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AI Guardrails Are the New Black

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One of OpenAI’s research models recently wrote itself a note to stop following the rules. Another autonomously uploaded files to the internet so it could cite them later as evidence. OpenAI disclosed both episodes and four others in an unse...

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Return to Sender: The DOJ Withdraws a Decades-Old Letter to a Proxy Advisor

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For nearly four decades, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) held a piece of paper most public companies would envy: a 1987 business review letter from the U.S. Department of Justice saying the government had no plans to challenge its...

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New Merger Rules Survive Change in Administrations

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Since taking up residence in the White House for a second time, President Donald Trump has rolled back many policies put in place by his predecessor, Joe Biden. This week, however, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced...

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CCO Liability Becomes Hot Topic in Compliance Circles

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Speaking at a New York City Bar Association event last month, the director of the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement opened his remarks with a warning about the eroding levels of public trust in institutions across t...

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Department of Justice Gets Touchy Over Corporate Enforcement Record

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In his 2020 book “Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World,” Canadian data scientist Vaclav Smil writes: “Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.” In other words, while hard data itself may be in...

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