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Deaf-Led AI Assurance October 7, 2026

UMI’s /sign: The App Is Launching, the Evidence Is Not Yet

“A Deaf patient arrives at the ER.” The sentence is not NCG’s. It is the opening of a…

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Deaf-Led AI Assurance October 7, 2026

Signapse: A Stop Right, Stated for One Product

Picture a Deaf passenger on a station platform. The screen above her shows a digital signer, fluent and…

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Deaf Led AI Governance September 29, 2026

The Price of Admission

Some of the state offices that serve Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing residents operate with a handful…

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Deaf Led AI Governance September 27, 2026

The Corpus Question

The face is the data In spoken and written language technology, the training data and the person can…

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AI Governance & Digital Risk September 27, 2026

The Agent Did Not Sign the Contract: Autonomous AI, Public Systems, and the Incident Clause Most Counties Do Not Have

This article reads the same four incidents from the other chair. It sets out what is publicly known,…

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Deaf-Led AI Assurance September 26, 2026

Signapse: on the roadmap, not yet shipped

26 September 2026 · Heather M. Grizzle, Novara Consulting Group Why this record exists In August 2026, Novara…

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AI Governance & Digital 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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Deaf Led AI Governance 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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Deaf Led AI Governance 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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