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New part of our Trustworthy AI series: Secure Memory Governance.

Why agent memory needs classification, access control, retention rules, and poisoning defenses.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Secure Memory Governance
Agents increasingly rely on long-term memory, embeddings, caches, and shared state. We need strong security and governance primitives around memory access, retention, isolation, schemas, and poisoning...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
New Trustworthy AI post - Distributed Agent Orchestration.

Why agents need routing, scheduling, failover, and workflow DAGs - a real control plane.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Distributed Agent Orchestration
Agents need a control plane. Routing, scheduling, failover, cost-aware prioritization, and cross-agent coordination must be first-class primitives.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New post in our Trustworthy AI series: Resource Governance for Agents.

How to prevent infinite loops, runaway tasks, and unbounded tool usage.

Full engineering write-up + code.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Resource Governance
Infinite task loops and runaway agents are already common failure modes. We need quota systems, throttling, and prioritization baked in.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New post in our Trustworthy AI series: Agent Lifecycle Management.

Covers versioning, build artifacts, CI/CD, shadow execution, deprecation, and registry-driven governance for multi-agent systems.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Agent Lifecycle Management
Like microservices, agents need versioning, deployment pipelines, and safe deprecation paths.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New post in our Trustworthy AI series: Secure Multi-Agent Protocols.

Why agents need authenticated identities, signed messages, encrypted payloads, nonces, version negotiation, and formal specs.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Secure Multi-Agent Protocols
Agents need a standardized, authenticated, encrypted, and versioned protocol for inter-agent communication. Right now it is wild-west JSON over HTTP, which is unsafe for autonomous systems.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New in our Trustworthy AI series: Formal Verification for Agent Constraints.

We cover state modeling, invariants, symbolic execution with Z3, and how solver counterexamples integrate with deterministic replay.

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Formal Verification of Constraints
Agents that act autonomously must obey provable invariants. Formal verification provides the missing guardrails for constraints like 'never transmit unencrypted PII' or 'never exceed credit exposure t...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Part 8 of our Trustworthy AI series is out.

Deep dive into deterministic replay for agent systems: structured execution traces, replay stubs, time virtualization, and snapshot regression testing.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Deterministic Replay
Debugging agents is nearly impossible today. We need the ability to record and replay runs deterministically to diagnose errors and failures.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
New post in our Trustworthy AI series: adversarial robustness for agent workloads.

Covers data poisoning, prompt injection, inversion, extraction, and multi-agent hardening with Python examples.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Adversarial Robustness
Models need to withstand data poisoning, prompt injection, and inversion attacks. A cleverly crafted input can collapse your system. This section covers the missing primitives that defend against adve...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New post in our Trustworthy AI series: Kill switches and circuit breakers for agent workloads.

How to halt agents, block runaway loops, and enforce runtime safety.

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Trustworthy AI Agents: Kill Switches and Circuit Breakers
Why autonomous agents need hard limits, circuit breakers, and emergency stop mechanisms to prevent runaway execution and cascading failures.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New post in our Trustworthy AI series.

This one covers verifiable audit logs for agent systems.
Hash chains, Merkle trees, SPIFFE signatures, anchoring.

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Verifiable Audit Logs
How to make every agent action tamper proof and cryptographically verifiable for compliance and forensic analysis.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
New blog in our Trustworthy AI series: Policy-as-Code for AI agents.

Real-time enforcement, OPA + Rego, and practical runtime governance.

Short Python example included.

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Policy-as-Code Enforcement
Guardrails must be enforced at runtime, not left as developer best practices. Just like infrastructure-as-code, compliance must be baked into execution.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
How do you trust an autonomous AI agent?

In our latest post, we look at workload identity as another missing primitive for trustworthy AI.

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#AI #AISecurity #SPIFFE #WorkloadIdentity #DevSecOps
Agent Identity & Attestation
Go beyond API keys. Learn to engineer trustworthy AI agents with verifiable identity and attestation using the SPIFFE framework and a Python example.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Are your AI agents actually secure?

In this instalment of our blog series on Trustworthy AI, we explain why true End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) is non-negotiable and provide a hands-on Python example to fix it.

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End-to-End Encryption (Part 1)
Part 0 of a 13-part series on trustworthy AI agents—an overview of 12 missing engineering primitives (encryption, identity, guardrails, audit, governance) required for production at scale.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
AI agents are powerful but still mostly prototypes. They’re missing the engineering primitives (encryption, guardrails, audit, governance) that make systems enterprise-ready.

We’re kicking off a 13-part blog series on what’s needed.
Part 0 is live: www.sakurasky.com/blog/missing...

