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Sovereign AI and the Hidden Cost of Dependence
with Aki Ranin, [r]ecursive
Aki Ranin has spent years helping organizations think clearly about AI strategy, and right now he is focused on a problem most companies are only beginning to notice: the deeper you embed AI agents into your business, the more exposed you become to providers you do not control. In this episode, recorded shortly after his keynote at apidays Singapore 2026, Aki walks through what sovereign AI actually means in practice — not as a regulatory concept, but as a question of operational risk. If your agents can be switched off without warning, if you cannot quantify hallucination rates, if you do not own the code, you do not own your business.
How to Build Evals for AI Agents — A Practitioner's Guide
Before deploying an AI agent in your organisation, one question will end the conversation if you can't answer it: what is the hallucination rate? This guide explains what evals are, why they matter, and how to build them from scratch.
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APIs for the AI Era
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Data sovereignty, AI governance, and the geopolitics of model dependence
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