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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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The AI Slowdown Is a Sales Pitch

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay this month titled "We Must Pace the Frontier." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman replied, "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier." Elon Musk added, "Dario is right." Even though nothing is stopping, the three men who are most likely to get us to AGI (artificial general intelligence) and beyond say they want governments to slow them down. Continue Reading →

Meta is Putting a Checkout Counter on Your Face

Meta Connect 2026 produced the usual parade of hardware: Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses starting at $449, camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio frames starting at $349, $1,299 Meta VR Glasses tethered to a pocketable computing puck, and a pocket-sized Muse Charm that looks like a Tamagotchi. I'll let the interweb review the hardware for you; I'm going to concentrate on Muse, Meta's personal agent. Continue Reading →