Today's governance news keeps circling one idea: authority that isn't provably bounded isn't governed, it's just hoped for. Brussels turned its AI Act deferral from a proposal into binding law overnight, the World Economic Forum published a framework for making delegated agent authority auditable by design, and new research put a number on the identity chaos sitting underneath both — an estimated 45 billion non-human identities with almost no one assigned to own them. Meanwhi