Hey, I’m Elliott Bledsoe and I am the grumpy cat of arts marketing!
Here Elliott Bledsoe explores WTF is up with AI, the arts, technology, marketing, copyright and open knowledge.
Some of my better thoughts
AI buying AI: Big Tech has been on an AI spending spree
Q1 2026 was acquisition crazy in AI! Anthropic, OpenAI, Netflix, Canva, Accenture, MyFitnessPal and more have been buying up other AI players.
Been briefed – Towards a new National Cultural Policy Public Consultation Paper, Australian Government
Australia is consulting on the next National Cultural Policy. The new policy will continue the pillars in Revive, the current policy, while seeking to update them in response to a changing environment for arts and culture.
Been briefed – What 81,000 people want from AI, Anthropic
Claude interviewed 80,508 users about their hopes for, experiences of and concerns with AI.
Been briefed – Towards a new National Cultural Policy Public Consultation Paper, Australian Government
Australia is consulting on the next National Cultural Policy. The new policy will continue the pillars in Revive, the current policy, while seeking to update them in response to a changing environment for arts and culture.
WTF now?! #26 – Thursday 12–Wednesday 18 March 2026
There was no rigour to DOGE cuts to Humanities grants, Anthropic is leaning in to AI ethics and public benefit and AI companies realise they have to make the open source infrastructure behind the internet more secture.
WTF now?! #25 – Thursday 5–Wednesday 11 March 2026
This week: app stores, AI acquisitions and antitrust cases, oh my! Plus a peak at Palantir’s military contract, Katy Perry lost a trade mark dispute and La Trobe appointed an AI provost.
WTF now?! #25 – Thursday 5–Wednesday 11 March 2026
This week: app stores, AI acquisitions and antitrust cases, oh my! Plus a peak at Palantir’s military contract, Katy Perry lost a trade mark dispute and La Trobe appointed an AI provost.
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