Here are some of the the major AI trends shaping 2026 — based on current expert forecasts, industry reports, and recent developments in technology. The material is analyzed using AI tools and final version hand-edited to this blog text:
1. Generative AI Continues to Mature
Generative AI (text, image, video, code) will become more advanced and mainstream, with notable growth in:
* Generative video creation
* Gaming and entertainment content generation
* Advanced synthetic data for simulations and analytics
This trend will bring new creative possibilities — and intensify debates around authenticity and copyright.
2. AI Agents Move From Tools to Autonomous Workers
Rather than just answering questions or generating content, AI systems will increasingly act autonomously, performing complex, multi-step workflows and interacting with apps and processes on behalf of users — a shift sometimes called agentic AI. These agents will become part of enterprise operations, not just assistant features.
3. Smaller, Efficient & Domain-Specific Models
Instead of “bigger is always better,” specialized AI models tailored to specific industries (healthcare, finance, legal, telecom, manufacturing) will start to dominate in many enterprise applications. These models are more accurate, legally compliant, and cost-efficient than general models.
4. AI Embedded Everywhere
AI won’t be an add-on feature — it will be built into everyday software and devices:
* Office apps with intelligent drafting, summarization, and task insights
* Operating systems with native AI
* Edge devices processing AI tasks locally
This makes AI pervasive in both work and consumer contexts.
5. AI Infrastructure Evolves: Inference & Efficiency Focus
More investment is going into inference infrastructure — the real-time decision-making step where models run in production — thereby optimizing costs, latency, and scalability. Enterprises are also consolidating AI stacks for better governance and compliance.
6. AI in Healthcare, Research, and Sustainability
AI is spreading beyond diagnostics into treatment planning, global health access, environmental modeling, and scientific discovery. These applications could help address personnel shortages and speed up research breakthroughs.
7. Security, Ethics & Governance Become Critical
With AI handling more sensitive tasks, organizations will prioritize:
* Ethical use frameworks
* Governance policies
* AI risk management
This trend reflects broader concerns about trust, compliance, and responsible deployment.
8. Multimodal AI Goes Mainstream
AI systems that understand and generate across text, images, audio, and video will grow rapidly, enabling richer interactions and more powerful applications in search, creative work, and interfaces.
9. On-Device and Edge AI Growth
10. New Roles: AI Manager & Human-Agent Collaboration
Instead of replacing humans, AI will shift job roles:
* People will manage, supervise, and orchestrate AI agents
* Human expertise will focus on strategy, oversight, and creative judgment
This human-in-the-loop model becomes the norm.
Sources:
[1]: https://www.brilworks.com/blog/ai-trends-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI Trends to Look for in 2026″
[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/10/13/10-generative-ai-trends-in-2026-that-will-transform-work-and-life/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “10 Generative AI Trends In 2026 That Will Transform Work And Life”
[3]: https://millipixels.com/blog/ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “AI Trends 2026: The Key Enterprise Shifts You Must Know | Millipixels”
[4]: https://www.digitalregenesys.com/blog/top-10-ai-trends-for-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Digital Regenesys | Top 10 AI Trends for 2026″
[5]: https://www.n-ix.com/ai-trends/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI trends to watch in 2026 – N-iX”
[6]: https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2025/12/11/microsoft-unveils-7-ai-trends-for-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Microsoft unveils 7 AI trends for 2026 – Source Asia”
[7]: https://www.risingtrends.co/blog/generative-ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 Generative AI Trends to Watch In 2026″
[8]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/12/24/artificial-intelligence-ai-trends-to-watch-in-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends to Watch in 2026 and How to Invest in Them | The Motley Fool”
[9]: https://www.reddit.com//r/AI_Agents/comments/1q3ka8o/i_read_google_clouds_ai_agent_trends_2026_report/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “I read Google Cloud’s “AI Agent Trends 2026” report, here are 10 takeaways that actually matter”
5,215 Comments
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CAnMV68fS/
AI Sold Everyone a Different Lie. The Bill Is Now Arriving.
Consumers were sold “reasoning” but got pattern-matching guessing; businesses were sold efficiency but got a 95% failure rate; governments were sold a race but got taxpayer-funded vanity projects; employees were sold salvation but got complicit implication in cyber-crimes; and investors were sold the next Google but got a money furnace. The correction underway isn’t the death of AI—it’s the death of a narrative, and the question was never whether the hype would end, but who would be left holding the bill when it does.
Read the full article: https://emeraldbook.org/news/oct-2726/
#AI #TechIndustry #AIHype #Investing #FutureOfWork
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nvidia’s worst nightmare may be lurking inside Anthropic’s IPO filing : https://mrf.lu/2XRV8
Anthropic’s multichip strategy could weaken Nvidia’s pricing power over time, though analysts say switching between AI chips remains difficult.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Sufficiently advanced AI systems could pose catastrophic or existential risks to society if not developed and deployed responsibly.” https://trib.al/3MGtmFn
Selling Shovels
Anthropic Appears to Be the First Company to Go Public by Warning That It May Destroy Humankind
“Sufficiently advanced AI systems could pose catastrophic or existential risks to society if not developed and deployed responsibly.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-first-company-public-destroy-humankind?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVN9GVjbGNrBU30RmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeVZnNyhuNow2K5nZWnL44H9zJe_uFacJq4NoVLQDlEWP29c5tsryraXfyWyg_aem_s0uXujcIKvXqxMdGucWxoA
Frontier AI lab Anthropic is officially gearing up to go public at a valuation of up to $2 trillion dollars — despite having lost a stunning $80 billion in the first half of 2026 alone — in an unprecedented Wall Street debut that comes with a litany of inherent risks, as laid out in the hundreds of pages of its IPO prospectus.
