Issue #5 — April 2026 THE TECH NATION People. Tech. Impact. This week: the word everyone uses but nobody defines properly. Plus — why OpenAI putting ads in ChatGPT was always going to happen, and what to do about it. Main Feature Agentic AI: the difference between a GPS and a driverA GPS tells you where to go. A driver takes you there. That's the whole agentic AI thing, really. For the past two years, we've been using AI as a very smart GPS — it gives directions, we follow them. What's changing now is that the AI is starting to drive. Not fully. Not always reliably. But enough to matter. An agent doesn't just answer your question. It breaks down the goal, picks the tools, executes the steps, and comes back to you when it hits a wall. Claude Code rewriting a whole feature while you're in a meeting. n8n workflows that adapt instead of just trigger. Hot Take When AI goes ad-supported — and why it was always going to happenOpenAI just announced it's putting ads in ChatGPT. $2.5B projected for 2026, $100B by 2030. It's obviously. Netflix did it. Spotify did it. Every platform that built a massive free user base eventually had the same conversation: how do we monetize the people who won't pay? What to retain 01 [object Object] | 02 [object Object] | 03 [object Object] |
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