SUMMARY: Steven Walchek, CEO at Liminal, discusses secure AI enablement for regulated industries and why most enterprises are stuck in perpetual AI pilots. We explore the "agentic cliff" and how Behavioral Agent Automation Platforms (BAAPs) discover and deploy agents by observing how work actually happens.

SHOW: 1046

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1046 Transcript

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RESOURCES:

• Liminal AI
• Steven Walchek - LinkedIn

KEY TOPICS:

• Horizontal security for generative AI
• Data privacy and compliance in AI
• Security layers in AI deployment
• Agentic AI and behavioral automation
• Future industry trends in AI security

TAKEAWAYS

• Security for AI must be integrated at the application layer, not just network or perimeter.
• Data privacy concerns are central to AI adoption in regulated industries.
• Organizations need a security layer that supports multi-model, multi-provider AI engagement.
• Behavioral automation and agentic AI require observability and policy enforcement.
• The AI industry is still in early adoption, with significant growth expected in the next five years.

CHAPTERS/TOPICS:

00:00 Introduction and guest introduction

02:09 Steven's background and journey in tech

03:54 The core problem of AI security in regulated industries

07:45 Data privacy concerns and industry challenges

12:01 Liminal's approach to AI security and compliance

15:52 Security at the application layer and network layer

20:02 Agentic AI, behavioral automation, and observability

30:04 Future trends and industry outlook

31:46 How to connect with Liminal and closing remarks

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SUMMARY: On today’s "Models and Markets" - we explore about the FinOps experience from Cloud is having to adapt to the changing demands of Enterprise AI. 

SHOW: 1045

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1045 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic: Finops for AI?

• Why now? Cost of tokens goes up as model performance increases, but still needs subsidies…
• Past: FinOps for Cloud - prices grew out of control, needed centralization for expense management and capital allocation
• Present: TokenMaxxing, the move from per-seat to per-token pricing
• Future: What happens when you can’t afford the Ferrari anymore? Will there be a glut of FinOps for AI startups? What happens when usage is regulated and centralized?

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SUMMARY: Something new - "Models and Markets" - Aaron and Brian explore how recent news and macro trends are causing more companies to explore whether they should Buy, Build or Rent their AI future. 

SHOW: 1044

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1044 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic: Own AI or Rent AI?

• Why now? Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 get restricted in the US
• Past: Private Cloud (on-prem/server huggers) vs. Public cloud vs. *gasp* hybrid cloud
• Present: OSS Models vs. Big API models
• Future: What happens when the subsidies go away, and rational business practices hit the industry??

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SUMMARY: While we spend a lot of time discussing AI models, we don’t always spend enough time on the challenges of managing the unstructured data used to train, tune, and enable those models. 

SHOW: 1043

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1043 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and where you focus today at Nasuni

Topic 2 - We’ve spent two years talking about models. Are we finally entering the era where the biggest differentiator is data quality rather than model quality?

Topic 3 - When customers inventory their AI-ready data, what surprises them most?

Topic 4 - Where is the intersection of file data, metadata, and RAG systems that augment a company’s AI experience with their own data?

Topic 5 - People talk about AI governance, but isn’t most AI governance actually data governance?

Topic 6 - Are today’s enterprise file systems designed for machine consumers (AI Agents) instead of human consumers?

Topic 7 - What are the economics of data, in your world, as it relates to AI?

Topic 8 - What’s next for enterprise file platforms?

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SUMMARY: Are CEO's frustrated with the lack of control, costs and sovereignty of their AI environments? 

SHOW: 1042

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1042 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

• Palantir and NVIDIA partnership (June 2026) - first 11 minutes
• Palantir CEO (Alex Karp) on CNBC
• “The VPC Privacy Illusion - Why Private LLMs still expose your data”
• The biggest mistake organizations make isn’t choosing the right model, it’s focusing on models at all (via LinkedIn)

1. There’s a level of unhappiness and distrust of the frontier labs from CEOs
2. There needs to be an application layer on top of LLMs (e.g. “harness”, Palantir Ontology)
3. This application layer prevents the LLMs from learning your business from your data
4. “Alpha” is business differentiation (ability to outperform the market)
5. He questions why the frontier model labs are charging by tokens and not outcomes (questions the entire AI business model)
6. He questions “the true cost” of AI outputs 
7. He claims that CEOs are now concerned about frontier labs entering the business of the customers - brings up an interesting misunderstanding of how interacting with LLMs works (“we’re safe, it’s deployed in our VPC”)

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SUMMARY:  Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Aron Delp (@aarondelp) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the month of June, 2026. 

SHOW: 1041

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1041 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

• Links to all the AI News covered in this month’s show

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SUMMARY: As AI within the Enterprise matures, we look at 10 concerns and challenges that are still causing Chief AI Officers to worry about success in the future. 

