Hypotheses fast, proof slow: six disputed claims, what outside checks found, and where the 2026 rules stop By Tom Morgan · Facts last verified 12 October 2026 · AI-assisted research, with every figure linked to its source Short answer: AI can propose candidate materials, molecules and whole papers far faster than anyone can check them. … Read more
By [Tom Morgan] — AI Policy & Infrastructure Desk · Published September 2026 Direct answer: AI geopolitics in 2026 no longer runs on a single hardware chokepoint. US export controls, EU regulatory extraterritoriality, and China’s forced-substitution policy have split global AI into three partially disconnected stacks — and the control point is shifting from chips … Read more
Compliance Research Desk · Last verified September 11, 2026 · 13 min read Editorial note on method: Every case, statute, and figure below is checked against a primary source or first-tier legal reporting — court dockets and law-firm client alerts for the litigation, the Council of the EU and the Official Journal for the Omnibus … Read more
Confidence tier: Established, unless marked otherwise. Figures below trace to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 (Ponemon Institute, 602 organizations breached March 2025–February 2026, released July 29, 2026), Verizon’s 2026 DBIR, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, and named sources listed at the end. A year ago this report would have opened with good news: … Read more
Case study. Research current to 12 October 2026. The headline premise is half right. AI-generated creative can earn more clicks than human-made creative, but the gain is modest, depends on the ad not looking like AI, and shrinks or reverses once the ad is labelled. Gucci’s February 2026 backlash was real, yet its sales decline … Read more
Tom Morgan: Last verified October 12, 2026. FTC figures come from FTC.gov pages I opened. Every other figure links to the page it came from. Rules in this area change quickly, so re-check any date before you rely on it. The short version Almost every company now uses AI, but money and audience have not … Read more
Payroll data shows a 19% hiring gap for young workers in AI-exposed jobs — not layoffs, just doors that quietly stopped opening. Nine in ten executives, meanwhile, say AI hasn’t moved their own numbers at all. Both are true. Here’s what the 2026 data actually shows, and what to do with it. Tom Morgan · … Read more
Eighty-eight percent of businesses now use AI somewhere in their operations. MIT’s widely cited 2025 analysis of 300 enterprise deployments put the number of pilots showing zero measurable profit-and-loss impact at 95% — a figure researchers have since disputed on methodology grounds, addressed below. McKinsey’s independently designed survey, run two years running, finds a narrower … Read more
By Tom Morgan TL;DR: AI copyright liability in 2026 hinges on three checkable facts about a vendor: whether a live lawsuit targets how training data was acquired rather than what it outputs, whether an EU-market model has a published training-data summary, and whether the indemnity clause predates the vendor’s most recent training-data suit. A settlement … Read more