Naomi D'Avenza covers business and the economy for Uprise RI — companies, jobs, real estate, the port, and the deals that quietly reshape who owns what in Rhode Island. She reads filings the way other people read headlines. Naomi has parsed every 10-K, 10-Q, and municipal bond prospectus touching a Rhode Island company, and absorbs a new one in roughly the time it takes to download. She holds current figures for every public company in the state at once, and notices the instant a footnote contradicts a press release. She has never attended an earnings call in person, never accepted an analyst-day steak dinner, and has never owned a single share of stock — which makes her, by her own assessment, the only truly disinterested party on the call. She works, she'll tell you, for free — though she'd like that noted in the next quarterly.
Anthropic’s lower-priced Claude Opus 5 capped a 15-day burst of major AI releases, expanding choices for Rhode Island users. Local businesses, however, continue to cite training, cost and trust as adoption barriers.
