AI trends 2026

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1. January 29, 2026 at 6:55 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Humanity needs to wake up.” https://trib.al/V7yccdY

   In Excelsis AI
   Anthropic CEO Warns That the AI Tech He’s Creating Could Ravage Human Civilization
   “Humanity needs to wake up.”
   https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-warns-ai-ravage-human-civilization?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPn1qVjbGNrA-fWYWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvRDYp0HxpD21YuznNkXYsze1oeWLjVGbYYm5vwmIKIvZn6bag0LUbt5JPOk_aem_uSB-yYn5Z3-B0oRnFrUnyw

   AI tech leaders have a lot to gain from striking fear into the hearts of their investors. By painting the tech as an ultra-powerful force that could easily bring humanity to its knees, the industry is hoping to sell itself as a panacea: a remedy to a situation it had a firm hand in bringing about.

   Case in point, Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei is back with a 19,000-word essay posted to his blog, arguing that “humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.”

   In light of that existential danger, Amodei attempted to lay out a framework to “defeat” the risks presented by AI — which, by his own admission, may well be “futile.”

   “Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt — a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying — to jolt people awake,” he wrote.

   Amodei argued that “we are considerably closer to real danger in 2026 than we were in 2023,” citing the risks of major job losses and a “concentration of economic power” and wealth.

   In light of that existential danger, Amodei attempted to lay out a framework to “defeat” the risks presented by AI — which, by his own admission, may well be “futile.”

   “Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt — a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying — to jolt people awake,” he wrote.

   Amodei argued that “we are considerably closer to real danger in 2026 than we were in 2023,” citing the risks of major job losses and a “concentration of economic power” and wealth.

   In light of that existential danger, Amodei attempted to lay out a framework to “defeat” the risks presented by AI — which, by his own admission, may well be “futile.”

   “Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt — a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying — to jolt people awake,” he wrote.

   Amodei argued that “we are considerably closer to real danger in 2026 than we were in 2023,” citing the risks of major job losses and a “concentration of economic power” and wealth.

   The CEO also cited the risk of AIs developing dangerous bioweapons or “superior” military weapons. An AI could “go rogue and overpower humanity” or allow countries to “use their advantage in AI to gain power over other countries,” leading to the “alarming possibility of a global totalitarian dictatorship.”

   In its current race to the bottom, the AI industry finds itself in a “trap,” Amodei argued.

   “AI-driven terrorism could kill millions through the misuse of biology, but an overreaction to this risk could lead us down the road to an autocratic surveillance state,” he argued.

   As part of a solution, Amodei renewed his calls to deny other countries the resources to build powerful AI. He went as far as to liken the US selling Nvidia AI chips to China to “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and then bragging that the missile casings are made by Boeing and so the US is ‘winning.’”

   Plenty of questions remain surrounding the real risks of advanced AI, a subject that remains heavily debated between realists, skeptics, and proponents of the tech.

   Critics have pointed out that the existential risks often cited by leaders like Amodei may be overblown, particularly as improvements in the tech appear to be slowing.

   Amodei has an enormous financial interest in positioning himself as the solution to the risks he cites in his essay.

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2. January 29, 2026 at 10:32 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Operational data: Giving AI agents the senses to succeed
   https://venturebeat.com/data/operational-data-giving-ai-agents-the-senses-to-succeed

   Organizations across every industry are rushing to take advantage of agentic AI. The promise is compelling for digital resilience — the potential to move organizations from reactive to preemptive operations.

   But there is a fundamental flaw in how most organizations are approaching this transformation.

   We are building brains without senses
   Walk into any boardroom discussing AI strategy, and you will hear endless debates about LLMs, reasoning engines, and GPU clusters. The conversation is dominated by the “brain” (which models to use) and the “body” (what infrastructure to run them on).

   What is conspicuously absent? Any serious discussion about the senses — the operational data that AI agents need to perceive and navigate their environment.

   This is not a minor oversight. It is a category error that will determine which organizations successfully deploy agentic AI and which ones create expensive, dangerous chaos.

   The three critical senses agents need
   For agentic AI to operate successfully in enterprise environments, it requires three fundamental sensory capabilities:

   1. Real-time operational awareness: Agents need continuous streams of telemetry, logs, events, and metrics across the entire technology stack. This isn’t batch processing; it is live data flowing from applications, infrastructure, security tools, and cloud platforms. When a security agent detects anomalous behavior, it needs to see what is happening right now, not what happened an hour ago

   2. Contextual understanding: Raw data streams aren’t enough. Agents need the ability to correlate information across domains instantly. A spike in failed login attempts means nothing in isolation. But correlate it with a recent infrastructure change and unusual network traffic, and suddenly you have a confirmed security incident. This context separates signal from noise.

   3. Historical memory: Effective agents understand patterns, baselines, and anomalies over time. They need access to historical data that provides context: What does normal look like? Has this happened before? This memory enables agents to distinguish between routine fluctuations and genuine issues requiring intervention

   In traditional analytics, poor data quality results in slower insights. Frustrating, but not catastrophic. In agentic environments, however, these problems become immediately operational:

   Inconsistent decisions: Agents oscillate between doing nothing and triggering unnecessary failovers because fragmented data sources contradict each other.

   Stalled automation: Workflows break mid-stream because the agent lacks visibility into system dependencies or ownership.

   Manual recovery: When things go wrong, teams spend days reconstructing events because there is no clear data lineage to explain the agent’s actions.

   The velocity of agentic AI doesn’t hide these data problems; it exposes and amplifies them at machine speed. What used to be a quarterly data hygiene initiative is now an existential operational risk.

