Alan Shimel

Customise Consent Preferences The AI buildout is the largest infrastructure bet in history. If you're a technologist, the most important thing to understand about it is where the money won't end up.

Customise Consent Preferences There is a number making the rounds right now that most of us can't really get our heads around.

Customise Consent Preferences Last year I wrote that artificial intelligence, together with social media, was contributing to what many

Customise Consent Preferences Why China's changing AI strategy may say less about China than it does about how power always reshapes openness.

Tucker Callaway sat down with Alan Shimel at PlatformCon 2026 to walk through how his team is trying to move that needle in public.

By: on When delivery falls apart, the reflex is to blame the team. Missed dates, quality slips, a burned-out squad — leadership tends to reach for a personnel fix and quietly move on.

Container image security has quietly stayed stuck on the same problem it had a decade ago.

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Customise Consent Preferences Boxtown residents James Threadford Jr. (front) and Albert Lee Wright collect firewood from a horse-drawn cart in Memphis, Tennessee, in January 1961.

The bad guys get AI too—and not only for cyberattacks.A Cambridge field study reports that Boko Haram and ISWAP used leading AI systems to troubleshoot weapons, improve explosives, modify equipment and plan attacks. The larger danger is that AI can give terrorist organizations access to technical expertise they could never recruit.We should not overstate what one qualitative study proves. But we should not wait for an AI-designed superweapon before taking the warning seriously.“AI Is Giving Terrorists the Expertise They Could Never Recruit.”[ARTICLE LINK]#AI #AISecurity #NationalSecurity #Cybersecurity