Shelly Palmer

At NVIDIA GTC, after calling OpenClaw the most successful open-source project in history, Jensen Huang said that every single enterprise company and every single software company in the world needs an agentic strategy, and specifically needs an OpenClaw strategy. Here’s what he means. shellypalmer.com/2026/03/corpor…

AI companies are now using AI to build AI products, and the acceleration is visible in weekly release cycles that used to take months. Anthropic built its entire Cowork productivity tool using Claude in just a week and a half. This is recursive self-improvement in practice. AI accelerates the humans who build AI products, which creates better AI, which further accelerates the humans. We're witnessing the final "human in the loop" step before AI starts building itself. The economics matter immediately for every executive planning 2026 budgets. Development cycles that took your teams six months now take six weeks. Your competitors with AI-native development workflows will ship features exponentially faster than traditional teams. I explore these ideas and more in my Sunday essay, "The Recursive Advantage." shellypalmer.com/2026/03/the-re…

Amazon expanded Health AI from One Medical to its main app. Anyone with an Amazon account gets healthcare advice, lab results, Rx management. The difference vs. OpenAI and Anthropic: Amazon connects AI to actual medical records, prescriptions, and doctors. Integration beats conversation. shellypalmer.com/2026/03/amazon…

Yann LeCun just raised $1.03B for AMI Labs to build "world models" instead of LLMs. No product timeline, no near-term revenue, $3.5B pre-money valuation. The bet: AI should understand causality, not just predict the next word. What scares me more, AI that misunderstands the world or AI that understands it completely? shellypalmer.com/2026/03/yann-l…

Three deployment models for AI claws are emerging: one per employee, one per function, and claw teams. Each makes a different bet on capability vs. security. The economics and attack surfaces are wildly different. Here's how to think about it. shellypalmer.com/2026/03/deploy…

Deploying Claws -- A “claw” is a personal AI agent that runs on your machine and autonomously executes tasks on your behalf. The term comes from OpenClaw, a hugely popular open-source project created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger in November 2025. He joined OpenAI in February and OpenClaw now lives in an independent foundation. The “magic” of OpenClaw (and the dozens of new, alternative "claws" such as NanoClaw, Nanobot, IronClaw, etc.) is that they present as fully autonomous agents you can connect to almost any software or data you have access to. They store your preferences, memory, and behavioral instructions. You interact with them through Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or any of 50+ messaging platforms. The agents read your email, manage your calendar, run shell commands, browse the web, and execute scheduled tasks around the clock. Three distinct deployment models have emerged: one claw per human, one claw per function, and claw teams. shellypalmer.com/2026/03/deploy…

My Sunday essay walks through what to ask your tech team this week and why most companies don't know which of their SaaS vendors are white-labeling Claude under the hood.

The Claude Exit Tax - If you’ve spent this weekend scrambling your engineering teams, you already know the news. In an unprecedented move, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he is directing DoD to designate Anthropic a “Supply Chain Risk to National Security.” This is a radioactive tag historically reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei or Kaspersky. If your organization (or any company you do business with) does business with the U.S. military or federal government, based on the available information, using Claude is now a serious compliance escalation for any DoD-linked work. Let’s leave politics and patriotism out of the discussion and spend a minute going over what you need to do now and what you need to be ready to do to protect your AI tech stack from future disruption. Read more - link in the comments below. shellypalmer.com/2026/03/the-cl…