Friday Five — February 20, 2026

Red Hat's introduction of the Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool to help organizations assess their sovereignty marks a significant step in enabling businesses to take control of their workload deployments. This means that website owners can now better evaluate their ability to make choices about where and how they run their workloads, which can have implications for their AI bot traffic and content policies. With the increasing importance of data sovereignty, website owners need to consider how their AI-powered systems and tools are deployed and managed, and how this affects their overall strategy. To effectively manage their AI bot traffic and ensure compliance with their content policies, website owners can take the following actionable steps: review their current workload deployments and assess their sovereignty using the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool, update their llms.txt files to reflect any changes in their workload deployments, and monitor their AI bot traffic to ensure it aligns with their sovereignty strategy and content policies.