Is It AGI, or Is It Memorex?
OpenAI’s Astra has reignited the argument over artificial general intelligence. For users, the more consequential questions concern capability, trust and control.
Articles by Alan Shimel
Does Copyright Law Lose to National Security?
Washington says access to copyrighted material may be necessary for America to win the AI race. If so, why are publishers and creators expected to finance it?
The Singularity Has Entered the Indispensability Trap
Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel are right that humans created this AI reckoning. But their article mistakes the excesses of today’s buildout for the permanent shape of the future.
PINNACLE Measures the Work, Not the Model
Signal65’s PINNACLE benchmark moves the argument from abstract intelligence and […]
Train as We Say, Not as We Do
Anthropic says Chinese AI labs improperly used Claude’s outputs to train competing models. Now music publishers accuse Anthropic of building Claude with copyrighted works acquired through torrents and scraping. The legal claims differ, but the contradiction is becoming difficult to ignore.
NVIDIA Is the Beating Heart of AI
A few days ago, I came across an Electronics Weekly […]
Nvidia’s New AI Takeover Playbook
Nvidia’s reported Poolside deal reveals an emerging AI strategy: license strategic technology, hire the team behind it and expand across the AI stack without acquiring the entire company.
The AI Future Everyone’s Arguing About Isn’t a Technology Question. It’s an Ownership One
Virginia spent twenty years courting data centers. This June it […]
The Agentic Era Demands an AI Governance Control Plane
AI governance is shifting from policies and committees to enforceable runtime control. As autonomous agents gain access to data, tools and transactions, enterprises need a governance control plane that preserves visibility, limits permissions and keeps humans accountable.
What Is an AI Builder? How AI Is Changing Who Can Build
Hello, my name is Alan, and I am an AI […]
