Today's episode covers the shift from AI adoption to AI governance — and why that's now the executive challenge that matters most.

1. Vietnam's national AI law takes effect (March 1, 2026) — One of the first comprehensive AI laws in Southeast Asia goes live, creating compliance obligations for any SaaS or AI-driven product operating in or selling into Vietnam.
2. Vietnam Briefing
3. Vietnam Ministry of Information
4. Samsung announces AI-Driven Factories by 2030 — Samsung plans to transition all global manufacturing to agentic AI-run operations, setting a concrete template for how industrial buyers will expect AI integration.
5. Samsung Newsroom
6. State-sponsored hackers targeting enterprise AI agents — Security firms warn that nation-state threat actors are probing agent frameworks, exploiting identity and visibility gaps in fast-growing deployments.
7. Yahoo Finance / Security Coverage
8. CEOs now rank AI as their top business risk (Conference Board survey) — AI has overtaken geopolitical and cyber risks as the number one CEO concern, even as confidence in AI-driven growth rises.
9. Yahoo Finance

Key Takeaway: Deploying AI is no longer the hard part — managing it legally, operationally, and securely is the new executive challenge, and governance isn't the brake pedal, it's the steering wheel.Extract podcast name and show notes and paste into