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About Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at the Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with tech strategy & solutions.
Named LinkedIn's Top Voice in Technology, he covers tech and business for Fox 5's Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog, Think About This.

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Stop Grading Your AI on Benchmarks

Which frontier model is at the top of the AI benchmark leaderboard was the right question when a model was a tool a person picked up, used, and put down. It is the wrong question now that workflows and agents autonomously use models, have credentials, tools, and network access. Worse, the wrong question quickly compounds into the wrong architecture, the wrong contracts, and the wrong org chart. Let's explore. Continue Reading →

Suno Gets Responsible

Suno CEO Mikey Shulman published a post titled "How We're Building the Future of Music Responsibly." The post announces updated community guidelines that explicitly prohibit recreating existing songs and cloning voices without permission, audio watermarking and fingerprinting rolling out in the coming weeks, content screening through Audible Magic and Musixmatch, and a new downloads policy designed to limit mass distribution of AI tracks to streaming services. Continue Reading →

Meta Muse Code Arrives with a Coupon

Meta yesterday released Muse Code, its first coding agent, alongside a new model called Muse Spark 1.2. Muse Code is a terminal tool that installs with one command and handles full software engineering tasks: planning, writing, and validating. It is the first shipped product from Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta in June 2025 as the face of Zuckerberg's attempt to rescue a stalled AI effort. Continue Reading →

The AI Rules You Can’t Read

The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources told Axios. That means the government has written the standard by which the most powerful systems in the world will be judged and shared it only with the companies invited into the room. Continue Reading →