# supply chains

Policy is moving from principles to mandates, with California requiring safety and privacy guardrails and a pro‑AI group committing $100 million to midterm influence. Builders confront hard constraints beyond code, from helium supply shocks to fragile trust after the FTC flagged OkCupid's sharing of millions of photos with a facial recognition firm. Enterprise adoption is centering on responsibility architectures, with read‑heavy access, human approvals for writes, and continuous auditing to counter model sycophancy and synthetic feedback.

Legal fights over training data, supply shocks in critical gases, and fresh security bugs are stressing AI's de facto guardrails. A looming helium shortage could slow chip fabrication and data center growth just as new clinical and materials discoveries accelerate. Practitioners warn that access controls, least privilege, and rapid patching may matter as much as model alignment.