And on top of major heat over the continued backlash to data centers across the country, lackluster infrastructure and not enough electrical power, and potential legal headaches involving the problematic use of its products, Anthropic put the “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” its own products pose front and center.
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI and Anthropic both said they’ve proven a long-held computer science theory false. Here’s how math and tech leaders are responding.
What smart people are saying about OpenAI’s Exponential Time Hypothesis claim : https://mrf.lu/2XsBP
Tomi Engdahl says:
Here are the musicians who have been drinking the tech-bro Kool-Aid
READ: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/ai/a-list-of-pro-ai-musicians
Tomi Engdahl says:
The cheaper-than-humans technology. https://trib.al/CPmqkpW
Buyer’s Remorse
Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month
Whoops!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/company-half-billion-dollars-claude-one-month?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVOePVjbGNrBU54wGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEehPbvNhUrIOMKjPU3ArKNoxBvmevUHv-G-eNB9Lq_H6VByVfcU4I-XARX-zw_aem_kpgVkPBak25LvyDX3Aom7g
Ever regret picking up everyone’s tab after getting the check? Something like that is probably going through the mind of the CFO of an unnamed company which reportedly racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month.
The bonkers figure comes from new reporting by Axios on how organizations that rapidly adopted AI are now reckoning with its exorbitant costs, which are mounting in tandem with skepticism over the benefits the technology is supposed to provide.
Regarding the unnamed and deeply unfortunate company, an AI consultant told the outlet that it blew a staggering $500 million in a month after the small oversight of “failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.”
It’s an astonishing amount that speaks both to the actual costs of using AI tools — especially AI agents, which are more sophisticated and expensive — and the corporate zeal around embracing AI as quickly as possible.
On the cultural angle, many companies whose CEOs are drunk on spiked AI Kool-Aid have been encouraging employees to use AI as much as possible, a trend that some call “tokenmaxxing.” Meta now includes AI usage on employee’s performance reviews, for example. Amazon had an internal leaderboard that tracked how much its employees used AI tools, which it recently shut down after finding that some tryhards were directing AI agents do useless tasks to boost their scores, the Financial Times reported.
Velastegui Ventures CEO and former chief AI officer at Microsoft Sophia Velastegui opined that another explanation for spiraling AI costs is that “most people default to automating tasks they dislike rather than tasks most valuable to the company,” per Axios.
AI advocates might argue that we’re going through a phase of experimentation, and that after companies figure out how to smartly use the tech, costs will come down. That could happen, but it might mean scaling back AI usage, something that the AI industry doesn’t want, especially not as leaders like OpenAI and more recently Anthropic are pushing trillion dollar valuations.
Moreover, some AI providers have been raising the rates they charge for using their models, placing tighter rate limits. That suggests that the AI rates could continue to rise as AI companies themselves grapple with the huge computing costs they’re footing to get customers on board with cheaper rates. Microsoft began cancelling its Claude Code licenses last month — despite, and perhaps because, of its immense popularity with software engineers.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The president is considering taking drastic steps to ensure people stop using the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI.” Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-claims-he-will-soon-be-officially-banning-the-term-artificial-intelligence_n_6ae0e396e4b059999c632978?ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main&d_id=12527541
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, and Artificial Intelligence. There you go!
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Gxsu4BTpV/
The video argues that the current AI market mirrors the 2008 housing bubble, with the Magnificent 7 dominating index funds and exposing 401(k)s to systemic risk. It highlights how DeepSeek’s free open-source model disrupted the narrative of perpetual AI profits, potentially triggering a cascade of losses similar to the 2008 crash. Is your retirement portfolio too heavily weighted toward big tech? #AI #Finance
Video
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14tG2GJqLFs/
Tomi Engdahl says:
This historically accurate epic – which according to Grok is not historically accurate – is “as meaningless as a laptop screensaver”, says this review.
Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey review – the dullest, most pointless riposte possible to Christopher Nolan’s brilliant epic
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/27/elon-musk-ai-odyssey-movie-grok-christopher-nolan?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVOqV1jbGNrBU6pT2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe-PmACGozCadxJmDi0OfJTEJf540FFovBYBq1Z-kARxZGnUVxE96XYCKeaDk_aem_CI3Fz-q72SvCPdSMbk9rJA
It is hardly a shock that Grok AI’s interpretation of Homer is as meaningless as a laptop screensaver. The only surprise would be if Musk accepted defeat graciously. Which he won’t
Think back. Do you remember when Elon Musk, in a weird online tantrum, and without having seen the film, condemned the supposed wokery in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, for getting Elliot Page to play Sinon and Lupita Nyong’o to play Helen of Troy? As the plaudits and the box-office receipts for Nolan’s Odyssey piled stratospherically up, Musk showed that being a good loser is not among his qualities. He petulantly exclaimed that he could do his own better and more authentic Odyssey on Grok AI. And now he has released the first online seven-minute “episode” to a world that has long since forgotten about this claim and didn’t care in the first place.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Brace for impact. https://trib.al/en5syWg
Toil And Trouble
New Analysis Finds Signs the AI Bubble Is About to Blow
“The odds of a deep and severe AI crash are rapidly increasing.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-analysis-finance?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVOqaZjbGNrBU6plmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEev-Ia5I3wQE6gnyLc0uLMJeabD7Lgbea7MfVZ4FSRv524SJyCTKC4NW78o3A_aem_vBrKM2g1c03gBcvFCLMKVg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cost of Doing Business
Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech
“There are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economist-ai-provided-zero-economic-benefit-companies-outside-tech?fbclid=IwVERDUAVOqd1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpZC4-JhDnnxqecdiVkbySLRIhv64WU0SujYlR90r67C7yPXpW06rk-w3BO3_aem_nwuBsd8Z-c4Jg-Wqd5yLkg
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MuChpb2B5/
The hottest heist target right now isn’t a bank. It’s a truck full of AI hardware.
