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PwC survey finds directors hesitant to use AI for oversight duties

What does a board director need beyond a moral character? Plenty, writes Ask an Ethicist columnist Vera Cherepanova, who says we should start with understanding the roles business leaders play in society.

Attorney-client privilege has to be built into an audit’s governance from Day One

New Illinois law imposes some of the country’s toughest requirements on frontier AI developers, including audits & incident reporting

Reconcile what your disclosures say with how you actually bill fees and earn revenue

When an ERP is retired, the closed records left behind are often the ones a regulator, auditor or opposing counsel later seeks

Plus: Two-thirds of auditors troubled by risk prediction; lower percentage of US businesses see AI returns

AI improvements don’t arrive like firmware updates

Midyear rehires, entity transfers and stale wage figures quietly corrupt ACA filings, and January is the worst possible time to discover it

Records, contracts and workforce classification can all erode value if unaddressed before an offer is on the table

Rules may be mostly familiar, but the practical significance of the NYC regime lies in enforcement

More listings by the US are likely, and each round seems to roil a new set of companies

Corporate FCPA enforcement is down, but enforcement involving international business, especially under export controls and economic sanctions, remains active, Thad McBride of Bass Berry & Sims explains. Third parties remain a primary source of risk, but when violations do arise, the DOJ has made voluntary disclosure a compelling option.

Can organizations preserve the pathways through which entry-level workers become experts in the time of AI?

Emerging case law shows how easily AI-assisted investigation work can lose attorney-client privilege

Human involvement doesn’t always mean humans were in control

Constitutional challenge to whistleblower suits isn’t over, but neither is blistering pace of filings

Listing change implicates processes, not just products

Plus: 1 in 3 UK finserv workers say they’ve gotten bad AI outputs; few UK companies are training on neurodiversity discrimination

A $30 million fine, loss of years’ worth of draft picks, a one-year ban for owner Steve Ballmer and a $700,000 fine for player Kawhi Leonard. That’s the NBA’s response to a yearslong scheme to evade the league’s salary cap. But alongside the sports scandal is something much more familiar to a corporate integrity audience...

Crypto was initially built on the promise of permissionless finance, a system with no gatekeepers, no intermediaries and no paperwork. However, as the adoption of digital assets has grown, that original vision has collided with the strict realities of the traditional financial system, writes crypto intelligence writer Finn Grant. With regulators cracking down globally, crypto...

An alarming number of workers are choosing to report anonymously likely out of fear of retaliation within their organization

Human inconsistencies and man-made exceptions are often overlooked in AI deployments

Teams should follow CISA’s lead and create the documentation and decision-making that gets the art of safe deferrals right

With models, datasets and vendor APIs changing constantly, a claim that was accurate in the past may no longer hold up

Plus: 20-point bump for AI in financial predictions; July sees ransomware peak

Report details host of cultural, compliance & governance fouls

Everyone is calling Meta's $18 billion settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general social media’s Big Tobacco moment. How apt that comparison ends up being, only time will tell. But the risk and compliance lessons from the settlement extend far beyond social media, legal and industry experts told CCI’s Jennifer L. Gaskin.

When scope and approach are aligned with answers being sought, organizations are better positioned to act, communicate and make decisions

Sanctioned law firm’s case is a warning for any organization whose AI policy promises human review