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Sunday Essay — Singapore's Rulebook for Agentic Finance
Singapore's Monetary Authority has published the first regulator-authored document to name, at runtime, the exact control gates between an autonomous agent's proposed action and a live ledger. SAFR's policy engine, runtime validator, and append-only audit ledger are not aspirational — they map onto what DBS and Grab Finance already run in production. For model risk officers from Jakarta to Frankfurt, this is the document to read before the vendor decks arrive.
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Both regulators blinked — and the gap sits exactly where the agents live
Two of the most consequential financial supervisors stepped back from AI oversight inside eight weeks — and the retreat lands precisely on the generative and agentic systems that worry me most. The regulators blinked. The risk didn't even slow down.
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Sunday Essay — Two Models, One Mistake: Notes on the Evaluator-Optimizer Pattern After PocketOS
The failure was never the bad command. It was the absence of a check between the command and the consequence. The evaluator-optimizer pattern is barely an idea—but it is the one still running on Monday morning.
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