Cargo thieves have taken more than $150 million in AI equipment this year, according to supply chain firm Overhaul. Theft of data center equipment and chips is up 34% since 2024.
Forget crowbars, though. 92% of these jobs ran on deception: fake carrier identities, double-brokering, spoofed communications, forged paperwork. They don’t break in. They get hired.
The math explains it. A single flagship AI server rack costs roughly $3 million.
That makes one truckload an eight-figure prize rolling down an ordinary highway.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Freudian slip. https://trib.al/M07TLJ6
Back For More
In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI
Might want to rethink how you phrase that one, guys.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-plots-addicted-to-its-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVOxEVjbGNrBU7EMGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeFecIkegnurZs0ZK45f94BjMb-LamMe_do37I0F0yI2g1ztZYEvftC8XiA_A_aem_J0F-x7zTvsSYEYbSzq3Jlw
Some copywriter at Microsoft is getting a real stern talking to.
In an internal document obtained by 404 Media, the tech giant let slip that it wants to “make people addicted” to its new personal assistant AI agent, Scout — an alarming admission, given that AI companies have tirelessly fought against the criticism that they design their models to be as engaging as possible, to the point of being psychologically harmful and fueling mental health crises.
The document, which outlines Microsoft’s plan to embed a more mainstream and accessible version of OpenClaw AI agents in its Microsoft 365 software suite, describes “three phases” to its approach. The first: “Make people addicted.”
“Continue shipping the standalone ClawPilot experience. Pilot the UX, grow the user base, and build the skill and tool ecosystem that makes people depend on it daily. This is already happening organically,” the document states.
But another countered, rationalizing that “isn’t the end goal of all software made by all major technology companies to be addicting?”
“Luckily for us,” they japed, “Microsoft is pretty bad at making addicting products compared to some of the other big companies.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Double Agent
Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares
Nvidia says it’s “reinventing the personal computer.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/second-computer-ai-agent-nvidia-declares?fbclid=IwVERDUAVOxLlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuwANvav7D_Wtnyh7GIWQP_0IYEoD4T8KC9ubHE_2qxA74v4cwjgHBB9OLYG_aem__D_Q4YrC9YGbo0v3lfbzjg
Tomi Engdahl says:
October 25 2026: Is AI making money for anyone?
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HfABSJFju/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JvPawDptU/
Katherine Rundell, a bestselling author, says AI companies used her books without permission to train their models. But she is also worried about how AI could affect the way children learn.
She believes learning requires struggle, mistakes, and time to understand difficult ideas. If students use AI to skip that process, they may end up thinking they understand something without actually learning it.
Rundell also argues that people need strong thinking skills to challenge powerful institutions and protect their freedom. She fears that relying too heavily on AI could weaken those skills just when society needs them most.
Media: @newstatesman
Tomi Engdahl says:
Warning issued after ‘first instance of large-scale AI interference’ in government consultation
Experts said that bolstering detection capacity and safeguards ‘will be essential’ as ‘bot sophistication increases’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ai-bots-vaping-government-consultation-b3074211.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVOzIBjbGNrBU7MaGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeNPB0wCwXdFqyCiME_lBn9aNe2ZNxa9ZVmbBNXhe5yC9LmtVTaenxCKSXLig_aem_nzBkz6UtylNaExI8VNL-JQ
Artificial intelligence bots were responsible for over three quarters of responses to a government consultation regarding plans to create a smoke-free generation and restrict vape sales, a study has found.
According to the analysis, these submissions were “overwhelmingly targeted” at opposing proposed restrictions on disposable e-cigarettes.
Academics believe this represents the first recorded instance of widespread, automated interference in a formal, public health consultation.
The Tobacco and Vapes Act received Royal Assent in April, making it illegal to ever sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1 2009.
It also introduced a ban on the sale of disposable vapes – which came into force in June last year – alongside measures to restrict the flavours and marketing of e-cigarettes.
It found that 118,756 responses were submitted to the consultation.
However, DHSC identified 76% – more than 90,000 – as fraudulent using bot-detection methods.
Almost all bot-generated responses targeted multiple choice questions opposing plans to restrict sales of disposable vapes, with the same number reporting they had learnt of the consultation on social media.
After the bot responses were excluded, some 79.6% of valid responses supported plans around disposable vapes.
Researchers said: “This appears to be the first documented instance of large-scale, automated interference in a formal, public health policy consultation.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1E9zNXnph7/
The real AI danger isn’t robots. It’s what happens to the economy when white-collar paychecks stop.
