The governance question that legislators have circled for three years has been answered by a product announcement, not a regulation. Intel and Gen's on-device approach establishes that the chip manufacturer — not the platform, not the regulator, not the content host — is the entity making the first call on whether a video is real. That is a significant transfer of authority, and it happened without a public hearing. The enterprises and consumers who adopt this hardware will be operating inside an authentication framework built to the specifications of…