Have you noticed how last year's chatbot is this year's "AI powered solution" ? AI Washing is the tax companies are paying for not asking the right questions. Gartner reviewed thousands of vendors claiming to sell agentic / A.I. solutions. 130 were real. This seems worse than all the catfish in dating apps. The conversation in most boardrooms right now is automation dressed up as AI. And nobody is calling it out. Why? Because the vendor is confident, the demo looks really cool, and the budget is already approved. Here's the question that cuts through it: does your system learn from data, or does it execute rules? One adapts. The other just runs faster. 88% of companies claim to use AI. Only 6% show it in their results. Automation ≠ AI. The difference isn't semantic. The difference is between faster and smarter.

Doom porn sells. Is AI going to kill us? That was the big media igniter in the form of a tweet, currently at +160M views. In the last 20 yrs, we’ve had our fair share of human extinction claims. Quick recap: ➡️ 2000: Y2K (I still remember changing the date on my desktop) ➡️ 2012: End of the Mayan calendar. ➡️ 2014: Musk said that AI is the biggest existential threat to humanity. Then he founded OpenAI. Left. Founded xAI, and built Grok. ➡️ 2014: Stephen Hawking said that AI could mean the end of the human race. ➡️ 2023: Altman (OpenAI) and Amodei (Anthropic) stated that the risk of extinction by AI must be a priority, right there with nuclear wars. The week after, they launched more potent models. ➡️ 2023: Musk, with 30K signatures, requested a pause on AI training beyond GPT-4. Two months later, launched Grok. ➡️ 2026: In Jan, Dario Amodei (Anthropic) delivered his 38-page essay stating that we (humanity) are close to real danger. Then he launched two new models and prepared for an IPO. ➡️ 2026 (this week): Coxon states that AI could kill us by 2030. SO...is AI going to kill us? Who knows. What I'm certain is that the biggest risk is that ALL decisions being made around AI, are made by fewer people than the attendees at your most boring weekly meeting. 8 billion people affected by the decisions of a bunch of guys who like to play God and (very likely but unconfirmed) crave the popularity they lacked at school. It is ridiculous and scary. These people represent the biggest contradiction of our era. Should you be worried? I am...but not about extinction. I am worried about a big orchestrated collapse. I do think there is a latent possibility of attacks that will infiltrate systems in ways we have not seen before. (i.e. Hugging Face -the world’s largest open-source AI platform - was recently breached by a swarm of autonomous agents…and very few pple are talking about it) Now think of the vast majority of infra that runs the world. Think money, votes, health, public services, airspace control, maritime traffic, logistics, etc. Everywhere you turn your head, you can find infra that is not ready for this sort of scenario…and very unlikely that they will ever be. 🍒 The cherry on top: Where is the government? Where is the sense of urgency to find out if the risk is real and to intervene as they ought to? The policy we see... is that there is no policy. So is AI going to kill us? Who knows. It could also just ignore us. We are very familiar with how that works… it’s the status quo of corporations that only consider the well-being of their shareholders. Oh wait. OpenAI and Anthropic are going public. Shit.

Love to see this, but beyond letters, proper regulation is crucial.

Es cada vez más común ver a ejecutivos opinar y tomar decisiones sobre AI, sin entender lo que dicen. Clásico ejemplo actual: fundadores de sectores “non-AI”, hablando sobre su futuro “agentic”, pero que no han construido nada real con AI. Es tan absurdo como pensar en un chef pidiendo platillos moleculares, sin saber distinguir un sartén del microondas.

The even distribution of the future.

Gran punto de @profgalloway / El problema de la IA no es la tecnología china. Es la sensibilidad a su precio en este lado del mar.

El cuello de botella no es A.I., eres tú.

.@JamesTalarico’s message to Gen Z: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Your boss cares about politics. Your landlord cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics. And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”

Incredible deep dive on TGEs with CMOs @ibuprod (@FolksFinance) + @molinaxis (Eigenlayer) on the @Safaryclub certification call today. So many real insights on what launch prep actually looks like for marketers. If you’re gearing up for a launch, this was the playbook 👀🔥

A must read by @NinaSuthers

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Lots of takes on @eigencloud’s new product: EigenCloud. Here’s another: it will change crypto and the Internet forever. Regulatory tailwinds are big. This is bigger. 🧵👇

No cameras. No model contracts. No reputational risks. No weather or lighting issues. No miscommunication with the director. No location shoots. No limits on takes. No need to burn a million dollars. Welcome to the evolution of storytelling.

Anyone can write a prompt. Very few know which screw to turn. - Since launching Warr3n @warr3nverse as a native A.I. creative studio, I’ve been reminded of that classic story of the expensive mechanic. You’ve probably heard it... A man’s car breaks down. He spends days trying to fix it...tinkering, guessing, getting nowhere. Finally, he calls a mechanic. The mechanic shows up, listens for a moment, pulls out a screwdriver, and with a tiny twist to a single screw… the car starts. “That’ll be $500,” he says. “$500?! For turning one screw?” “The turn is free,” the mechanic replied. “The $500 is for knowing which screw to turn, and how much.” ----- It can't take anyone a few mins to write a prompt for an image or video. But writing the right prompt? That’s a whole different story...

A.I. isn't a spark, it's wildfire.

The best Web3 brands don’t “launch.” They emerge.

Brands built for pitch decks rarely survive in the real world