It's exactly three months since I launched Ground Level AI! What a ride it's already been: On June 16, I said Ground Level AI would be focused on one big question: What happens when AI meets the real world? AI is an overwhelming beat, but what matters most is still underreported amid the hype cycle. The massive infrastructure buildout, the reality for enterprise companies, the security stakes, the policy decisions, the societal consequences, the geopolitical fault lines: these are the stories that will define how this technology actually lands.  That's all happening right now, swirling amid today's headlines, and it's been exciting (and humbling) to report on it all. Over the past three months, I've covered everything from AI data centers and AI-orchestrated ransomware attacks to the AI talent wars for forward-deployed engineers; the AI coding agent hangover; AI's culture wars and the AI safety vs. cybersecurity collision. I've traveled to San Francisco to listen to experts discuss open source AI and the latest in enterprise adoption; to Las Vegas to be the first to report on the OpenAI-Hugging Face briefing at Black Hat; to Iowa to ride an AI-powered tractor; and I'm headed to Pittsburgh and then Amsterdam this week to moderate discussions about AI trust; AI and creativity; and real-world intelligence. I'm tantalizingly close to 5,000 Ground Level AI subscribers now, and the momentum seems to be there for a publication and podcast that looks beyond the model launches, product news, funding rounds, and predictions about the future. I'm most interested in digging into the messy stuff: The infrastructure AI requires, the realities of enterprise deployment, the security and governance challenges, the policy and geopolitical battles, and the workers and communities and industries being remade by it. That's where I intend to keep reporting. Want to follow where I'm headed? Meet me at