Dropout.TV would definitely fall under #4 if you haven’t checked them out

https://adnauseam.io/

You’re looking for something like this. It still blocks the ad from your view but in the background it still loads/plays the ad, and sometimes even clicks it to spend their precious ad budget.

This is how new superheros are born

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish sadly

Same, we had two in Metro Atlanta that were Covid Casualties

The software that implements multi agents called ChatDev, it’s significant more capable than one agent working alone. The ability to critique and fix bugs in the code in an iterative process gives a massive step up to the ability of the AI to program.

Granted it might still get in a loop between the programing and testing departments, but it’s a solid step in the right direction.