by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 15, 2026
Delaware settled a question in 2023 that most corporate officers have not yet noticed applies to them. In In re McDonald’s Corporation Stockholder Derivative Litigation (Del. Ch., January 26, 2023), the Court of Chancery extended the fiduciary duty of oversight,...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 7, 2026
What Delaware, Brussels, and the Proxy Advisors Now Treat as the Oversight Failure, and the Documents That Close It Before August 2 Approving an AI strategy is not the same as governing it. In 2026 the distance between those two acts stopped being a matter of...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 2, 2026
title: “AI Washing Is Now Securities Fraud: What Your Marketing Department Just Signed You Up For” category: White Paper Article (600) publish_date: July 2, 2026 file: article_600_white-paper-article_ai-washing-securities-fraud.md project: TSP-2026-068 The...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 30, 2026
The enforcement template is set. The SEC’s Corporate Enforcement and Technology Unit has already demonstrated, with precision, exactly how it will build its next AI washing case. Presto Automation (January 2025, the first public company AI washing settlement,...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 23, 2026
Every CFO who signs a Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 certification this quarter is certifying something about AI capability claims that most disclosure control environments were not built to verify. SOX Section 302 requires the CEO and CFO to certify that disclosure...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 20, 2026
There is a moment I have seen repeat itself across more board engagements than I care to count. It happens usually six to twelve months before a major governance event: a forced CEO departure, a proxy fight, a reputational crisis that the press will spend six months...
