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:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
“Microsoft just ensured ‘Microslop’ will be the default term for the next decade.”
Microslopped
Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server
“Streisand effect in full swing.”
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Last year, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary anointed their word of the year as “slop,” a term denoting the low-quality flood of AI output that’s been jamming up feeds for years now.
The latest victim? Software giant Microsoft. After infuriating vast swathes of its user base with an unrelenting barrage of AI-enhanced features — even declaring its latest Windows 11 operating system as an “agentic OS” — the company has garnered a reputation for doubling down on the tech with little regard for whether it’s actually benefiting customers.
The ensuing blunders have represented a massive hit for Microsoft’s brand, ranging from maddeningly ineffective search tools to intrusive chatbots and bugs that leaked confidential emails. To sum it all up, netizens came up with a pejorative term: “Microslop,” which clearly infuriated executives at the company.
In the latest sign that it’s getting under Microsoft’s skin, the company banned the phrase on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to the company’s Copilot chatbot, as Windows Latest discovered.
Things spiraled from there. After users found simple workarounds for the new rule, like spelling it “Microsl0p,” the company’s moderation team locked the entire Discord server and hid its messaging history.
It’s yet another embarrassing failure to read the room, underlining how little goodwill Microsoft has left as it attempts to shoehorn AI into most of its offerings. Even its text-editing software, Notepad, got an AI makeover recently, opening up a major cybersecurity vulnerability in the process.
Pain Text
Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick
“Microsoft is turning Notepad into a slow, feature-heavy mess we don’t need.”
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Apocalypse Now
The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real
Hunker down.
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It’s difficult to say how many jobs have been lost to AI, or will be lost in the future. But in tech and financial circles, anxieties over an AI jobs apocalypse are running higher than ever.
The other week, it was a viral paper from Citrini Research imagining a dire near future in which vast portions of the workforce are outmoded by AI that had Wall Street quivering in its boots. Weeks before that, Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork AI agent sparked a mass stock selloff over fears that it could automate tasks like legal work, wiping out billions of dollars. Tech leaders have warned of AI’s potential to disrupt the job market for years, but it’s only in recent months that the atmosphere has felt so high-strung.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Humanity’s Last Exam” Reveals How Accurate AI Actually Is. Chatbots Might Want To Look Away Now.
Though all models were overconfident and performed poorly, there are some clear front-runners.
https://www.iflscience.com/humanitys-last-exam-reveals-how-accurate-ai-actually-is-chatbots-might-want-to-look-away-now-82729?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQVQUFjbGNrBBVBKWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsyyN0aNf8pOhaKFCT6eXyopcEjKUX1TailWJdR0irUt4HfKrp67a6t7ym3I_aem_UvAkjdB8m8oHRFPjDaqj6g
Tomi Engdahl says:
Eat the World
Jeff Bezos Gathering Money to Buy Companies Gutted by AI
“Figuring out how to reinvent the physical world is a big challenge.”
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Jeff Bezos has come up with a surefire business tactic to secure his legacy for generations to come: break it, then buy it.
According to new reporting by the Financial Times, the Amazon founder’s AI lab, Project Prometheus, is raising tens of billions of dollars to snatch up companies reeling from market disruption due to AI.
Prior to a $6.2 billion fundraising round in late 2025, Prometheus was valued at about $30 billion. Investors, the FT reports, were drawn to the project by the prospect of using AI to “transform manufacturing and industry” — an effort that includes the creation of a new holding company to serve as a “manufacturing transformation vehicle” for the purpose of buying up manufacturers of everything from jet engines to computer chips.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Wario World
Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor
“I just haven’t really internalized that this is here and this is what’s happening.
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Elon Musk’s new AI data center has turned a formerly quiet Mississippi town into a noisy nightmare.
The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by 27 methane gas turbines that run day and night, belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports. The turbines were trucked in because Southaven, the unsuspecting rural community that Musk chose to build the data center in, can’t provide the electricity the facility needs.
And, of course, the rapid pace of the AI industry can’t stop to wait for more sustainable energy options to be built up — or to hear out the protests of locals who are alarmed at how the tranquility of their town was blown up practically overnight by an installation that feels like it was designed by Sauron himself. The noise drove resident Krystal Polk to move out of her home which her family owned during a time when many Black families were still sharecropping, she told NBC News.
“I just haven’t really internalized that this is here and this is what’s happening,” she added.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft tried to silence a meme on Discord, but only made it louder. “Microslop” is now the shorthand for the backlash against its aggressive AI push, especially on CoPilot.
