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Best CRM for a new P&C Agent

✇CRM - Customer Relationship Managment
By: /u/Ill-Seesaw-8151
15 August 2026 at 21:51

Hey everyone, just got my P&C license and started selling last week. I'm looking for some advice on CRMS.

What CRM do you guys recommend for someone just getting started? Ideally, I'd like something that also allows me to purchase leads directly through the platform, so I can manage the leads and follow-ups all in one place.

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What actually got you to HubSpot Platinum?

✇CRM - Customer Relationship Managment
By: /u/Educational-Ear6898
15 August 2026 at 19:30

We’ve just made the move from being a HubSpot provider to an official HubSpot partner.

It was a reasonably big call for us as a small agency. We’ve been implementing and supporting HubSpot for clients for more than 10 years and have been to INBOUND for the last two, so we know the platform well. What’s new for us is building the partner side of the business more deliberately.

For those who have already been through this, what actually helped you build your HubSpot pipeline before reaching the tiers where HubSpot starts sending opportunities your way?

Was it existing clients, implementation projects, specialising in a particular HubSpot problem, content, outbound, co-selling, or something else?

And what would you do differently if you were starting again?

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X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 21:25
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app's "For You" algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts have been impacted by any of its ranking systems, the social network said on Thursday. The company is making the source code for the "For You" timeline, the default feed you see when you open the app, available on GitHub under the Apache v2 license. It's also expanding its previous efforts to open source parts of its codebase to add more detail, including the model configuration, filter, and core ranking system details. That means it includes the parameters used to weight different signals — key to understanding which posts are actually displayed. This also makes the codebase roughly 10 to 15 times larger than it was before. "You'll get the core ranking code that pulls posts and ranks them for any given user and assembles the feed," X's VP of Product Keith Coleman told TechCrunch in an interview ahead of the announcement. "You can see the systems that filter out potentially problematic, rule-violating content...And some of those systems, like the ranker and the score, you can even run yourself outside the company." "This is the kind of thing that I think people will be fairly shocked that we are releasing," he added. In addition to the repository, X is providing tools that will let users see for themselves if and how X's ranking systems have impacted their account or posts. A new transparency tool is rolling out to an "Under the Hood" page in the app's settings, which will let users who have posted 10 or more times over the past month download their aggregate stats as a JSON file. The file will show if any labels have been applied to their account or posts over the past calendar month. X's VP of Product told TechCrunch that X engineers will consider pull requests. "That would be amazing to have people submitting code that improves the algorithm...I mean, how cool would it be for the X algorithm to be not just visible to the public, but also, like, by the public?"

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Favorite Wordpress Forms Plugin

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By: /u/PeteTinNY
15 August 2026 at 19:34

So I've been using WP Forms for a couple of years, but while it's easy, it's expensive and I hate how it stores its responses in hidden posts. I also hate that the Pro version is $399 and still doesn't have n8n integrations or webhooks. They have tons of formatted forms... but none ever fit.

I'm on a mission to make my site more responsive, and lower costs... so What do you think is the best forms program? I do plan to be running several sites including some that will need people to upload information including drivers licenses and sign a waiver.

been thinking about Gravity Forms and potentially Fluent forms - but would love everyone's thoughts.

My WP Forms subscription expires in October so have to make a decision soon so I can migrate the big 3 sites before the WP Forms expires

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Are we cooked?

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By: /u/xorlol
15 August 2026 at 19:18

I’m a web developer with 10+ years of experience.

Today I generated a genuinely unique, award-worthy website design in ChatGPT, with instructions for it to be exported as a WordPress/Elementor theme.

From generating the site to installing it on WordPress and having it actually working took less than an hour.

And I’m sitting here thinking… are we cooked? 😂

How much time do you think web developers realistically have before we get a tool where you type:

> “Build me a unique, high-end website for this business.”

…and one click later you have the design, responsive pages, CMS, animations, SEO basics, WordPress integration, and everything else ready to go?

Not another generic AI template — I mean genuinely custom, polished websites.

1 year? 2 years? Or are we basically already there?

