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When the Model Is the Vendor: What Happens to Compliance When You Don’t Own the Weights

The FDA cleared its first LLM-based device in December 2025 and the public record does not say which model it runs. Every regulated-software regime assumes you can describe, pin and reproduce what you shipped — a manufacturer building on someone else's foundation model can do none of the three reliably.

On September 3, 2026
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The Production Incident Class Your Postmortem Template Doesn’t Have

An agent that follows its instructions perfectly can still take down a third party. Why blameless postmortems assume three things autonomous agents do not provide.

On August 20, 2026
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AI Didn’t Kill Manual QA — It Killed the Boring Half of It

Three years of predictions said AI would replace software testers. Instead, 89% of organizations are experimenting with AI in QA, only 15% have scaled it, AI-generated code has become the industry's biggest new source of bugs — and the testers who remain are being paid more, not less.

On July 19, 2026
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How AI Ate the World’s Memory Chips — And Why Relief Isn’t Coming Until 2028

A structural shift toward AI memory chips has sent DRAM prices soaring and triggered a price-fixing lawsuit — and unlike past shortages, this one won't resolve until new fabs come online in 2028.

On July 3, 2026
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Broadcom Is Worth More Than Tesla and Meta Combined-Adjacent — and Almost Nobody Outside Finance Has Noticed

Broadcom passed Tesla and Meta in market cap without shipping a single consumer product — it builds the custom chips and networking silicon that stitch together everyone else's AI clusters.

On June 30, 2026
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OpenAI Wants to Give the US Government a 5% Stake. The Pitch Compares It to Alaska’s Oil Fund — But AI Isn’t Oil.

A 5% stake in OpenAI would be worth $42.6 billion. Sam Altman is framing it as a sovereign-wealth-fund model borrowed from Alaska's oil dividend — but the analogy breaks down exactly where it matters most.

On June 15, 2026
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FDA’s AI Medical Device Approvals Aren’t Just Growing — They’re Finally Breaking Out of Radiology

Six AI medical devices got FDA clearance in 2015. Two hundred ninety-five got cleared in 2025. But the real story in the 2026 numbers isn't the growth rate — it's that radiology, which has dominated for a decade, is finally losing share.

On May 31, 2026
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FDA Just Redrew the Line for What Counts as a Medical Device — and a Lot of AI Health Products Just Landed on the Free Side

A blood glucose wearable can now be marketed as a general wellness product instead of a regulated medical device — the FDA's January 2026 guidance moves the line for AI health software further than most coverage let on.

On May 24, 2026
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The EU Just Gave AI Companies 16 More Months — Here’s What the AI Act Delay Actually Changes

The EU just pushed its AI Act's high-risk compliance deadline from August 2026 to December 2027 — but GDPR penalties for the same systems never moved, and that gap is where the real risk now sits.

On May 1, 2026
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