The UN convened its first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva and its new Scientific Panel delivered a straightforward preliminary report: agentic AI is a governance step change, and the window to act is closing. The panel's evidence is clear, but whether multilateral institutions can build governance architecture that matches the systems it must govern remains the open question.
AI in the Open
Standards, specifications, and open-source infrastructure that shape how AI is built and regulated. From community-driven specs to the frameworks emerging under new regulation worldwide.
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Nothing verifies that a tool's description is what its publisher wrote, and researchers have repeatedly demonstrated poisoning attacks against MCP clients. CTMS is a signing and verification scheme that prevents these attacks at runtime.