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Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 18:34
Europe is facing its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures this summer, the New York Times reports. Now climate scientists wonder if global warming is doing more than raise temperatures... The weather patterns that create heat domes aren't new, but today they arise on top of the warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. That makes it more likely that heat waves reach record-shattering temperatures for long stretches. But other environmental changes — natural, human-influenced or both — might also be causing heat domes to become more frequent and longer lasting. And it's these changes that scientists around the globe are trying to puzzle out. One change has to do with the Arctic. The differences in temperature between the hot Equator and the frigid far north help keep weather moving around the Northern Hemisphere. But with the top of the world now warming at several times the pace of the rest of the globe, those temperature gradients are narrowing. That might be causing the movements of weather systems to become more sluggish, producing more persistent heat waves. In Europe, reduced air pollution could be having a similar effect. Industrial emissions can contain particles called aerosols that reflect sunlight. Curbing aerosols has improved air quality, but it may also have altered the way air moves across the continent. Scientists haven't come to firm conclusions about how these shifts might be affecting European summers, said Antje Weisheimer, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford. The complex, fine-scale interactions in the atmosphere that drive weather dynamics are tough to capture in computer simulations, Dr. Weisheimer said. "It's tricky," she said. "We're making small progress." Dim Coumou, a professor of climate science at the Dutch university VU Amsterdam, sees artificial intelligence as one way forward. In a recent study, he and his colleagues used an A.I. algorithm to help a weather model better predict summer temperatures in Europe. They not only improved the model's forecasts; they also discovered why some of the model's predictions had been off: It misrepresented the way conditions in the western Pacific Ocean influenced atmospheric patterns that eventually made their way to Europe. With A.I., "we can also learn what the climate models are missing," Dr. Coumou said.

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How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 17:34
A "massive influx" of jellyfish forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant this week and reduce output at a fourth, reports Bloomberg. Just as summer temperatures surged, 3.2 gigawatts went offline — and the power utility was already facing cuts other nuclear sites as high temperatures reduced the river water available for cooling. More details from ScienceAlert: As Politico reports, the Gravelines nuclear power plant spent hundreds of thousands of euros in 2025 to stop this happening again, only to see a repeat 12 months later... Increasing temperatures in the water can produce more of the plankton and animals that jellyfish feed on, as well as accelerating life cycles and extending breeding seasons.... It's not just jellyfish that have a habit of disrupting human energy infrastructure. Last year in Connecticut, a single raccoon caused more than a thousand power outages, as reported by CT Insider. It's not clear exactly what the raccoon did, but we do know it somehow got into a substation and caused damage to the equipment in there. The unwitting act of sabotage left more than 2,500 customers in the area without power at one stage — though repairs were swiftly carried out. Reuters reported Tuesday on how the French utility responded to their jellyfish swarm: EDF has installed fixed cameras at the intake canals and on the filter drum screens to detect any incoming blockages as soon as possible, an engineer told Reuters... The company has also partnered with a French fishing organisation and a sea rescue organisation, which monitor for swarms and can raise an alert to launch targeted trawling operations by fishermen to reduce the swarm's density before it reaches the plant, the engineer said. The fishing boats were deployed [last] Saturday after an initial alarm was raised, limiting the impact from the swarm. The jellyfish that are already on site are being removed with vacuum trucks, he said. No new jellyfish are arriving, so cleanup is finishing, which should lead to a quick restart of the units, they added... Scientists warn such events could become more common due to factors including global warming, the arrival of invasive species, habitat loss of predators and over-fishing. Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the news.

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2026 Drupal Association At-Large board election extension to August 17 at 23:59 UTC

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By: /u/cmkn
15 August 2026 at 11:51

@here Board Election Extension

We've discovered that our voting platform, Helios, had a mail delivery outage or queue delay, resulting in the final two reminder messages not being delivered until after the deadline for some voters.

Therefore, we have extended the election.

The Board Election is now closing Monday 17 August, 23:59 UTC

That is:

- 7:59pm Eastern, Aug 17
- 4:59pm Pacific, Aug 17
- 05:30am on 18 Aug - India time
- 9:59am on 18 Aug - Australia time

Search for messages from "[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])"to find your ballot

Learn about the candidates and the election timeline here:

https://www.drupal.org/association/board/elections/election-2026-dates-and-candidates

This election uses approval voting: rather than picking just one candidate, you may vote for every candidate you approve of, and the candidate approved by the most voters wins. More on how approval voting works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval\_voting

Questions or trouble voting? Contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

