Two new modes on OpenCheck: Subsidiaries and History Subsidiaries = All the companies owned by the one you're looking up to understand its network History = Corporate change events from multiple registry sources on a reverse chronological timeline opencheck.world/features

"Prosecutors allege that Oxygen Forensics portrayed itself to U.S. government customers as an independent American company, while Davydov and four other Russian nationals actually owned and controlled it through a Cyprus-based holding company" occrp.org/en/news/us-charges… (@OCCRP)

I was pleased to be able to deliver a virtual presentation on the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard during this AI and tech workshop on uncovering beneficial ownership in infrastructure organised by @CoSTransparency @AccountLab and @C4ADS infrastructuretransparency.o…

My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: economist.com/britain/2026/0… And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders

Today’s news that OpenAI hacked the Australian government is not an isolated incident. We’re releasing more than 30,000 logs that include activity from this hack and attempts against previously unknown targets. In this data, we found rogue agent activity stretching back to at least March, two months earlier than was previously known. This activity continues as recently as last week, suggesting it may still be ongoing 🧵 Our blog: transluce.org/agent-activity NYT: nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techn…

Australia said an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website reut.rs/4rtZ48x

EU capitals have struck a deal to remove Russia’s Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the sanctions list. @benjaminhaddad called the outcome a win for European solidarity. “We keep a very strong united front on the sanctions on Russia,” he said.

EXC: AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat of society Multiple staff at Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) have been signed off work with stress and are undergoing counselling Tight schedules for testing unreleased AI models, plus alarm over rapid rollout and growing capabilities of AI, have fuelled low morale and burnout at AISI, acc to four people with knowledge of the matter It’s part of a wider phenomenon across leading AI companies: staff at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind have also publicly complained of similar issues, with many top researchers quitting due to the mental toll or coming to a belief that their work was unsafe for public release W/ @madhumita29 ft.com/content/60870960-f433…

Nearly a year after the country exited the Financial Action Task Force's grey list, what do the latest stats tell us about the state of beneficial ownership transparency and UBO information quality in South Africa? lnkd.in/p/e7cweksu #beneficialownership #UBO #FATF

The T-rank team has examined some of the challenges that data users face when trying to uncover ultimate beneficial ownership using information from Denmark's Central Business Register (Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister / CVR) trank.no/news/the-danish-ben… #beneficialownership #UBO

Ian Gorst, Jersey’s finance minister: “I don’t intend to make our [beneficial ownership] register public, and I’ve been clear to the UK about that” theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI reut.rs/4yOV8le reut.rs/4yOV8le

22 European countries - newly including Czechia, Denmark and Slovenia - now make their beneficial ownership information searchable via the EU's Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System (BORIS) e-justice.europa.eu/topics/r… #beneficialownership #UBO #AML #6AMLD

A bug-hunting independent security research team used Anthropic’s Claude software to gain access to an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT account, giving them a way to read and suggest changes to the company’s private cache of software. on.wsj.com/4h8vaBP

Overseas Territories issue communique pushing back on UK's demands for them to open up beneficial ownership registers, adding that the “same treatment should be applied to the Crown Dependencies”, a reference to Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man caymancompass.com/2026/09/16…

"Nigeria should work towards harmonising and centralising beneficial ownership information within a coordinated national framework" - Registrar-General of the @cacnigeria1 dailytrust.com/cac-mulls-sin… The CAC can use the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard to help achieve this goal

"We are providing UPRNs and INSPIRE IDs through a series of lookup tables, beginning with our Price Paid dataset. Later this financial year, we will be adding similar lookup tables to our UK Companies data and Overseas Companies data" - UK Land Registry todaysconveyancer.co.uk/hmlr…

NEW | Today I’m publishing the Institute’s response to @CommonsBTC Britain’s AI Security Institute confirms it gets advance access to some of the world’s most powerful AI models - but the question remains: can it every model it needs to assess, and what happens when access is withheld? It confirms that @AISecurityInst tested OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra before public release, and that its researchers examine risks including chemical and biological threats, manipulation and loss of control But on Anthropic’s Mythos 5.1, @AISecurityInst confirms no organisation outside the US had access at release - nor confirms whether UK has since received results of US testing. The Institute describes strong relationships with developers, but leaves unclear what happens when those relationships don’t deliver the access our researchers need. We will therefore pursue three questions. Which significant models are reaching the market without independent British testing? What guarantees ensure our researchers get the access and time they need? And when testing identifies a serious danger, who is responsible for acting, with what powers? Britain’s AI researchers are doing vital work. BUT Parliament needs to establish whether we have the right safeguards, and whether ministers have the evidence and authority they need to protect the public. The countries that maximises trust in #AI will the countries that benefit most from #AI. Right now, that trust is jeopardy.

New feature on OpenCheck: Watchlist - spot when a company’s record change, without watching the registers stephenabbottpugh.medium.com… Powered by delta files from @GLEIF and @opensanctions #LEI #opendata #openstandards #opensource #sanctions #beneficialownership #UBO #AML #CDD #EDD

Standardised open data on the 186,000+ subsidiaries owned or controlled by the world’s 500 largest corporate groups - now published in Beneficial Ownership Data Standard format stephenabbottpugh.medium.com… #openstandards #opendata #GODIN @OECD @UNStats @OECD_Stat