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Anti-data center demonstrators protest at the Pennsylvania Capitol, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

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The Claude app icon is displayed on a computer screen photographed with a kaleidoscopic-effect filter in Creteil, France, on October 27, 2026, as Anthropic filed a Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a planned initial public offering in the United States. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via AP)

The Incident Report Is Becoming a Building Block of AI Governance

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A digital collage combining a historical painting of a miner with a large grid of small online images. At the center, a muscular miner works underground with a heavy drill inside a dark tunnel. To the left and along the bottom, hundreds of tiny square images form a dense mosaic, suggesting scraped internet content. A bright beam of light connects the image grid to the miner’s drill. On the right, a block of colorful digital noise contrasts with the detailed painting, reinforcing the link between physical mining and data extraction.

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Grok app icon is seen next to the Meta AI and Claude app icons on a smartphone home screen in this illustration photo taken on October 27, 2026. (Photo by Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via AP)

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gives a State of the Force address at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026 in Quantico, Va. (Alex Wong/Pool Photo via AP)

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Open AI CEO Sam Altman does a television interview with CNBC's Kate Rooney before delivering the keynote address at the OpenAI developers conference at Fort Mason on September 29, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2026, during a lunch meeting with top executives of AI firms, as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, left, and Elon Musk listen. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AI Governance Is Being Decided Now, and the Public Isn’t in the Room

In this photo provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, A Ukrainian serviceman launches a drone towards Russian positions at the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday Oct. 7, 2026. (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP)

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President Donald Trump gestures to Elon Musk as he speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2026, after meeting with top executives of AI firms. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

It's Time to Regulate the AI Development Process

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2026, during a meeting with top executives of AI firms. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Meta's Multibillion-Dollar Settlement Left a Lot to Be Desired

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A pink and yellow abstract image of an office with people working, chatting and walking around. Above their heads are clouds of network connections.  It was painted with guache and drawn with pencils. 

Pink Office by Jamillah Knowles & Digit — 

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres holds a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 16, 2026, at which he spoke “about rising concerns regarding the advance of artificial intelligence.” (Kyodo via AP Images)

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres holds a 

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The setting sun reflects off an Anduril Sentry tower in Luna County, New Mexico. EFF/Wikimedia Commons October 2022

The setting sun reflects off an Anduril Sentry tower in Luna County, New Mexico. EFF/

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