Tim Cook Steps Down Tim Cook announced yesterday that he will step down as Apple CEO on September 1. John Ternus, head of hardware engineering (and an Apple lifer since 2001), will take over. Cook will stay on as executi...

The buried story is what Apple told us about the next decade by picking Ternus: they picked an engineer. That is a strategic declaration, even if no one at Apple will say so out loud.

If You Only Read One Thing About Evals, Read This Evals are the single most important (and most misunderstood) component of any AI deployment, and they deserve a deeper look.

Every company deploying AI agents needs evaluation frameworks to grade output quality. When an agent drafts an email or generates a report, something/someone needs to decide if the result is usable. Without explicit evaluation criteria, you get technically correct outputs that feel (or are) wrong.

Opus 4.7 is Great (with One Small Issue) Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on Wednesday with impressive numbers: 10.9 percentage points higher on SWE-bench Pro (the gold-standard coding test), 3x more production tasks resolved on Rakuten’s ...

For devs, Opus 4.7 is a genuine step forward. For consumers, the story is a bit different.

Chrome Turns Your AI Prompts into One-Click Tools Google just launched Skills in Chrome, which converts your AI prompts into reusable one-click tools. Instead of retyping "make this recipe vegan" across multiple food sites, you save it as a Skill and...

Google just launched Skills in Chrome, which converts your AI prompts into reusable one-click tools.

I like this approach because it acknowledges how people use AI tools. Essentially, you are programming Chrome to repeat your most useful AI interactions without rebuilding the context each time.

The Claws Are Out: Everyone Wants to Build Your AI Agent Microsoft is exploring ways to integrate OpenClaw-style autonomous features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to The Information. Omar Shahine, a

Microsoft is exploring ways to integrate OpenClaw-style autonomous features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to The Information. Omar Shahine, a corporate VP at Microsoft, confirmed the company is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context.”

Unwinding Cultural Debt As we start to deploy enterprise-grade AI platforms at scale, leadership teams are coming face to face with two formidable challenges. The first is Technical Debt, Ward Cunningham's enduring metaphor ...

Every company has cultural debt.

Few are malicious, but all of them are expensive… and they get dramatically more expensive when they are encoded into the DNA of your hybrid human/AI workforce.

Read more at the link below.

Managed Agents Are Here Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents in public beta at eight cents per agent runtime hour plus model usage fees. Developers get sandboxed containers, authentication, checkpointing, error recovery, session persistence, and end-to-end execution tracing: every piece of infrastructure that separates a demo from a production deployment, available as a set of composable APIs.

Are managed agents the SaaS business that survives SaaSpocalypse?

The Model Too Dangerous to Release Anthropic announced that it built a model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it will not release the model to the public.

Do we let private companies own foundation models that are powerful enough to take down critical infrastructure?

Anthropic just made the case for nationalizing themselves by acting like a responsible lab.

Will other AI research firms make the same choice?

Google Just Turned AI Dictation into a Feature Google quietly launched "AI Edge Eloquent," an offline-first dictation app for iOS that cleans up your speech and removes filler words. The app uses local Gemini models to transform rambling speech in...

If any of your enterprise workflows depend on third-party AI services that big tech can easily replicate, make sure your contracts are short-term.

AI Cloned Her Voice, Then Claimed Her Songs Murphy Campbell is a folk singer from the mountains of western North Carolina. She plays banjo and dulcimer, records old Appalachian ballads (some written by distant relatives), and posts videos of he...

Murphy Campbell, a folk singer from western North Carolina with 7,800 monthly Spotify listeners, discovered someone cloned her voice, uploaded fake songs to her streaming pages, and then used copyright claims to steal revenue from her original YouTube videos.

Think about this...

Google Vids Just Became Free for Everyone Google just opened Google Vids to anyone with a Google account. The AI-powered video creation tool now lets free users generate up to 10 high-quality video clips each month using Veo 3.1. Google AI Pr...

Will free AI video generation become table stakes across the industry? This is exactly what the SaaS-pocalypse doomsayers predict.

OpenAI's Ads Are About to Talk Back OpenAI is partnering with advertising automation platform Smartly to bring conversational ads to ChatGPT. These interactive ad units will respond to users directly, turning advertisements into seconda...

If this approach gains traction, we’ll be optimizing for dialogue, not clicks, and planners and buyers will have to invent a way to negotiate conversational ad performance metrics that don’t exist yet.

Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Its Claude Code Playbook Through a packaging error, Anthropic accidentally published roughly 512,000 lines of internal source code for Claude Code, its AI coding assistant. Within hours, the code was scraped, mirrored, and sh...

For Anthropic, this incident is particularly awkward given their positioning as a safety-focused AI company. It’s not existential, but it’s another lesson on the road to AGI.

AI Calls 3,000 Irish Pubs to Track Guinness Prices Matt Cortland used AI voice cloning to call every pub in Ireland and ask about Guinness prices. His AI agent "Rachel" made more than 3,000 calls to create the "Guinndex," a real-time price tracker for...

I’m not sure how legal it would be to robocall every bar in New York, but in Dublin the economic impact was immediate.

Your Agents Need a Manager Gartner calls agent management platforms "the most valuable real estate in AI." The firm projects enterprises will spend $15 billion on this category by 2029, up from less than $5 million today. That ...

My essay explores the emerging world of "managed agents."

When your sales agent queries the CRM and your finance agent hits the ERP system, someone has to define what each can see, touch, and change.

Managed agents are about to become "the" leadership challenge of our time.

