transparency

The White House finalized its EO 14409 cyber-testing framework on August 3–4, reviewed it with Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic in the room, and refuses to publish it. Fortune called the secrecy baffling. It reads better as discretionary power — a classified procurement channel wearing a safety badge.

The EU AI Act's transparency obligations entered into force today: machine-readable marking of AI-generated content, backed by fines up to 3% of global turnover. The law names the outcome but not the technology — which means the next four months will decide whose watermark becomes everyone's standard.