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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: November 6, 2026, The Whither Data Centers Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Using AI-powered compliance to curb greenwashing. (ESGDive)
  2. Governing AI by improving compliance. (CIO)
  3. How much will AI compliance cost Mexican businesses? (MexicoBusinessNews)
  4. OpenAI drops its NDA requirements. (TechInsider)
  5. What does the election mean for data center construction? (Reuters)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

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Texas A&M University Press

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: November 5, 2026, The What Does the Election Mean Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. FINRA AI rules expose compliance gaps. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. Expanding AI footprint across financial services. (FinTechGlobal)
  3. FSA puts out Sound Practices for AI adoption. (ComplianceWeek)
  4. Closing blind spots in business verification. (FinTechGlobal)
  5. Will Congress deal with AI? (ChiefHealthcareExecutive)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: October 26, 2026, The ART Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. HKMA framework for AI governance. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. Anthropic to develop AI consultancy in EU. (FT)
  3. From SOX to real-time monitoring. (BizTech)
  4. Microsoft to develop tool to diagnose sequentially. (Reuters)
  5. Is Pharma Moving Too Fast on AI Agents? (Pharmaceutical Commerce)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: October 21, 2026, The $151bn Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Auto lenders eyeing AI for compliance monitoring. (Auto Finance News)
  2. AI in the audit room. (Compliance Week)
  3. Legal and Compliance AI market to hit $151bn by 2030. (EINPressWire)
  4. AI, tariffs and compliance. (Thomson Reuters)
  5. The AI execution gap.(FinTechGlobal)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: October 19, 2026, The Compliance Sprawl Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Cyber compliance gaps. (LS)
  2. FSB releases sound practices for responsible AI. (FSB)
  3. AI runs into insurance issues. (WSJ)
  4. AMA releases governance framework for Agentic AI. (HealthcareDive)
  5. AI fighting against compliance sprawl. (FinTechGlobal)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: October 16, 2026, The Green AI Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Cyber compliance gaps. (Industrial Cyber)
  2. From compliance to competence. (Nature)
  3. Bloomberg’s aggressive stance on AI. (WSJ)
  4. Green AI in healthcare. (News Medical Life Sciences)
  5. Building foundations for AI in insurance. (FinTechGlobal)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: September 25, 2026, The Next Gen Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Banks warn about AI shopping bots. (Reuters)
  2. AI pushing drug development. (BioSpace)
  3. Hospices have a learning curve on AI. (Hospice News)
  4. The next generation of compliance. (FinTech Global)
  5. AI vs. AI is driving up medical costs. (NYT)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

This week only, the Kindle e-book version is available for $0.99 on Amazon.

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Innovation in Compliance

Innovation in Compliance: Paul Welter on AI Legal Reasoning for Embedded Compliance Workflows

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Paul F. Welter, co-founder at Bayshore AI.

Welter is a German-qualified lawyer whose path into legal innovation began with an early background in software engineering, giving him a rare combination of legal and technical expertise. That experience led him to study how legal reasoning could be automated at Stanford Law School’s Codex, and later to co-found Bayshore AI to build LLM-based tools for in-house legal and compliance teams. He believes AI can help scale legal and compliance support because demand far exceeds human capacity, but he expects adoption to happen gradually through copilots, policy chatbots, and targeted workflow automation rather than a sudden transformation. At the same time, he stresses that regulated companies need systems that are transparent, auditable, and able to show how decisions are made, with human oversight remaining essential for higher-risk matters and regulator-facing accountability.

Key highlights:

  • AI Legal Reasoning for Embedded Compliance Workflows
  • Auditable Legal Decision Logic from Conventional Programs
  • Customer-Specific Policy Logic with Deterministic Compliance
  • Logic translated into code for reviewable decisions
  • Full-time employee days of manual compliance checks
  • AI copilots, compliance workflows, and decision trails

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Bayshore

Innovation in Compliance was recently honored as the Number 4 podcast in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts

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FCPA Compliance Report

FCPA Compliance Report: Mara Senn on AI-Native, Human-in-the-Loop Investigations for Compliance

In this episode, Tom Fox welcomes Mara Senn, founder and CEO of Ethakos, about her path from big law and a decade as a partner at Arnold & Porter to anti-corruption work at the Kleptocracy Initiative, investigations at the World Bank, and in-house leadership roles at Fortune 500 medical device and pharma companies.

Senn explains she built the Ethakos compliance investigations platform using “vibe coding” with Claude, reducing reliance on software engineers and enabling rapid product decisions. She describes Ethakos as AI-native and human-in-the-loop, designed around how compliance teams actually work, with cleaner data creation, configurable workflows, and features that automate painful reporting tasks (e.g., investigation updates) and first drafts of chronologies, interview outlines, and reports. Senn emphasizes audibility via logs and citations, advises starting AI projects with clear risk goals, and predicts AI will remove menial work so teams can cover more risks while becoming more data- and tech-forward. Contact options include ethakos.com, email, and LinkedIn.

Key highlights:

  • Why Build Ethakos
  • AI Native Platform Design
  • Solving Reporting Pain
  • Starting AI in Compliance
  • Avoiding Common AI Mistakes
  • Investigation Workflow Automation
  • Auditability and Regulator Proofing
  • Future of Compliance Teams

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Ethakos

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To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: August 25, 2026, The AI Governance Has Named Accountability Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. AI governance for health services. (Yahoo! Finance)
  2. AI for email compliance. (NJIT)
  3. AI in quality management. (ARC Advisory Group)
  4. AI governance is becoming a named accountability. (CCI)
  5. Bank-grade AI for compliance. (FinTechGlobal)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.