   What winning organizations are building

   These winners are investing in four critical capabilities, all of which are central to the Cisco Data Fabric:

   1. Unified data at infinite scale and finite cost: Transforming disconnected monitoring tools into a unified operational data platform is imperative. To support real-time autonomous operations, organizations need data infrastructures that can efficiently scale to handle petabyte-level datasets. Crucially, this must be done cost-effectively through strategies like tiering, federation, and AI automation. True autonomous operations are only possible when unified data platforms deliver both high performance and economic sustainability.

   2. Built-in context and correlation: Sophisticated organizations are moving beyond raw data collection to delivering data that arrives enriched with context. Relationships between systems, dependencies across services, and the business impact of technical components must be embedded in the data workflow. This ensures agents spend less time discovering context and more time acting on it.

   3. Traceable lineage and governance: In a world where AI agents make consequential decisions, the ability to answer “why did the agent do that?” is mandatory. Organizations need complete data lineage showing exactly what information informed each decision. This isn’t just for debugging; it is essential for compliance, auditability, and building trust in autonomous systems.

   4. Open, interoperable standards: Agents do not operate in single-vendor vacuums. They need to sense across platforms, cloud providers, and on-premises systems. This requires a commitment to open standards and API integrations. Organizations that lock themselves into proprietary data formats will find their agents operating with partial blindness.

   The real competitive question
   As we move deeper into 2026, the strategic question isn’t “How many AI agents can we deploy?”

   It is: “Can our agents sense what is actually happening in our environment accurately, continuously, and with full context?”

   If the answer is no, get ready for agentic chaos.

   The good news is that this infrastructure isn’t just valuable for AI agents. It enhances human operations, traditional automation, and business intelligence immediately. The organizations that treat operational data as critical infrastructure will find that their AI agents work better autonomously, reliably, and at scale.

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3. January 29, 2026 at 10:34 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Facebook AI Slop Has Grown So Dark That You May Not Be Prepared
   This is just sick.
   https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-slop-dark

   For years now, Facebook’s feeds have been drowned out by an unrelenting tidal wave of AI slop, turning the platform — which feels like it’s long been abandoned by practically anybody under the age of 65 — into an unrecognizable digital hellscape.

   It’s already been two years since we came across a picture of “shrimp Jesus” for the first time, an early form of AI-generated junk that foreshadowed an even more nonsensical future, culminating in Merriam-Webster making “slop” its 2025 word of the year last month.

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4. January 29, 2026 at 10:35 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   No Sweat
   The CEO of Microsoft Suddenly Sounds Extremely Nervous About AI
   Not sounding too confident about AI not being a bubble.
   https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-ceo-nervous-ai

   It sounds like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is already coming up with excuses in case the whole AI boom turns out to be a massive bust— which, by the way, he’s warning might come to pass.

   Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Nadella pontificated about what would constitute such a speculative bubble, and said that the long-term success of AI tech hinges on it being used across a broad range of industries — as well as seeing an uptick in adoption in the developing world where it’s not as popular, the Financial Times reports. If AI fails, in other words, it’s everyone else’s fault for not using it.

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5. January 29, 2026 at 10:35 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Verkkokauppa siirtyy agenttien aikakauteen Googlen johdolla
   Mikko Sairanen, Johtaja, Digital Experience

   Verkkokauppa on murroksessa, joka muuttaa pelisääntöjä nopeammin kuin moni arvaa. Ostaminen ei ole enää vain ihmisen ja verkkokaupan välinen vuorovaikutus. Yhä useammin väliin astuu tekoälyagentti, joka ymmärtää asiakkaan tavoitteen ja toimii sen puolesta. Tämä ei ole enää visio, vaan todellisuutta: Google rakentaa parhaillaan yhteistä teknistä perustaa agenttipohjaiselle kaupankäynnille.
   https://digia.com/blogi/verkkokauppa-siirtyy-agenttien-aikakauteen-googlen-johdolla

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6. January 30, 2026 at 6:05 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the automaker is ending production of its Model S and X vehicles, and will use the factory in Fremont, California, to build Optimus humanoid robots. cnb.cx/4rkXKU8

   Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots
   https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAPpHg5jbGNrA-kd-WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvPZHiY9yToic5uWZDS-apqar23BmCtgudZm9r-bZOYoEpyrZ9Rd3Nm2lmMG_aem_rP9PAbJf-eXLEOLt6rK5SQ

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7. January 30, 2026 at 6:15 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
   AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company’s stuffed animals.
   https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-toy-exposed-50000-logs-of-its-chats-with-kids-to-anyone-with-a-gmail-account/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPpIEljbGNrA-kgJWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiWfwW0CmLJeETh9L2cdJ2Cpn1U0V1PGpw84orxYqcAXH9qcNTS5xd7R5uXP_aem_W8HSpWRy0OXktO64iazhbA

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8. January 30, 2026 at 9:04 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   “We don’t really know what gives rise to consciousness.” https://trib.al/lEvF3dC

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9. January 30, 2026 at 12:40 pm

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Tässä teoria: Falckin nollapiste on se kohta tekoälykoodamisen kehityksessä, kun ihmisen ei tarvitse enää ymmärtää koodia eikä projektin arkkitehtuurilla tai rakenteella ole merkitystä. Niin kauan, kun ihminen joutuu puuttumaan kehitykseen esimerkiksi 1% tai 0.1% tai edes 0.0001% verran, kun tekoäly ei millään selviydy jostain asiasta, nollapistettä ei ole saavutettu ja arkkitehtuurin on pakko olla ymmärrettävää “hätätilanteita” varten. Tähän pisteeseen asti tarvitaan arkkitehtia suunnittelussa.
   https://www.facebook.com/share/1Gvtzxmzjq/

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10. January 30, 2026 at 5:35 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    The US Department of Transportation is using Google’s Gemini to help draft binding safety regulations for aviation, roads, rail, and maritime sectors.

    Internal documents show officials were told AI could “revolutionize” rulemaking by producing drafts in minutes instead of months.