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How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 15:50
Less than a year ago he was the #1 richest man in the world. 10 weeks ago he was #2. But yesterday Larry Ellison dropped to #8, Forbes reports, falling behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Ellison's net worth is now estimated at just $192.6 billion — after a $104 billion decline: Shares of Oracle plunged roughly 54% between hitting a high of just over $250 on June 1 to a low of $114.50 on July 28, though the stock rebounded slightly to $150.52 as of Friday. A decline followed Oracle telling investors it expected to raise $40 billion through debt and equity financing, with capital expenditures surging 162% to $55.7 billion and spending expected to top $95 billion by fiscal 2027. Jacob Bourne, an analyst at eMarketer, told Reuters there are broader concerns about how Oracle would fund its capital spending to match its revenue projections, and Bank of America analysts separately flagged in a note cautioning that more than 50% of Oracle's remaining performance obligation comes from OpenAI. Melius Research analysts wrote last month that Oracle's spending plans may not hold if OpenAI or Anthropic demands more computing capacity. S&P Global also downgraded Oracle's credit rating in July, arguing the firm's "rapidly expanding" AI infrastructure business could pay off, but may be too expensive and could weaken Oracle's financial position in the meantime. $443 billion. That's how much Oracle's market valuation has dropped since peaking at $877.1 billion in September, hitting $433.5 billion as of Friday... Oracle, once viewed as a potential winner of the booming AI infrastructure buildout, has since raised concerns among investors who appear to view the firm as taking on too much financial risk to fund its projects. Wall Street has cautioned that mega-cap tech firms may be taking on too much spending to match growing demand for AI products, with firms like Amazon expecting to spend more than $200 billion. Oracle's backlog has exploded to $638 billion, but more than half is reportedly associated with OpenAI, and some analysts have cautioned that most of those funds may not be guaranteed.

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[PROMO] I built a WP plugin 2 years ago, but a terrible name made it completely invisible. So I rebuilt it.

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By: /u/angelorocha
15 August 2026 at 15:17

Hey r/Wordpress,

About two years ago, I released a plugin called WPSS Ultimate User Management. I was pretty proud of it, but I made one rookie mistake: I completely messed up the naming strategy. The name was so bad that the WordPress plugin directory search algorithm basically buried it. It wouldn't even show up if you searched for user management plugins!

Instead of leaving it to die in search engine limbo, I decided to give it a proper comeback. I've spent the last few weeks refactoring the whole codebase, cleaning up the backend, and bringing it up to standard for WordPress 7.0.

What’s new?

Besides code optimizations and performance tweaks, I wanted to make user management faster right from the native WP admin.

Now, when you hover over any user in the native WordPress user list, you’ll find a new Permissions link alongside the default Edit/View options. Clicking it pops up a clean role-management view specifically for that user, saving you from navigating away or digging through full profile pages just to adjust roles and capabilities.

Here’s a quick overview of what the plugin does:

  • Role & Capability Editor: Create custom roles or fine-tune exact capabilities for existing ones.
  • Dashboard & Menu Access: Restrict access to specific admin menus, submenus, and the admin bar based on user roles.
  • Widget & Sidebar Permissions: Control who can see or edit classic widgets and sidebars.
  • Content Restrictions: Block access to posts, pages, or custom post types by role with custom restriction messages.
  • Clean & Lightweight: Native WP hooks, no bloated external libraries, and built for PHP 8.1+.

It’s been a fun process fixing old mistakes and polishing the code. If you handle client sites, membership platforms, or just need cleaner access control, I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think!

WordPress plugin link: RoleCraft: User Access Control

Github project link: RoleCraft: User Access Control

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[Urgent] - Self Healing Malware Across 30+ Sites on single housting. Need Help 😭

✇WordPress
By: /u/Latter_Bodybuilder81
15 August 2026 at 15:05

I'm dealing with a persistent, self-healing malware infection across ~30 WordPress sites on the same cPanel shared hosting account (A2 Hosting).

Symptoms:

· Files reappear seconds after deletion
· mu-plugins/nexus-router-run.php (empty 0-byte file) keeps coming back
· Advanced-cache.php, db.php, and .g_*.php files in wp-includes
· Shared memory segments (shmop) storing payloads
· Processes like .g_98130eea.php running even after file deletion
· .user.ini files with auto_prepend_file pointing to backdoors

What I've done:

· Replaced WordPress core with fresh files
· Replaced all plugins from official sources
· Replaced Astra theme from official source
· Cleaned database (removed sc_, wp_91_, transient_sc* options)
· Changed database name, username, and password
· Regenerated WordPress salts
· Killed all .g_ processes
· Cleared shared memory (ipcrm)
· Deleted all .user.ini files
· Deleted all mu-plugins
· Deleted advanced-cache.php and db.php
· Disabled all cron jobs
· Changed cPanel password

The problem:

Shared memory keeps coming back (new segments appear), and the .g_ process restarts. Something is recreating it. I suspect it's either:

· A system-level cron job outside my user
· A hidden backdoor in another infected site
· Something at the server level A2 Hosting needs to handle

Questions:

  1. Has anyone dealt with this specific "Crux Runner" or "SC_" malware family?
  2. How do I find what's re-creating the .g_ process?
  3. Is this a server-level infection that only A2 Hosting can fix?