SHOW: 1040

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1040 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/RyB4m17YK_4

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SHOW NOTES:

THESIS: After spending time with a number of Enterprise companies, what are a list of challenges and concerns they still have in implementing GenAI across a broad set of use-cases within the Financial Services industry?

1. Everybody started with what was available (e.g. CoPilot)
2. Enterprise implementations (now) aren’t autonomous
3. Rising costs are the looming concern
4. Governance is a rising concern
5. Measurements of improvement are available, but varied
6. Explaining measurements is complicated
7. Explaining trust is more complicated
8. Use-cases are fragmented, but there if you apply the technology, but not always obvious
9. De-centralized (shadow AI) to Centralized to De-centralized (semi-controlled) 
10. The learning curves are very asymmetrical across teams
11. Not everyone has access to Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber (yet)

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SUMMARY: What does a Forward-Deployed Engineer actually do? And what about deploying AI Harness? Let’s dig into the real-world with these evolving AI concepts and technologies. 

SHOW: 1039

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1039 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/QY0fqu2O84M

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SHOW NOTES:

• Mozilla Thunderbolt launched 
• Mozilla Thunderbolt (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the role of Forward Deployed Engineer, it’s being talked about a lot, but you’re living in that world now. What problems are FDEs usually tasked with trying to solve, or new things to implement?

Topic 3 - We’ve seen other roles (DevOps, PlatformEng, etc.) that evolved from other roles or skills. What type of background lends itself to success in FDE? What skills are needed going forward?

Topic 4 - You’re also working on some AI harness implementations. What can you tell us about those challenges and the technologies behind the harness?

Topic 5 - At what point does an AI harness make sense for a company? What types of AI challenges typically require those next steps? 

Topic 6 - Working in the middle of this evolving AI space, what are some perspectives you’ve gained over the last 6-12 months? What do you wish you knew ahead of time? 

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SUMMARY: On Father's Day, how would you explain some of the volatility of the AI market to your father? What advice might he give you to navigate the ups and downs and uncertainties?

SHOW: 1038

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1038 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/T2ZIYLpl_cE

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SHOW NOTES:

• Leaked documents show OpenAI is losing billions
• Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models banned from non-US foreign nationals
• The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
• Professors says AI-related job losses are inevitable

THESIS: On this Father’s Day, with an AI market that often times doesn’t make any sense, I thought about the type of advice that my father gave me over the years and how it would apply to this time of significant change.  

• Show up, keep up and shut up
• Make yourself invaluable
• Focus on what you can control
• Be an expert in something
• When in doubt, get closer to people and how money is made
• When things don’t make sense, focus on fundamentals
• Markets can be irrational way longer than you can be solvent
• Try and think a couple steps ahead

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SUMMARY: As tools like Mythos create new AI-cybersecurity concerns, CIOs and CISOs need to be prepared for two challenges: Security Remediation and Patch to Production acceleration. 

SHOW: 1037

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1037 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/H5KxoiEIfUo

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SHOW NOTES:

• Project Lightwell (Red Hat and IBM)
• Athena (Chainguard)
• Anthropic Project Glasswing
• OpenAI GPT 5.5-Cyber

THESIS: Major initiatives are forming to help enterprise organizations combat security vulnerability threats found or created using new AI-cyber tools such as Anthropic Mythos. What are the key considerations, and what additional steps do organizations need to take to be advantaged by these capabilities? 

Part 1

• The Breaking Point and the Mythos Moment
• The scope of open source security and support
• Patches, disclosures and upstream open source
• Clearinghouses, EOs, Laws and Communities
• Remediation - Build vs. Buy

Part 2

• How fast can you get from Patch to Production?
• Mitigation before patching
• Fast path and stable patch pipelines?
• Automation in patching vs. automation in deployment

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SUMMARY: How can CIOs balance innovation and control as they roll our AI capabilities across their organization. How can they balance onboarding, experience, security and flexibility? 

SHOW: 1036

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1036 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ZgkMF7G3Yfo

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SHOW NOTES:

• Andy Weir (The Martian) on Eps. 193
• Systems of Record Won the SaaS Era - Clearinghouses Will Win the Agents Era
• Harness Engineering is where Enterprise AI becomes real

THESIS: It comes up as different control points, but CIOs are ultimately trying to figure out how to get the value from Enterprise AI while delivering a set of consistency across different teams and use-cases. Let’s explore what this “Enterprise Harness” is starting to look like. 

• Enterprise Clearinghouse 
• Enterprise Intelligence (a.k.a. Middleware)
• Enterprise Catalog - Models as a Service, Agents as a Service
• Enterprise Skills or Shareable Prompt Harnesses
• Symantec Routing to Models
• AI Gateway Controls

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