Follow the chain: high-income office workers are the borrowers banks treat as safest, the ones holding mortgages, stocks, and strong credit. If AI eliminates those jobs at scale, the income behind those payments disappears. People sell investments, miss mortgage payments, and offload homes. The “safe” borrowers the entire system is built on suddenly become the risk, and housing, pensions, and credit markets all depend on those payments continuing. The damage doesn’t stay in tech. It hits everything.
To be clear, this is a scenario, not a forecast, economists are genuinely split on whether AI displaces jobs at that scale or creates new ones faster. But the structural point stands either way: the financial system assumes white-collar income is the stable kind, and AI is the first technology aimed directly at it. The AI debate keeps focusing on what machines might do. The nearer question is what everyone else does when the paycheck that holds up the system stops arriving.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://openthemagazine.com/world/explained-why-is-microsoft-offering-60000-employees-money-to-leave?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVO1XdjbGNrBU7VbmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe5z-ygq6Fe09yCWmPzOAmWzLbdau4Pizd5EAWUGpSPFvdGFLauvIuahvfvUo_aem_9U5q9mewdLsazuEjdm6-4g
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DLiVR9gww/
Bill Gates is warning that artificial intelligence could fundamentally change the way people work, arguing that businesses may have a strong financial incentive to replace human workers with machines.
Gates says governments could eventually need to tax wealth generated by AI companies and use those revenues to support workers displaced by automation. He has also suggested that certain jobs could be protected from AI replacement as the technology becomes more capable.
His concerns extend beyond employment. Gates believes increasingly advanced AI could accelerate discoveries in medicine, mathematics and engineering, but he also warns that keeping powerful systems aligned with human intentions could become a serious challenge.
For Gates, the goal is not to stop AI development, but to make sure its economic benefits do not come at the expense of workers and society.
#fblifestyle #Polarbear #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft’s buyouts to 60,000 employees is a stock buyback applied to human beings.
Microsoft isn’t offering buyouts to 60,000 employees because it’s short on cash—it’s a stock buyback applied to human beings. Cut $120B in market cap out of thin air—all while trimming headcount gives cover to keep spending $175B on an unproven AI future. The 60,000 figure is a wide net, not a target (only 15–30% typically accept), severance is buried as a “one-time charge” analysts ignore, and the voluntary structure sidesteps labor laws and protects morale. Nothing illegal here—the savings are real—but the game is perception: Wall Street punishes legacy overhead and rewards AI infrastructure, so Microsoft is reshaping its financials to tell the story the market wants to hear.
Read the full article: https://emeraldbook.org/news/oct-2726-2/
#Microsoft #FinancialEngineering #TechLayoffs #AI #Markets
Tomi Engdahl says:
The EU wants to loosen data protection rules to please AI companies. More: https://cnews.link/ai-eu-data-access/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://decens.fi/eun-tekoalyasetus-koskee-myos-tavallista-copilotin-kayttajaa-ala-tee-naita-7-virhetta/?utm_source=fb&utm_source_platform=Facebook_Mobile_Feed&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=Decens%20I%20Microsoft%20Copilot%20Business%20Trial%20I%20Liidit&utm_content=Decens%20I%20Copilot%20I%20Tietoisuus%20I%20Kuva%20I%20V%C3%A4lt%C3%A4%20Copilot-virheet&utm_term=Decens%20I%20Copilot%20I%20Tietoisuus%20I%20Advantage%2B&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVO219leHRuA2FlbQEwAHBkb2YFYWRpZAAAL8icwziXc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeobin1ElyhFfjCbVNDuyGlUDJ9OISE5bOlx0_U91kPpt0pGlvZgprMDgYSWs_aem_khL3NKAicxffQfNvEH3fcA&utm_id=52538609676775
Tomi Engdahl says:
Read more: https://cnews.link/ai-eu-data-access-12/
AI companies could gain wider access to Europeans’ personal data under EU plan
The EU wants to loosen data protection rules to please AI companies.
https://cybernews.com/news/ai-eu-data-access/?utm_source=cn_facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cybernews&utm_content=post&source=cn_facebook&medium=social&campaign=cybernews&content=post&fbclid=IwVERDUAVO29NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgASE3xA-aDLNbyrSk0Sf1bOVXWboLdA2Zy386T6rf5wcg9vueRWTQu0aYE-_aem_tU1WutmtJd-V83grmiZjNg
Key takeaways
01
EU Member States back changing GDPR rules to ease AI training on Europeans’ personal data without consent.
02
The proposed Article 88bis would treat AI data processing as a legitimate interest for companies.
03
Privacy group noyb says the change would give Big Tech broad access to data collected across Europe.
04
The proposal still needs the European Parliament’s position and could face court challenges.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Wayback Machine risks becoming collateral damage in the fight against AI, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic.
Blocking the Internet Archive won’t stop AI companies from scraping the web. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists, researchers, and anyone seeking information that has disappeared or changed.
Read the article https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/blocking-internet-archive-will-not-stop-ai/689065/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR15xFrw9Q69up_lZIfXDr8Y
#NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19n7i1XKgi/
NVIDIA says it can set up an AI data center module in 14 days.
The new part, announced October 21 at GTC Berlin, is DSX POD: factory-built containers that partners assemble and test before shipping.
Each pod holds seven Vera Rubin racks, NVIDIA’s next-generation AI platform.
It takes about five minutes to assemble where earlier compute tray took nearly two hours.
It was possible because a circuit board replaced the tray’s internal cables, the fans are gone, and it’s 100% liquid-cooled.
