My final story for Fortune as a staffer is the last of four deep-dives I reported on the ground about communities grappling with the AI data center boom: Two mayors, one $10 billion AI data center, and a growing divide in small-town Texas fortune.com/2026/06/16/a...
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Two mayors, one $10 billion AI data center, and a growing divide in small-town Texas | Fortune fortune.com
The fight over open models has entered a new phase groundlevel-ai.com
The OpenAI Hugging Face breach changes a core assumption: AI models must be treated as potential adversaries groundlevel-ai.com
America's AI race is being fought on two fronts groundlevel-ai.com
EXCLUSIVE: Meta's mega Louisiana data center is getting even bigger. Six months after my visit, I checked in with local residents groundlevel-ai.com
The mutual blindness behind the AI backlash groundlevel-ai.com
AI needs a 'Stargate for Data,' a new viral essay argues. Here's what made my eyes bug out groundlevel-ai.com
The US wants Anthropic to secure its most powerful AI models. But one researcher says that is mathematically impossible groundlevel-ai.com
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This weekend I revisited something I wrote back in my @VentureBeat days, right after OpenAI’s GPT-4 was released. It's amazing how much the AI industry's conversation about openness has changed in just three years... open.substack.com/pub/sharongo...
The OpenAI Hugging Face breach changes a core assumption: AI models must be treated as potential adversaries “It’s such a visceral example of how different the world is now,” he said. “There was no attacker. The agent has become a malicious insider.” www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/t…
Question for the AI policy and infrastructure crowd: Is the debate over U.S. AI competitiveness too focused on chips and models, rather than the politics of building AI infrastructure? That's the argument I explore in my latest essay for Ground Level AI: www.groundlevel-ai.com…
As Meta's AI data center campus grows from $27 billion to $50 billion, I checked back with the residents and entrepreneurs I met in February. Some are thriving. Others are struggling more than ever. www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/exclusive-...
The people building AI and using it every day are experiencing a different reality from the people who resist it or simply don't use it. That growing disconnect, I believe, is helping fuel a backlash that isn't going away. open.substack.com/pub/sharongo...
AI needs a 'Stargate for Data'? A new viral essay from OpenAI researcher Will DePue argues AI's next bottleneck is data. Proposed fixes include buying companies purely for their data, and getting firms to stop deleting theirs. Here's what made my eyes bug out: www.groundlevel-…
The US wants Anthropic to secure its most powerful AI models. But one researcher says that is mathematically impossible open.substack.com/pub/sharongo...
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1/ One interesting ripple from today's news that Citadel bought Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness stock portfolio: I'm told the fund attracted significant participation from people across the AI industry, including a number of Anthropic employees, often through SPVs.
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