AI in the Wild: exploring how AI shows up in regulated and mission-critical teams and workplaces. And how it's shaping them, too.

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Joined March 2026
Meta selling its excess compute is getting reported as an AI bubble story, when it's much more likely tied to China's reversal of its Manus purchase. Why are we all missing the larger political story here? #geopolitics #aibubble #ainews
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@edels0n We love your reporting and listen to your podcast every day. We'd love to have your take on this.
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Heading to BIO International Convention (June 22-25, San Diego) covering AI in biotech. If you're at BIO and AI is part of your world, let's talk. #BIO2026 #AIinBiotech @IAmBiotech
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What separates a funded grant application from a rejected one now that AI has leveled the writing? Vilas S. Dhar of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation notes what still separates the winners. Full piece: ai-inthewild.com/f/how-gener… #AI #GrantWriting
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Building one effective agent is a technical problem. Managing dozens of agents is an orchestration problem. Read how this showed up in sessions at FinovateSpring here: ai-inthewild.com/f/the-agent… #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance @Camunda
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Never say "We deployed AI" again. At best, it's meaningless. At worst, it's doing damage. The same phrase describes: • Live probabilistic systems • Deterministic systems built with AI • Internal AI use Read full article here: ai-inthewild.com/f/never-say… #AIlaunch #AI
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Last week was huge for #PublicSafetyGrants! DOJ announced a $300M for 2-4 cities. OMB proposed the largest overhaul of federal grant administration rules in more than a decade. Comments due July 13. Read for tips: ai-inthewild.com/f/how-gener… #PublicSafety #HowToGetGrants #GrantTIps
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The most common reality behind a 'we deployed AI' announcement may not be autonomous agents at all. This is why you should never say, "we Deployed AI" again. Read in full: ai-inthewild.com/f/never-say… #AI #AILaunch #ArtificialIntelligence
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AI raised the floor for grant writing. Every application is more polished now. But applications that win, do for the same reasons: original thinking, credible team, proximity to the problem. @vilasdhar Read more: ai-inthewild.com/f/how-gener… #PublicSafetyGrants #GrantWriting #AI
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Each AI agent is built to optimize. Fraud detection. Document intake. Compliance. But optimizing an agent isn't the same as optimizing the system. Enterprise tech makes this mistake over and over again. Read more: ai-inthewild.com/f/the-agent… #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance
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Everyone's racing to build AI agents but the harder part is figuring out how dozens of agents in different systems work together. At @Finovate Spring, agentic AI was a bit of a fog. Our most recent analysis covers where there was clarity. ai-inthewild.com/f/the-agent… #AgenticAI
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Defense attorneys are using AI to find holes in cases. Prosecutors aren't. That's not a tech gap. It's an incentive gap. They won't follow the same adoption curve as defense. They'll follow the liability curve. ai-inthewild.com/mission-cri… #PublicSafety #AI #LegalTech #AIintheWild
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18,000 law enforcement agencies were eligible for COPS grants in 2025. 615 applied. 1 in 3 who applied won. The barrier isn't the competition. It's getting to the starting line. Read More: ai-inthewild.com/f/how-gener… #PublicSafety #GrantWriting #AIintheWild
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70% of investigators don't have time to review all the digital evidence. And the data lives everywhere. In the post-incident software market, interoperability isn't a feature request, it's the product. Learn more: ai-inthewild.com/mission-cri… #PublicSafety #AI #AIintheWild
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AI can change this. But it affects both sides of the process. 18,000 eligible agencies. 615 applications submitted. 228 awards granted. Most agencies weren't denied. They never entered. How AI is changing the grant process: ai-inthewild.com/f/how-gener… #PublicSafetyGrants #AI
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Criminal investigators aren't struggling to find evidence. They're drowning in it. 70% don't have time to review everything they have. Backlogs run 1-4 years. A post-incident AI software market is emerging. Read in full: ai-inthewild.com/mission-cri… #PublicSafety #AI #AIintheWild
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In many industries, AI errors are an inconvenience. In public safety, they’re a liability. At @IWCEexpo, error language was specific, operational and tied to real scenarios. Read the full analysis here: ai-inthewild.com/mission-cri… #AI #MissionCritical #PublicSafetyTech #GovTech
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Language at IWCE 2026 posed AI governance as an immediate operational issue rather than a future policy: Asked in session after session: Who owns the data? Who's liable? What are the standards? Read the full language analysis here: ai-inthewild.com/mission-cri… #AI #AIgovernance
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A room full of experienced professionals discusses workforce shortages and the future of the industry. A positive recruitment angle is proposed, but falls flat. The reason why is interesting. Read ai-inthewild.com/f/the-answe… #AIintheWild #FutureOfWork #MissionCriticalJobs #HumanAI
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“Human in the loop” was a verbal password to being heard at IWCE 2026. Public safety wanted AI to be discussed with humans still in control. That says a lot about its adoption reality. Read the full analysis here: ai-inthewild.com/mission-cri… #HumanInTheLoop #PublicSafetyTech #AI
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