Are AI Models the New Firearms?
"Last week" (https://mgamble.ca/p/sovereign-ai-is-the-new-space-race-canada-just-brought-a-sparkler) I argued that sovereign AI was the new space race and that Canada was bringing a sparkler to the...
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Sovereign AI is the New Space Race. Canada Just Brought a Sparkler.
Earlier today the Prime Minister stood up in Toronto and "launched AI for All" (https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/06/04/prime-minister-carney-launches-ai-all-canadas-new-national-artific...
I Spent a Decade Running the M6. Then I Met It Again.
Google Drive sent me one of those notifications a couple of weeks ago. Storage full. Time to clean up. So I started poking through the corners of my drive looking for things to delete, and that is how...
AI Won't Fix Your Broken Process. It Will Just Make It Faster.
A while back I watched a mid-size company announce, with great fanfare, that AI was going to take their vendor onboarding process from twelve weeks to four. For those not familiar with vendor...
It's Not the Pricing, It's the Opacity
The New York Times reported this week that Maryland became the first US state to ban AI-driven price increases at grocery stores. The law takes effect in October. It prohibits grocery stores and...
It's Not an AI Problem, It's an Access Problem
«"NEVER F**KING GUESS, and that's exactly what I did. I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify. I didn't check if the volume ID was shared...
Did I Just Talk to a Person?
Over the weekend I had to call a plumbing service. Tenant had a broken toilet, bad timing, the usual Saturday night special. Like most after-hours services, I didn't get connected to a plumber. I got...
The AI Divide: A New Fault Line Opening Before We Finished Closing the Old One
Earlier this week I had the privilege of moderating a panel at Digital Access Day, the Canadian Internet Society's annual gathering of thoughtleaders working on the issues shaping our networks and our...
The Data Will Be Exfiltrated
When organizations talk about managing AI risk, the response often starts with prohibition. Access to public AI tools is blocked at the firewall. Policies are updated to make expectations clear....
Embracing a New Era: Introducing Collaborative Intelligence by Int13
Today marks a significant milestone in my professional journey, and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you all. After decades of pioneering voice and cloud solutions, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my new venture: Collaborative Intelligence. This isn’t just a rebranding; it’s the be
AI Wrote My Book (and most of this post)
This is a small tale of how I got my first "book" published on Amazon - "Bytes of Desolation - Verses from the Digital Wasteland". As someone who's always wanted to be a "published" author, and a firm believer in the potential of Artificial Intelligence, I chose to marry these two seemingly dispara