#AI #Agents
The Missing Primitives for Trustworthy AI Agents
Part 0 of a 13-part series on trustworthy AI agents—an overview of 12 missing engineering primitives (encryption, identity, guardrails, audit, governance) required for production at scale.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Transform your data and AI pipeline from a bottleneck into an innovation engine.

Our latest blog is a guide for architecting a modern DataOps framework on Google Cloud.

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#DataOps #GCP #AI #DataEngineering #CloudArchitecture
Architecting Your Data and AI Pipelines
Transform your data pipelines into a resilient engine for AI. Learn how to architect a modern DataOps framework on GCP with BigQuery, Dataplex, and Vertex AI.
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August 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
As enterprises adopt AI, a critical security blind spot is emerging. AI agents operate outside the bounds of traditional security, creating a new class of insider risk.

Our latest article explores why a Zero Trust architecture is essential to safely innovate.

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Your Most Powerful User Is Your Growing Security Blind Spot
AI agents are a powerful new tool, but they also represent a growing security blind spot. Traditional security models are failing and a Zero Trust architecture is essential to mitigate this new inside...
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August 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Struggling to get real results from AI in marketing? It's probably not the tool, it's the data.

On the latest episode of our podcast, Hot or Hype, we chat with Victoria Thomson about building the data infrastructure that AI actually needs to succeed.

Listen now:
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August 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
In the new episode of our podcast Hot or Hype we explore how AI is rewriting the CMO playbook & debating if Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the real deal or just hype.

Join our hosts and AI marketing expert Victoria Thomson to break it all down.

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Hot or Hype: Ep7 - AI & Ecommerce. Is [GEO] Generative Engine Optimization the New SEO Gold Rush? - Hot or Hype
In this episode of Hot or Hype, Expert AI pioneers: Andrew, Olivia, and Victoria Thomson discuss the impact of AI on marketing, particularly from the perspective of a CMO. They explore AI's dual role ...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Stream CrowdStrike Falcon events directly to Google Cloud Storage. Our new guide details a serverless Python pipeline on Cloud Run - a cost-effective alternative to third-party forwarders.

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Streaming CrowdStrike Falcon Events into GCS for Google Chronicle
A technical guide to creating a cost-effective, serverless pipeline for streaming CrowdStrike Falcon events directly into GCS, bypassing the need for S3 or third-party tools.
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August 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Hot or Hype Ep 6 is live: AI, marketing & the evolution of customer experience with David Ovens.
Where does personalization end and creepiness begin?
Explore the fine line in hospitality and beyond.
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#AI #Marketing #CX #Hospitality #HotOrHype
Hot or Hype Ep 6: AI, Marketing, and the Evolution of Customer Experience with David Ovens
In our latest podcast, we speak with Andreea, Head of Data at Xapo Bank, about how AI is reshaping finance. Discover how Xapo’s data governance strategy, real-time platform, and ethical AI practices a...
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June 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New on the blog: a deep dive into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it powers context-aware AI systems on Google Cloud. Architecture, primitives, deployment patterns, and more.
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#AI #MCP #GCP #VertexAI #LLMops #SakuraSky
Model Context Protocol on Google Cloud
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging AI standard that enables secure, real-time context and tool integration for LLMs. Learn how to implement MCP architecture on Google Cloud Platform using...
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May 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hot or Hype: Episode 3 is here!

AI is making waves in baseball, from scouting and injury prevention to AI umpires. We spoke with Dan Quill of the San Francisco Giants about how tech is reshaping the game. ⚾🤖

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Hot or Hype: Episode 3 - Future of AI in Baseball
How is AI transforming baseball? In this episode of Hot or Hype, we explore how the San Francisco Giants are using AI for player scouting, fan engagement, and even umpiring. Tune in to see where techn...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
🚀 AI is transforming financial services! AI will power 95% of customer interactions and revolutionize fraud detection & risk management.

🔍 Stay ahead with our latest blog on AI trends in finance & Google Cloud solutions → www.sakurasky.com/blog/ai-in-f...

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February 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AI is reshaping financial services—are you ready? We've partnered with Google Cloud to break down the AI trends for 2025.

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AI Trends 2025 in Financial Services
Download the AI Trends 2025 in Financial Services eBook to explore how AI is transforming risk management, customer experience, fraud detection, and more. Get exclusive insights from Google Cloud and ...
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February 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
New blog post alert! 🚀 In episode 2 of #HotOrHype, we explore AI Agents—are they truly revolutionary or just another buzz? Dive into our deep dive and find out! www.sakurasky.com/blog/hot-or-... #AI #TechTalk
February 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM