The article promotes an invitation-only dinner in Washington where The Register, HPE and NVIDIA will discuss where AI data is stored and who can access it in regulated industries. It argues that AI projects often stall over jurisdiction, organisational control and the evidence regulators may later require, rather than over the models themselves.

The event is scheduled for 29 October, from 6.00pm to 8.30pm, at Fiola Mare, with The Register’s editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff chairing a discussion with HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Bert Condensa. Under the Chatham House Rule, remarks may be shared without naming speakers; topics include infrastructure trade-offs, costs, operational readiness and examples of legal teams’ decisions. Places are limited and by invitation, with public-sector guests able to pay their own share where required by their ethics rules.