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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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Chrome Turns Your AI Prompts into One-Click Tools

Google just launched Skills in Chrome, which converts your AI prompts into reusable one-click tools. Instead of retyping "make this recipe vegan" across multiple food sites, you save it as a Skill and run it instantly on any page. You can also share these custom workflows or grab pre-built ones from Google's Skills library. Continue Reading →

The Claws Are Out: Everyone Wants to Build Your AI Agent

Microsoft is exploring ways to integrate OpenClaw-style autonomous features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to The Information. Omar Shahine, a corporate VP at Microsoft, confirmed the company is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context.” OpenClaw (356k GitHub stars) gained massive popularity earlier this year despite raising serious security concerns. Continue Reading →

Unwinding Cultural Debt

As we start to deploy enterprise-grade AI platforms at scale, leadership teams are coming face to face with two formidable challenges. The first is Technical Debt, Ward Cunningham's enduring metaphor for describing outdated technical infrastructure. The second is Cultural Debt, the sum of every unresolved habit, unexamined process, and unspoken assumption your organization carries forward because, well, this is the (your company name goes here) way. Continue Reading →

Managed Agents Are Here

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents in public beta at eight cents per agent runtime hour plus model usage fees. Developers get sandboxed containers, authentication, checkpointing, error recovery, session persistence, and end-to-end execution tracing: every piece of infrastructure that separates a demo from a production deployment, available as a set of composable APIs. Continue Reading →