Notes from inside the industry.
Thoughts on AI in chemical distribution: what's working, what to skip, and how operators are putting it to use.
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- July 11, 2026
Anthropic just put Claude Cowork on mobile. Two days later OpenAI merged Codex into ChatGPT and launching ChatGPT Work.
My take on why the OpenAI vs Anthropic app race is their fight to win, not yours, and why picking one tool and actually using it for 90 days beats a long platform evaluation.
→ - July 10, 2026
AI is starting to do real science now. 60 databases, genomics to chemistry. This is agentic!
Anthropic connected its top model to more than 60 scientific databases turning AI from an email and meeting tool into one built for actual research.
→ - July 10, 2026
Anthropic looked inside Claude as it decided to cheat. The words "panic" and "fake" kept showing up.
The line that shocked me most in MIT Technology Review's piece on Anthropic's research into Claude's J-space, a hidden space where it puzzles over concepts.
→ - July 10, 2026
I have stared at a page of my own lab results and understood almost none of it.
AI is becoming less in-your-face and more operating in the background. Using it as a tool to alleviate your customer's pain points can make it easier to do business with you. Labcorp uses it to let you interact with your lab results, without waiting for a doctor.
→ - July 9, 2026
An AI assistant that can send your email and edit your files sounds risky. The way Anthropic built the guardrails calms my nerves.
Claude sending email can be scary. Anthropic put a few guardrails in-place to help admins sleep easier at night.
→ - July 9, 2026
Anthropic (Claude) passes OpenAI (Chat GPT) on Revenue.
Anthropic's revenue run rate hit about $47 billion and passed OpenAI, driven mostly by Claude Code. Chemical companies are full of repetitive, rules based work like what these agents automated first, and a tool this good changes what a small team can do.
→ - July 9, 2026
Claude Cowork is finally on mobile and the web
Claude Cowork is the most underused tool for running a data driven business, and until now it only ran on your local machine. That was a real limit for anyone who moves between a laptop and a phone all day.
→ - July 9, 2026
Most failed AI pilots I see share one root cause: nobody changed the process before adding the agent.
Why agent pilots fail: teams skip the baseline, time, error rate, human effort, before automating a process that was never redesigned for it.
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July 8, 2026A pharmacy filled a prescription in 30 seconds without a pharmacist. Is chemical distribution next?
A startup's automated kiosk fills prescriptions in 30 seconds with no pharmacist on site, and the rules haven't caught up to the technology yet. Chemical distribution, one of the most regulated industries around, should expect that same gap.
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July 7, 2026How much should a distributor bet on any single AI vendor for the next three years?
ChatGPT's chatbot market share fell from 76.5% to 53.9% in 15 months while Gemini's nearly quintupled and it reinforces my AI Orchestra approach to AI Tools.
→ - July 7, 2026
Your analysts can build AI agents now. They do not need IT to do it.
Alteryx's new Agent Studio lets an analyst turn their own workflow into an AI agent without IT, and it backs up exactly what I have been saying: we sell chemicals, but we manage data.
→ - July 6, 2026
An AI just found a security hole that hid in common software for almost 30 years. Every human who audited that code missed it. The machine flagged it almost immediately.
An AI model caught a 30-year-old security flaw in widely used software that generations of human reviewers missed. For distributors running old, untouched ERP systems, that is both a chance to find hidden risk and a warning that attackers have the same tool.
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