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My Top 10 things I want to see from AI in 2026.

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Spotify blocks the AI generated music unless I register as a artist and sign up with a distributor.

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Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

This is the 12th and final episode of twelve days of CTRL-mas.

Let's sing some carols.

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Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

This is the 11th of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

I'm not an author, but today I'm publishing a short story. This is a speculative fiction short story created by and narrated by AI, but based on real deep research about the topic of universal translation between humans, animals, computers, plants, trees, and everything you could possibly imagine. Enjoy

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Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year!

This is the 10th of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

Today I'm exploring some often-forgotten-about technological breakthroughs that have had a phenomenal impact on our lived experience, the workforce, the economy, and everything we take for granted.

Yet there are very few people who look at those as parallels to the AI revolution we're going through at the moment. So I wanted to suggest that alternative perspective and explore it through this deeply researched podcast episode.

Enjoy.

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Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year!

This is the 9th of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

Today I want to tell the story of bitcoin through a much more human lens.

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Merry Christmas!

This is the eighth of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

Today I want to tell the story of Ethereum through the lens of comparing it to Linux. They both have so much in common from their open-source roots to their community development to their rocky and fragmented approach to creating an ecosystem with a common set of principles and foundations. And I think we can learn a lot about where Ethereum is heading by looking at the story of Linux.

Tech Back Control: The AI Revolution of 2025 – A Comprehensive Recap

In this episode, I delve into the extraordinary advancements and milestones in AI throughout 2025. The year witnessed a transition from simple chat interfaces to more complex workflows and agents, marked by the introduction of significant protocols and models like Anthropic's Model Context Protocol and Google's DeepMind Genie 2.

The episode covers the major themes of AI in 2025, including the emergence of reasoning models, the open-source versus closed-source debate, the geopolitical significance of AI infrastructure, the rise of agentic coding, and the unprecedented advancements in image and video generation. A detailed timeline of key events and releases from each quarter showcases the rapid pace of innovation and investment that characterized the year.

Finally, the episode outlines future perspectives as we head into 2026, focusing on the evolving infrastructure, governance, and the potential challenges in the world of AI.

00:00 Introduction

01:04 Key things that happened in 2025

02:38 5 Key Themes from 2025

02:43 Number 1

03:21 Number 2

03:50 Number 3

04:16 Number 4

04:28 Number 5

05:09 Timeline of 2025

05:37 Q1

09:18 Q2

13:01 Q3

19:04 Q4

26:27 The Key Themes from 2025

26:32 1st Key Theme in 2025

28:50 2nd Key Theme in 2025

31:08 3rd Key Theme in 2025

32:38 4th Key Theme in 2025

35:43 In Conclusion

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Merry Christmas!

This is the seventh of the twelve days of CTRL-mas.

Today I'm exploring if there's a better way to fix our broken politics through radical forms of governance.