Alan Shimel

Published On: August 17, 2026 TL;DR — Key Takeaways Nine PBS legally owned more than 50TB of archival material but still needed court intervention to regain access after its storage provider stopped responding.

Hello, my name is Alan, and I am an AI builder. I mean that literally. I have used AI to design and build websites.

Customise Consent Preferences The first era of AI governance gave us principles, policies and committees.

Published On: August 18, 2026 TL;DR — Key Takeaways Humanoid robotics is progressing quickly , but impressive demonstrations do not necessarily translate into reliable, commercially viable workers.

Customise Consent Preferences TL;DR — Key Takeaways Kubeflow has graduated from the CNCF, reaching the foundation's highest maturity level after years of development and enterprise adoption.

Customise Consent Preferences Virginia spent twenty years courting data centers. This June it started taxing their electricity instead.

The market has arrived. The money, customers, government incentives, cloud services, acquisitions and corporate quantum programs are all real. The generally useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer they are preparing for is not.

Published On: August 24, 2026 TL;DR — Key Takeaways A quantum processor is not a complete quantum computer.

Customise Consent Preferences There is a new kind of takeover emerging in the AI industry. The buyer does not actually buy the company.

Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and a growing field of challengers are competing to define the future of software development.