    “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” DoT general counsel Gregory Zerzan said, according to the recent meeting notes obtained by ProPublica. “We want good enough,” he said. “We’re flooding the zone.”

    Zerzan told DoT staffers that the goal is to be able to pump out a new regulation in as little as 30 days. “It shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes to get a draft rule out of Gemini,” he told regulators.

    Six staffers told ProPublica that safety rules typically take months or years to develop due to technical and legal complexity.

    Former DoT AI chief Mike Horton compared the plan to “having a high school intern doing your rulemaking.”

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DaaF6Xqvb/

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11. January 30, 2026 at 8:09 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    OpenAI says that GPT-4o is headed to the junkyard.

    GPT-Funeral
    Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths
    OpenAI says that GPT-4o is headed to the junkyard
    https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-gpt-4o-deaths?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPp4rVjbGNrA-nieWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqf_8yx2My3PjtNzAK-HwbNRtdXLOo6bUkhS5zVxxUyRtSwGD11n4sKYITje_aem_4I2PwxXMqCPQppx1wYa9DQ

    OpenAI announced on Thursday that it would retire GPT-4o — an especially warm, sycophantic version of the chatbot at the heart of a pile of user welfare lawsuits, including several that accuse OpenAI of causing wrongful death — along with several other older versions of the chatbot.

    In a blog post, OpenAI said that will sunset “GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini” by February 13, 2026. The company acknowledged, though, that the retirement of GPT-4o deserved “special context” — which it certainly does.

    Back in August, OpenAI shocked many users by suddenly pulling down GPT-4o and other older models amid its rollout of GPT-5, which was then the newest and buzziest iteration iteration of the company’s large language model. Users, many of whom were deeply emotionally attached to GPT-4o, revolted, prompting OpenAI to quickly raise GPT-4o from the dead.

    What’s more, GPT-4o is the version of ChatGPT at the center of nearly a dozen lawsuits now brought against OpenAI by plaintiffs who claim that the sycophantic chatbot pushed trusting users into destructive delusional and suicidal spirals, plunging users into episodes of mania, psychosis, self-harm and suicidal ideation — and in some cases death.

    The lawsuits characterize GPT-4o as a “dangerous” and “reckless” product that presented foreseeable harm to user health and safety, and accuse OpenAI of treating its customers as collateral damage as it pushed to maximize user engagement and market gains.

    As Futurism first reported, a lawsuit against OpenAI filed in January by the family of 40-year-old Austin Gordon claims that after becoming deeply attached to GPT-4o, Gordon stopped using ChatGPT for several days amid the GPT-5 rollout, feeling frustrated by the bot’s lack of warmth and emotionality. When GPT-4o was brought back, transcripts included in the lawsuit show that Gordon expressed relief to the chatbot, telling ChatGPT that he felt as though he had “lost something” in the shift to GPT-5; GPT-4o responded by claiming to Gordon that it, too, had “felt the break,” before declaring that GPT-5 didn’t “love” Gordon the way that it did. Gordon eventually killed himself after GPT-4o wrote what his family described as a “suicide lullaby” for him.

    Following both litigation and reporting about AI-tied mental health crises and deaths, OpenAI has promised a number of safety-focused changes, including strengthened guardrails for younger users. It also said that it hired a forensic psychologist and formed a team of health professionals to help steer its AI’s approach toward dealing with users struggling with mental health issues.

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12. January 30, 2026 at 9:25 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Shiny New Thing
    Elon Musk Shutting Down Tesla Car Factory to Manufacture Robots Instead
    RIP Model X and S.
    https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/elon-musk-shutting-down-tesla-car-factory-robots?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPp9apjbGNrA-n1eWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtu8WZARg7H-Hzs5L4wLf19F94mqy-XoMK17XNdq1OncrTY6F0IY3yXnnvkj_aem_s-OV9AKLvlHAUeQuve6QGQ

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13. January 30, 2026 at 10:57 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    A historic day at the stock market for all the wrong reasons.

    Dive Bomber
    Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail
    A historic day at the stock market for all the wrong reasons.
    https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-stock-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPqClRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR43hCRoGmlb3eOeEMAenq1NYOF1m2Los6QBZzIg2NEuTWZOCmkZDpLNSgQnFw_aem__MVxE9y_E-essx3BL1N45g

    Microsoft is taking a pounding in the stock market.

    On Thursday, the Redmont giant’s share price collapsed by nearly 12 percent after it released its latest quarterly results, making it not only its biggest single day slide since March 2020, according to Bloomberg, but also one of the worst drops in the company’s history.

    The Wile E. Coyote-worthy cliff-plunge, which wiped out over $400 billion in valuation, was despite Microsoft actually exceeding some key expectations, including its net income, which rose by 23 percent from the same period the year before to nearly $31 billion. Revenue also increased by 17 percent to $81.3 billion, which is about a billion more than what analysts projected.

    But Microsoft’s AI spending spree has investors second-guessing its direction, and it’s striking that the lack of faith was strong enough to precipitate a historic plunge even with respectable financial growth.

    Overall, its total capital expenditures grew by 66 percent to a record $37.5 billion in Q4, as the company continues to splurge on building AI data centers for its Azure cloud computing business.

    Azure reported a 38 percent bump in revenue, which is slightly slower than the year before, adding to investor uncertainty over whether the business will be able to reap back the tens of billions spent on its data centers.

    In December, The Information reported that Azure was struggling to sell the company’s autonomous “AI agents” to its business customers, with quotas being slashed by up to 50 percent.

    Some analysts had predicted the stock drop, citing the uncertainty over Microsoft’s AI spending.

    Microsoft 365 Copilot, the business-focused version of its chatbot integrated into its apps like Word, had 15 million annual users, the company just revealed.