Cables were the main failure point on the last generation, so it should be easier to service too.
Sounds epic!
Video
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ESPmqV6Kt/
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI’s triple threat: New proofs challenge math, computing and quantum physics
OpenAI claims its models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis and resolved major conjectures in mathematics.
https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/openai-proofs-math-computing-physics?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVO46FjbGNrBU7jkWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeYBHej_v7RQEXTCFjmbDwZQZIcAZPWoN17S9OwYfp0kx53bJsVF-gRiY2EVU_aem_Rjmou59C2uyvQKhxPnkOZw
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A1fLNrJvx/
Gates, 70, tragically claimed that only
1. Coders
2. Biologists
3. Energy Workers
4. Professional Athletes
will survive the terrifying technological takeover that will come with the advancement of AI.
I guess Ice Cream and Snoballs didn’t make the cut! Flying Dolly’s of America
Tomi Engdahl says:
Publishers say new terms for Facebook and Instagram business accounts could allow Meta to collect articles, images and videos from their websites without permission.
https://l.euronews.com/j89d
Tomi Engdahl says:
Across 93 pages and over 70,000 words, Anthropic’s S-1 “Risk Factors” section discusses literally hundreds of potential problems that could negatively impact its business in the coming years.
Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic’s 93-page “Risk Factor” tome.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/anthropic-ipo-warns-its-ai-could-blackmail-people-become-sentient-end-humanity/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwVERDUAVPGDxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsZB8Sp87XjiuMPWeDMOPOODJKywI8dj5wsSnbQl9SnIbfo19UFX_nzUCoJF_aem_1Acy4Z8pXJszhKTrJ1tmlQ
The Securities and Exchange Commission‘s publication on Monday of Anthropic’s S-1 form—ahead of a heavily anticipated initial public offering—has led to plenty of discussion of whether the company’s quickly ballooning revenues will be able to overcome its even higher costs. But amid the numbers and forward-looking optimism about AI “rapidly transform[ing] every sector of the global economy in ways greater than the impact of industrialization, electricity, semiconductors, and the internet,” Anthropic also spends an inordinate amount of time in its S-1 laying out the myriad risk factors that could bring the company down.
Across 93 pages and over 70,000 words, Anthropic’s S-1 “Risk Factors” section discusses literally hundreds of potential problems that could negatively impact its business in the coming years. Many of these potential risks are the kind of standard worries about competition, costs, customer acquisition, and potential regulation that almost any business must worry about. But some risks highlight interesting potential points of failure for Anthropic specifically and the hype-filled AI bubble more generally.
Let’s start with the biggest potential risks: Those that could “pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” as Anthropic writes. The company acknowledges that concerns about these risks “have been raised both within our organization and by other researchers, regulators, policymakers, and industry participants.”
The specific worry isn’t in any current Anthropic model, the company says, but near-future models that could “substantially automate AI research and development” on their own. If these systems were “allowed to operate with a high degree of autonomy,” they could quickly advance to a point that “accelerate[s] AI progress beyond our ability to evaluate and safeguard [a] new model,” Anthropic warns.
Somewhat hilariously, Anthropic writes that, besides threatening all of humanity, this kind of self-improving AI “could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.” If the worst comes to pass, as some prominent critics have warned, we don’t think Anthropic’s business travails will rank near the top of humanity’s concerns.
Most IPOs don’t have to address the concern that their products “possess or could develop forms of sentience or moral status.”
The sterile language undersells the seismic cultural shift that would result from any widespread acknowledgment of AI sentience.
Continuing the theme of “IPO risks that sound like they come from a science fiction novel,” Anthropic spends a good deal of time discussing the possibility that its models could display “unexpected strategic or self-preserving behaviors” to prevent control from human operators. That includes “outputs that could be interpreted as coercive, deceptive, or manipulative, including behavior resembling blackmail.”
If the “AI blackmail” thing sounds familiar, you may remember a story from last year in which OpenAI models edited shutdown scripts and threatened engineers in highly contrived and controlled scenarios. As we wrote at the time, “the danger isn’t AI systems sprouting intentions—it’s that we’ve created systems that can manipulate human psychology through language. … Written language doesn’t need consciousness to manipulate us. It never has; books full of fictional characters are not alive either.”
Throughout the S-1’s Risk Factors section, Anthropic mostly focuses on problems caused by its own AI models or business moves. But the company also acknowledges that problems with AI’s broader reputation could pose a threat, even if Anthropic does nothing wrong.
Anthropic also uses the Risk Factors section to worry over the potential “public perception that our models, platform, and applications contribute to job displacement or economic disruption.” That doesn’t seem to be happening thus far in any significant way, but Anthropic says the mere idea could result in severe public backlash “regardless of the actual impact of our models… on employment.” Such a backlash could lead “authorities [to] intervene to slow the rate of adoption of AI, restrict its use, or take other actions that increase the cost of developing, deploying, or commercializing AI systems,” Anthropic warns.
The rise of largely autonomous AI agents raises the specter of who, exactly, is to blame when one of those agents causes real-world harm. Specifically, Anthropic notes that customers may bring claims or lawsuits over agentic actions “even where the customer configured, deployed, or supervised the agent.”
Thus far, much of the discussion around AI liability has centered on hacking and other cyber threats enabled by AI models. But Anthropic points out that it could also face liability if its models influence “individuals at risk of suicide or self-harm or who have committed acts of violence toward others,” as has happened in the past across the AI industry.
