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The SEC Built One Unit for Every Accounting Investigation It Runs. It Named AI Numbers First.

by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 24, 2026

On August 5, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission folded every accountant and financial-reporting specialist it had, scattered until then across headquarters and regional offices, into a single team inside its Division of Enforcement. The Financial Reporting...
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by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 18, 2026

A board approves a workflow once. The workflow keeps changing after that, and nobody is assigned to notice. That gap, not any single bad decision, is where most AI oversight failures actually live. TOUCH STONE LAW The Law of the Moving Line: A governance line that has...
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The Vendor Capped Its Liability at Twelve Months of Fees. Nobody Priced the Rest.

by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 14, 2026

Somewhere in every AI vendor contract that touches a regulated workflow sits a limitation-of-liability clause capping what the vendor will ever pay at the fees the company paid in the preceding twelve months. For a clinical documentation assistant, a diagnostic...

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