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.
WTF now?! #20 – Thursday 29 January–Wednesday 4 February 2026
A triad of factors keep pushing creative arts university enrolments down while the Kennedy Centre is set to close ‘for renovations’ and QPAC’s new theatre, Art Centre Melbourne’s refurbished State Theatre and Powerhouse Parramatta as all due to open this year.
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?! #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?! #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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