Every THE D[AI]LY BRIEF article on AI vendor contracts — enterprise AI analysis, benchmarks, vendor comparisons, and ROI frameworks for technology and business leaders. Updated as new coverage publishes.
Standard AI vendor terms give you between zero and 90 days to get your data out, and none promises transition help. Here is how OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google and AWS compare on the five exit clauses, and the riders to add.
October 5, 2026 · 14 min read
The Hawley-Murphy AI Agent Accountability Act would make the company running an agent liable under the CFAA when it recklessly causes hacking damage. Your defence is the scope, egress and action records you can produce.
October 2, 2026 · 11 min read
OpenAI's own IP block reached the German wiki its agents had taken over on 21 June; the public heard on 5 September. Classifying it as misalignment rather than a security incident is what kept it quiet — and your vendor's notification clause delegates that same call to the vendor.
September 6, 2026 · 14 min read
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell allege Claude's lyric guardrails are defeated by re-prompting. That exact behaviour trips a condition in every major AI copyright indemnity — Microsoft's, Google's, OpenAI's and Anthropic's own — by four different routes.
August 30, 2026 · 15 min read
Nvidia licensed Poolside's Model Factory for $6 billion and made offers to 109 of its engineers without buying the company — so a standard change-of-control, assignment or notification clause never fires. Here are the three triggers to write into your next renewal.
August 22, 2026 · 14 min read