Alan Shimel

If the artificial intelligence industry were pitched as a television […]

Zuckerberg is right that concentrated AI power is dangerous. He is also arguing from a position, not a principle, and Meta has switched sides on this question before.

The AI industry spent the past three years convincing Corporate […]

NVIDIA may guarantee the financing that allows OpenAI to buy more NVIDIA systems. Oracle is already lending OpenAI its creditworthiness. SoftBank, Japan and the U.S. government are now woven into the same Ohio megaproject. The financially weakest company in the web may be becoming the one no one can afford to let fail.

Sam Altman turned a human containment failure into evidence that OpenAI had ushered humanity into the singularity. The models are powerful, the breach is serious and the accountability questions are far more immediate than the mythology.

NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI support open-weight AI—but each wants openness in someone else’s layer. The Indispensability Trap explains why.

A few days ago, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Palantir and […]

AI coding agents are not eliminating software development. They are eliminating the entry-level jobs through which the next generation learns how to become software engineers.

OpenAI and Anthropic have legitimate complaints about Chinese distillation. But restricting open models could protect their tollbooths, isolate American developers and spring the indispensability trap that was inevitable from the moment AI became essential infrastructure.

Google’s AI is consuming the open web while cutting off the traffic that sustains it. Now publishers, agencies, vendors—and even readers—must renegotiate relationships built for an internet that no longer exists.