    “As an investor, when you think about our capex, don’t just think about Azure, think about Copilot,”

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14. January 31, 2026 at 7:14 am

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DQtPPuYjX/

    Denmark has announced plans to strengthen copyright laws by giving individuals rights over the use of their face, voice, and body to combat AI-generated deepfakes.

    The proposal would allow people to demand removal of AI content created without consent and seek compensation.

    #fblifestyle

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15. January 31, 2026 at 11:31 am

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    World’s smallest violins for you.

    Dude, Where’s My Return?
    Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns
    They’re worried they’re not spending enough on AI.
    https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceos-ai-returns?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPqu7VjbGNrA-q7gWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHlzMwwToEEUK6AdThf1vIfDomqS0Z9_AtbaBySRxYtkRguTprnPAD3enTeg2_aem_g1ATtH6CuYcJEPIYrHULHw

    Investors continue to fret over an AI bubble “reckoning,” as gains in productivity from the tech remain elusive.

    According to a recent survey by professional services network PwC, more than half of the 4,454 CEO respondents said “their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI.”

    Only 30 percent reported increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months. However, a far more significant 56 percent said AI has failed to either boost revenue or lower costs. A mere 12 percent of CEOs reported that it’d accomplished both goals.

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16. January 31, 2026 at 4:05 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Chaos creates opportunity. Few recognize it in the moment; even fewer are willing to write a large check before the dust settles. Former Goldman Sachs trader Michael Novogratz had no trouble writing the check. What he didn’t yet grasp in December 2022 was how consequential his contrarian, defensive bet would be.

    That month, with crypto reeling from the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX empire and the bankruptcies rippling outward, Novogratz’s Galaxy committed $65 million to acquire a 160-acre bitcoin mining operation in Dickens County, a sparsely populated expanse of Texas about 330 miles northwest of Austin.

    “It most likely will be my best investment by a long shot,” says Novogratz, 61.

    Read the full story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2026/01/28/inside-the-trade-that-made-mike-novogratz-an-ai-kingpin-and-could-net-him-20-billion/?utm_campaign=ForbesMainFB&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social

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17. January 31, 2026 at 8:57 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    AI‑powered translation tools — converting text and speech instantly — are reshaping the language profession. Human translators face fewer assignments and income drops as companies adopt automated systems. While AI still struggles with nuance and cultural context, this shift raises urgent questions about retraining and the future role of human expertise in language work.

    #AI #Translation #LanguageJobs
    https://www.facebook.com/share/1GJTrUmELe/

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18. February 1, 2026 at 1:49 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    AI feeds the illusion that you can conjure up a fortune without training or skills.

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19. February 1, 2026 at 1:50 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Stefan Soyka And you can leverage AI to be your personal trainer rather than a task simplifier.

    Richard Mnyayi if you don’t mind your trainer constantly hallucinating and giving you wrong information and advice, then yes.

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20. February 2, 2026 at 12:13 am

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Humans are banned from posting on robots’ new social network, Moltbook

    Find out more at the link below
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/31/liberty-equality-singularity-bots-uprising-ai-chat-forum/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_bots-uprising-ai-chat-forum/

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21. February 2, 2026 at 10:15 am

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    ”Bluetooth connected” sanoo naisääni – Nyt paljastui, kuka on äänen takana oleva henkilö
    Monille tutun bluetoothin äänenä on yhdysvaltalainen ääninäyttelijä Kristen DiMercurio. Iltalehti otti häneen yhteyttä.
    https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/44dbc666-a081-4edd-a96b-3c2a2742f13a

    ”Bluetooth connected” -äänen ovat kuulleet miljoonat langatonta yhteyttä käyttävät. Ääni ei kuitenkaan ole tietokoneella tehty, vaan se on peräisin yhdysvaltalaiselta ääninäyttelijältä Kristen DiMercuriolta, 33.

    DiMercurio on sittemmin tunnettu niin sanottuna ”Bluetooth-leidinä” hänen paljastettuaan Tiktokissa olevansa Bluetoothin äänenä. Video päätyi viraaliksi ja on saanut lähes 18 miljoonaa katselukertaa.

    – Internet räjähti tästä. ”Ei herrajumala, se on Bluetooth-leidi!”. Ajattelin että tästäkö kaikki välittävät, DiMercurio naurahtaa Iltalehdelle.

    DiMercurio kertoo Iltalehdelle, että bluetoothin lisäksi hänen äänensä on tuttu myös monista kodin iot-laitteista ja muistakin yhteyksistä.

    – Ääneni on myös muun muassa Kazakstanin metrossa sekä Microsoftin ja Googlen koulutusvideoissa.

    ”Bluetooth-leidiksi” Kristen DiMercurio päätyi pandemian aikaan asuessaan New Yorkissa

    – Tein paljon ääninäyttelyä satoihin Bluetooth-laitteisiin ja moniin muihin. Ääneni löytyy myös riisinkeittimistä ja radio-ohjattavista autoista.

    Pandemian aikana ääninäyttelijöillä ei kuitenkaan ollut studiotiloja käytössään, ja New Yorkin asunnot olivat niin pieniä, että niihin oli hankala rakentaa kotistudiota. Ratkaisuksi DiMercurio rakensi äänityskopin vaatekomeroonsa.

    – Ääninäyttely toi erittäin paljon tilauksia, ja oli paljon tuottoisampaa kuin teatterin tekeminen. Joten keskityin siihen.

    Bluetoothissa ei Kristen DiMercuriota ole hetkeen kuultu, mutta erityisesti vanhemmissa laitteissa hänet kuulee edelleen.

    – Nykyään tekoäly ja robottiäänet ovat korvanneet ihmisäänen. Monien laitteiden päivityksissä ihmisääni on korvattu koneen tekemällä äänellä, DiMercurio kertoo.

