ISO/IEC 42001 gives organizations, including SMEs, a structured, certifiable way to align AI governance with ethical, legal, and security expectations. Start laying the groundwork now to demonstrate trustworthiness before it becomes mandatory.
Starlink’s rare global outage in July 2025 highlights that even the 'stars' can have a mid‑air software meltdown. Companies should treat satellite internet as a mission‑critical service and plan for glitches with robust redundancy.
PayPal World has launched as a global wallet interoperability platform. Enterprises should immediately evaluate where cross-border digital wallet acceptance fits into their digital payment strategies, because customers will soon expect it.
Tech leaders should begin evaluating Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) systems as a future-forward way to modernize KYC processes, improve user trust, and comply with evolving regulations like eIDAS 2.0.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are rapidly becoming the bullseye for cybercriminals. The most effective countermeasure? Adopting a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) tailored to their scale and constraints.
Creative Commons (CC) launched CC Signals, a preference-signaling framework giving dataset holders a voice in how their content is used to train AI. Monitor CC Signals’ alpha release, slated for November 2025, given its potential to become a future standard to help keep the internet open.
