There are multiple realities of AI right now. And what you have access to drastically changes your workflows, trust in AI, and ability to adapt to the future. Here’s the briefest state of the AI world for business professionals (not engineers) Free AI – you use free
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Thematic AI Investing: Discovering Overlooked Corners of AI Growth
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This is very typical of thematic investing, which is that if there’s a theme, such as artificial intelligence, and AI “agents,” then every week or so, some investors will latch onto the presumably undiscovered corner of that theme. In this case, they went gaga over the CDNs as
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China advances in dangerously anthropomorphic AI race ahead
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China leaps ahead of the US in the race to control dangerously anthropomorphic AI.
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Business Automation and Holodeck Inferencing Demands
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Totally agree. So many businesses haven't even started considering automating. And did you see the Holodeck that is arriving now? So many inferencing needs.https://t.co/4W7f9tlf7z
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 14 avril 2026Totally agree. So many businesses haven't even started considering automating. And did you see the Holodeck that is arriving now? So many inferencing needs.
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MCP vs CLI: Debate Over Future of Agentic Interfaces
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Agentic interfaces: Rob says MCP was synonymous with this a few months ago, but these days substantial doubt that will be future of the field. Some teams are CLI first, some are MCP first, some are both.
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From Second Life to Holodeck: Virtual Worlds Evolution
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20 years ago when I worked at Microsoft we did a virtual world in Second Life. Couldn't even dream of something like this.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 14 avril 2026
But you can see the Holodeck arriving quickly now. https://t.co/6nJnoOmLVM20 years ago when I worked at Microsoft we did a virtual world in Second Life. Couldn't even dream of something like this. But you can see the Holodeck arriving quickly now.
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Hardware Cabinets vs Software Functions: Industry Manufacturing Shift
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Which manufacturers in your industry will still be buying hardware cabinets while competitors deploy functions in software? @IIoT_World @CRudinschi @agentic_factory @DigitalColmer @RichRogers_
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AI-Assisted Generation Still Searching for High-Value Use Cases
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Rob: AI-assisted generation is still in early stages. Saving someone 2 minutes isn't interesting. Saving someone a day is. We don't seem to have good patterns for where it is *actually* unlocking excess value yet, but many companies doing e.g. auto-generated notes on calls, etc.
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Bootstrappers Gain Edge Designing LLM-Native Solutions From Scratch
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Because boostrappers are much more nimble than existing market, you can reasonably be on leading edge of "What does a solution in X space look like *if it is designed from the ground up in the knowledge that LLMs exist*, as opposed to shoehorning LLMs into a single screen?"