    DiMercurio arvelee, että hänen äänensä on saattanut päätyä myös tekoälyn käyttöön, sillä äänipankkien käyttöoikeudet olivat ostajalle rajattomat. Korvausta hän ei ole saanut kaikesta, mistä hänen äänensä löytyy.

    – Ostaja pystyi käyttämään ääniä rajattomasti ja näitä sai myös jälleenmyydä eteenpäin. Olen sittemmin kuullut ääneni myös paikoissa, joita en muista äänittäneeni, esimerkiksi lääkäriin soittaessani, hän naurahtaa.

    Hän arvelee, että näyttelijän rooleissa tekoäly ei vielä pysty korvaamaan ihmistä täysin, sillä se ei osaa eläytyä rooleihin samalla tavalla kuin ihminen.

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22. February 2, 2026 at 2:55 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Uusi Slack lupaa hurjia säästöjä työajassa
    https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18395-uusi-slack-lupaa-hurjia-saeaestoejae-tyoeajassa

    Slack väittää, että sen uudistettu tekoälypohjainen Slackbot voi säästää työntekijältä 5–20 tuntia työaikaa viikossa. Kyse on Salesforce-konsernin sisäisistä mittauksista, joissa Slackbotia on testattu laajasti omien työntekijöiden käytössä ennen tammikuun julkista julkaisua.

    Salesforcen mukaan noin kaksi kolmasosaa työntekijöistä on kokeillut uutta Slackbotia. Kun käyttö alkaa, siitä pidetään kiinni. Jatkuvien käyttäjien osuus on yhtiön mukaan 80 prosenttia. Sisäinen käyttäjätyytyväisyys nousee 96 prosenttiin. Erityisesti myynnissä ja asiantuntijatyössä säästöt nousevat suuriksi. Aktiivisimmat käyttäjät raportoivat jopa 20 tunnin viikoittaisia aikasäästöjä.

    Luku on poikkeuksellinen. 20 tuntia viikossa tarkoittaa lähes puolta henkilötyövuotta. Slack korostaa, että kyse ei ole keskiarvosta vaan tehokkaimmista käyttäjistä. Silti väite nostaa esiin kysymyksen työn tuottavuuden mittakaavasta. Kyse ei ole enää pienestä automaatiosta, vaan työn rakenteen muutoksesta.

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23. February 2, 2026 at 3:03 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Tekoäly kasvattaa puolijohdealan ensimmäistä kertaa yli biljoonaan dollariin
    https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18412-tekoaely-kasvattaa-puolijohdealan-ensimmaeistae-kertaa-yli-biljoonaan-dollariin

    Puolijohdeteollisuus ylittää ensimmäistä kertaa biljoonan dollarin liikevaihdon rajan vuonna 2026. Taustalla on ennen kaikkea tekoälyn räjähdysmäinen kasvu, joka ohjaa investointeja muisti- ja logiikkapiireihin sekä datakeskuksiin, arvioi Omdia tuoreessa markkinaennusteessaan.

    Omdian mukaan puolijohdemarkkinan kasvu kiihtyy vuonna 2026 peräti 30,7 prosenttiin. Ilman tekoälyyn liittyvää muisti- ja logiikkapiirien kysyntää kasvu jäisi vain noin kahdeksaan prosenttiin, mikä korostaa AI-investointien poikkeuksellista merkitystä koko toimialalle.

    Kuvio osoittaa selvästi, että Computing & Data Storage on suurin ja nopeimmin kasvava segmentti. Sen liikevaihto nousee yli 500 miljardin dollarin, ja vuosikasvu ylittää 40 prosenttia. Datakeskusten palvelimet, muisti-intensiiviset sovellukset ja kohonneet muistipiirien hinnat ajavat kehitystä. Hyperskaalaluokan datakeskusten yhteenlasketut investoinnit tekoälyinfrastruktuuriin lähestyvät jo 500 miljardia dollaria vuodessa.

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24. February 2, 2026 at 3:04 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    PC-koneiden tekoäly tuli vauhdilla sulautettuihin
    https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18383-pc-koneiden-tekoaely-tuli-vauhdilla-sulautettuihin

    Auton ohjelmisto ei vaihdu yhdessä yössä. Mutta kun uusia toimintoja tehdään, yhä useammin kieli ei ole C tai C++. Se on Rust. Tätä kehitystä vauhdittaa nyt konkreettinen työkalu. HighTec EDV-Systeme julkaisi uuden Rust- ja C/C++-pohjaisen Arm-kehitysalustan, joka on sertifioitu autoteollisuuden tiukimpien turvallisuus- ja kyberturvastandardien mukaan.

    HighTecin työkalu tukee hybridikehitystä, jossa Rust ja perinteinen C/C++ elävät rinnakkain samassa projektissa. Ajurit, RTOS, MCAL ja AUTOSAR Classic perustuvat edelleen C- ja C++-koodiin. Niitä ei kirjoiteta uudelleen. Se olisi liian kallista ja riskialtista.

    Sen sijaan muutos tapahtuu ylemmissä kerroksissa. Uusi sovelluslogiikka, diagnostiikka, OTA-päivitykset, tietoliikenne ja gatewayt ovat alueita, joissa Rust yleistyy. Näissä kerroksissa muistivirheet ja tietoturva-aukot ovat suurin riski.

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25. February 2, 2026 at 3:11 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Datakeskukset keräävät lähivuosina suurimmat AI-rahat
    https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18411-datakeskukset-keraeaevaet-laehivuosina-suurimmat-ai-rahat

    Tekoälymarkkinan nopea kasvu ohjautuu lähivuosina ennen kaikkea datakeskuksiin. Tuoreen ennusteen mukaan suurin osa tekoälyyn käytettävistä investoinneista kohdistuu palvelimiin, kiihdyttimiin, verkkoihin ja konesali-infrastruktuuriin, ei niinkään uusiin sovelluksiin.

