Field signals and dispatches across the four pillars. Issues drop every two weeks, written for institutional readers who need to see what is changing and what is not yet visible.
NIST opened a standards process for AI agents and has published nothing enforceable; ServiceNow shipped a framework anyway, and Colorado's precise AI law was suspended the same month it was meant to take effect. Having a governance policy is not the same as having governance capacity.
Read Issue 013 →Horizon Searchlight publishes every other Friday, one tight thread grounded in a recent signal across HSI's four pillars. Issues 001 through 009, published weekly between February and April 2026, predate the current format and are preserved below as part of the editorial record.
Horizon Searchlight is HSI's editorial voice. Each issue draws a single tight thread, often grounded in a recent regulatory move, market signal, or institutional decision. The goal is not breadth. The goal is to surface one thing that matters and make sense of it.
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