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Category: Risk Factors

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Data Centers Generate AI—and Risk—for Issuers

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Everybody wants the AI, nobody wants the data center. That may be an oversimplification, but if you read enough securities filings (as we love to) or litigation dockets, you start to realize it’s only a slight one. The opposition to data ce...

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Can the SEC Close the Barn Door on Climate Rules?

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On May 29, the SEC formally proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rules—the “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” finalized back in March 2024. Those rules were among the Gensler-era SEC...

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Shadow AI Lands on the SEC’s Radar

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“Shadow AI” may well be the coolest-sounding corporate risk factor you will ever hear of—one that would work nicely on the spine of a Tom Clancy novel. In reality, though, the risk is more routine and pervasive than it is exotic. And as the...

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When “We’ll Lock It Up” Stops Working

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The AI industry spent years assuring everyone that its most valuable assets were safely behind walls. Last month, two incidents in five days challenged that assumption. A supply chain attack on Mercor, a $10 billion AI recruiting startup, g...

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Three Not-So-Obvious Impacts of the Iran War

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Corporate leaders may recall a time before Russia’s attack on Ukraine, when they didn’t have to worry so much about news from overseas––a time when global political and economic instability did not so persistently affect their businesses. B...

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