Last Week in AI: "Something Big," Claude's Philosopher, Uncanny Valentine Anthropic’s safety-first identity is under strain as researcher departures, Pentagon ties, and CEO warnings collide with...
Looking Back at the Week When Noise Became Signal Earlier this week, I sent my parents and siblings the widely shared essay by Matt Shumer called Something Big is Happening (or, “The Essay That...
Last Week in AI :AI Ads Get Super, Anthropic Rattles Wall Street, Renting Human Bodies AI's Super Bowl debut marks a cultural arrival—and a reckoning. From Anthropic's safety-versus-scale tension to...
When Faced with the Extraordinary, Why Do We Focus on the Ordinary? There’s a scene in Gabriel García Márquez’s One HundredYears of Solitude where Remedios the Beauty rises unexpectedly into the...
Last week in AI: AI-Washing, Agents Get Social, Aronofsky’s AI Revolution Last week’s AI news exposed widening cracks beneath the hype. From AI-washing and stalled mega-investments to legal scrutiny,...
Why Agencies Need AI That Knows When Humans Matter Most I was talking with a senior agency leader recently, and she said something that hit me right between the eyes. I asked her how AI adoption was...
Last week in AI: Davos Power Struggle, Policing by Algorithm, Worker Trust Erodes. Last week’s AI story was less about breakthroughs and more about consequences. Power struggles at Davos, creeping...
Last Week in AI: ChatGPT & Claude Get Healthy; AI Wage Bump; A(i)lright, A(i)lright, A(i)lright This week’s In the Loop traces AI’s shift from novelty to infrastructure—and the tension that comes...
Last Week in AI: ChatGPT Health, Grok Gets Gross, Police Frogs This week’s In the Loop traces AI’s widening impact – from OpenAI’s safety scramble and healthcare risks to Google and Meta turning AI...
AI in 2025: A Year of Tumult and Transition 2025 was the year AI grew up. Breakthroughs kept coming, but the story shifted from spectacle to substance: deployment instead of demos, governance instead...
