Tracking what’s coming before it becomes the new normal
Written for those who prefer to be early
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The EU’s Quantum Bet: Why the Quantum Act Will Look Nothing Like the AI Act
When the European Commission published its Quantum Strategy in July 2025, it made a choice that deserves more attention than it has received. The forthcoming EU Quantum Act – expected as a legislative proposal in 2026 – will not follow the regulatory logic of the AI Act. It will follow the logic of the Chips…
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The EU Quantum Act Is Coming. Here’s What the Governance Gap Actually Looks Like
The European Commission is expected to table its Quantum Act proposal this quarter. Adoption is targeted for Q3 2027. That gap – between proposal and law – is where the real regulatory work happens: trilogue, amendments, political compromise, and all the provisions that get quietly narrowed before the final text lands in the Official Journal.…
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Designing Quantum Governance Before It’s Too Late
Quantum computing is usually framed as a future problem. Regulate it once it’s real, scalable, deployed. That framing is wrong. Quantum technologies are already moving into early applications. The question is no longer whether we regulate them – but whether we do it in time to matter. If regulation arrives after the architecture is locked…
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When Prediction Challenges Reasoning
Quantum computing is usually framed as a speed problem. Faster research. More efficient courts. Better case management. That framing is too narrow. The deeper shift isn’t about speed. It’s about what quantum technologies might reveal about legal decision-making itself. Law as reasoning – or pattern recognition? Law presents itself as a system of reasoning. Judges…
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What Is a Qubit – And Why Should Lawyers Care?
I’ll be honest: when I first encountered the word “qubit,” I treated it the way I treat most technical jargon – as something I’d understand eventually. Then I started reading. And I realised that if you’re working in AI law and you don’t understand what a qubit actually is, you’re missing the foundation of everything…
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NIST Just Published the AI Governance Report Nobody Is Talking About
Most AI governance conversations focus on what happens before deployment. Risk assessments. Documentation. Testing. NIST just published a 40-page report saying that’s not enough. AI 800-4 maps everything we don’t know about monitoring AI systems after they go live. And the picture is not reassuring. The core problem: AI systems are non-deterministic. The same input…
