Breaking the Screen: The 2026 Shift to Externalized AI

2 Feb 2026 Issue: AI is stepping out of our screens and into our homes and factories as the race for chips, models, and AI companionship intensifies. What does this mean for businesses?

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For decades, we’ve been conditioned to think of software as something we go to. We open a laptop, we look at a screen, we type into a box. Even the first wave of Generative AI followed this rule: it lived behind a glass wall, waiting for us to visit.