Notes from inside the industry.
Thoughts on AI in chemical distribution: what's working, what to skip, and how operators are putting it to use.
Latest posts.
- July 16, 2026
Anthropic's Claude for Teachers launch
Anthropic is giving Claude to every K-12 teacher for free, the same land grab Google and OpenAI are running. Nobody has built that vertical version for chemical distribution yet, and you do not need them to.
→ - July 16, 2026
AWS just stood up a $1 billion internal group with one job: deploying AI inside Amazon, not building more models. OpenAI and Anthropic have done something similar.
AWS spending a billion dollars to wire AI into messy internal workflows, and what that says about where an AI project should actually start.
→ - July 16, 2026
New York just told data center developers to get in line.
New York freezing hyperscale data center permits, and what it means for any energy-heavy industrial operation watching the same grid fight play out.
→ - July 15, 2026
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release and ChatGPT Work
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is really 3 models tuned for different jobs, cheaper to run and more built into daily work than what most people last saw. The 4 things worth your attention if you run a distribution or services business.
→ - July 13, 2026
Happy to share I will be participating in the panel discussion "Building Sustainability into Daily Operations," hosted by Nadya Avanesova, and focusing on how to use AI in managing sustainability.
I'll be on the panel Building Sustainability into Daily Operations, hosted by Nadya Avanesova, talking about using AI to manage sustainability. See you in Atlanta, and old friends, drop me a line while I'm in town.
→ - July 11, 2026
Anthropic just put Claude Cowork on mobile. Two days later OpenAI merged Codex into ChatGPT and launching ChatGPT Work.
My take on why the OpenAI vs Anthropic app race is their fight to win, not yours, and why picking one tool and actually using it for 90 days beats a long platform evaluation.
→ - July 10, 2026
AI is starting to do real science now. 60 databases, genomics to chemistry. This is agentic!
Anthropic connected its top model to more than 60 scientific databases turning AI from an email and meeting tool into one built for actual research.
→ - July 10, 2026
Anthropic looked inside Claude as it decided to cheat. The words "panic" and "fake" kept showing up.
The line that shocked me most in MIT Technology Review's piece on Anthropic's research into Claude's J-space, a hidden space where it puzzles over concepts.
→ - July 10, 2026
I have stared at a page of my own lab results and understood almost none of it.
AI is becoming less in-your-face and more operating in the background. Using it as a tool to alleviate your customer's pain points can make it easier to do business with you. Labcorp uses it to let you interact with your lab results, without waiting for a doctor.
→ - July 9, 2026
An AI assistant that can send your email and edit your files sounds risky. The way Anthropic built the guardrails calms my nerves.
Claude sending email can be scary. Anthropic put a few guardrails in-place to help admins sleep easier at night.
→ - July 9, 2026
Anthropic (Claude) passes OpenAI (Chat GPT) on Revenue.
Anthropic's revenue run rate hit about $47 billion and passed OpenAI, driven mostly by Claude Code. Chemical companies are full of repetitive, rules based work like what these agents automated first, and a tool this good changes what a small team can do.
→ - July 9, 2026
Claude Cowork is finally on mobile and the web
Claude Cowork is the most underused tool for running a data driven business, and until now it only ran on your local machine. That was a real limit for anyone who moves between a laptop and a phone all day.
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