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The Searchlight

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.

CadenceBiweekly
FormatEditorial brief
DistributionEmail + Web
Editor-in-ChiefDavid Lovejoy
Latest Issue · May 8, 2026
Issue 010

The AI Coverage Cliff: What 2026 Renewals Will Reveal

AI-related lawsuits and regulatory penalties are landing on companies that assumed their existing liability insurance covered them. It does not anymore. Coverage now turns on whether a company can prove its AI is governed, and most companies will discover this at renewal.

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Pillar I · Responsible AI
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A note on cadence

Issue 010 marks The Searchlight's first issue on a biweekly schedule and within HSI's editorial framework. Issues 001 through 009 published weekly between February and April 2026 under The Searchlight's previous editorial format and are preserved below in the editorial record.

Going forward, every issue arrives on a Friday, every two weeks, with a single tight thread grounded in a recent signal across the four pillars.

Issue archive

11 issues · Updated May 7, 2026
011
Pillar I · Responsible AI
Forthcoming Friday, May 22, 2026
Issue 011 publishes on the biweekly cadence. Topic and deck announced ahead of release.
Upcoming May 22, 2026
010
Pillar I · Responsible AI
Inaugural issue under the new biweekly cadence and HSI editorial framework.
Friday May 8, 2026
009
Pillar IV · Governance & Diplomacy
72% of enterprises say they govern AI. 43% can name the owner. The S&P 500 discloses AI risk at 83% and seats AI expertise on 2.7% of boards.
April 24, 2026
008
Pillar I · Responsible AI
Anthropic moved its largest customers to per-token billing the same week Stanford documented the widest confidence gap yet between AI experts and the public.
April 17, 2026
007
Pillar I · Responsible AI
Meta launched a proprietary model this week. Every company that built on Llama needs a new plan.
April 10, 2026
006
Pillar I · Responsible AI
A federal court ruled AI safety restrictions are protected speech. With frontier models converging on performance, the procurement decision just shifted from capability to vendor risk posture.
April 3, 2026
005
Pillar I · Responsible AI
OpenAI's Sora collapse, MCP's infrastructure milestone, and NVIDIA's agent push reveal which AI bets survive contact with real economics.
March 27, 2026
004
Pillar I · Responsible AI
Adecco locks in unlimited agentic AI. Atlassian cuts 1,600 to fund its pivot. The pricing floor for enterprise AI is being set now.
March 13, 2026
003
Pillar I · Responsible AI
The agent platform layer is fragmenting along trust lines. The operator playbook for navigating what's next.
March 6, 2026
002
Pillar I · Responsible AI
Retool data says 35% of teams replaced SaaS with custom builds. The decision rubric operators need this week.
February 27, 2026
001
Pillar I · Responsible AI
Enterprise AI agents broke the SaaS pricing model. This briefing on what to build, buy, and avoid.
February 20, 2026
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What The Searchlight does

The 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.

Every issue is grounded in HSI's four pillars — Responsible AI, Human Performance, Planetary Futures, and Governance & Diplomacy — and contributes to the Institute's wider research record. The strongest signals migrate into HSI Briefs and Horizon Scans for fuller treatment.

The Searchlight is editorially independent. Patrons and partners support HSI's mission but do not direct editorial judgment, review issues prior to publication, or receive editorial input.

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The team behind The Searchlight

Editor-in-Chief
David Lovejoy
Founding Executive Director, Horizon Search Institute
Managing Editor
Cynthia Chen
Editorial Associate, Horizon Search Institute
Contributors
Ashwin Telang · Hernando Liu
Research & Editorial Associates, Horizon Search Institute
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