For business owners and their advisors, it’s probably not surprising that buying another company or other assets requires moving with speed and diligence. But gaining an edge—and winning—on the buy side is a bit more complicated. Effective companies tend to deploy a series of purposeful tactics and avoid common mistakes when pursuing acquisitions. This article by William Blair & Company outlines five tactics to implement and five mistakes to avoid for any company considering an acquisition.

For board members and non-executive directors, generative AI stands as a pivotal innovation that offers unprecedented opportunities to drive business value, improve productivity, reach broader audiences, streamline operations, and help address complicated global issues. However, it also raises complex business and ethical questions. To gain the full trust of stakeholders and customers, AI systems need to be designed with governance, risk, legal, and ethical frameworks in mind.

New cybersecurity guidance for artificial intelligence (AI) systems was issued jointly by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, the National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center, and cybersecurity agencies of Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and Canada. The Guidelines, Deploying AI Systems Securely: Best Practices for Deploying Secure and Resilient AI Systems, are particularly notable because they focus on best practices for organizations that deploy AI developed by a third party rather than targeting developers of AI systems.