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&lt;p>The capital deployment decisions boards make this year will determine whether their autonomous AI systems are governable assets or existential liabilities by 2027. Here is the strategic case.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>The Regulatory Stack, Part 1: AISVS Has 14 Categories. GATE Has 16 Controls. Here Is the Map.</title><link>https://www.sakurasky.com/blog/regulatory-stack-part-1/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://www.sakurasky.com/blog/regulatory-stack-part-1/</guid><description>&lt;style>
 
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&lt;p>AISVS tells you what to verify. The AI Act tells you that you must. Neither tells you how to enforce. This is the engineering map.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>The Autonomous Horizon, Part 6: The Architecture of Trust</title><link>https://www.sakurasky.com/blog/autonomous-horizon-part-6/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://www.sakurasky.com/blog/autonomous-horizon-part-6/</guid><description>&lt;style>
 
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&lt;p>Over the last five posts, this series has described the shape of an operating model most enterprises are beginning to recognize but few have fully engineered.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>GATE: The Missing Infrastructure Layer for Agentic AI</title><link>https://www.sakurasky.com/blog/gate-launch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://www.sakurasky.com/blog/gate-launch/</guid><description>&lt;p>There is a moment in every enterprise AI project when the demo stops being the point.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The demo worked. The agent read the documents, reasoned through the problem, and produced the right answer. Now someone asks: can we put this in production? And the honest answer - the one that derails projects and delays roadmaps - is: not safely, not yet.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>