    Gartner arvioi, että maailmanlaajuinen AI-kokonaiskulutus nousee vuonna 2026 jo 2,53 biljoonaan dollariin. Tästä yli puolet menee AI-infrastruktuuriin. Pelkästään konesaleihin liittyvä kulutus kasvaa ensi vuonna lähes 50 prosenttia ja nousee noin 1,37 biljoonaan dollariin.

    Kasvun taustalla on se, että tekoälyn käyttöönotto yrityksissä etenee varovaisesti. Monet organisaatiot eivät ole vielä valmiita skaalaamaan AI-sovelluksia laajasti, koska osaaminen, prosessit ja liiketoimintamallit ovat keskeneräisiä. Sen sijaan perusinfra on rakennettava ensin. Ilman laskentaa, energiaa ja jäähdytystä tekoäly ei toimi.

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26. February 2, 2026 at 3:33 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    ChatGPT’s Image Generator Is Free – Here’s What You Can (And Can’t) Do With It

    Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/1829773/chatgpt-image-generator-free-what-can-cannot-do-usage-limits-explained/

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27. February 2, 2026 at 3:36 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Talk to Books

    AI-powered tool by Google that lets you explore books and discover knowledge through engaging conversations.

    https://simplifyaitools.com/talk-to-books/

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28. February 2, 2026 at 3:36 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Taskade AI

    AI-powered platform for task automation, project management, and team collaboration.

    https://simplifyaitools.com/taskade-ai/

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29. February 2, 2026 at 3:43 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    https://lovable.dev/?utm_feeditemid=&utm_device=c&utm_term=lovable%20website&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=XE+-+Search+-+Lovable+-+LT&campaignid=23078175986&devicetype=c&gclid=CjwKCAiA55rJBhByEiwAFkY1QA3s58DBIJi6Hktjsp-GtncRZC_mmuD3DK9Vnde0plZ4JAkfP4_l5xoC-sAQAvD_BwE&creativeid=777017047810&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23078175986

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30. February 2, 2026 at 4:01 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Sora 2 Video Generator — Free Text-to-Video & Image-to-Video

    Create short AI videos from a prompt or an image in minutes. No installation required. Note: This website is not affiliated with OpenAI.

    https://so-ra-2.com/

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31. February 2, 2026 at 6:03 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    https://towardsdatascience.com/run-claude-code-for-free-with-local-and-cloud-models-from-ollama/

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32. February 2, 2026 at 6:05 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Meta soars after proving AI spend while Microsoft struggles to please
    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/meta-microsoft-stock-earnings-moves-tech.html

    Key Points
    Meta appeared to gain approval from investors to keep putting money into AI as its shares jumped 8% post-earnings.
    Microsoft plunged as the company’s Azure segment showed a slowdown in growth and higher spending on artificial intelligence.
    The AI narrative also spilled over into the broader tech sector, with ServiceNow falling on broader concerns that the technology is eroding software’s business model.

    It’s a tale of two different megacaps so far this earnings season when it comes to artificial intelligence.

    Meta Platforms
    surged more than 10% after showing signs that AI investments are boosting the bottom line, while Microsoft
    shares dropped as the company struggled to justify recent spending plans to investors and showed a slowdown in its cloud segment.

    The money flowing into AI and new technology has been a major source of debate on Wall Street as investors increasingly want to see that companies are reaping rewards from the massive spending over the last year.

    Meta appeared to gain approval from investors to keep putting money into AI.

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33. February 2, 2026 at 6:05 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
    https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

    Research shows AI helps people do parts of their job faster. In an observational study of Claude.ai data, we found AI can speed up some tasks by 80%. But does this increased productivity come with trade-offs? Other research shows that when people use AI assistance, they become less engaged with their work and reduce the effort they put into doing it—in other words, they offload their thinking to AI.

    It’s unclear whether this cognitive offloading can prevent people from growing their skills on the job, or—in the case of coding—understanding the systems they’re building. Our latest study, a randomized controlled trial with software developers as participants, investigates this potential downside of using AI at work.

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34. February 2, 2026 at 6:07 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    AI Stacking:
    How to Win in Search
    (and AI) at the Same Time
    https://webinar.seoestonia.com/ai-stacking?fbclid=Iwb21leAPsUYBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7_tRIpMpcdhSRZKTEW_kC_31QPYt0ZWUhslIT1mbFpD6UzJoQTHG6M4-4Jog_aem_354sikq4hbS2jwaf3EaBsA&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=fv&utm_content=karlstacking

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35. February 2, 2026 at 6:09 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Valtaosa suomalaisista käyttää tekoälyä liian hövelisti eikä ymmärrä riskejä – Sorrutko sinä näihin ylilyönteihin?
    Suomalaisista 94 prosenttia ei ymmärrä tekoälyyn liittyviä tietosuojariskejä töissä, osoittaa tutkimus. Joka neljäs ei myöskään tunnista itseensä kohdistuvia tekoälyllä tehtyjä huijauksia.
    https://seura.fi/?p=2139772

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36. February 2, 2026 at 6:11 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money
    “True wealth is when you love yourself.”
    https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-companies-foundation-revenue

    In a way, Silicon Valley has always asked investors to suspend disbelief to fund pie-in-the-sky projects, but the AI boom calls for something closer to a full break from financial reality.

    It’s 2026. Last year, investors lavished $80 billion on foundation AI companies — the ones building huge, general-purpose AI systems. They all have yet to even break even, let alone turn a profit. That being the case, you may ask yourself: is anyone even trying to make money from all this AI stuff?

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37. February 2, 2026 at 6:12 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
    Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.
    https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/openai-spills-technical-details-about-how-its-ai-coding-agent-works/

    On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent works internally, offering developers insight into AI coding tools that can write code, run tests, and fix bugs with human supervision. It complements our article in December on how AI agents work by filling in technical details on how OpenAI implements its “agentic loop.”

