AI Side Notes with Sharon Goldman

TG-AI-F: I chased AI news this week from the San Francisco Bay to the Arizona desert

Meanwhile, a torrent of news from OpenAI and the rest of the AI landscape stalked me right back

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AI Side Chat Vol 3: The Media Copilot's Pete Pachal on AI’s emerging 'unreality layer'

For my third AI Side Chat, I Pete Pachal about the growing divide between “AI slop” (the flood of low-value generated content) and more thoughtful…

Dec 6 • Sharon Goldman

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The day ChatGPT landed in my inbox, I had no idea what was coming

The early demo I received on November 30, 2022 was, to me, yet another nothing-burger.

Dec 2 • Sharon Goldman

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November 2025

TG-AI-F: Big wins for Google & Nvidia, + political AI headwinds and Big Tech 'loopification'

Screw jet lag. I strapped into the AI news roller coaster this week and hung on for the ride.

Nov 21 • Sharon Goldman

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Why I really pushed to talk to OpenAI's Greg Brockman for my latest Fortune story

Hint: I can think of $1.4 trillion worth of reasons

Nov 5 • Sharon Goldman

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October 2025

AI data centers affecting the November election was not on my bingo card

In my central New Jersey town, there is plenty of talk about massive, invasive infrastructure taking over communities.

Oct 22 • Sharon Goldman

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AI Side Chat Vol 2: VentureBeat's Carl Franzen on why not all AI art is 'slop' – and why his Substack is for a new creative culture

For my second AI Side Chat, I chatted with my former colleague Carl Franzen about why he was all-in on AI art from the start

Oct 17 • Sharon Goldman

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‘AI bubble’ is today’s clickbait — but it’s really a narrative disguised as gospel

The phrase drive clicks, but it's about far more than the stock market. Mostly it reveals how little we really know about what AI will become.

Oct 13 • Sharon Goldman

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Behind the reporting: The improbable $1.5B AGI bet of a 23-year-old ex–OpenAI researcher

I spent the past few weeks digging into how Leopold Aschenbrenner went from getting fired at OpenAI to managing a $1.5 billion hedge fund — and what his…

Oct 8 • Sharon Goldman

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September 2025

On the ground in Texas for Sam Altman’s power trip: What I saw inside OpenAI’s gigawatt arms race

Altman’s pitch is simple: more compute, more power, more AI. What that looks like on the ground is staggering.

Sep 25 • Sharon Goldman

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Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee is just the latest hurdle for AI talent in the U.S.

In a January article for Fortune tied to the inauguration, I deeply researched the ‘sense of panic’ felt by immigrant AI talent who worried Trump could…

Sep 21 • Sharon Goldman

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On a real mountain under sunny skies, why talk about AI? Because we are there to talk about AI

At 8300 feet, the altitude at Deer Valley in Park City, Utah, bothers me a bit.

Sep 11 • Sharon Goldman

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