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...
Last Week in AI: Wary Experts, Genesis Mission Launches, Altman's Loser Energy This week’s In the Loop captures a widening gap between AI’s momentum and confidence in its direction. From insider...
Ads that aren’t ads? “Adult” ChatGPT? Yup, AI is entering its awkward adolescence. We’re living in the golden age of AI. Not of its capabilities – that isn’t here yet. The golden age I’m talking...
Last Week in AI: Big Deals, Monetizing AI, Digital IDs Last week saw AI shift from novelty to infrastructure: collective power replacing lone heroes, standards like MCP promising interoperability,...
Last Week in AI: Code Red at OpenAI, Anthropic Emerges, AI Gets Political Last week was full of stress fractures and acceleration in AI. OpenAI called a “code red” as rivals surge, Anthropic plans an...
Last Week in AI: ChatGPT Turns 3, Sovereign AI, Poetry as Universal AI Jailbreak ChatGPT’s third birthday shows a world racing to keep up. Breakthroughs in security, “digital ghosts,” job automation,...
Why AI Still Feels Like a Genius with a Goldfish Brain AI keeps dazzling us with breakthroughs, but the longer I use these tools every single day – across clients, industries, and my own work – the...
Last Week in AI: Record Adoption, Nvidia Dominance, Lovecraftian Holiday Horrors AI adoption just hit historic highs, Nvidia crushed bubble doubts with a monster quarter, and Google’s Gemini 3 + Nano...
Agencies Used to Sell Expertise. Now They Have to Prove They Can Guide.
An agency client of mine recently got a request from one of their clients that stopped me in my tracks. Before reviewing any work, strategy, or campaign thinking, the client wanted the agency to...
Last week in AI: Indistinguishable AI Creative, Toys Behaving Badly, Agents Need Oversight Last week’s AI news shows a sector accelerating in every direction: OpenAI branching into health tools,...
