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We spent a semester with USC Marshall's AI Capstone cohort. Here's what we built, what we learned, and why this collaboration matters for the future of accountable AI. Spring 2026 · nxtlinq Team · AI Governance · Education A few months ago, we kicked off something that didn't fit neatly into any of our usual playbooks. No product sprint. No pilot agreement. No go-to-market motion. Instead, we walked into a classroom at USC Marshall School of Business and started a semes

Executive Summary In April 2026, a cyberattack on France's national identity agency, the Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), exposed up to 19 million identity-linked records — names, email addresses, birthdates, home addresses, and data tied directly to passports, national ID cards, and driver's licenses. Roughly one-third of the French population had their sovereign identity permanently compromised in a single event. This is not an anomaly. It is a structural proof

The Mercor Breach Is the Wake-Up Call — But Not the First In April 2026, AI startup Mercor—valued at $10B—was hit by a major data breach that exposed candidate profiles, PII, employer data, and even source code. (TechCrunch) The root cause wasn’t a simple hack. It was a supply chain compromise—a poisoned open-source dependency (LiteLLM) that cascaded across thousands of systems in minutes. (TechCrunch) Up to 4TB of data was reportedly exfiltrated. (Asanify) And once again, th