# ground level ai (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ground level ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [TG-AI-F: The AI data center backlash is on parade](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/tg-ai-f-the-ai-data-center-backlash) _2026-08-21 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ Last September, I stood with Sam Altman and politicians celebrating the massive AI buildout in Texas — and wondered when the public would start paying attention. What a difference a year makes. ## [AI research is running into a security problem](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/ai-research-is-running-into-a-security) _2026-08-20 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ OpenAI has slowed frontier model development as it hardens the environments where increasingly capable agents are trained, raising new questions about where AI research ends and cybersecurity begins. ## [🎙️ Ground Level AI Podcast | Jason Del Rey on why AI shopping is having a reality check](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/ground-level-ai-podcast-jason-del) _2026-08-19 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211706199/b4e95e8a99bec671cd00b2c38296cba5.mp3) ## [I am exhausted by the AI industry’s permanent state of prophecy](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/i-am-exhausted-by-the-ai-industrys) _2026-08-17 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/tg-ai-f-five-ai-stories-from-this-ef8) _2026-08-14 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/jll-says-community-pushback-is-now) _2026-08-13 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/the-ai-coding-agent-hangover-has) _2026-08-10 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/tg-ai-f-why-openais-hugging-face) _2026-08-07 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/openai-gives-first-detailed-debrief) _2026-08-05 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/the-six-months-that-changed-ai) _2026-08-03 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level 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. ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SNzlHtTYnvkn) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [TG-AI-F: Five AI stories from this week I'm still thinking about](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/tg-ai-f-five-ai-stories-from-this-9df) _2026-07-31 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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](https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/the-ai-talent-wars-have-a-new-front) _2026-07-30 · Sharon Goldman · Ground Level AI_ 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.