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In the Loop: Week Ending 3/1/26

Last Week in AI: Anthropic/Pentagon Gets Real, OpenAI Swoops In, White House Hockey Deepfake Last week in AI: Anthropic and the Pentagon clash over defense use as OpenAI consolidates power in...

Dario, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

When the Government Picks an AI Model, We’ve Entered a New Era It’s been quite a week for Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic. It started last Thursday, when he and Sam Altman from OpenAI awkwardly...

In the Loop: Week Ending 2/22/26

Last Week in AI: India Takes the Stage, Anthropic/Pentagon Clash, Bernie Sounds the Alarm AI’s expansion is colliding with accountability. OpenAI faces scrutiny over energy use, safety reporting, and...

In the Loop: Week Ending 2/14/26

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...

AI Reaches the Inflection Point

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...

In the Loop: Week Ending 2/7/26

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...

AI’s Magical Realism Moment

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...

In the Loop: Week Ending 2/1/26

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,...

Flipping the Script

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...

In the Loop: Week Ending 1/25/26

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...
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