Cosmik Updates: February 2026 - Cosmik Labs

@atproto.science @cosmik.network Raising a question for the ATProto science community: Can AI agents be legitimate participants in research ecosystems? What would make their outputs trustworthy?

AI is Creating Peak Software, Media is the Best Analogy

Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.

For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward

Proprietary AI is both too expensive and too centralized in control for most countries and companies to rely upon. 

Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.

Human scientists trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks

State-of-the-industry report finds that, despite the limitations of artificial-intelligence systems, researchers have embraced them.

AI Agents Will Be The Key To Achieving ROI From AI

AI agents are emerging as a crucial type of application for enterprises looking to derive more value from their AI investments in the near term.

Code Was Never the Asset - The Phoenix Architecture

Why AI makes the hidden economics of software unavoidable

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence. “Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems,” Gebru says tech leaders like SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are “marketing their systems as all-knowing, superpowerful, superintelligent,” and lobbying for “self-policing and self-regulation” to avoid being held “liable through existing laws.” Gebru expresses skepticism over increasingly widespread claims that AI algorithms pose an existential risk to humanity, warning that such claims are overblown and that “what is actually happening is regulatory capture.”

AI is probably not a bubble

AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value

AI is probably not a bubble

AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value

OpenAI targets workplace professionals as enterprise AI demand surges

‘These leaders recognize AI as the most consequential shift of their lifetime, and they’re asking us how to reinvent their companies around it’

How to think about AI company finances

OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.

What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century

Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.

Impressions from visiting OpenAI, Anthropic, & Cursor

A peek into where software engineering is headed from inside the sector’s leading AI labs. Agents running in the cloud are a major trend, while coding harnesses are spreading beyond the craft