Alan Shimel

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What if Anthropic is Right?

June 11, 2026

Anthropic’s AI pause proposal raises a deeper question: can humanity cooperate to govern AI when every competitor believes it can win?

AI infrastructure, AI, environmental,

AI Down on the Bayou

June 2, 2026

Meta’s Hyperion project may bring hope and investment to a struggling Louisiana parish, but it also reveals how AI infrastructure is rewriting the rules of economic development, energy consumption and political influence.

The Hatfields and McCoys of AI Politics

June 1, 2026

Anthropic’s super PAC and OpenAI’s super PAC are spending a combined fortune fighting each other in the midterms. The policy argument underneath is real. The feud has swallowed it whole.

The AI Race Comes to Rural America

June 1, 2026

A proposed gigawatt-scale AI data center in a Montana town of 140 people shows why the next phase of the AI race gets won or lost on power, land and community trust, not on benchmark scores.

The Tortoise and the Hare, AI Style Revisited

May 29, 2026

The AI race is shifting from viral hype to enterprise economics. Anthropic’s massive valuation growth proves that trust, sustainability, and clear ROI are challenging OpenAI’s early consumer lead.

When the Pope, the Rabbis, the Monks and the AI Labs Start Having the Same Conversation, Pay Attention

May 26, 2026

The reason isn’t that AI has become a religious issue. It is that AI is increasingly becoming a human issue. The debate is moving beyond coding assistants, content generation and productivity gains into questions of meaning, work, authority, morality and the future organization of society itself. Those subjects have historically been the domain of religion, philosophy and culture. What’s striking about Magnifica Humanitas is that it is not an anti-technology document. Pope Leo acknowledges the potential benefits of AI and repeatedly emphasizes that technology itself is not the problem. His concern is what happens if societies become organized around machine efficiency rather than human flourishing.

anthropic, ai economics,

The AI Race Just Entered Its Profitability Era

May 25, 2026

Anthropic’s reported profitability isn’t just a milestone for one AI company. It may mark the moment the industry shifts from competing on intelligence to competing on economics.

The Autonomous Enterprise Finally Gets a Real Operating Model

May 21, 2026

While newcomers scramble to rebrand around ChatGPT, Automation Anywhere leans on two decades of enterprise reality to introduce Agentic Process Automation (APA). This coverage of Imagine 2026 cuts through the standard artificial intelligence hype, delivering Mihir Shukla’s disruptive blueprint for the “Autonomous Enterprise”: automate 80% of operations, triple employee productivity, and break the bloated SaaS seat-licensing model entirely.

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