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  "angle": "Policy proposals, air-gapped guides, a regulated launch and Singapore's new code make compliance a build specification.",
  "headline": "For Regulated AI, the Rules Are Turning Into Operating Checklists",
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      "heading": "Five principles for data and AI",
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          "markdown": "Fivetran has proposed five public policy principles for data and AI, starting with the idea that people should know how their data is used and be able to access or delete it.",
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          "markdown": "The remaining principles, as proposed by Fivetran, are that data should stay in the control of those who create and rely on it, that data should be portable rather than trapped in closed formats, that reliable and well-governed data is the foundation for AI accountability, and that privacy rules should protect people without creating prohibitive costs for smaller companies.",
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          "markdown": "The urgency comes from what agents now touch: Fivetran notes that modern AI agents can access enterprise data to assist in decision-making, that personal agents are gaining access to sensitive data such as health and financial metrics, and that airline agents can already rebook flights and issue boarding passes without human intervention.",
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          "markdown": "Principles alone do not deploy software, and the rest of this week's material shows what compliance looks like once it reaches engineering teams.",
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          "markdown": "That definition forces a different workflow: deployments must shift from pulling dependencies on demand to pushing everything in advance, with all dependencies staged internally, and Python package mirrors must cover transitive dependencies and GPU-specific builds rather than just the main package index.",
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          "markdown": "The payoff, in Domino's account, is speed inside the boundary: the United States Navy's Project AMMO uses the Domino platform to shorten model update cycles for automatic target recognition from months to days.",
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          "markdown": "Open-weight models such as Llama, Gemma, Qwen and Mistral are practical for these environments because they can be installed locally, Domino notes, and it prefers safetensors over pickle-based checkpoints for model imports to prevent arbitrary code execution during loading.",
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          "markdown": "H2O.ai, the company says, has launched H2O-3 Secure, a commercially licensed, production-grade edition of its open-source machine learning platform, built to FedRAMP High engineering standards and designed for financial services, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare and the public sector.",
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          "markdown": "The platform, the company says, supports compliance frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, includes automated model documentation and built-in drift monitoring, and keeps its open-source edition free under the Apache 2.0 licence.",
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          "markdown": "In Singapore, the updated CCoP 2026 code for critical infrastructure shifts the security focus beyond the designated critical environment itself, emphasising board and senior-management accountability and visibility into systems connected to critical infrastructure.",
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    "The sovereign infrastructure premium is a Gartner estimate cited by Domino, not a measured cost from a named deployment.",
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