<![CDATA[Enrique Dans - Medium]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/proxy/1*TGH72Nnw24QL3iV9IOm4VA.png Enrique Dans - Medium https://medium.com/enrique-dans?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 Medium Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:42:04 GMT <![CDATA[The Axiom web: how AI agents are turning us into passengers]]>

An article in MIT Tech Review, “The agentic web is here”, touches on many of the themes I explored in a couple of pieces for Fast Company…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/the-axiom-web-how-ai-agents-are-turning-us-into-passengers-7d02edf50220?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/7d02edf50220 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:41:44 GMT 2026-11-04T20:41:44.277Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[Don’t ask agents to behave, build systems where they can’t misbehave]]>

A story in the Financial Times, “The race to keep AI under control”, provides a useful account of recent security breaches involving AI…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/dont-ask-agents-to-behave-build-systems-where-they-can-t-misbehave-11ab4824abc7?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/11ab4824abc7 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:12:40 GMT 2026-11-04T10:12:40.020Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[The AI investment boom: follow the money, not the hype]]>

Piergiorgio M. Sandri, from Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia, called me to discuss the huge investment in AI and its impact on the…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/the-ai-investment-boom-follow-the-money-not-the-hype-1a390c62415a?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/1a390c62415a Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:23:12 GMT 2026-11-02T19:23:12.332Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[An emergency brake… or the architectural demotion of the AI model?]]>

On June 14, Satya Nadella published an article on X about corporate AI that left me completely impressed: his main point, that the…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/an-emergency-brake-or-the-architectural-demotion-of-the-ai-model-0c88cf55e6b7?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/0c88cf55e6b7 Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:22:10 GMT 2026-11-01T09:22:10.143Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[Spain’s high-speed railway: the human cost of keeping an aging network on the tracks]]>

Spain inaugurated the first stretch of its high-speed rail network in 1992, extending it since then to 3,973 km, the largest in Europe and…

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An article in The Register citing a blog by Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg announces the end of traditional coding tests…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/its-time-companies-started-testing-candidates-with-the-tools-they-ll-be-using-in-their-job-be0ffaa084aa?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/be0ffaa084aa Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:54:26 GMT 2026-10-30T20:54:26.092Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[Tokenmaxxing, or the law of unintended consequences (that surely could have been predicted)]]>

In an internal memorandum, Amazon has asked its employees to stop trying to appear busy by inflating their AI usage, the practice that has…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/tokenmaxxing-or-the-law-of-unintended-consequences-that-surely-could-have-been-predicted-e0ce328fb9a3?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/e0ce328fb9a3 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:51:43 GMT 2026-10-29T19:07:39.428Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[China’s AI bubble has burst, but the technology is here to stay]]>

The history of capitalism is replete with examples of investors who lost their shirts after betting on technologies that went on to change…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/chinas-ai-bubble-has-burst-but-the-technology-is-here-to-stay-4d10b8c347f3?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/4d10b8c347f3 Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:43:37 GMT 2026-10-28T18:43:37.621Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[Meta is a cancer on democracy]]>

Meta’s interference in Brazil’s presidential election is just the latest example of the danger Mark Zuckerberg poses to democracy…

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]]> https://medium.com/enrique-dans/meta-is-a-cancer-on-democracy-98a9581151ed?source=rss----f41f22e4979f---4 https://medium.com/p/98a9581151ed Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:23:22 GMT 2026-10-27T18:23:22.388Z http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <![CDATA[You thought you’d bought a smart television, but they sold you an advertising machine.]]>

For reasons I won’t go into, for a good part of the last 18 months I was forced to use television sets in places other than my home, and…

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