What does digital sovereignty actually mean when most AI runs on someone else's black box? In this episode of Technically Speaking, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright talks with Jered Floyd from the Red Hat Field CTO team about what sovereignty really requires in the age of AI infrastructure.

They examine the four pillars of modern sovereign operations: data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, technology sovereignty, and assurance sovereignty. Along the way, Chris and Jered also take on a common misconception: that digital sovereignty is just a compliance checkbox, solved by hosting data in the right region. Real sovereignty is about control, autonomy, and resiliency across your entire stack, not just where your data sits.

The discussion also gets into why this has become urgent in just the last year or so, and why open source is turning out to be one of the few real paths to keeping that control. Tune in to hear why smaller, open-weight models are challenging massive black-box AI infrastructure, and how organizations can prepare for upcoming regulatory compliance boundaries, like the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), within next-generation agentic workflows.

If you're thinking about how much of your AI stack you actually own versus rent, this one's worth your time.