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Trump just proved your AI has an off switch

On Friday his administration switched off the world's two cleverest AI systems for everyone who isn't American. Here's why that should bother you — even if you've never heard of the company involved.
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The frontier premium just died — here's what your company does about it
European firm gave its newest AI model away in London. Open models have all but caught the frontier — so you can finally own your intelligence, not rent…
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The 7 per cent problem
AI adoption is a sprint. Governance is a crawl. On 3 June, Vanta launched a product to close the gap — and published the data showing how wide it has…
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The Inference Flip: Two in three - the number that just rewired the AI economy
Two of every three AI "thoughts" are now the machine working, not training — and Deloitte agrees. The brains are built; the hard part now is trusting…
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The CISO of one: cybersecurity in the rest of the economy
Forty million customers. £600m through the apps. Half the website traffic is teen hackers. The Nando's CISO has no direct reports. The board paper has…
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The player-coach CISO: how AI rewrote the security leader's job in eighteen months
Three senior UK security leaders rated the change in their roles at eight, eight, and nine out of ten. The job description has been rewritten — has…
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Trust is the growth engine: Vanta's bet that the annual audit is finished
On 7 May 2026 in London, Vanta unveiled an agentic trust platform built around a continuously updated trust graph. The architecture is the right one.
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Trust the agency, not just the agent: a conversation with Vanta's Khush Kashyap
Episode 06 of Amer Altaf's Studio — Vanta's Senior Director of GRC on agentic governance, the talent pipeline, and the Trust Is the Growth Engine series…
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The Equipment Chokehold: ASML and the end of the allied exemption
A Dutch lithography company in a small town called Veldhoven has become the single most important instrument of American economic statecraft — and the…
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DeepSeek V4 and the death of two monopolies
Two monopolies died on 24 April: NVIDIA's grip on launch-day silicon, and the assumption that frontier-like performance was worth the closed-source…
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