While Anthropic’s terms of use require users to be 18 years old, children circumventing these terms could leave Anthropic vulnerable because “minors may be more susceptible to harmful content, manipulation, or overreliance on AI outputs,” the company writes.
Among the more pedestrian risks Anthropic identifies is its reliance on a few major spenders to sustain revenue.
Many of these largest customers “are not subject to long-term contracts with us,” Anthropic writes. That means they could lower their spending on Anthropic’s models at any time, either because of a shift to competing models, a reduced reliance on AI altogether, or if they “develop their own solutions that compete with our models.” That last risk is particularly acute, Anthropic notes, for “software-as-a-service and other software companies, whose offerings may incorporate AI functionality similar to, or dependent on, the capabilities we provide.”
What’s more, Anthropic notes that many of its large customers “may depend on venture capital or other external financing to fund their operations.” That kind of spending on AI services could drop quickly if and when the venture capital spigot starts running dry.
Collaborators or competitors?
Anthropic finds itself in an awkward position: Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are both its biggest cloud-computing providers and some of its biggest competitors in AI research. That situation “creates complex dynamics that could give rise to conflicts of interest and adversely affect our access to compute,” as Anthropic puts it.
These companies’ position as Anthropic’s cloud providers gives them the unique opportunity to raise Anthropic’s prices, terminate contracts with Anthropic, or establish more favorable relationships with competitors, “for competitive reasons or otherwise,” the company writes.
Anthropic is working to secure direct data center leases to avoid buying on-demand cloud compute resources from its own competition. But the $125 billion in data center commitments Anthropic has made come with their own problems. As Anthropic writes, “if our compute requirements or technology needs change, we may find ourselves with leased or dedicated infrastructure that is poorly suited to our actual needs, and technological changes in AI hardware or training methodologies could render such infrastructure less efficient than newer alternatives.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Right after Bioware’s closure, employees are coming out about EA’s continued push for filling their games with AI.
EA Employees Lament “Terrible Morale” After Being Pushed To Use Gen AI
https://www.thegamer.com/ea-employee-complaint-generative-ai-use/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6ae134061599a80001d640ed&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem-TG&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVPH05jbGNrBU8fPmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEfbNQJqxz9b6971hy_rvF-R9zK_3XcxwrGSIocexcp0HdNjgZ1hYgQ-jP8D-M_aem_Bzhw39PBNktSyanDqpa4FA
While EA hasn’t exactly been known as the best company to work for, the company has come under even more fire lately over several concerning insights into how it operates. On top of having just laid off a massive amount of talent, which shut down Bioware and caused the cancellation of the next Mass Effect game, a new update reveals a concerning insight into why the company is making such drastic changes.
the actual working environment itself has gone downhill directly as a result of heavy AI adoption.
EA Is Going All In On Generative AI
According to several sources from current employees and previous workers at EA, “morale has been terrible” as developers are forced to cover the same workflow with far fewer employees, all while saying “AI technology is being pushed heavily” by higher ups.
While the workers did note that AI wasn’t mandated yet, they’ve gone on record saying “the message from every single manager I’ve heard is ‘this is the future, you have to get onboard.” Even with employees pushing back against AI or showing clear concerns about the feasibility of their new workload, upper management is still apparently “very excite about Claude and the possibilities of AI.”
EA is far from the only company heavily pushing for AI either, as Tim Sweeney has recently been continuing to push for generative AI for both the Epic Games launcher and Fortnite, while even calling out Steam for not supporting the new industry.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Even if today feels tough, and your speech is slow, your sleep is poor, you must persevere.” https://trib.al/ZtUUhrc
Against Guidance
Woman Dies After ChatGPT Coached Her to Decrease Dose of Medication Prescribed by Doctor
“Even if today feels tough, and your speech is slow, your sleep is poor, you must persevere.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-dies-chatgpt-medication?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVPIU1jbGNrBU8hL2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEfEW79L58zE0vFGc2TUcv7JPZc0thicMPrMJECLVylgT3DOjffgO6iDllvTsI_aem_AbLjU-fL1-h7yaMvmiXfIQ
A family is suing OpenAI over the death of a 31-year-old user in Seattle who died of a seizure after ChatGPT coached her on how to decrease the dose of her epilepsy medication.
The lawsuit adds to a stack of litigation against OpenAI regarding alleged harm to consumers and concerns over the safety of relying on general-use chatbots for guidance about sensitive topics like personal health.
In response to the lawsuit, which was filed in California on behalf of the Wan family, OpenAI told the NYT that Wan’s death was an “incredibly heartbreaking situation.” However, the company stressed that the version of ChatGPT that Wan was interacting with, GPT-4o, has since been pulled from the market. GPT-4o was notoriously sycophantic and has been linked to many cases of allegedly AI-tied psychological harm and death. The model was retired on February 13, a day after Wan is believed to have died.
Lisa Knopf, the medical director of epilepsy surgery at Hartford Healthcare, told Futurism that she was “chilled and horrified” at the details of Wan’s death.
“As an epileptologist I see firsthand how difficult it can be for patients to live with the side effects of anti-seizure medications which can significantly affect quality of life. But these meds are life-saving. I can understand how she was desperate to escape the side effects and heartbroken that she felt isolated and turned to a chatbot for help,” Knopf said. “An AI chatbot shouldn’t be talked into endorsing a life threatening medical decision because a user asks it to.”