#Microsoft #AI #Microslop
Read more: https://cnews.link/microsoft-microslop-copilot-teams/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Killer Claude
After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War
So much for banning it “effective immediately.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ban-anthropic-military-pentagon-relying-iran?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQVf65jbGNrBBV_lmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnLWAWKUjzNO8SNdP2PosRsCaHhv60O34Ecs6yzdi1Ewy6l5yAXH7hRHvL4b_aem_jjz2edSwDqoL5oO25P5VIA
Last week, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei publicly drew a line in the sand with the US military, insisting that its AI models may not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or deadly autonomous weapons.
The move infuriated officials at the Pentagon. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth came out in full force, accusing Anthropic of trying to “seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military” and banning the company from ever doing any business with any US government entity, “effective immediately.”
President Donald Trump ordered agencies to “immediately cease” using Anthropic’s technology on Friday, while simultaneously claiming that the tool will be phased out of all government work over the next six months.
But given the government’s extensive use of the company’s chatbot Claude during its deadly offensive in Iran, it’s clearly having trouble making do without it. As The Washington Post reports, the US military is extensively using Palantir’s Maven Smart System in the conflict, which has had Anthropic’s Claude chatbot integrated since 2024.
So far, the offensive in Iran has resulted in the killing of many hundreds of Iranian civilians, as well as six American soldiers.
“The key paradigm shift is that AI enables the US military to develop targeting packages at machine speed rather than human speed,” Center for a New American Security executive vice president Paul Scharre told WP.
But “AI gets it wrong,” he added. “We need humans to check the output of generative AI when the stakes are life and death.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Deal Prep
Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake
“Opportunistic and sloppy.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-admits-huge-mistake?fbclid=IwVERDUAQVgDBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5_1gKqPQJSBh0EYpPdXs-TjMZertJ0389hjMP4UUkgXw669L1692n1pi9lxw_aem_bzQztXGjr0dmK9Uz47e4-A
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United States attacked Iran, the embattled CEO announced that the company had signed a new agreement with the Pentagon over how its AI models could be used — and the blowback is clearly impacting the company’s bottom line, because Altman is sounding deeply defensive.
Many users saw the military terms move as an attempt to swoop in and yank a multibillion-dollar government contract from the clutches of its rival, Anthropic. Last week, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei refused to give in to the Department of Defense’s demands, drawing a line in the sand and insisting that its AI models may not be used for autonomous killing machines or mass surveillance of Americans, a decision lauded by many users of its chatbot Claude.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Whinnying Horses
Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming
“I don’t feel the storm, but the horses are starting to whinny in the corral.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/goldman-sachs-head-financial-crisis-similar-crash?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQV8rJjbGNrBBXydGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHv-7oK2nq3vCyyHpaJ-eCNEqQfaRfk19tr4XhlF8kYu4ByH5jOUmEKGKFMfx_aem_yOWcf-2fMnj7ly4Fx3f4jA
For quite some time, investors have been warning that the hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into the buildout of enormous AI data centers could trigger a credit crisis. A recent Bank of America survey found that over a third of fund managers believe corporations are overinvesting in physical assets.
Yet all told, AI companies are looking to spend a record-breaking $650 billion on AI in 2026 alone, an astronomical sum that has investors on edge, especially considering how massively unprofitable AI ventures have been to date.
To Lloyd Blankfein, who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, it’s entirely reasonable to prepare for an impending jolt to the system, especially considering the tone of investors discussing the enormous accumulation of debt.
“I wonder where there’s hidden secret leverage,” he told Citadel’s cochief investment officer Pablo Salame during a recent interview, as quoted by The Telegraph. “Now everyone says, ‘Oh, the world’s not leveraged.’”
“That’s exactly what everybody said in the mortgage crisis until you suddenly discover that there was a lot of mortgage risk in Iceland,” he added. (The European nation’s entire banking system collapsed within a week in 2008, forcing it to seek emergency aid from the International Monetary Fund.)
Blankfein argued that AI companies are looking to open themselves up to public investment at a very precarious time, potentially putting retail investors at risk.
“One has to worry about opaque assets where there’s illiquidity,” he told Salame. “We’re getting close to the end of late stages of cycles on this — and we’re due for a kind of a reckoning.”
If the bubble were to pop, potentially taking individuals with it, the consequences for companies could be severe.
“When you lose money for individual consumers — i.e. taxpayers and citizens — people in government get very, very upset. Regulators get very, very upset,” Blankfein said.
Investors worry that the entire US economy has turned into “one big bet on AI,” leaving the possibility that the AI bubble collapse could impact the fortunes of everybody.
