Posts by Amelia Frost
Banned at Seven, Director at Twenty-One: How Ryan Shatzkamer Is Rewiring the Contact Centre Industry
Ryan Shatzkamer‘s introduction to software engineering ended in a ban. He was seven years old, playing on a Minecraft server, and had installed a cheat client so he could fly. The server’s detection caught him almost immediately. Most children would have made a new account and moved on. Shatzkamer opened the game’s files in Notepad…
Read MoreS&P 500 Edges Up But Closes The Week In The Red. Treasury Yields Rose.
The S&P 500 closed the week in the red after edging up on Friday, capping a volatile week in which the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the first time in three years. The index gained 0.17%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite did so 0.39%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, in turn, dropped 0.18%. Treasury…
Read MoreTrump Says He’s Banning Three Top Media Companies From The White House, Warns Other Will Follow
Trump said he’s banning three top news companies from the White House over their coverage. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will ban three top media companies in the U.S. from White House coverage. “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their…
Read MoreHighline Supplies Is Rewriting the Playbook for Building Materials Distribution
In Dallas, founder and CEO Saqib Siddiq and operator Muneeb Memon are scaling a modern materials business around technology, disciplined growth, and the kind of relationships legacy suppliers cannot easily replicate. In construction supply, the future is arriving through warehouses, quoting systems, and the discipline to move faster than an old industry expects. The building…
Read MoreMore Than 100 AI Experts Sign a Letter Saying that OpenAI & Anthropic Need Independent AI Safety Evaluators
More than 100 artificial intelligence experts and safety evaluators are warning that outside oversight of companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI will be credible only if evaluators are given genuine independence, deep access to frontier systems and protection from retaliation when their findings are unfavorable. The coalition, organized by the AI Evaluator Forum, published a…
Read MoreWhy Sustainability Could Become the New Standard of Care in Luxury Events
Planning an event involves decisions that extend beyond what guests see. A 2026 study from the Events Industry Council and Oxford Economics found that business events generated $1.3 trillion in direct spending worldwide in 2025. While that figure covers a broader sector than luxury events, it highlights the scale of purchasing involved and the opportunity…
Read MoreAgentic AI Turns Strategy From Purchase Into Presence
Most conversations about AI in strategy focus on making consultants faster, drafting memos, summarizing meetings, generating alternatives, or producing dashboards. Those gains matter, but they treat intelligence as a task that can be accelerated around an unchanged model. The stronger possibility is more disruptive. AI could change what a strategy firm is and how companies…
Read MoreAnthropic Built Its Reputation On AI Software. Now It Is Running Biological Experiments In Its Own Lab.
Anthropic has established its own biology laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area, taking the AI company beyond computer-based research and into physical experiments as it expands its work in life sciences. The facility is a wet lab, where researchers can conduct experiments involving biological materials rather than limiting work to computer simulations. Two people…
Read MoreWhat Yacht Crew Emergencies Reveal About Access to Medical Information Far From Home
Preparing for an emergency abroad includes considering how medical information will travel with the person who needs it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2026 Yellow Book advises travelers with chronic illnesses to carry details of their conditions, medications, and allergies. That guidance raises a practical question for organizations responsible for people away from…
Read MoreHackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI. They Reached the ChatGPT Maker’s Private Code.
Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI systems and reach the ChatGPT maker’s private software repositories, illustrating how quickly advanced artificial intelligence is changing the cybersecurity landscape. The attack, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, was conducted by researchers at cybersecurity firm Hacktron AI as part of security testing. OpenAI ultimately paid…
Read MoreThe Missing Lesson That Can Decide Whether a Small Business Grows
America’s small-business economy is enormous enough to move the national economy and fragile enough for individual closures to reshape local communities. The latest Office for Advocacy figures put the number of small businesses at 36.2 million, accounting for 45.9% of private-sector employment and 43.5% of GDP. The churn underneath those figures is equally striking. During…
Read MoreBacteriophages Poised to Revolutionize Gut Health as Manufacturing Hurdles Drop
Probiotic supplements have become the fastest-growing supplement products on the market, and consumers are paying more attention to their guts than ever. Yet the tools they reach for may not do what they expect. A 2026 study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology by Nutrition Insight shows that use of probiotic supplements jumped 287% among US…
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