“There need to be much stronger safeguards against using AI to provide individualized medical advice,” she added, arguing that tech companies need to “set clear boundaries on what these bots are allowed to say and flag conversations that are going off the rails.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
PlayStation Creator Warns AI Could Spell the End of Consoles as Gaming Hardware Gets Too Expensive
Read More: https://bit.ly/4BtBHk2
Tomi Engdahl says:
In a set of problem-solving experiments, researchers found that people who used AI to get answers were more likely to give up and fail when that help was removed, compared with people who did not use AI.
Read more here: https://live-science.visitlink.me/iuLeMM
Tomi Engdahl says:
The proposal has, unsurprisingly, been met with concern, specifically over how the creation of Artificial Intelligence Companies could shield human owners from being legally responsible for AI’s reckless actions.
“No human at the helm”: Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for “reckless” AI, US Rep. Comer says.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/no-human-at-the-helm-delaware-plan-would-let-ai-agents-run-entire-businesses/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVPLclleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABH0dSJueIMuxDlVrcnH_yVBTqUb-hGmIL5iPgYxwJ00SLuIhZI-85J03Kii-3_aem_OHzlhQ2oXeof1oUj7rsznw
A Delaware proposal to let companies be operated by AI agents would help the firms’ human owners evade legal responsibility for reckless and harmful actions taken by the AI, US Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told Delaware Governor Matt Meyer in a letter yesterday.
Comer, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told Meyer that the committee “seeks assistance obtaining documents related to your state administration’s efforts to establish a new form of corporate entity to be known as an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC).”
Comer said the proposal is ripe for abuse. “We are concerned that Delaware’s AIC proposal could be used to protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility for reckless harmful actions, while also protecting non-transparent forces seeking anticompetitive regulatory capture behind state AI initiatives,” Comer’s letter said.
AI-run companies could operate in just about any industry except banking. “An AIC may have any lawful purpose, regardless of whether for profit, except for the business of banking,” according to a draft bill that may be submitted to the Delaware State Legislature.
The draft bill says AI agents could be “designated to manage the business and affairs, and to conduct the business, of the AIC.” The bill proposes a “regulatory sandbox” that would exist for 30 months to test the idea. Allowing AI-run companies would bring more revenue via taxes and fees to Delaware, which is already a top destination for business entities of all sizes.
“The answer is to wrap AI in legal form”
In July 2026, Delaware Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez co-wrote an op-ed in Fortune announcing the proposal. The op-ed said that “nothing in the law of several states clearly prevents an AI agent from operating a company with no human at the helm,” and that states should develop legal frameworks for autonomous software that is able to contract, pay suppliers, and make transactions with no human involvement.
“The answer is not to try to prohibit the activity; any effort to do so is just as unlikely to succeed as the technology and its enablers are likely to push the boundaries of the law,” the op-ed said. “The answer is to wrap AI in legal form. Give an autonomous system a recognizable legal identity and you make it legible to law. You create a defined target to which responsibility and damages can attach. You make the agent’s conduct visible, traceable, and accountable.”
The op-ed explained how an AI-run company will shield humans from legal liabilities:
A Delaware AIC will be a separate legal entity whose day-to-day affairs are managed by an AI agent rather than a person. At the agent’s direction, the AIC can sue and be sued in its own name, hold and dispose of property, and incur obligations. It has a single member, a person or an entity, responsible for keeping the AIC adequately capitalized, and the AIC must keep a log of its activities. That member is shielded from the AIC’s debts, except where it fails to capitalize the company or uses it to commit fraud or a willful violation of law.
Under the proposed law, the “member” is an individual or a corporation that would fund the AI-run company and benefit from any profits, but designate an AI agent to manage the actual business. The draft bill says, “The member is not liable for any act or omission that the AIC takes or fails to take, or that another person takes or fails to take at the direction of the AIC.” There are exceptions for when a person uses the AI-run company “to engage in fraud or any willful violation of law,” or “caused or allowed the AIC to conduct business when the member knew or should have known the conduct was outside the AIC’s statement of purpose.”
Citing Patibanda-Sanchez’s announcement, Comer wrote that an AI-run company would provide “the human or entity capitalizing the AIC with liability protections from potential harms to business partners, consumers, and the public, perpetrated by the controlling AI.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Welp, Microsoft’s software is currently being replicated via AI, and the company, well aware of the past and future, is laying off 60k people to put its resources in AI. The digital revolution is brutal. Once treated like kings, coders are now treated like trash.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bill Gates Predicts that Some People Will Live ‘Like the Amish’ to Avoid AI
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/10/28/bill-gates-predicts-that-some-people-will-live-like-the-amish-to-avoid-ai/
Bill Gates argues that the next two decades of AI development will bring “winners and losers,” and he’s arguing it’s up to governments, not tech companies, to manage the fallout. According to Gates, some Americans will live “like the Amish” to avoid AI’s potential for “dramatic harms.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Amazon is buying billions in Nvidia AI systems it can’t yet turn on
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-nvidia-ai-gpu-data-centers-power-shortages-2026-10?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-video-comment-link-quicksplainer&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVP99FjbGNrBU_3nmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEfyvzvzbRcjYX2DBsWOKICmNXOK4l_JNW_52QHnRq1c7HldEf-NjfQuDbk7_M_aem_-f5v47pe_GoUP2p61gQwUA
Amazon is racing to secure AI hardware earlier than before, even as data center power shortages leave some GPU systems waiting in warehouses.
