AI’s epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams
19-10-2026 10:30 via Www.theregister.com - Articles

AI’s epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams

As it was written, so it has come to pass. A while back, we suggested that given how good AI was at code analysis, it would become possible to clone large applications. And then where would we be? Here, that’s where. An industrious individual has released source code and binaries for Claude-copied Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite programs, disappointingly not calling elements of the latter Fauxtoshop. They’re in pre-alpha states of incomplete bugginess, but with substantial
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