The surveillance vendors you have never heard of
Face recognition, plate readers and worker monitoring now reach from a parking lot to a deportation file. The contracts say who is paying, and who is being watched.
Policy
Regulation, power, and the rules that decide how technology touches everyone else.
The breach that becomes training data
Your driver's license, your résumé, your voice: a documented chain runs from the thing you lost to the model that learned from it — and you are not allowed to know where it stops.
The AI Act grows teeth
The obligations on foundation-model providers are already in force. The summaries say the hard part was delayed; the binding text says the clock for the labs ran out last August.
The rules that travel
A single clause of the EU AI Act binds anyone whose output reaches Europe — and because no one ships a separate chatbot per market, it is quietly becoming the world's labelling rule.