployment. The draft law will…
AI literacy rarely shows up as a skill gap. It appears when organisations need to justify decisions, manage risk, and remain accountable.
From GDPR to the EU AI Act, a recurring pattern emerges: European regulation lands in procurement, spreading responsibility, caution, and friction.