AI GovernanceAugust 12, 2026 · 4 min read
Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud: an AI governance wake-up call
A fraud & deepfakes story worth a second look — and the AI governance moves it should prompt.
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AI Risk ManagementAugust 11, 2026 · 5 min read
OWASP Report Lists Prompt Injection as the #1 Threat to LLMs
A new report from the OWASP Foundation confirms that attackers can easily manipulate chatbots to reveal data or perform actions they are not supposed to.
AI GovernanceAugust 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Pennsylvania AG Office AI Chatbot Hallucinated Legal Facts, Prompting Accountability Push
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office launched an AI assistant that fabricated arrests and legal advice, leading to a coalition of officials demanding clearer rules for government AI.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 10, 2026 · 5 min read
US Senate Approves New Bills Targeting Kids' AI Safety, Creating New Compliance Deadlines
The US Senate Commerce Committee advanced the Kids Online Safety Act and related legislation, requiring companies to rethink how they design and monitor AI products for minors.
AI GovernanceAugust 10, 2026 · 5 min read
Generative AI Hallucinates Biological Data, Creating Fake Research
A recent study showed a large language model confidently presenting fabricated scientific data as real discoveries, exposing a fundamental gap in how we verify AI outputs.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Workday faces a lawsuit claiming its hiring AI discriminates against Black applicants by down-weighting their resumes
A lawsuit against Workday reveals that their AI hiring tools learned to penalize resumes from Black candidates, proving why algorithmic fairness must be tested before deployment
AI GovernanceAugust 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Trend Hunter's autonomous research agent hallucinates and scrapes toxic content, exposing the dangers of unchecked web crawlers
Trend Hunter deployed an agent to find AI incidents, but it hallucinated facts and scraped toxic web pages, proving that autonomous web crawlers need strict guardrails
AI Risk ManagementAugust 8, 2026 · 5 min read
A New Tool Claims to Stop Deepfake Video Scams
Scam.ai is launching an on-device detector for video calls, a development that forces risk teams to rethink how they verify identity in an era of hyper-realistic synthetic media.
AI GovernanceAugust 8, 2026 · 5 min read
A Bitcoin Wallet Maker Says Its AI Missed a Hacker's Attack
A recent breach in the cryptocurrency sector shows how prompt injection attacks can slip past automated defenses, exposing a gap in current AI security controls.
AI GovernanceAugust 8, 2026 · 5 min read
Your AI Compliance Evidence Expires, and Your Vendor Decides When
Test results, red team reports and bias checks are all measured against a model someone else controls, and nothing in the file says when they stop being true.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 7, 2026 · 5 min read
The OWASP 2026 Warning on 'Model Being Fooled' Shows We Are Not Testing Our AI Enough
The latest OWASP list highlights that models can be tricked into generating dangerous content, exposing a gap in how we test and validate our systems.
AI GovernanceAugust 7, 2026 · 5 min read
The Incident Reporting Pilot Shows Why We Need Simpler Rules for AI Failures
A recent pilot of the AI incident reporting system revealed that the current requirements are too complex for the companies trying to use them, creating a gap in governance data.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 6, 2026 · 5 min read
Appeals court fines lawyer $15K for AI-generated fake citations
A judge penalized a lawyer for submitting AI-generated legal research that included non-existent cases.
AI GovernanceAugust 6, 2026 · 5 min read
St. Louis County warns seniors about AI-generated tax scams
Scammers used AI to impersonate local officials and trick seniors into paying fake tax bills.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Europe's AI Enforcement is Changing How Tech Companies Build Products
The EU is enforcing the AI Act, specifically targeting high-risk biometric tools, which forces companies to change their product strategy.
AI GovernanceAugust 5, 2026 · 5 min read
AI Incident Reporting Needs a Standard Language
The Cybersecurity Alliance is drafting guidelines to standardize how companies report AI security incidents.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 4, 2026 · 4 min read
Biometric Update publishes 2026 Deepfake Fraud Detection Market Report: the AI risk management lesson
Why this fraud & deepfakes development belongs on every AI risk management team's radar this week.
AI GovernanceAugust 4, 2026 · 3 min read
"Google withdraws new Earth AI tool after warnings over misinformation risks" — what it means for AI governance
A real accuracy story, decoded for AI governance — and the concrete controls it points to.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 3, 2026 · 3 min read
"EU AI Act Chatbot Disclosure Reaches API Builders Sunday: Vendors Cannot Comply…" — what it means for AI risk management
A real story, decoded for AI risk management — and the concrete controls it points to.
AI GovernanceAugust 3, 2026 · 4 min read
"AI Act enforcement begins as EU introduces new transparency rules for artificia…" — what it means for AI governance
A real story, decoded for AI governance — and the concrete controls it points to.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 2, 2026 · 4 min read
What "Leadership Conference Lobbies on AI, Privacy, and Surveillance" reveals about AI risk management
The AI risk management lesson hiding inside a data-privacy headline — and what to do about it.
AI GovernanceAugust 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Reading "Brussels responds to explosion of AI risks with a new team of 38 bureaucrats" through an AI governance lens
Behind the news: the AI governance gaps it exposes, and how to close them.
AI Risk ManagementAugust 1, 2026 · 5 min read
The 2026 Biometric Breach: Why Passive Liveness Checks Failed Against Multimodal Deepfakes
A recent surge in deepfake voice and video fraud—highlighted by the 2026 Deepfake Fraud Detection Market report—demonstrates that static biometric controls are no longer sufficient. This post analyzes the technical mechanism of the bypass and provides governance frameworks for active challenge-response identity verification.
AI GovernanceAugust 1, 2026 · 5 min read
California’s AI-Adapted Cybersecurity Plan Requires Immediate Input/Output Validation Overhaul
California’s updated California Cybersecurity Plan (CCP) acknowledges the AI threat landscape, necessitating a shift from traditional code security to Generative AI security controls like prompt injection mitigation.