by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 21, 2026
Every operating model in a company above $500 million in revenue was built around a human approval gate, and the AI systems now running pricing, scheduling, forecasting, and customer resolution do not pass through it. The gate is still there. The policy still cites...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 16, 2026
Within eleven days in the summer of 2026, financial services regulators on both sides of the Atlantic told bank and insurance boards the same thing, without any evidence of coordination. The frameworks governing artificial intelligence were not built for autonomous...
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 6, 2026
The Board That Declared AI Oversight Without Building It Did Not Create a Framework. It Created a Liability. The board that directed its CEO to “lead our AI transformation” and then received quarterly strategy briefings on AI adoption did not build an AI...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 1, 2026
Financial services boards that used the EU AI Act’s May 2026 postponement as a reason to defer AI governance investment now face the examination cycle that did not move. The European Commission’s political agreement in May 2026 pushed the Annex III...