The AI Race Just Entered Its Profitability Era
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.
Articles by Alan Shimel
The Autonomous Enterprise Finally Gets a Real Operating Model
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.
The AI Industry Is Rediscovering Systems Engineering
The companies that ultimately win the enterprise AI market may not necessarily be the ones with the smartest models. Those models are increasingly becoming accessible commodities. The bigger challenge is operationalizing institutional knowledge in ways enterprises can trust.
Open Source is Trying to Stop AI Lock-In Before it Happens
The fight over AI infrastructure will not be decided by models alone. It will be decided by who controls orchestration, governance, execution and interoperability. Detailed analysis of the emerging enterprise risk around AI infrastructure lock-in, highlighting why open standards and open source control planes are essential to preserving long-term operational leverage.
In an AI Minute: The Real Challenge of the AI Era Is Time
I’ve spent much of the last month traveling, often in […]
Has AI Gotten Out Ahead of Its Skis?
AI is accelerating fast, but its economics, infrastructure, and financing are all showing strain. The issue isn’t whether AI works. It’s whether everything required to support it can keep up.
Einstein, AI and Time Dilation
AI acceleration isn’t just speeding things up. It’s creating a widening gap between those operating on AI time and those still stuck on human time.
The Jagged Peaks and Valleys of AI Intelligence
AI can solve Olympiad-level math problems and write production code in seconds. Yet the same system can fail at questions a human child would answer without thinking. That contradiction tells us something important about what AI really is.
Hello God, It’s Me, Claude
Anthropic’s summit with Christian leaders suggests that even the engineers building the most advanced AI systems may be searching for moral guidance outside Silicon Valley.
The Prophet of AI: The Many Faces of Sam Altman
Builder, messenger, lightning rod. As artificial intelligence (AI) moves from […]
