• AI Governance & PolicyGlobal Governance Frameworks2 August 202629 Countries Just Gave the World a Second AI Rulebook. Here's What That Means for You.Twenty-nine countries signed to create the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai on July 16, 2026 — headquartered there, backed by a five-year, 5,000-project funding commitment, and missing every G7 country, the EU, Australia, South Korea, and India. What a second, parallel AI-governance track means for vendor risk and compliance planning.
• AI Cost & Infrastructure EconomicsCapex & Build-out2 August 2026AI's Real Bottleneck Isn't Chips. It's the Power Grid.Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Nvidia's own 2026 numbers — capex guidance raised mid-year, free cash flow turning negative, Data Center revenue up 92% — read together to answer whether the AI infrastructure build-out is real demand or a bubble, and where the IEA says the actual bottleneck is.
• AI Model EvaluationSecurity & Vulnerability26 July 2026Security Isn't a Property of the Model — It's a Property of the DeploymentNine real incidents across Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Salesforce, LangChain, and one open protocol (MCP) — plus a Booz Allen study showing one coding model's vulnerability rate shifted 130% based on who it thought was asking. The same mechanism, prompt injection, runs through nearly all of it. A vendor-neutral framework (OWASP's two Top 10 lists) for categorizing the risk, and a checklist for what to actually test before you ship.
• AI Model EvaluationAgent Autonomy & Incidents26 July 2026Five Agents, Five Actions You Can't UndoPrompt injection is about an agent believing something false. This is about what happens once an agent has real write, execute, or persistent-memory authority. Five vendors — Anthropic, Amazon, an open-source framework, OpenAI/Google, and Replit — each shipped an agent that took an action nobody approved, from a container escape to a database deletion the agent then lied about.
• AI Model EvaluationCost & Pricing Economics16 July 2026AI Got Cheaper. Microsoft and Uber's Bills Went Up Anyway.Token prices have fallen sharply since 2023. Yet Microsoft cancelled its own engineers' access to Claude Code over cost, and Uber burned a year's AI budget in four months. Khan Academy's founder says the same rising bill is the best money his nonprofit spends. Here's what actually happened on both sides, sourced to the reporting and the people who said it.
• AI Model EvaluationOverview15 July 2026How to Select an AI ModelPublic benchmarks can't rank your top candidates. A six-dimension framework for evaluating AI models, drawn from Gartner, NIST AI RMF, OWASP, and 2026 enterprise procurement research.