Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS), the M&E technology division of the US operator, promised bold predictions for 2026 ahead of a live webinar. Yet what was delivered was mostly safe consensus—except for one unexpected thread discussing AI provenance, verification, and the slow-motion standards mess forming around the C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity). The session’s most useful comments for Faultline readers came from Ayush Chaturvedi, Senior Director of Product Management at CTS, who framed AI as having moved decisively out of the experimental phase, and is now maturing into mainstream status. However, the biggest challenges center around scaling the technology—and scaling it responsibility. Chaturvedi cited how rule-based deterministic workflows (getting content reliably from A to B) remain cheaper and more…