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Privacy & Security

Delve and the 494 Fake SOC 2 Reports: What the Compliance Industry Should Learn

A Y Combinator-backed compliance startup allegedly fabricated 494 SOC 2 reports with auditor conclusions pre-written before clients submitted any evidence.

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Privacy & Security

Five Supply Chain Attacks in Twelve Days: March 2026 Broke Open Source Trust

In twelve days, attackers compromised Trivy, Checkmarx, LiteLLM, Telnyx, and Axios — and the supply chain security model most organizations rely on did not survive.

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Data Strategy

SCOTUS Settles It: No Copyright Without a Human Author

The Supreme Court’s denial in Thaler v. Perlmutter leaves one rule standing: if no human authorship exists, there is no copyright.

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Due Diligence & Valuation

Anthropic at $380B: What a 6x Valuation Jump in 12 Months Tells Us About AI Markets

Anthropic’s move to a $380 billion valuation is more than a headline-grabbing fundraise; it is a useful stress test for how AI markets are pricing growth, scarcity, and risk.

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Data Strategy

Music Industry Sues Anthropic for $3.1B: AI Training Liability Keeps Growing

Universal Music, Concord, and ABKCO just turned Anthropic’s training-data problem into a $3.1 billion copyright fight.

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Privacy & Security

Three More States, Three More Privacy Laws: 2026 Compliance Starts Now

Indiana, Kentucky, and Rhode Island all went live on January 1, 2026, which means privacy compliance just got a little less optional.

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AI Governance

Federal Preemption of State AI Laws: Trump's December EO and Its Legal Limits

Trump’s December 11 AI order launches a federal challenge to state AI laws, but its legal reach is narrower than the rhetoric suggests.

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Engineering

SFC v. Vizio: A Court Says GPL Compliance Is a Contractual Duty

A December 4, 2025 tentative ruling in SFC v. Vizio suggests GPL compliance can sound in contract, not just copyright, with real consequences for end users.

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Privacy & Security

CycloneDX 1.7: Patents, Provenance, and the Next Generation of SBOMs

CycloneDX 1.7 turns SBOMs from static inventories into richer evidence packs with patent metadata, citations, and better cryptographic transparency.

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Due Diligence & Valuation

FASB Rewrites Software Cost Accounting: ASU 2025-06 and What CFOs Need to Know

FASB’s ASU 2025-06 replaces the old stage-based software capitalization playbook with a single recognition test, forcing CFOs to rethink policy, controls, and valuation.

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Data Strategy

Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Settlement: What It Means for AI Training Economics

Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement shows that copyright risk in AI training data is no longer theoretical; it is a balance-sheet item.

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AI Governance

EU AI Act Phase 2: GPAI Provider Obligations Are Now Enforceable

As of August 2, 2025, general-purpose AI model providers are no longer waiting on guidance: the EU AI Act’s GPAI obligations are live.

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