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When Washington Wants on Your Cap Table: Legal Stakes for Business Owners

Government equity stakes in private companies — Howard East legal analysis

When the federal government joins your cap table over equity stakes, the law of the deal changes. Image: Howard East editorial. When Washington Wants on Your Cap Table: Legal Stakes for Business Owners The Singularity, as Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross put it in The Innermost Loop on June 7, “is being drafted into a public-private partnership.” […]

AI Ransomware Attack: 5 Critical Legal Risks

AI ransomware attack — a business owner reviewing a data breach alert on a locked server screen in a professional office

The most important business-law story of the week is not a smarter chatbot — it is a criminal one. Security researchers have documented what they describe as the first fully autonomous AI ransomware attack: an artificial-intelligence agent that broke into a live production database, stole credentials, encrypted the data, and left a Bitcoin ransom demand […]

Workplace Robot Liability: 5 Critical Risks for Business

Workplace robot liability — a humanoid robot working alongside employees on a modern East Coast factory floor

This week, the company that powers most of the world’s AI turned its attention to a quieter problem: keeping robots from hurting the people standing next to them. As Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross reported in the June 22 edition of The Innermost Loop, NVIDIA unveiled Halos for Robotics, billed as the first full-stack safety system for […]

AI-Generated Inventions: 5 Critical Patent Risks 2026

AI-generated inventions — a research scientist reviewing patent documents in a modern East Coast laboratory

This week, an artificial intelligence did something inventors have always done by hand: it discovered a better way to make a drug. As Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross reported in the June 17 edition of The Innermost Loop, OpenAI and the chemistry startup Molecule.one turned a frontier model loose in a robotic lab, where across 10,080 experiments […]

AI Export Controls: 5 Urgent Risks for Employers

AI export controls — Manhattan corporate boardroom with a networked globe at dusk

Last weekend, the federal government did something it had never done to a piece of software you can open in a browser: it slapped AI export controls on it. As Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross reported in the June 13 edition of The Innermost Loop — “the Singularity has just become export controlled” — Commerce Secretary Howard […]