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Latest briefing Field briefing HB-2026-0011 Strategy · Capital allocation
AI value is moving from the model to the operating layer.
Two AI leaders spun up implementation businesses in one quarter. The value is not in the model. It is in the layer that turns a model into governed production work.
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Operator essay HB-2026-0010 Strategy · European AI sovereignty
Can Europe still win the AI war?
The continent that invented modern science risks becoming the regulator of technologies built elsewhere. A signed essay on power, dependence and the narrowing window.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0009 Regulation · EU cybersecurity
Your model is now a cyber capability.
The EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI moves the model itself inside the security perimeter. What it asks of operators in finance, energy and health.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0008 Regulation · EU AI Act
The deadline moved. The exposure did not.
The EU AI Act high-risk deadline slid from August 2026 to December 2027. What still bites in August, and why the risk never moved with the date.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0007 Regulation · EU AI Act
What actually lands on August 2.
The Digital Omnibus moved the high-risk deadline to December 2027. The enforcement machine goes live on schedule. The board question that follows.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0006 Execution risk · Agentic systems
The agent no one owns.
Ask each agent in production who owns it and who can stop it. In most enterprises, no one can answer. The inventory is the first control.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0005 Governance · Agentic systems
Govern the action, not the model.
Model choice is commoditized. The risk lives at the execution layer, where agents call tools and take action. NIST is standardizing exactly that, and your board will ask for the trace.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0001 Strategy · AI value capture
The fox in the henhouse paradox.
When you deploy OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other model provider at the core of your operations, who captures the value of that usage? The board-level question that decides whether AI builds you a margin or absorbs it.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0003 Strategy · Executive courage
Silence on AI is a decision.
Why strategic silence is becoming a governance failure for executive teams, and the three conversations no board can afford to keep postponing.
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Field briefing HB-2026-0004 Strategy · Operator culture
AI does not replace thinkers. It amplifies builders.
From Brynjolfsson to Musk, the converging frame on AI: a test of sovereignty, not a technology question.
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White paper HB-2026-0002 Governance · Architecture
AI governance is an architecture problem. White paper, in French.
Twenty pages on why generative AI projects fail, and what the few that succeed build first. WP-HB-2026-00426 · FR.
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