I've spent days on this. Any help appreciated.

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AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 14:00
"An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025," remembers the BBC. And earlier this year OpenAI "formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon be able to speed up so much human labour that the corporate world should prepare itself." However, a former OpenAI technical employee who left the company last year told the BBC the firm never actually trialled the four-day work week it suggested others should try while they were there. Instead, the person described what was often a gruelling work culture marked by frequent "crisis meetings", working on weekends, and "super cut-throat" performance reviews that would see colleagues suddenly let go... [T]he former OpenAI employee said they would put in at least 70 hours a week, much more than they did in previous tech jobs... Other companies have also pushed the idea that AI will effectively reduce the number of hours people need to work, for better or worse. [At OpenAI and Anthropic] sprints can stretch on for many weeks and top 90 hours of work in a seven-day period, tech workers that the BBC spoke to for this story said... At Meta, workers said they have been abruptly pushed onto teams this year doing AI work being treated as urgent... The hours on such teams at Meta are often long, with staff working into the night, on weekends, and feeling they are "on call" during the hours they are not working, according to descriptions of the work from the current and former employees... Some new research suggests that AI tools are making people's workloads even more burdensome. A study out of UC Berkeley followed hundreds of workers at a US tech company for eight months as they used AI. It found the employees "worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day"... The UC Berkeley research found that the workload of tech employees was expanded in part because of the need to constantly check the output of AI tools. In the article Neil Thompson, an innovation scholar at MIT, pointed out a problem with estimates that AI will ease the workload on humans. "People assume that 20% less work means four-day weeks. But new work emerges." The BBC also points out helpfully that "there are no limits in the U.S. on how many hours a person over the age of 16 can work." (While in the UK and Europe, "laws limit a working week to 48 hours, including overtime.") Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader hadleyburg for sharing the article.

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Is wordpress right for my business?

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By: /u/GooseNcannoli
15 August 2026 at 14:14

Hi yall! I own a boarding & grooming dog salon. I need a website that’s really just the bare minimum: explaining our company and prices. We currently use wix and it’s very expensive. The fanciest thing about wix page is that there’s a place to email us directly from the website. Does it sound like it could be worth switching to wordpress?

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It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 13:00
It's not just RAM prices that are going up, writes CNET. "Reports suggest the cost of Windows licenses for manufacturers is rising by up to 10%." Several sites that closely follow Microsoft news, including Windows Central and Windows Latest, have published articles citing a report from Taiwan's Economic Daily News that claims some PC manufacturers are seeing a 7% to 10% increase in the cost of Windows 11 licenses... Because they buy licenses in bulk, they get a sizeable discount over what a consumer would pay for a new copy of Windows 11. But given the existing cost pressures from other components, a big Windows 11 price hike could lead them to pass on some of the added cost to PC buyers. According to the EDN story, PC makers could raise prices by about 5% over the next quarter due to the reported Windows price hike. .. A translated version of the Economic Daily News article contains information from an unnamed PC brand executive. It says that while Microsoft typically raises licensing costs every year by single-digit percentages, that hike has reached 7% to 10% this year, a significant increase. "A representative for Microsoft declined to comment on the report," according to the article. But it also notes that three weeks ago laptop maker Framework blamed price hikes and reconfigurations for some of their models on processor, memory, storage, "and other silicon costs — but also "an increase in Windows license costs." Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the article.

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Can I get into freelancing (or agency work) today?

✇WordPress
By: /u/instinct_ow
15 August 2026 at 12:46

I have been learning WordPress and building a good site for a few months now. I am thoroughly studying everything and I’m avoiding “vibe coding” or any other AI assisted stuff so I can ACTUALLY learn how to do this. My goal is to start as a WP freelancer then become good enough to hire people to automate tasks for me and turn it into a business (this is general plan for the next years I of course dont think I can achieve this in 3 months). Anyways I’ve seen a lot of negativity online of people being extremely pessimistic about offering to build a business a website. So pessimistic, in fact, that a part of me is starting to believe them. And since I have no real world experience to test this (I’m not good enough yet to offer my services) I don’t know if they are right or not. So this question is to the people who DO work in the industry. Someone can enter and make money from it right? It’s not dominated by big companies only right? I hope so. Thanks to anyone who answers in advance!