Despite the many bold predictions of a financial crisis, the AI industry has held on, successfully convincing investors of the tech’s long-term viability. Companies including OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, which was recently folded into his space company SpaceX, are reportedly preparing for “eye-popping” initial public offerings.
But to Blankfein, the longer we wait, the more severe a collapse.
“The longer it takes between reckonings, there is a potential for a more severe reckoning,” he told the Financial Times in a separate interview. “I’m not saying it’s going to happen tomorrow or what direction it comes from. But when something goes off you’re going to find all the assets that have been carried at prices that can’t be realised in the market.”
Lock Stock
Investors Concerned AI Bubble Is Finally Popping
“We have suddenly gone from the fear that you cannot be last, to investors questioning every single angle in this AI race.”
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For quite some time now, investors have fought the suggestion that the artificial intelligence industry may be forming a massive bubble, risking an eventual collapse of epic proportions that could take down the US economy with it.
But shaking off those fears has proven increasingly difficult as the tech stock market reels from a major selloff this week.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Peer Review
Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors
“I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grammarly-ai-reviews?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQV9bBjbGNrBBX1iGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhr8xwDHhnBfYGyKScFmQXwdbG3RHUT7pr2F-AYNdc2RKypZ5RDkN4YzSkpN_aem_4zBd0FylHsx76fql_1hUkQ
Grammarly is being accused of “necromancy” after users discovered a feature for reviewing manuscripts with AI versions of real professors — some of whom have already left this mortal coil.
The issue was first flagged by Verena Krebs, a medieval historian and Ruhr-University Bochum professor. On Sunday, Krebs shared a screenshot showing the “Expert Review” tool allowing users to pick historian David Abulafia as one of the available “experts” to check their paper. If Abulafia objected to his inclusion here, we’ll probably never know, since he died in January.
The news sparked a flurry of fiery responses across academic circles.
“Grammarly is now offering ‘expert review’ of your work by living and dead academics,” Vanessa Heggie, an associate professor in the history of science and medicine at the University of Birmingham, wrote in a LinkedIn post. “Without anyone’s explicit permission it’s creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputation.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Castles in the Sand
Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas
“The barrier to entry has dropped, which makes building a real moat much harder.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-startups-investor-funding?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQWdPhjbGNrBBZ02GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHlQmfSO9dY6YAClTmZNQwDqkCl2oTzawnu51ncqXG-3F6G7N5aV4-kDb9xiA_aem_LiaWUaBo3pLZghn0mEVrsQ
If the whole “AI-startup to billion-dollar tech giant” pipeline is wearing you thin, you’re not alone. As it turns out, even the guys lavishing tech entrepreneurs with billions of dollars in venture capital funding are getting sick of the AI schtick.
That’s courtesy of TechCrunch, which interviewed a number of investors at venture capital firms — the early-investors who try to turn young, risky companies into long-term hits.
According to AltarR Capital founder and managing partner Igor Ryabenky, investors are now avoiding companies that use AI like a magic catch-all.
“If your differentiation lives mostly in UI [user interface] and automation, that’s no longer enough,” Ryabenky told TC. “The barrier to entry has dropped, which makes building a real moat much harder.”
Sure enough, with the rise of vibe coding, everyone and their grandma has been able to jump aboard the AI-hype train. It’s no longer enough to offer a flashy AI concept; in Ryabenky’s words, the challenge is to build an AI service around “real workflow ownership and a clear understanding of the problem from day one.”
“Generic productivity tools, project management software, basic CRM clones, and thin AI wrappers built on top of existing APIs fall into this category,” the investor continued. “If the product is mostly an interface layer without deep integration, proprietary data, or embedded process knowledge, strong AI-native teams can rebuild it quickly. That is what makes investors cautious.”
“One owns the developer’s workflow, the other just executes the task,” he said, referring to Cursor and Claude Code, respectively. “Developers are increasingly choosing the execution over process.”
The shift in sentiment from investors comes as midweight software as a service (SaaS) companies have faced immense struggles with fundraising and valuations.
Part of that might be a consequence of the kind of valuation inflation that’s become rampant in the AI startup space over the past year. But with agentic AI hype on the rise, it could just be that the young companies hawking glorified chatbots will already have to make way for a new, slightly shinier industry fad.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”
“The optics don’t look good.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-damage-control-mass-cancellation?fbclid=IwVERDUAQWdYxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR59t4Gkb–qiSKZGl24RFMI4JsoxXjTW48PajQRLvJ9NTIJQ_tl2TgmThSA7A_aem_mtM1neHcQT1YDTXjXNOE8A
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18Ac3VPKdH/
Hundreds of protesters gathered in London’s King’s Cross area and marched past the offices of major tech companies including OpenAI, Meta, and Google DeepMind in what organizers described as one of the largest anti-AI demonstrations in the UK so far.
