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Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/dean-ball-openai

Exclusive: AI scholar Dean Ball says he's heading to OpenAI
Dean Ball, who helped shape the Trump administration's early policies on AI, is heading to OpenAI

"For decades, we have watched technologists claim that algorithms can replace editors, platforms replace communities, markets replace politics, and code can replace governance. The result has been a mess. Now the same pattern is repeating with AI."
#GenAI
AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume –

Part of important experiments with 'types of data governance that establish a global knowledge commons, while supporting local communities'
How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License https://community.mozilladatacollectiv

How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License
Author: Alek Tarkowski For the last twenty five years, standardized open licenses were increasingly seen as a main tool for democratizing access to knowledge. Over less then a decade, a relatively narrow set of canonical choices emerged: the Creative Commons licensing stack https://creativecommons.org/licenses/list.en, coupled with

Today's Metacurity returns to our "AI watch format" with a summary of crucial AI developments followed by a slew of other infosec news stories cyber leaders and defenders need to know, including
--Canada details offensive cyber ops,
--US cloud providers challenge Korean security rules,
--KDDI confirms breach affecting millions,
--Judge keeps Weiss hacking case alive,
--BonkDAO loses $20m in governance attack,
--Crypto wallet flaw exposed milli…

AI watch: Chinese competition, government adoption, and new regulations pressure AI leaders
Canada details offensive cyber ops, US cloud providers challenge Korean security rules, KDDI confirms breach affecting millions, Judge keeps Weiss hacking case alive, BonkDAO loses $20m in governance attack, Crypto wallet flaw exposed millions to theft, Ctrl Wallet shutters after incident, much more

RE: https://hamishcampbell.com/ai-didnt-break-the-web-the-dotcons-did-ai-just-turned-up-the-volume/
Excellent piece on AI, human sharing, governance, and the open web. Do, please, read this.

FPF Hosts Frontiers Workshop on Privacy, AI, and Emerging Infrastructure
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-hosts-frontiers-workshop-on-privacy-ai-and-emerging-infrastructure/
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1Password acquires Apono, which operates an AI-powered platform for managing cloud access, sources say in a deal valued at $250M to $300M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1bbav611fx

1Password acquires Israeli cyber startup Apono in $250M-$300M deal
AI-era identity security startup joins the Canadian cybersecurity giant as it expands beyond password management into access governance.

Technology & Security Podcast With Dr Miah Hammond-Errey
Monthly deep dives on AI governance, national security, cognitive warfare, and emerging technology with Dr Miah Hammond-Errey...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/techno

[OT] Net benefit of #AI and the trillions of dollars being invested in it? Woke?
ECB's Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance https://thene…

OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Career Choice in the AI Age: What Next for Privacy and Data Professionals?
https://fpf.org/blog/career-choice-in-the-ai-age-what-next-for-privacy-and-data-professionals/
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How AI Reverses the Political Logic of the Internet | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/how-ai-reverses-the-political-logic-of-the-internet

How AI Reverses the Political Logic of the Internet
AI governance is ultimately a question of democracy itself, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at giant sporting steps taken by Asian robots, Infosys’ shares slide, and Singapore’s efforts to standardise AI governance.
https://www…

First they came for the lawyers, then the runners - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at giant sporting steps taken by Asian robots, Infosys’ shares slide, ...

Call for Papers: 'Media Reform in Post-Conflict Societies: AI Governance, Digital Resilience, and Democratic Transformation'
https://ift.tt/a4idJML
updated: Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 6:30amfull name / name of organization: Journal of Digital Media…
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Celebrating Another Year of Privacy and AI Governance: FPF at the 2026 IAPP Global Summit
https://fpf.org/blog/celebrating-another-year-of-privacy-and-ai-governance-fpf-at-the-2026-iapp-global-summit/

Boston Consulting Group study suggests 'embedding AI agents into formal organizational roles can reduce managerial oversight in AI-mediated work, and should be understood as a governance decision rather than a mere labeling choice' - i.e. more mistakes get through https://www.emmawiles.com/storage/ai_emplo

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you might have missed during what for many of us was a long weekend, including
--Anthropic watch: US government dispute becomes AI governance fight,
--Operation Endgame wipes SocGholish infrastructure,
--Hackers hijack Brazil emergency alert system,
--London Hydro breach exposes customer data,
--Data breach in Korea exposes 5,000 startup applications,
--Acworth investigates cyberatta…

Anthropic watch: US government dispute becomes AI governance fight
Operation Endgame wipes SocGholish infrastructure, Hackers hijack Brazil emergency alert system, London Hydro breach exposes customer data, Data breach in Korea exposes 5,000 startup applications, Acworth investigates cyberattack on city systems, much more

Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that aims to provide granular, consistent governance over AI agent behavior (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-offers-devs-a-better-w…

Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior | TechCrunch
The specification lets developer, compliance and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/116676767603367392
2026 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report – Software Governance in the AI Era – Black Duck Software, Inc.

Future of Privacy Forum Announces 2026 Career Achievement Award Recipients
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-announces-2026-career-achievement-award-recipients/
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Audrey Tang @… on 'Software Freedom as Civic Care' and so much more - 'care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance' https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-c

Software Freedom as Civic Care
A discussion on how the Free Software movement is foundational to care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance.

FPF’s 2026 DC Privacy Forum: Leading Voices in AI, Privacy and Emerging Technology
https://fpf.org/blog/fpfs-2026-dc-privacy-forum-leading-voices-in-ai-privacy-and-emerging-technology/
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Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjni88wawl

AI security unicorn Cyera acquires two-year-old startup Ryft in $100-$130 million deal
Ryft, founded in 2024, raised $8 million before the deal and has built tools for automated data access and governance in AI environments.

Colorado Revises Its AI Act: What Changed and Why
https://fpf.org/blog/colorado-revises-its-ai-act-what-changed-and-why/
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Enterprise Tech Talk Podcast
Your premier source for discourse on current complex enterprise technology challenges such as AI adoption, cyber security, technology strategy, governance and OpModels and emerging technology trends...
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FPF on the Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement Over Data (“SECURE Data”) Act
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-on-the-securing-and-establishing-consumer-uniform-rights-and-enf…