“Sumawka Caller”

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece today with a title that tells you where we are. “The AI backlash is starting to sting.” For a couple of years the big AI companies could wave off the anger. A protest here, a worried column there — easy to ignore when the money’s pouring in and…

Let me tell you about a week where two things happened that don’t fit in the same world and yet they landed in the same seven days. A man named Adam Field said the sharpest thing I’ve heard all month. He is the chief AI officer at a company that serves twenty-five thousand organizations —…

A top engineer at IBM just wrote something true, and I want to build the floor underneath it. His name is Vincent Hsu. He is a CTO at IBM Storage — a real builder, not a talker. And he laid out a problem most people never see. When an AI works, it builds up context….

The tools where never the problem. A software CEO just told everyone to stop buying software. His name is Rich Veldran. He runs GoTo — an IT and communications company that sells tools for a living. So when a man like that stands up and says the tools are not the problem, you ought to…

Tony Fadell knows what a platform war looks like. He’s started a few. He built the iPod. He was one of the fathers of the iPhone. He founded Nest and put a learning thermostat on a million walls. When a man with that résumé writes a column predicting the next war, you read it. His…

There’s a new chore in the American workweek, and most people doing it don’t have a name for it yet. The researchers do. They call it botsitting. Glean’s Work AI Institute — working with academics from Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard — surveyed six thousand office workers across three countries this year. What they found should…

On June 19, I published a post called “The Machine Can Reason. That’s Not the Same Thing as Feeling It.” On July 19 — one month later, to the day — two philosophers published an essay in The Guardian asking the world’s biggest newspaper audience: could AI be conscious? I want to walk you through…

Two numbers came out of a survey this spring, and they tell you everything about where this industry stands. Ninety-six percent of enterprises are already using AI agents. Twelve percent have a centralized platform to govern them. “And in all that counting, nobody counted you.” That’s from OutSystems, who asked 1,900 IT leaders around the…

The grades came out this month. Not for students. For the companies building artificial intelligence. An independent panel — seven experts from universities on three continents — graded the nine biggest AI developers on safety. Thirty-seven measures. Six categories. Real homework. You want to know the best grade anybody earned? C+. That’s it. That’s the…

This showed up in the trade press this week. TechRadar Pro ran a piece on enterprise AI governance. The headline said most of it is already out of date. I read the whole thing twice. And I want to walk you through what it actually said. Because buried in the middle of it is a…