Ron Schmelzer

Ron Schmelzer

Contributor|AI

Ron’s been writing about and covering AI since 1995 and at Forbes since 2018. If you like what Ron shares here, you will love his Exponential Scale newsletter and the community he leads at Scalebrate, where he helps Microteams megascale with clarity, leverage, and AI-powered

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Jul 15, 2026

The White House Wants AI To Beat Hackers To The Patch With “Gold Eagle”

White House’s new Gold Eagle initiative aims to bring federal agencies and industry together to find, rank, and fix serious vulnerabilities before AI does it first.

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Jul 14, 2026

AI Won’t Replace Everyone. That’s Not The Good News

The story is starting to get more specific than the usual “robots are coming for jobs” narrative. AI is beginning to sort the labor market by task, age, skill level and geography.

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Jul 13, 2026

AI-Written Research Is Forcing A Reckoning In Publishing

an open source humanizer tool, available as a Claude skill, can direct text systems to remove writing patterns linked to AI in research papers and grant proposals.

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Jul 12, 2026

How To Use AI For Brainstorming That Goes Beyond Generic Ideas

AI is a powerful brainstorming tool when used correctly. Here's how to write better prompts and refine ideas more effectively.

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Jul 10, 2026

AI Ransomware Is Here, Now Powered By Cheaper, Agentic Models

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, database encryption and even ransom note generation.