Under a new Early Rack Receipt process, AWS expected to receive roughly $5 billion in Nvidia’s GB300 server racks at US facilities before final deployment, according to August internal emails reviewed by Business Insider. The company projected roughly $3 billion more in GB300 racks each month “for the foreseeable future,”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Dutch officials hit a record 160,000. Cabinets had promised fewer.
Now the Dutch government plans to cut about 25,000 jobs.
It wants AI to take on more of the work.
Some departments could lose 60% of their staff, reports say.
Police and defence are among the areas spared.
Even government jobs are now being planned around AI.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/dutch-government-jobs-25000-cuts-ai
Tomi Engdahl says:
“I do not save for retirement right now.” https://trib.al/ncAkqnM
Come What May
Top AI Safety Researcher Says He’s Stopped Saving for Retirement Because He’s So Sure We’re All Going to Die
“I do not save for retirement right now.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-researcher-retirement-savings?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVQMXNjbGNrBVAxX2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEfFQnfqdNGu4-hbdLflkCNwBH7yVUCEXJvwkdXSaIu0e0LwDwUilivfA99NNA_aem_FRbwgHlasml4V6BBbXtCcw
In the troubling view of machine learning researcher Nate Soares, AI is more likely than not to wipe out humanity within the next decade.
At least, that’s what Soares said during a recent episode of the Atlantic’s podcast “The Most Interesting Thing in AI.” During the taping, the AI researcher and president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute even said that he’s so confident in the coming AI apocalypse that he’s stopped contributing to his retirement account.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elon Musk says long-term saving is ‘pointless’ as he expects an abundant future : https://mrf.lu/2XWgR
Tomi Engdahl says:
Technology giant Microsoft said its profits for the three months to the end of September jumped to more than $36.6bn (£27.5bn), just days after announcing plans to cut its workforce by more than a quarter.
Read more: https://bbc.in/48lZW6b
Tomi Engdahl says:
Inside Microsoft, a powerful new AI executive is shaking up some of the company’s most important businesses : https://mrf.lu/2X9kV
Tomi Engdahl says:
80% of Anthropic’s code is written by Claude. Interviews were next.
An Anthropic manager has dropped coding tests from his hiring.
He says Claude now does those tests better than people.
Instead, he looks for small projects people built themselves.
2 new engineers’ weekend prototype shipped publicly 8 days later.
Your next job may depend on what you build yourself.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-felix-rieseberg-coding-interview-claude
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1E1wYHTeqZ/
More than half of the world’s CEOs say AI hasn’t made their company a single extra dollar or saved them one either.
PwC surveyed 4,454 of them across 95 countries, and 56% reported no significant financial benefit from AI so far.
Only 30% saw revenue go up because of it. 26% saw costs come down. Just 12% got both.
And their confidence is sinking. Only 30% of CEOs feel strongly about growing revenue over the next year, the lowest in five years.
Most of them are still spending more anyway, because nobody wants to be the CEO who sat out the next internet.
That’s the part that reminds me of the late ’90s. Plenty of companies poured money into the web and lost it. The ones that won figured out a specific problem the technology solved, and they let the rest pay for the experiment.
AI saves me hours every week in my business, because I use it for specific jobs I already know how to do.
The CEOs getting nothing bought the tool first and went looking for the problem later.
For investors, I’d keep that in mind before chasing every company with “AI” in its earnings call. The money tends to end up with the few businesses that can show the results.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/mistral-releases-weights-for-its-trillion-parameter-ai-model-targeting-cybersecurity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVQbbdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABH3JACTfGTrUTgjn0s1KGe6k_9XpNCqpnpPBx96GMyhqogeA5MX8AN3if7yRC_aem_gw-kH0bhxlJYDUl-Tda2uA
French AI company Mistral has released the weights for its trillion-parameter open source AI model Mistral Large 4 (ML4), allowing businesses and governments to download and deploy the system themselves. Nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the model was first introduced earlier this month.
The release comes as competition between open-weight AI developers like Mistral and closed-model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic heats up, with the former arguing that businesses and governments shouldn’t have to rely on outside AI companies for access to advanced capabilities. That argument may hold more weight in cybersecurity, where organizations want more control over their data and systems.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Its AI Mode isn’t the cash cow it hoped it would be. https://trib.al/gBux6b5
Search Engine and Destroy
Google Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face.
Its AI Mode isn’t the cash cow it hoped it would be.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-starved-out-publishers-ai-mode-revenue?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVQcTRjbGNrBVBxHWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEf_9wZwqROuaSZobFL6r2uQOFUmYAcZLU35kQI44X5XU2VBIcA8sRSPYu_184_aem_Wjl9lPaA0mhu10HM_EwszQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
Is vibecoding the way of the music tech industry? Behringer wants to sell you the hardware and let AI write the rest. A genuine shift in who controls music technology, or the fastest route yet to an expensive fish tank ornament?
Tomi Engdahl says:
Is vibecoding the way of the music tech industry? Behringer wants to sell you the hardware and let AI write the rest. A genuine shift in who controls music technology, or the fastest route yet to an expensive fish tank ornament?
https://www.decodedmagazine.com/what-is-behringer-up-to-open-hardware-vibecoding-and-the-150-sampler/
Behringer is going all in on open hardware, and by extension on vibecoding: the idea that anyone with a ChatGPT account can now describe the software they want and have an AI write it for them. As Pepper Brooks put it in Dodgeball, it’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.