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Media coverage and industry commentary on AIQA Global and the AIQ™ score — the first independent rating of enterprise AI governance quality.

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“AIQA Global Introduces AIQ DNA to Measure How AI Governance Performs When Risk Becomes Real”

Morningstar · September 3, 2026

Morningstar carried the AIQ DNA announcement to its institutional investor readership, surfacing a framework that regroups AIQA's governance datapoints into Structural, Deter, Notify, and Act — capability organized by what a control does rather than by policy area.

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“Illinois places guardrails around AI”

Crain's Chicago Business · August 24, 2026

Crain's Forum cover story on Illinois' new AI safety law turned to AIQA Global chairman and co-founder James Malackowski for the argument that regulation reaching only the largest frontier developers leaves everyday enterprises to govern their own AI use, and that an independent rating gives them a way to do it.

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“A Scoring System for AI Governance”

GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals) · July 17, 2026

GARP profiles the AIQ™ Score for the risk-management community, casting independent, quantitative AI governance rating as the missing signal for enterprise risk teams.

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“AI Governance and Cybersecurity Converge in New Strategic Partnership”

BriefGlance · May 14, 2026

BriefGlance reported on a strategic partnership positioning the AIQ™ score at the convergence point of independent AI governance rating and enterprise cybersecurity, signaling that boards now treat AI oversight and cyber risk as a single accountability surface.

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“AIQA Global Names Maria Ross Chief Operating Officer to Lead Insurance Expansion Strategy”

citybiz · May 7, 2026

Business news outlet citybiz framed the Ross appointment around AIQA’s insurance-sector growth strategy, distinguishing the move as a deliberate market-segment build rather than routine personnel news.

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“Vedder Selects AIQA Global for Independent AI Governance Assessment”

The AI Journal · April 30, 2026

AI-focused trade outlet The AI Journal covered Vedder’s adoption of the AIQ™ score as a milestone in the professional services sector’s move toward independently verified AI governance.

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“Vedder Selects AIQA Global for Independent AI Governance Assessment”

Morningstar · April 30, 2026

Morningstar carried the Vedder engagement story, surfacing the first-law-firm adoption to its capital markets readership.

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“Anthropic, OpenAI, and AIQA show where enterprise AI is heading: better models, gated access, and higher governance demands.”

Heyra · April 20, 2026

Heyra’s LinkedIn-native newsletter The Latest in Artificial Intelligence (issue 044) profiled the AIQ™ score launch alongside coverage of Anthropic and OpenAI, framing independent third-party rating as the inflection point in how enterprises will be judged on AI governance.

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“AI Dispatch: Daily Trends and Innovations – Snap, Hightouch, Anthropic, Cloudflare Project Think, and AIQA Global”

Hipther · April 16, 2026

Independent editorial roundup placed AIQA Global alongside Snap, Hightouch, Anthropic, and Cloudflare as evidence that AI is becoming a management discipline as much as a technical one, with a dedicated section devoted to AIQA’s case for independent third-party governance verification.

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“As AI Governance Demands Intensify, AIQA Global Launches First Independent Rating System”

Yahoo Finance · April 16, 2026

Yahoo Finance carried the launch coverage to retail and institutional investor audiences, surfacing the parallel between AIQ™ score methodology and the Ocean Tomo rating-of-intangibles playbook.

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“As AI Governance Demands Intensify, AIQA Global Launches First Independent Rating System”

Morningstar · April 16, 2026

Morningstar’s news service distributed the launch coverage to its institutional investor and asset management readership.

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Bylined opinion pieces authored by AIQA Global leadership in third-party outlets.

“AI × IP as Engine of Economic Development: From AI Adoption to National Value Capture”

LESI Global IP Forum · September 3, 2026

Delivered at the LESI Global IP Forum hosted by the USPTO, AIQA chairman James Malackowski argues that what a country gains from AI turns less on how widely it adopts the technology than on whether it can own, finance, and retain what its economy helps create — and that AI governance expressed as observable, verifiable factors is part of the market infrastructure those gains depend on.

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“AI has a trust problem. Chicago can help solve it.”

Crain's Chicago Business · June 18, 2026

In Crain's Chicago Business, AIQA sets out the case that AI's deepening trust problem calls for what Chicago is building: independent, quantitative governance rating.

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Audio appearances by AIQA Global leadership — interviews, panels, and long-form conversations.

“Phony in, Phony Out — Graham Platner”

Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft · June 15, 2026

AIQA joins Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft to make the case for independent AI governance rating; the segment begins at 2:02.

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“AIQA's James & Chase Malackowski: AI has a trust problem. Chicago can help solve it.”

Chicago's Morning Answer (YouTube) · June 10, 2026

In this clip from Chicago's Morning Answer, AIQA's James and Chase Malackowski lay out how independent, quantitative rating rebuilds trust in enterprise AI.

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“AIQA on Illinois SB 315 and Mandated Third-Party AI Audits”

The Marc Cox Morning Show · June 5, 2026

On The Marc Cox Morning Show, AIQA discusses Illinois SB 315 — the first US law to require independent third-party audits of frontier AI developers — and what mandated external verification signals for the future of enterprise AI governance.

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Broadcast television appearances and long-form video interviews featuring AIQA Global leadership.

“A Credit Score for AI”

NewsNation · September 21, 2026 · 5 min

James E. Malackowski on NewsNation · AIQA Global

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On NewsNation, AIQA makes the case for scoring how safely an organization deploys AI, arguing that the enterprises running the technology — not only the labs building it — are where governance is most controllable.

“Urgent Warning From AI Leaders”

NewsNation · September 15, 2026 · 4 min

James E. Malackowski on NewsNation · AIQA Global

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On NewsNation, AIQA argues that AI governance warrants the same independent review long required of financial statements, and that every organization deploying AI needs controls that deter, notify and act.

“New IL Law Requires AI Safety Audits”

Fox 32 Chicago (WFLD) · June 20, 2026

On Fox 32 Chicago, AIQA breaks down Illinois' new law requiring independent third-party AI safety audits — the first of its kind in the US — and why outside verification is becoming the benchmark for trustworthy AI.

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Analysis from independent commentators and industry observers referencing the AIQ™ score and AIQA Global’s approach.

“Can AI Be Trusted: Building Accountability”

Big John Howell (Substack) · July 1, 2026

Chicago broadcaster Big John Howell examines how the AIQ™ Score supplies the independent accountability layer enterprise AI has been missing.

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“AI Washing and the Imperative for Board Governance”

Ocean Tomo Insights · April 27, 2026

A board-level analysis of AI washing risk that frames quantitative AI governance scoring as the next stage of fiduciary oversight, citing the AIQ™ score as a representative methodology.

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