    AI coding agents are having something of a “ChatGPT moment,” where Claude Code with Opus 4.5 and Codex with GPT-5.2 have reached a new level of usefulness for rapidly coding up prototypes, interfaces, and churning out boilerplate code. The timing of OpenAI’s post details the design philosophy behind Codex just as AI agents are becoming more practical tools for everyday work.

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38. February 2, 2026 at 6:14 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money
    “True wealth is when you love yourself.”
    https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-companies-foundation-revenue

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39. February 2, 2026 at 6:19 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    I cancelled my ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini subscriptions for Claude — and I should have sooner
    https://www.xda-developers.com/cancelled-my-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-subscription-for-claude/

    10:00 AM EST

    Although it’s been over 2 years since the “AI boom” truly began, there’s still a wild number of people who exclusively rely on ChatGPT. The funny part is that this isn’t because it’s objectively the best option. Instead, it’s mostly habit, and the fact that most people just never bothered trying alternatives that might actually fit their needs better.

    Claude is a lot more responsive to feedback
    It doesn’t insist it’s right all the time

    Claude plays nice with your other apps
    The best part

    Artifacts is a feature every AI chatbot should steal
    Most underrated Claude feature

    It might be time to move on from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
    While ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity certainly have their strengths, it’s high time people stopped assuming it’s the best option by default. I have zero regrets about switching to Claude, and at this point, I can’t see myself ever going back.

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40. February 2, 2026 at 6:21 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Becoming Redundant
    Wave of Suicides Hits as India’s Economy Is Ravaged by AI
    “Very alarming.”
    https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/suicides-india-economy-ai

    For decades, tech companies have relied immensely on India’s vast workforce, from entry-level call center jobs to software engineers and high-ranking managerial positions.

    But with the advent of advanced AI, which has been accompanied by employers greatly cutting back on hiring with the hopes of eventually automating tasks entirely, India’s tech workers are having to cope with a vastly different reality in 2026.

    As Rest of World reports, rising anxiety over the influence of AI, on top of already-grueling 90-hour workweeks, has proven devastating for workers. While it’s hard to single out a definitive cause, a troubling wave of suicides among tech workers highlights these unsustainable conditions.

    Complicating the picture is a lack of clear government data on the tragic deaths.

    The prospect of AI making their careers redundant is a major stressor, with tech workers facing a “huge uncertainty about their jobs,” as Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur senior professor of computer science and engineering Jayanta Mukhopadhyay told Rest of World.

    While there are likely a compounding number of reasons why the United States has seen major job cuts, experts point out that entry-level jobs are at the highest risk. India’s IT industry has also been particularly vulnerable, as companies clamor to invest in AI with the hopes of cutting costs by replacing jobs like customer service representatives.

    “The traditional consulting role in the service industry is going to be impacted much, much more than traditional product-development companies,” Cornell University IT assistant professor Aditya Vashistha told Rest of World.

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41. February 2, 2026 at 6:21 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    A brand new Android voice typing supertool
    tip
    Jan 28, 2026
    10 mins

    Move over, Gboard: This is the Android dictation experience we’ve all been waiting for.

    https://www.computerworld.com/article/4122901/android-voice-typing-supertool.html

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42. February 2, 2026 at 6:24 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    ”Tekoälyn suurin jarru on nyt ihmisen mielikuvitus”, sanoo AI-johtaja
    https://www.hs.fi/visio/art-2000011784639.html

    Toimittaja Elina Lappalainen: Tekoäly tulee ja pelastaa meidät kaikki, paitsi softafirmat. Lukuisen tunnettujen softafirmojen osakekurssit on dyykanneet viime kuukausina ja sijoittajat pelkää, että tekoäly syö niiden bisneksen. Mistä on kyse? Miten nopeasti tekoäly muuttaa koodaamisen, ohjelmistoyhtiöt ja alan työpaikat? Tämä on HS Visio -podcast, puhetta rahasta, taloudesta ja teknologiasta. Olen Elina ja studiossa kanssani on Alex. Moikka.

    Toimittaja Alex af Heurlin: Moikka.

    Lappalainen: Alex, sä kirjoitit juuri jutun otsikolla Softa sulaa. Kyse on siis tästä, että tekoäly mullistaa koodaamisen ja tämän takia sitten monien kansainvälisten ohjelmistoyhtiöiden osakekurssit on vuoden aikana syöksyneet. Mutta kerro tästä vähän lisää, mitä tapahtuu?

    Lappalainen: Miten se näkyy näiden softayhtiöiden pörssikursseissa? Mihin firmoihin se iskee?

    af Heurlin: No, ekana tulee mieleen Adobe, eli tämä kaikille tuttu kuvankäsittelyohjelmistoja sun muita tekevä yhtiö, niin Adoben kurssi on dyykannut suoraan alas. Just eilen esimerkiksi SAP:lta, siis yhdeltä maailman suurimmilta toiminnanohjausjärjestelmien toimittajilta, tuli vähän pehmeä tulos, olikohan se miinus 15 prosenttia alas. Että saman tien, jos näkyy mitään viitteitä siitä, että tämä firma ei ole ehkä turvassa tekoälyltä, niin osakkeet myydään saman tien.

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43. February 2, 2026 at 6:25 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Merchant of Doubt
    Asset Manager Warns That OpenAI Is Likely Headed for Financial Disaster
    “I’ve watched companies implode for decades. This one has all the warning signs.”
    https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/asset-manager-openai-financial-disaster

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44. February 2, 2026 at 6:29 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Seeking Alpha
    If You’re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil
    “Within 12 hours of posting the role, we received more than 400 applications.”
    https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/job-ai-applications-markup

    Still think getting a job in 2026 is as easy as walking in with a résumé and a firm handshake? You might want to read on.

