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Notes from inside real engagements on AI governance, U.S. banking regulation, digital assets, and the fractional-executive work that sits between them.
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April 24, 2026 · Virtova
AI governance for U.S. banks, after the FDIC years
An operator's view of AI governance in U.S. banking from someone who built the FDIC's first innovation division — what the rulebook actually asks of banks in 2026, and what to do between now and the next exam cycle.
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April 24, 2026 · Virtova
Cyber audit in the neural-net era: a strategy note
Why human-only cyber audit, built on deterministic decision trees, cannot survive AI systems that generate new workflows a million times a second, and what audit has to become before it can be trusted again.
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April 15, 2026 · Virtova
NIST AI RMF in practice: a regulated-industry playbook
How to operationalize the NIST AI Risk Management Framework in a regulated enterprise — and why treating it as a checklist is the wrong instinct.
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April 15, 2026 · Virtova
What a fractional Chief AI Officer actually does
The fractional CAIO role has outgrown the consulting-jargon phase. Here is what the job looks like inside a real engagement — and what it doesn't.
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Also by Sultan, newest first
From the Substacks.
Pulled from sultanmeghji.substack.com and substack.frontierfoundry.com, ordered by post date.
- #1 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 20, 2026
What I Learned at the White House Lunar Interoperability Forum
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 740 words - #2 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 17, 2026
Value in the Time of LLMs
Throwback Thursday: While this was released earlier this year, given the growth of our audience and the topics relevance, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it back from the archives!
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 1,025 words - #3 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 17, 2026
Reserve Capacity and the Emerging Competition Over Batteries
Throwback Thursday: While this was released in 2023, given the growth of our audience and the topics relevance, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it back from the archives!
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 1,825 words - #4 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 17, 2026
Balancing Innovation and Oversight in the Technological Era: The AI Governance Conundrum
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 1,371 words - #5 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 15, 2026
You Don't Need the GPUs They're Selling You
How an AI Infrastructure That Wastes Most of What it Computes Got Built
♥ 33 ↻ 0 restacks 4,870 words - #6 · Frontier Foundry Substack March 4, 2026
AI Giants – Complete Series Directory
A technical and financial review of five of the biggest artificial intelligence companies
♥ 17 ↻ 1 restacks 293 words - #7 · Frontier Foundry Substack February 25, 2026
The Legal AI Security Illusion: How Vendors Sell Contracts Instead of Protection
The fundamental technical risk nobody in the legal AI industry wants to talk about, and what law firms should be asking in 2026.
♥ 24 ↻ 1 restacks 4,813 words - #8 · Frontier Foundry Substack February 18, 2026
Software Will Be Free. So Why Are Banks and Hospitals Still Paying Like It's 1999?
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National security
On The SCIF.
Sultan's contributions to The SCIF, the blog of the National Security Institute at George Mason University, where he is a Fellow.
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2025 · The SCIF
NSI Experts Weigh In: The White House's 2025 National Security Strategy
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2024 · The SCIF
NSI Experts in the News — All Things National Security