The hidden architectural choice that makes big platforms bigger—and how we could change the rules for AI
Abundance vs. Scarcity: Who Controls the Internet After AI?
AI is straining the open web, forcing a choice between abundance with redistribution and scarcity built on paywalls, writes Paul Keller.
Seize the Means of Computation - ProMarket
To regain internet autonomy from Big Tech companies, lower switching costs with legislation that allows new services to subvert network effects and encourage adversarial interoperability. Too often, our discussion of Big Tech’s dominance starts and ends with a simplistic account of network-effects-driven inevitability, as though the winner-take-all market we have today could not have been […]
AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find
AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.
Reimagining Web Infrastructure for the Age of AI Agents
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
Reimagining Web Infrastructure for the Age of AI Agents
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
AI slop is drowning communities. Verifiable track records can fix it.
AI-generated junk content is flooding every community platform. Traditional moderation can't keep up. Portable, cross-platform contribution history is a structural fix that addresses the root cause.
Infrastructure in the Age of AI Gatekeepers
What happens when AI agents choose your stack
AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet
Regretful Accelerationism
The Internet removed constraints from the analog world, and AI is finishing the job. That this may be the final blow for the Internet as a source for truth may ultimately be for the best.
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention
People often speak about AI as if it is one thing. It can seem like that when we use today’s most popular interfaces: a single product, packaged by an unfathomably big company. But that view is both misleading and disempowering. It implies that only the big companies could possibly create and control this technology, because only they can handle its immensity. But another orientation is possible.
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.
AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
HUGE — AI Without Giving Up Your Privacy
We're building an Agentic AI Platform running on your Device that lives with YOU, isolated from the cloud, fundamentally reimagining the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence through ownership, privacy, and massive context. In an age of capture and control, HUGE sells independence and sovereignty.
AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Sequoia AI Ascent 2025 Keynote
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
"The forces that are now shaping AI are the same forces that turned the open internet into monopolistic platforms, converted peer-to-peer participation into precarious labor, and enclosed the digital commons. They are now threatening to capture and enclose thought itself." osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qahd3_v1/
