Our advisors write when they have something specific to say about a recent development. We do not publish on a fixed cadence, and we do not commission summaries of work others have already done well.
The Code of Practice has signatories and holdouts; the AI Office has issued its first conformity opinions; the Article 55 systemic-risk list has its first surprises. An audit.
Fourteen months after SB 1047 was vetoed, Sacramento passed a quieter, narrower frontier-AI statute. We read SB 53 as a deliberate answer to the veto memo.
The Trump administration's July 2025 plan is being read as a deregulatory document. It is, in fact, a procurement and preemption document. The distinction matters.
Judge Alsup's ruling answered the easy question and reserved the hard one. We read the opinion as a guide to where training-data risk now actually sits.
The Paris AI Action Summit, the rescission of Executive Order 14110, and the arrival of DeepSeek R1 produced, within three weeks, the end of an international project.
Governor Newsom's veto of California's frontier safety bill turned on a narrower argument than the headlines suggested. We read the memo carefully.
With the Council's formal adoption on 21 May 2024, the EU AI Act became binding law. We discuss the obligations that arrive first and the ones that will be most disputed.