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Strategic Risk September 14, 2026

Governance Aspiration and Procurement Reality: Reading Microsoft’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct

Novara Consulting Group Insights Heather M. Grizzle Microsoft AI published its Code of Conduct for MAI models on…

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Strategic Risk September 14, 2026

The AI CEOs Found the Brakes… Sign Language AI Should Pay Attention

For years, the dominant story in artificial intelligence was speed. Build the more capable model. Ship the agent.…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

The Words Put in Your Mouth: Sign-to-Text AI and Fluent Error

*Confident mistranslation in sign-to-text systems, and the benchmarks that cannot see it* On 9 September 2026 the Chinese…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

Consistently Wrong: Apple DiscoSign and Sign Language AI

A paper posted to arXiv on 2 September 2026 and accepted to the main conference at EMNLP describes…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

Where We Have Control: Signapse SignStream and AI Signing

Synthetic signing by the minute, and the governance that stays behind when the file leaves On 9 September…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

Ninety-Two Percent of What: Robotic signing hands in Kenyan classrooms, and the evidence a public education buyer should expect before scale

On 9 September 2026, Agence France-Presse carried a report from a Nairobi secondary school for Deaf students on…

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Strategic Risk September 6, 2026

My Life as a Cyborg: 2026

A 2026 Rewriting Heather M. Grizzle Originally written in 2010. Rewritten in 2026 to say what I now…

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Strategic Risk September 5, 2026

Delaware Keeps Its Deaf School Inside One Local District, and No Public Document Says What It Costs

What the Delaware state file in the National Deaf Education Data Index found… Delaware was supposed to be…

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Strategic Risk August 25, 2026

When Local Government Automates an Accusation

What a disputed red-light-camera citation reveals about AI governance, private vendors, public data, and institutional accountability Novara Consulting…

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