Anthropic yesterday released Claude Opus 4.8, which the company calls it "a modest but tangible improvement" over Opus 4.7. When a vendor undersells its own launch, pay attention to which number it is quietly proud of. Continue Reading →
Helping business leaders drive AI transformation.
We feel privileged to work with extraordinary companies, including:
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.
His latest book, Blockchain - Cryptocurrency, NFTs & Smart Contracts: An executive guide to the world of decentralized finance, is an Amazon #1 Bestseller.
Shelly's Blog
Shelly writes about AI, technology, media, and marketing. Subscribe to our newsletter to make sure you don't miss anything.
Amazon Web Services just announced the Agentic Shopping Assistant (ASA): a packaged version of the technology behind Amazon's own shopping assistant, now offered to other retailers. The service lets competitors launch their own AI shopping assistants in about 60 days using Amazon's architecture, starter code, and AWS engineers. Continue Reading →
Researchers at X41 D-Sec disclosed "BadHost," a critical vulnerability in Starlette, the open-source Python framework embedded into roughly 325 million new software builds every week. If your enterprise has stood up an AI agent in the last 18 months, some part of the stack runs on Starlette. Continue Reading →
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a website this week asking Americans to report data center concerns in their communities. She's positioning herself as the voice against AI infrastructure expansion across the United States. Continue Reading →