AI Landscape: Spring 2026
A point-in-time map of the AI discourse — signal vs noise across research, reports, and announcements
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Thoughts
Better Output, Not More Output
Why the promised productivity gains aren't arriving, and what organisations should be optimising for instead
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Whose Cognition Is This?
We legislated to protect children's developing brains from social media. Have you asked what AI is doing to yours?
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The Missing Middle
AI discourse has split into two camps. Neither is measuring anything. That's the actual problem.
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Why Your Innovations Die Before They're Born
AI collapsed the cost of building things. The cost of getting permission didn't change. What the research says about why that gap is so destructive.
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AI Adoption Starts With the First Safe Prompt
Why most AI rollouts stall and how to get across the chasm to the early majority.
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