Attorney-client privilege was built for a human fiduciary relationship and does not extend to consumer AI platforms. In United States v. Heppner, a court treated AI conversations as third-party disclosures, not protected communications. Millions of people are now sharing legal exposure with AI systems that have no fiduciary duty, no confidentiality obligation, and terms of […]
The AI Labs Are Becoming Consulting Firms
OpenAI is partnering with Accenture, McKinsey, and the rest of the Big Four. Anthropic is building its own embedded implementation teams, more like Palantir than Microsoft. Both companies have realized AI adoption is an implementation problem, not a software licensing one. The value is moving up the stack toward integration, governance, workflow redesign, and AI […]
AI, Havel, and ‘AI for All’: Taking Back Some Control
Václav Havel argued that systems persist because people participate in them, often without realizing it. Applied to AI, we are quietly adopting tools we do not control, accepting outputs we cannot explain, and wrapping governance around black boxes. “AI for All” only matters if it means participation, not just access. Canada’s real opportunity isn’t to […]
Mythos Isn’t About Hacking. It’s About Systems.
“Mythos” isn’t a confirmed Anthropic model. It’s shorthand for a real shift: a class of Claude-level models that suddenly got exceptionally good at analyzing complex systems. Security headlines caught the wave first because vulnerabilities are system reasoning problems, but the real story extends to compliance, fraud, supply chains, and any dependency-driven domain. Once a machine […]
AI Is the New Geopolitical Battleground, and We’re Already in It
AI has become a geopolitical narrative battleground, with dark-money campaigns paying influencers thousands per video to shape public perception of a US-China AI Cold War. The deeper problem isn’t foreign influence in any single model. It’s opacity across every AI system, and the fact that compute access, not rhetoric, is the real power layer. Countries […]
Canada’s AI Compute Landscape: What I Found When I Tried to Build on It
Canada committed roughly $890M to AI supercomputing infrastructure, but builders still hit fragmented vendors, opaque pricing, and an unresolved trade-off: the most usable compute in Canada is the least sovereign, and the most sovereign is the least usable. Presence is not sovereignty. Closing that gap will take more than infrastructure spending. It needs transparent pricing, […]
Zeever.ca: A Low-Budget Experiment in Sovereign Canadian AI
Canada has committed billions to sovereign AI, but what happens when you actually try to build something? Zeever.ca repurposes a desktop GPU, an existing VPS, and open models to answer real municipal questions using Canadian data.
Joining Hill+Knowlton Strategies
I wanted to formally share some exciting news from my professional life. Effective yesterday, Ascentum Inc has been acquired and will be joining the Hill+Knowlton Strategies family. I’ve been with Ascentum for 3 years and as you probably know Ascentum specializes in helping businesses, government and not-for-profit organizations facilitate and create dialogue with stakeholders via online, […]
Move over Google and enter DuckDuckGo…
I think it was around 1998 when I first discovered Google on a trip to San Francisco, and I’ve been using it faithfully since. I tried Bing a few years ago but it didn’t really deliver much improvement. When I originally heard about people using DuckDuckGo, I was skeptical I’d see much improvement… I have […]
Roger’s amazing shrinking value plan…
Since setting up and regretting Rogers One a few months ago my Roger’s value plan has been steadily shrinking. My original Smartphone Value plan in December 2011 was: Call Display with Name Display Enhanced Voicemail Voicemail to Text Unlimited Sent Text, Picture & Video Msgs Unlimited Rcvd Text Msgs – Unlimited Sent & Received US/International […]
The problem is Robocalls…
In Canada we’ve been experiencing a fairly large scandal involving Robocalls to Canadians surrounding the 2011 election. I’ve been frustrated with Robocalls for several years and the lack of regulation by the CRTC. A few years ago I kept getting Robocalls from a collection agency ( trying to reach someone named Brandi ) and recently […]
The Great US Paywall
I was recently in Florida for a Vacation and purchased an Amazon Fire device. The device is very similar to the Barnes and Noble Nook I purchased last year but I thought the Amazon content and store would provide a better experience. The first thing I did was sign up for Amazon Prime Trial, with […]
I love Canada Post
Over the past few weeks I’ve ordered a number of things online and received shipments for all major shipping companies. My building has conceige that can sign for all packages that don’t require a payment for duty or COD. Its very interesting to see the process each company uses handle deliveries and collect the duty/COD […]
TPMA Panel Tonight – Nov 30, 2010
I’m doing a TPMA panel tonight on career paths for Product Managers. I worked as a Product Manager for close to 10 years and I’ve attended several TPMA meetings in the past. Hope to you can make it and apologizes for the late notice. Details on Career-Steering : How to Navigate In, Out, Up or […]
The Legality of Groupon?
Groupon has really taken off in Canada. I think mainly because many popular restaurants have been available as Groupons and that has driven alot of adoption. One of my favourite restaurants, Utopia Cafe sold almost 1500 Groupons during their promotion. Today’s Groupon is for the very popular Table 17 Restaurant If you’re not familar with […]