White Circle, a Paris-based AI control platform, raised $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue in workplace settings. The company builds software that sits between users and AI models, enforcing company-specific policies by checking inputs and outputs in real time. The funding comes amid broader attention to jailbreak risks and the reality that many enterprises are integrating AI into day-to-day workflows without robust controls for unsafe or prohibited outputs. White Circle’s founders and investors include figures tied to OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Hugging Face. For higher education leaders, the development signals a shift from “AI literacy” alone to operational AI governance—particularly for institutions that plan to use generative tools for instruction, research, and administrative functions where policy compliance and data sensitivity are central.