"There’s obviously interesting potential in agentic AI (aka software), but like so many other arenas, our failure to enf...

"There’s obviously interesting potential in agentic AI (aka software), but like so many other arenas, our failure to enforce antitrust law, and obsession with lobotomizing our regulators, means the market is likely to be dominated by the biggest companies. Companies that already spent the last decade making it clear they have very little ethics. And are keen to anti-competitively ratfuck their way to market domination.Which is to say that Amazon’s blockade of Muse is likely only the beginning. In that sense, the future is going to, in a lot of ways, look very much like the past. It’s also another reason why you’d like to see the sector disrupted by cheaper, on-device, open source, open weighted AI alternatives where ideally the end user gets more transparency, better potential security, and more control.Instead, I suspect 2027 is going to be heavily dominated by companies like Meta (and Amazon) scaring the government about China, resulting in terrible, protectionist, new AI legislation...