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Today’s full edition covers all ten signals — from graph RAG to Apple’s encrypted RCS rollout to what SF residents actually think about AI at work. comparethecloud.net/morning-edition

Deutsche Telekom is expanding @LogicMonitor's AI observability platform across DACH, Benelux and the Nordics — after a UK deployment that prevented 19 major incidents and cut reporting times from days to minutes. Read: comparethecloud.net/news/deutsche-… #CTC #PressRelease

Celonis and Deloitte launch automated SOX compliance tool built on continuous process monitoring @Celonis and Deloitte replace periodic manual testing with real-time monitoring. A pharma customer cut their cost of control by 10% in wave one. Read: comparethecloud.net/news/celonis-a… #CTC #PressRelease

ServiceNow Otto and expanded AI Control Tower aim to govern the enterprise AI stack At Knowledge 2026, @ServiceNow unveiled a new unified AI experience, a substantially expanded governance layer, and integrations with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Lenovo. Read: comparethecloud.net/news/serviceno… #CTC #PressRelease

AAIR accepts 25 prerequisite certs (CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, CGRC, CISSP and more) — reflecting AI risk responsibility being absorbed into audit, compliance, privacy and security functions, not just IT risk. Full poll publishes May 2026.

More from the 2026 AI Pulse Poll (681 European digital trust professionals): • Only 21% could halt an AI system within 30 minutes • 20% don't know who'd be accountable if AI caused harm • 33% don't require AI use disclosure • Only 38% put board / executive ownership on AI risk

ISACA has launched Advanced in AI Risk (AAIR), a new credential for experienced risk practitioners absorbing AI oversight responsibility. New ISACA research: 59% of European digital trust pros don't know how quickly they could halt an AI system in a security incident. comparethecloud.net/news/isaca-lau…

Adoption catch: enrolment requires physical access to a Tools for Humanity Orb. Likely first wave: small, high-trust enterprise groups (finance, healthcare, exec teams), not mass-market consumer use. Launching via Zoom App Marketplace later this year, beta access opening soon.

Built on Zoom's Realtime Media Streams, the check runs on-device. No personal data shared with Zoom or other participants — just an attestation that the participant is human and matches their enrolment. Deloitte projects US AI-fraud losses growing from $12.3bn (2023) to $40bn by 2027.

Zoom has integrated Tools for Humanity's World ID into Zoom Meetings. A 'Verified Human' badge confirms in real time that participants are actual people, not AI-generated impersonations. comparethecloud.net/news/zoom-adds…

Wasabi's pitch is unchanged: no egress fees, no API request fees, flat pricing, 16 storage regions across 100+ countries. The new product addition is Wasabi Fire — NVMe storage aimed specifically at AI/ML training workloads.

Other lenders: U.S. Private Credit Investments (BTG Pactual Global Alternatives), Neuberger Specialty Finance, Energy Impact Partners, Aksia. Follows the Lyve Cloud acquisition from Seagate and a $70m equity round at a $1.8bn valuation. Total funding now over $700m.

Wasabi has closed a $250m credit facility led by Bain Capital. Pure-play storage continues to find debt finance even in a more selective lending market — institutional read on AI inference workloads driving egress economics out of hyperscaler territory. comparethecloud.net/news/wasabi-cl…

Conduct, culture and accountability mapping sit outside the box of regulatory paperwork. Capco's reading is that firms easing off the SM&CR machinery should be doubling down on the supporting controls.

The reforms reduce friction for hiring senior people but don't change the underlying requirement that someone, named and identifiable, owns each significant business risk.

The FCA and PRA have eased aspects of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime — fewer pre-approvals, longer windows, more proportionality. Capco warns the accountability risks haven't gone away. comparethecloud.net/news/fca-and-p…

Worth thinking about for any SMB tech procurement plan in 2026: assume agent vendors get more capable than your stack can absorb, and plan for the gap.

Capability rising fast doesn't translate to adoption when the operational glue — identity, audit, integration with line-of-business tools — sits with vendors aiming at enterprise buyers first.

Stanford's AI Index 2026 says agents now complete 66% of test-bench tasks, up from 12% a year ago. nexos.ai points out the deployment gap at SMBs is widening, not narrowing. comparethecloud.net/news/ai-agent-…

Signal for the wider European cloud market: when a national-level data platform with this profile picks a European provider, sovereignty stops being a conference slide and starts showing up in procurement.

The Health Data Hub aggregates anonymised records from across France's health system for research and policy. Hosting it on a French sovereign provider answers the long-running political row over US hyperscaler involvement.

France's Health Data Hub has picked Scaleway as its sovereign cloud host — a marquee public-sector win for European cloud and a shift in how Paris wants sensitive health data stored. comparethecloud.net/news/scaleway-…