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6 issues published
Issue07July 6–13
GovernanceTrust & MistrustTools

The privacy promise with an asterisk.

Geneva hosts the UN's first government-level dialogue on AI governance, Meta opts millions into an AI feature and pulls it four days later, Anthropic hands its oversight body actual teeth — and Microsoft's enterprise privacy promise turns out to depend on which model happens to answer.

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Jul06
Issue 06

Adopted, then judged - June 29-July 6, 2026

The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens in Geneva, a UN panel warns of widening inequality, Zuckerberg concedes AI agents are slower than hyped, consumers tire of AI content, and a chatbot reports a president died of rabies.

GovernanceTrust & MistrustTools
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Jun29
Issue 05

Who cleans up after the machines? - June 22-29, 2026

The EU's transparency rules land in August, Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after over-trusting AI, a stray "Claude responded" surfaced in a congressional document, and AI agents become a brand-new audience.

GovernanceTools
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Jun22
Issue 04

The off-switch is the story - June 15-22, 2026

The model the U.S. banned was quietly un-banned a fortnight later, the G7 floats a fix to restore allied access, AI's "is any of this real?" problem deepens, and Norway draws a line for kids.

GovernanceTrust & Mistrust
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Jun14
Issue 03

Fableus Interruptus - June 7-14, 2026

The most powerful model anyone could use was live on Monday and gone by Friday — plus the G7 at Évian, the Tokenpocalypse, and a real-time interpreter in your pocket.

GovernanceMoney & PowerTools
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Jun02
Issue 02

What it means for us — week two

ChatGPT edges toward becoming a work surface, agents get identities and audit trails, Meta pushes business agents into messaging, and NotebookLM earns a closer look.

GovernanceToolsTrust
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May24
Issue 01

What it means for us — week one

Altman keeps his own voice, the "AI penalty" goes peer-reviewed, the EU comes for synthetic content, and Copilot agents start talking to each other.

TrustGovernanceTools
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