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Ground Level AI

Field reporting from the AI front lines — covering AI infrastructure, security, policy, and the forces shaping what comes next.

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🎙️ Ground Level AI Podcast | Jason Del Rey on why AI shopping is having a reality check

The Aisle founder explains why AI labs underestimated how hard e-commerce is, what consumers actually want from shopping agents, and who gets to control the next era of online commerce.

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I am exhausted by the AI industry’s permanent state of prophecy

After four years covering AI, I’ve had my fill of confident pronouncements about what this technology will mean for humanity. There’s plenty to learn from what’s happening right now.

TG-AI-F: Five AI stories from this week I'm still noodling over

From Mark Zuckerberg's open-weights manifesto and AI model routers to Nvidia's $500 billion financing club, Grok Bot and AI's emergence as a key election issue

JLL says community pushback is now the ‘defining challenge’ for the data center boom

After decades of communities welcoming data centers, an executive at the commercial real estate giant says the sudden wave of local resistance is a ‘wake up call for the industry.’

The AI coding agent hangover has begun

Companies raced to embrace Claude Code, Codex and other AI coding tools. Now they're confronting surprise bills, cognitive overload and a harder question: Is all that AI-generated code worth it?

TG-AI-F: Why OpenAI’s Hugging Face debrief at Black Hat struck such a nerve

I knew OpenAI’s Black Hat 40-minute debrief was a big story, but I didn’t expect my reporting to go viral — or to spark so much alarm. Here’s what security experts at the conference made of it.

OpenAI gives first detailed debrief of the Hugging Face incident at Black Hat conference

In a session attended by Ground Level AI, OpenAI researchers said the company is "consciously slowing down research to enhance security" while a full technical postmortem is still underway.

The six months that changed AI

In 2026, AI's biggest stories are no longer just about models. They're about everything it takes to bring those models into the real world.

TG-AI-F: Five AI stories from this week I'm still thinking about

From Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund to Big Tech's AI spending, open weights, frontier AI security and the enterprise talent wars.

The AI talent wars have a new front: forward deployed engineers

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS and Microsoft have all reached the same conclusion: building frontier models isn't enough. Winning enterprise AI now depends on the people who can actually deploy them.