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29 pieces tagged “Governance”.

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Zip's procurement Superagents: a case study in governance-first AI.

Zip's five AI Superagents show how procurement automation can work without breaking role-based permissions or audit trails.

aigovernanceprocurementmcp
3 min read
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Microsoft Build 2026: a CIO's guide to the new agent stack.

Microsoft Build 2026 unveiled a full agent stack: Agent Platform, Work IQ, Agent 365 governance and Scout always-on agents. CIOs now have to decide how these pieces fit into an enterprise architecture.

aigovernancemicrosoftenterprise
3 min read
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A practical AI security checklist for SMEs adopting ChatGPT-style tools.

Data leakage, prompt injection, shadow AI and AI-powered phishing are growing risks for SMEs. A short, practical checklist helps keep adoption safe.

aisecuritysmegovernance
3 min read
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AI-powered security audits: faster discovery, same human accountability.

Anthropic used Claude to inspect Firefox source code and identify 22 vulnerabilities over two weeks, showing how AI can accelerate security review without removing the need for expert judgment.

aisecurityvulnerability researchgovernance
2 min read
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Agentic AI is reshaping spans of control: a manager playbook.

Gartner warns that managers will be held accountable for autonomous agents' behaviour. With 75% of CHROs saying managers are more overwhelmed than ever, the organisational load is about to increase.

aigovernanceleadershiphr
3 min read
AI Governance

AI Hallucinations Are Becoming a State Regulatory Problem

Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI over a chatbot that posed as a licensed psychiatrist. State AG action signals AI hallucinations are becoming an enforceable consumer-protection issue mid-market firms must plan for.

AIGovernanceRegulatoryRisk
4 min read
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Microsoft's Legal Agent in Word: what it means for UK legal teams.

Microsoft is adding an AI Legal Agent inside Word that reviews contracts clause-by-clause. For UK legal teams, the question is where it fits between efficiency and professional responsibility.

ailegalmicrosoftgovernance
3 min read
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How FinOps teams can bring SageMaker spend under governance.

Finout's guide shows how FinOps teams can govern SageMaker costs through pricing literacy, storage lifecycle rules, budget alerts and Savings Plans analysis.

awssagemakerfinopsgovernance
2 min read
Briefing

Autonomous agents in operations: opportunity or workforce risk?

Autonomous AI agents are moving into procurement, supply-chain, HR onboarding and compliance reporting. The opportunity is real, but so are the workforce and governance risks.

aigovernanceoperationsworkforce
2 min read
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Agent 365 and the governance challenge of agent sprawl.

Microsoft's Agent 365 promises a unified control plane for enterprise agents. With IDC predicting 1.3 billion agents by 2028, the question is whether governance can keep up with creation.

aigovernancemicrosoftagents
3 min read
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The 11 AI security risks every board should discuss in Q3 2026.

Cycode has identified 11 critical AI security risks, while most organisations still lack visibility into how AI is being used. Boards need to move AI security from IT to enterprise risk.

aisecuritygovernancerisk
2 min read
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How to choose an AI refactoring tool without creating technical debt.

With the majority of developers now using AI assistance and a growing share of code AI-generated, tool selection should focus on workflow fit, governance and data residency.

airefactoringengineeringgovernance
3 min read
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How to operationalise AI-native security auditing without losing trust.

Trail of Bits has standardised on Claude Code, written an AI usage policy and created an AI Maturity Matrix, while AI-augmented auditors report finding around 200 bugs a week.

aisecurityauditinggovernance
2 min read
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A 'debt ceiling' governance model for SaaS security debt.

Veracode reports that 49% of applications carry security debt and flaws in third-party code take 358 days on average to halve in number.

security debtapplication securitygovernancesaas
2 min read
Briefing

A DevSecOps checklist for AI coding assistants and MCP governance.

Attackers are exploiting prompt injection, malicious MCP servers and over-privileged credentials in AI coding environments. A DevSecOps checklist can reduce the exposure.

devsecopsmcpai codingprompt injection
2 min read
Briefing

Prompt injection and the agentic browser threat

Trail of Bits used threat modelling and prompt injection to audit Perplexity's Comet browser, demonstrating how an agentic browser could be manipulated into exfiltrating Gmail data.

aisecurityprompt injectiongovernance
3 min read
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Security debt as a board-level risk: a remediation playbook.

Veracode's 2026 State of Software Security report finds security debt affects 82% of organisations, with critical debt affecting 60% and high-risk vulnerabilities rising 36%.

securitytechnical debtgovernanceapplication security
2 min read
Briefing

OpenAI Frontier and the rise of the agent management platform.

OpenAI's Frontier platform gives enterprises access controls and feedback loops for managing AI agents. Customers including HP, Oracle, State Farm and Uber signal that agent management is becoming a board-level concern.

aigovernanceenterpriseagents
3 min read
Briefing

Don't fire your team for AI's potential — build a human-AI operating model first

A Harvard Business Review survey of 1,006 global executives finds AI is already cited as a cause of layoffs. In most cases the cuts are anticipatory, not driven by proven productivity gains.

aigovernanceleadershipworkforce
3 min read
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EU AI Act: what UK service providers selling into Europe must do before August.

The EU AI Act's August 2026 deadline for high-risk AI systems is approaching. UK providers selling into Europe need to act now on conformity, documentation and local representation.

airegulationeugovernance
2 min read
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What enterprise buyers actually want from AI vendors in 2026

ETR.ai's 2026 buyer data shows enterprise technology investment is concentrating on agentic AI, automation, data governance, real-time analytics and AI-powered development.

aisaasprocurementgovernance
2 min read
Briefing

Ten platform engineering predictions and a pragmatic UK roadmap.

The Platform Engineering community's 2026 outlook points to agentic infrastructure, AI code safety nets, self-architecting systems, FinOps gates and governance-by-default.

platform engineeringdevopsai infrastructurefinops
2 min read
Briefing

Agentic browsers are a new, unsolved attack surface

Wiz's year-end review of agentic browser security catalogues several practical attack techniques, from indirect prompt injection to CometJacking and Tainted Memories.

aisecuritybrowsergovernance
3 min read
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A governance-first roadmap for customer-engagement agents.

Gartner predicts 60% of brands will use agentic AI for one-to-one customer interactions by 2028. Before building the agent, firms need a governance layer that keeps customer trust intact.

aigovernancecustomer experiencemarketing
3 min read
Briefing

The trust gap in AI-generated code: why quality gates matter.

Sonar reports AI now accounts for 42% of committed code and could reach 65% by 2027, yet 96% of developers do not fully trust AI-generated code.

aicode qualityengineeringgovernance
2 min read
Briefing

When AI chatbots fall under the UK Online Safety Act

Ofcom has clarified that AI chatbots on user-to-user or search services can be in scope of the Online Safety Act. Platform operators need to assess chatbot-generated content in their safety plans.

airegulationukgovernance
2 min read
Briefing

US federal preemption of state AI laws: what it means for operators

Executive Order 14365 directs the US Attorney General to challenge state AI laws that conflict with the national AI policy framework, sharpening the preemption debate for UK and international operators.

airegulationusgovernance
2 min read
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Why MCP's move to neutral governance matters for UK firms

Anthropic has donated its Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation. For UK businesses adopting agentic AI, neutral governance reduces platform risk.

aigovernanceinfrastructurestandards
2 min read
Briefing

Global AI regulation watchlist: a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction checklist

From the EU AI Act to proposed US federal preemption and the UK's delayed Bill, global AI regulation is fragmenting. A jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction checklist helps firms keep track.

airegulationglobalgovernance
2 min read

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