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Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 12:00
"The European Union's Copernicus climate monitoring service confirmed Monday that June and July were the hottest on record in western Europe," .according to a report from the CBC. "The period saw an estimated 25,000 heat-related deaths." CNN has before-and-after photos of Europe's dried rivers, calling it "a crisis so dire it can be seen from space" River levels are so low that commercial ships have had to reduce their loads by as much as 80% to avoid running aground. It's disrupting supply chains and making shipping more expensive. Other effects of Europe's drying rivers The BBC reports that Romania has "shut down its only nuclear power station because of extremely low water levels in the Danube river." A bridge built in the year 39 AD by the Roman emperor Caligula "is usually entirely underwater," reports CNN, but this year full blocks of the ancient structure are visible, giving archaeologists a rare opportunity to study it." The reports adds that drying Tiber has also now also revealed formerly submerged e-bikes, scooters, refrigerators and a car." The CBC reports a dozen Nazi warships scuttled in a river during the Second World War are now resurfacing as water levels plunge. "Elsewhere, the drying Danube has revealed a German military motorcycle in Hungary, an unexploded 700-kilogram British bomb in Slovakia, and what are believed to be the ancient remains of a mammoth in Bulgaria."

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What’s one CRM feature you thought would be useful but barely use?

✇CRM - Customer Relationship Managment
By: /u/mikebehussling
15 August 2026 at 11:58

CRMs have so many features that it’s easy to end up using only a small part of what you’re actually paying for.

What’s one CRM feature you thought would be a game changer but ended up barely using?

Could be automation, reporting, lead scoring, AI features, integrations, anything really.

And what do you actually use every day that you couldn’t work without?

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ive been job hunting recently !

✇WordPress
By: /u/Hot_Specialist_3847
15 August 2026 at 11:16

I'm clicking apply to any job i find on any platform , i have some experience in web development (im a 2nd year CSIT student btw)

and i got an opportunity/appointment for wordpress website management/seo role , they liked my resume seeing my previous experience , i intentionally had not kept the wordpress part in my resume and just mentioned web development , the thing is i have knowledge/experience about building websites with MERN stack which ofcourse is tougher than wordpress but i have never touched wordpress in my life and i need to pass the interview , i have some experience regarding SEO too as i made my portfolio rank 1 for keyword (my full name) search, i had used google search console for that , i had heavily used ai at that time , but i very well remember what the process is , the role is just to update/manage the wordpress website and monitor google analytics and search performance , i feel like i can easily handle the job if i got this , but the problem is i donot have enough time to learn all this shit , can experienced/knowledgeable personnels help this fresher land the opportunity , they had listed this role as junior level , the interview/appointment is sunday morning and i have another appointment tomorrow for a different role so i dont have much time to prepare , can you guys tell me what to look at before the interview .

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Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI?

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By: EditorDavid
15 August 2026 at 11:00
This week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter titled "The Future is for Everyone". But the BBC is more interested in why big tech executives keep writing manifestos about AI: [Zuckerberg's] vision echoes what AI leaders have expressed in various forms: the product they are building is among the "most important technologies in history." Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", which argued innovation was the way to solve life's problems... As the International Monetary Fund warns AI could affect nearly 40% of jobs and worsen global financial inequality, Zuckerberg says he believes there will be an abundance of jobs in the future. "I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future." Never mind that Zuckerberg's Meta has cut 10% of its global workforce — about 8,000 jobs — as the company reorganizes to focus on AI. Zuckerberg's manifesto is the latest to land in our social media feeds in an effort to put a positive spin on AI. In 2024, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI boss Sam Altman released a manifesto called "The Intelligence Age", a sweeping expression of optimism about the tech's potential... That same year, in a manifesto titled "Machines of Loving Grace", Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei touted the potential of AI to transform everything from healthcare to politics. So what's going on with these tech executives' manifestos? Economics blogger Noah Smith suggested to the BBC "they all feel like it's such an important moment that it's incumbent upon them to do whatever they can to shape the direction that this technology is going." Although he does see some value in their engagement with important issues. "Should we open-source something that has the ability to kill humanity? If you don't take that seriously, you're just a fool." But Rob Lalka, a business professor at Tulane University, had a different explanation for the BBC: Lalka said the timing of Zuckerberg's manifesto coincides with rising anger over AI's impact on everything from jobs to the environment. And while tech journalists and academics might pore over them trying to glean nuggets of meaning, these executive manifestos are not necessarily landing with the general public. "They're trying to make the case that the positives will far outweigh some of those negatives that the public backlash is pointing out," he said. "But I think a lot of the reasons for optimism are still yet to be seen."

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