AI Governance & Supply Chain24 July 2026
Distillation, Fair Use, and the Open-Weight Model Land Grab
A Ben Thompson proposal to legalise AI distillation, surfaced by Simon Willison, lands the same week Alibaba and Moonshot pushed out trillion-parameter open-weight models — and raises real questions for anyone doing AI vendor due diligence.
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AI Governance & Supply Chain3 July 2026
Current AI's Gap Map: An SBOM-Style Inventory for the Open Source AI Stack
A $400m-backed non-profit has published a v0.1 index of 421 open source AI products across the model, product, and infrastructure layers — useful groundwork for anyone trying to reason about AI supply-chain risk, but not a security assessment in itself.
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