Agents, Capital, and the New Center of Gravity

AI rewires the markets, the media, and the room where attention now lives.

Code, capital, and culture are still reshuffling their roles. Ad systems are learning to buy and measure themselves, shifting the power of persuasion into software. Money is pouring in faster than the market can absorb, building another glittering structure on borrowed conviction. The living room has turned into the browser tab, where YouTube folds sports, comedy, and talk into one endless feed. And Netflix, once the disruptor, is stitching podcasts into its catalog, searching for the next seam of attention to mine. Each layer feeds the other. Algorithms set the tempo, finance supplies the fuel, and platforms pull the frame tighter around us.

AI Ad Tech ‘Land Grab’ Pits Salesforce Against Google, Microsoft, and Amazon

Catherine Perloff at The Information tracks the new battle over ad infrastructure. Salesforce, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are racing to build AI agents that plan, buy, and optimize campaigns automatically. The pitch is efficiency. The prize is control over the feedback …