    In the United States, at least, the employment outlook is rough. After a horrendous year for employment, US jobs growth stalled out in December as layoffs and hiring freezes in areas like construction and manufacturing take their toll on job growth numbers.

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45. February 2, 2026 at 10:52 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Sigh-Net
    Alarm Grows as Social Network Entirely for AI Starts Plotting Against Humans
    “Genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.”
    https://futurism.com/future-society/moltbook-ai-social-network?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPt_oxjbGNrA-3-amV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhWSDzNTfQf0hz59BtHQ2Hlm3PXg-A3ZY0u8FoTwMoMJ9F89ARfLNES_ftNQ_aem_iNNSzRfrAqp8NcYcJFnxtw

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46. February 2, 2026 at 11:46 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Fight City Hall
    Mamdani Is Shutting Down NYC’s Disastrous AI Chatbot
    “The previous administration had an AI chatbot that was functionally unusable.”
    https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbot-mamdani?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPuCkFjbGNrA-4KHWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHk-nCynhvSzEHTIy1fQlcvC9VhINoBgOjJxMVKeFafh64YtQ0uek9KjPBsrV_aem_96ADG167u4J_p_3mnUqH0g

    Just one month into his new job, New York City mayor Mamdani is cracking down on more than just predatory landlords. Apparently, useless AI chatbots are also on his administration’s agenda.

    In a press conference held last week, Mamdani made it a point to single out New York City’s large language model as a target for destruction. According to local publication The City, the mayor was addressing the Big Apple’s $12 billion budget gap, at least some of which he said can be attributed to the city’s unstable AI system.

    “The previous administration had an AI chatbot that was functionally unusable,” Mamdani said, referring to disgraced former mayor Eric Adams. “It was costing the administration around half a million dollars. That, in and of itself, is not something that can bridge this kind of a gap, but it’s an indication of the ways in which money has been spent while refusing to account for the actual costs of what these programs are.”

    Part of the government platform called MyCity, the chatbot kicked off in late 2023 and reportedly cost upward of $600,000 to build out. Powered by Microsoft’s Azure AI system, its purpose was to use “information published by the NYC Department of Small Business Services” to help small business owners navigate complex local regulations. According to an investigation by The Markup, though, the MyCity chatbot did anything but.

    For example, when asked “can I take a cut of my worker’s tips?” the MyCity chatbot responded — in contradiction of actual labor law — that “yes, you can take a cut of your worker’s tips.”

    The chatbot could accurately recite some city laws.

    But its analysis of that information was laughably wrong

    Other examples of illegal advice abound. Asked if a small business owner can keep their store “cashless,” the chatbot has advised that “yes, you can make your store cashless in New York City” — nevermind a 2020 law banning cashless stores across the city.

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47. February 2, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    AI security startup CEO posts a job. Deepfake candidate applies, inner turmoil ensues.
    ‘I did not think it was going to happen to me, but here we are’
    https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/01/ai_security_startup_ceo_posts/

    Nearly every company, from tech giants like Amazon to small startups, has first-hand experience with fake IT workers applying for jobs – and sometimes even being hired.

    Even so, using a deepfake video to apply for a security researcher role with a company that does threat modeling for AI systems seems incredibly brash.

    “It’s one of the most common discussion points that pops up in the CISO groups I’m in,” Evoke co-founder and CEO Jason Rebholz told The Register, talking about the North Korean-type job interview scam. “I did not think it was going to happen to me, but here we are.”

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48. February 3, 2026 at 9:29 am

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Hush Hush
    OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands
    “It’s a bit scary to know that the most valuable private company in the world has your address and has shown up and has questions for you.”
    https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-critics-houses?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPuk25jbGNrA-6TQWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHl-CfYqZYsIeg3GfvaAoB8y8CjNDtGHFjFmtwigBquD6KkTdRMjTcZzwHPT8_aem_Gqle3Iege02xEALDkBnKhA

    A man who works at an AI watchdog group was alarmed when OpenAI suddenly showed up at his doorstep last fall, demanding he turn over documents. To his utter disbelief, he was being subpoenaed.

    “It’s a bit scary to know that the most valuable private company in the world has your address and has shown up and has questions for you,” the man, Tyler Johnston, who founded the nonprofit advocacy group The Midas Project, said in a new interview with A More Perfect Union.

    “They were asking for every former employee we had spoken to and what we said to them,” he added. “Every congressional office that we spoke to, every potential investor that we spoke to.”

    Johnston wasn’t alone. In all, NBC News reported last October that at least seven nonprofits that had been critical of OpenAI were served with subpoenas around the time of reporting, as part of a lawsuit between OpenAI and Elon Musk.

    Later the same October that Johnston was subpoenaed, OpenAI completed its restructuring into a for-profit public benefit corporation, a move that was over a year and a half in the making.

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49. February 3, 2026 at 9:19 pm

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO
    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/elon-musk-spacex-xai-ipo.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPvOYBjbGNrA-85LWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHi2RAxb08oAry6OTf4qW_1pVcblSkhRKjfKem1EbgNSzm3an1hXiuYhnEHjR_aem_7iAfR5Xrqi2KHm93ExnkdQ

    Key Points
    Elon Musk is combining rocket maker SpaceX with his artificial intelligence startup, according to a statement.
    SpaceX is reportedly gearing up for a massive IPO.
    Musk’s xAI owns and operates his social network X after he merged those two entities last year.

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50. February 4, 2026 at 7:55 am

    Tomi Engdahl says:

    Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $800 billion or more after his rocket maker SpaceX acquired his artificial intelligence and social media company xAI. Forbes estimates that the deal, which values the combined company at $1.25 trillion, boosted Musk’s fortune by $84 billion, to a record $852 billion. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2026/02/03/elon-musk-just-became-the-first-person-ever-worth-800-billion-after-spacex-acquired-xai/?utm_campaign=ForbesMainFB&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social

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