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AI accountability after the demo is over

Every Tuesday, a short field note on what was approved, who owns the decision, and what evidence survives after deployment.

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July 21, 2026

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The Sixteen Months Isn't a Gift. It's a Loan.

The EU deferred the AI Act's high-risk obligations by sixteen months on June 29, 2026. The obligations themselves did not change a word, and every agent deployed during the extension ships without the accountability records the original deadline was forcing into existence.

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July 14, 2026

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Microsoft Made a Decision Your Company Didn't

Microsoft enabled built-in Teams agents by default for Copilot-licensed users in July 2026 and moved them out from under the org-wide app setting. The authorization record for those agents has no requester and no approver.

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July 7, 2026

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Who Signed the Chain?

A quarterly review can pass every AI agent in a multi-agent chain individually and still never ask whether the chain itself was ever approved as a unit.

Read issue 17 →