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...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 20, 2026
The Finding The SEC’s Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit (CETU) established a five-stage AI washing enforcement template in its first year of operation. That template — visible in the Presto Automation settlement of January 2025 and the Nate Inc....
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 17, 2026
I have sat in boardrooms where the most important question in the room went unasked, and I have watched the cost of that silence compound for years. The question is simple. Do we still believe this CEO is the right person to lead what comes next? Most chairs ask it...
