Andy Beach

The asset has had a resolvable identifier for 15 years. The performer in it has not. AI didn't create the identity problem. It made visible an asymmetry that's been running quietly in the industry's infrastructure since 2010. open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/i…

Spotify Embraces AI - DTNS for Thursday May 7, 2026 with @acedtect @queencodemonkey @andybeach Listen here: shows.acast.com/dtns/episodes/…

A VC firm just discovered its staff were burning $1,000/day per Claude account. Fewer than 10% of its portfolio companies track AI spend. Per-seat economics meet per-token reality. open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/t…

The next moon landing won't be a broadcast. It'll be a global streaming event with hundreds of millions of concurrents on a feed originating near the Moon. What that actually demands of our industry, in a new Sidebar on Engines of Change... open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/s…

A judge cuts AI extinction talk from the trial. The FCC reviews Disney's licenses over a joke. A $1B legal AI vendor gets named in a court filing. Warner-Paramount shareholders vote yes anyway. Four rooms. One pattern. open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/t…

NAB ate my week so I never promoted Ep 005 of Future Frames. Fixing that now! @DarrenCross on why the creator economy has no middle class and why AI reinforces that, not fixes it. Episode 005 - Power, Platforms, and the AI Floor open.substack.com/pub/futurefram…

DTNS for Wednesday April 22, 2026 with @acedtect @sarahlane @andybeach Framework Introduces the Modular MacBook for Linux Users Listen here: shows.acast.com/dtns/episodes/…

Two weeks ago Anthropic released its frontier model to ~40 critical infrastructure organizations. Yesterday OpenAI launched its own into ChatGPT for hundreds of millions of consumers. This week's System Alert:The End of the Beginning open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/t…

@erinrosew caught herself doing something she hadn't done in a decade: writing down a weekly TV drop schedule on paper. Her guest Sidebar on why, plus what's converging alongside it, is up on Engines of Change. Find her at NAB this week!! open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/d…

This year marks 30 years since my first NAB. I wrote a short Sidebar ahead of NAB 2026 on why the show floor is usually a lagging indicator, and why the real signal tends to show up in the hallway, over dinner, and after hours. open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/t…

New Future Frames episode is live. Provenance is the trust layer media hasn't built yet. I talked with Renard Jenkins and Olga Korienko about what it actually takes to track and validate content through AI workflows. open.substack.com/pub/futurefram…

Most large media catalogs are not underutilized. They are structurally unreadable. New Deep Cut: The Memory Economy. What changes when that gets solved — and who controls it. open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/t…

The Farrow investigation into Sam Altman is getting framed as a personality story. That’s not what it is. The Robber Baron Who Believes His Own Story enginesofchange.ai/p/the-robber-b…

Episode 3 of Future Frames is out! Huge thanks to Brian Brushwood and Jim Louderback for jumping on. Honestly, I could’ve just let them run. Half the job was figuring out when to interrupt. Listen here: futureframes.media/p/episode-003-…

Data that arrives after the decision window closes isn't an asset. It's an artifact. Adam Husein wrote a sharp piece on what it actually means to be data-driven. Hint: it has nothing to do with how many dashboards your team built. open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/r…

Oracle: 30,000 jobs → compute. OpenAI: buys the show that covered it. Meta: borrows a trust signal it didn't build. A UK firm: fakes the spokesperson entirely. Four stories. One pattern. open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/t…

Episode 1 of Future Frames is live. I kicked things off with Renard Jenkins for a conversation about AI, media infrastructure, standards, and provenance. Watch on Substack or YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.substack.com/pub/futurefram…

Future Frames is live. Conversations about what AI is actually doing to media infrastructure. Not the tools. The systems underneath them. Video on Substack + YouTube. Audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and more. futureframes.media

The Middle Layer Is Becoming Strategic open.substack.com/pub/abeach/p/t…

Google drops Univision. OpenAI turns Sora into a feed. California writes its own AI law. Disney fights chatbots of Mickey and Elsa. Different stories, same question: who sets the defaults? enginesofchange.ai/p/distribution…