Something goes wrong in production, someone senior asks \"walk me through exactly why the AI did that\" — and the room goes quiet. That silence is the most expensive sound in enterprise AI right now. This week, the tested read on the two least exciting words in the whole stack — governance and observability — and why the part nobody demos is the part that ends careers.
This episode of Above the Noise — the unbiased AI brief for enterprise leaders:
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Topics covered: AI governance, AI observability, EU AI Act, high-risk AI, Article 12 logging, SR 11-7, OCC Bulletin 2026-13, model risk management, FINRA generative AI, AI audit trail, agentic AI, LLM observability, OpenTelemetry, regulated industries, enterprise AI strategy
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