Wikipedia Just Banned AI. They're Right, but for the Wrong Reason. English Wikipedia just banned the use of large language models for writing or rewriting articles. The vote was 44-2. The policy passed a Request for Comment on March 20 and allows only two narrow exce...

Love and respect to the dedicated human wiki-police. You’re doing more important work than you know.

Claude Code Auto Mode Anthropic just shipped "auto mode" for Claude Code. According to the company, users approve 93% of permission prompts without reading them. The guardrails had become a rubber stamp, and everyone knew ...

Anthropic just shipped “auto mode” for Claude Code. According to the company, users approve 93% of permission prompts without reading them. The guardrails had become a rubber stamp, and everyone knew it.

OpenAI Kills Sora and the $1 Billion Disney Deal OpenAI announced Tuesday it's discontinuing Sora, the AI video generation tool launched at the end of 2024. The TikTok-style Sora app and API access for developers will both shut down, with no plans t...

OpenAI has not explained why it’s shuttering Sora or what (if anything) went wrong with the Disney partnership.

Claude Can Use Your Computer Just Like You Do Anthropic just launched "computer use" for Claude Code and Cowork. The feature lets Claude click, scroll, navigate, and operate apps on your Mac the way you would.

Start using computer use features slowly. It’s going to take a while to understand what agents/claws/personal AI assistants can and can’t do. More importantly, figure out what your agent(s) should and shouldn’t do.

Corporate Claws At NVIDIA GTC, after calling OpenClaw the most successful open-source project in history, Jensen Huang said that every single enterprise company and every single software company in the world needs an...

After calling OpenClaw the most successful open-source project in history, Jensen Huang said that every enterprise company and every software company in the world needs an agentic strategy, and specifically needs an OpenClaw strategy.

My Sunday essay, Corporate Claws, explains what he means.

Corporate Claws At NVIDIA GTC, after calling OpenClaw the most successful open-source project in history, Jensen Huang said that every single enterprise company and every single software company in the world needs an...

At NVIDIA GTC, after calling OpenClaw the most successful open-source project in history, Jensen Huang said that every single enterprise company and every single software company in the world needs an agentic strategy, and specifically needs an OpenClaw strategy. shellypalmer.com/2026/03/corp...

Bots Will Outnumber Humans Online by 2027 Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince just predicted that AI bot traffic will exceed human traffic online by 2027. His company powers approximately 20% of all websites and is used by approximately 80% of webs...

Bot-to-bot, agent-to-agent, claw-to-claw… call it what you will. The data says we’re headed toward an internet where machines talk primarily to other machines and humans occasionally participate.

UK Artists Win AI Copyright Battle (For Now) The UK government just backed down from its plan to let AI companies train on copyrighted works without permission. After fierce pushback from Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, and Dua Lipa, Technol...

This feels like a temporary win rather than a permanent solution. The government says it will take “the time needed” to balance artists’ wishes with AI development. That careful phrasing suggests they’re looking for a middle path that keeps both sides happy.

NemoClaw is Building the Agentic Operating System NVIDIA just released NemoClaw, an open source stack that runs OpenClaw assistants with enterprise security guardrails. This is one of the most important AI announcements of the year. When you combine ...

I’ve been watching the agentic space evolve rapidly. The shift from chatbots to autonomous assistants requires new infrastructure; NVIDIA is positioning itself as the platform provider. This move extends their GPU dominance into the software layer where AI agents actually live and work. I love it!

Google Gives Developers Cost Controls for Gemini API Google just announced Project Spend Caps, which let you set monthly dollar limits on Gemini API spending per project in AI Studio. The company also overhauled its Usage Tiers system with lower qualifi...

If you’re relying on manual tracking or honor-system budgets, Google just gave you another reason to operationalize. Today would be a good day to ask your team about how they set per-project caps, configure usage thresholds, and build cost attribution into your AI reporting.

The Recursive Advantage In the past few weeks, it has become almost impossible to keep up with all of the new features that the foundation model builders are shipping. The engineers are working so fast, by the time you confi...

AI companies are now using AI to build AI products, and the acceleration is visible in weekly release cycles that used to take months. Anthropic built its entire Cowork productivity tool using Claude in just a week and a half.

This is recursive self-improvement in practice.

Claude Now Renders Code to Help You Understand Claude has started building mini-applications right in the margins of your conversations. Anthropic rolled out a new capability that generates interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations directly...

It’s time to stop thinking in text and start thinking multi-modally!

Nvidia Just Changed the Economics of AI Agents Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Super yesterday, a 120-billion-parameter open model that activates only 12 billion parameters at inference time. The numbers matter, so let's walk through the math.

Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Super on Wednesday, a 120-billion-parameter open model that activates only 12 billion parameters at inference time. The numbers matter, so let’s walk through the math.

Amazon Puts Health AI on Everything Amazon just expanded its Health AI assistant to its main website and shopping app, making healthcare advice available to anyone with an Amazon account. The AI was previously locked inside One Medical'...

Amazon just put Health AI on its main app. No Prime required. The key difference vs. competitors: it connects to your actual medical records and doctors who can prescribe.
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Yann LeCun's $1 Billion Bet Against ChatGPT Yann LeCun just raised $1.03 billion for AMI Labs to build "world models" instead of large language models. The Turing Prize winner left Meta to pursue AI that learns from reality rather than text pat...

Yann LeCun raised $1.03B to bet against the entire generative AI playbook. AMI Labs will build "world models" that understand causality as well as of correlation. Not sure what scares me more, AI that misunderstands how the world works or AI that understands it?
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