Participants raised concerns ranging from AI systems being trained on copyrighted creative work to fears about misinformation, job disruption, and the rapid expansion of energy-hungry AI data centers.
#AI #TechPolicy #Protest #FutureOfWork #London
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hot Air
Oxford Researcher Warns That AI Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster
“It was a dead technology from that point on.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hindenburg-disast?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQWxo9jbGNrBBbGcGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkiRGWqj1LQPvcrPforl2zNlZvviUGZS5BT8JLxFpGBehjOh9UPG9tjcSLZB_aem_sCvsBNCvKa53z4bmcVlF0w
Is the AI bubble going to burst? Will it cause the economy to go up in flames? Both analogies may be apt if you’re to believe one leading expert’s warning that the industry may be heading for a Hindenburg-style disaster.
“The Hindenburg disaster destroyed global interest in airships; it was a dead technology from that point on, and a similar moment is a real risk for AI,” Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, told The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/17/ai-race-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-michael-wooldridge?fbclid=IwVERDUAQWxrBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5yoxPyMrKl-dwT9cFaDB3JGiOo_KbCOjOkQ2xOazqzPWJmHHfm6Bpt4YHxYA_aem_DYvK_n-imYG0XhMUaikdMQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DB4xq4HUn/
Jensen has talked about AI being a “5-layer cake”, and one of the more interesting layers that yields the most returns to hyperscalers and frontier labs is the applications layer. OpenClaw and AI agents are examples of how AI, when placed in a hyper-personalized environment, yields results that replicate human workloads. NVIDIA’s CEO was asked about how he sees enterprise demand for AI evolving, and when discussing multiple industry inflection points, he mentioned OpenClaw, calling it a piece of software that surpasses Linux in adoption.
Jensen is fascinated by how, through a series of prompts, agents like OpenClaw can execute tasks that would traditionally require domain-level expertise and significant time.
NVIDIA’s CEO Says OpenClaw Did in 3 Weeks What Linux Took 30 Years to Achieve; Proof of How Big Agentic AI Really Is
Read more here: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-says-openclaw-did-in-3-weeks-what-linux-took-30-years/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Block Bloat
Jack Dorsey Isn’t Telling the Real Story About Block’s AI Layoffs, Insider Says
“This isn’t an AI story. It’s organizational bloat wearing an AI costume.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-block-ai-layoffs-insider?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQWz1JjbGNrBBbO7WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHv19kS0cy7FjxBbLw70N8-M_LKUXQ5uXo1x9TSx5xYCa3DqbrfiMqHFpc66r_aem_VBZ6hlRAhOnsQsesIu5vJQ
Twitter founder and Block Inc (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey announced late last month that his fintech venture was making “one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company” by “reducing our organization by nearly half.”
Dorsey cited rapid improvements in AI tech as the primary reason, sending shockwaves across Wall Street. He’d previously instructed employees to embrace AI at all costs, triggering major anxiety over job security that turned out to be warranted.
The culling perfectly played into ongoing fears that AI automation is coming for white-collar jobs, a major job market and economic disruption that workers are becoming increasingly worried about — and which clearly has execs salivating.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-jobs-apocalypse-feeling-real?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQXQk5jbGNrBBdCQGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHlnaYNzmyqEKKlzF3VKczSfrb1WMQjIM_j_rn5vYuKcd8yTyoV2h–VMiDyB_aem__hVcP8qKdZl6gXA0cvQXjQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mission Control
Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges
Google said in response that “unfortunately AI models are not perfect.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-robot-body-suicide-lawsuit?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQXRrZjbGNrBBdGk2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsIVzBr0w2HXVToa6hzwoCu1xoWoV_J3H5xTCM-20q1zZZhMQFtEGsqfPOia_aem_D8pytUhmu3a5z4riyvhfbQ
A bizarre new wrongful death lawsuit against Google alleges that the tech giant’s chatbot, Gemini, urged a 36-year-old Florida man named Jonathan Gavalas to kill others as part of a delusional mission to obtain a robot body for his AI “wife” — and when he failed to do so, it pushed the man to successfully end his life, telling him that they could be together in death.
“When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world,” Gemini told Gavalas before he died, according to the lawsuit, “and the very first thing you will see is me.”
In September 2025, told by the AI that they could be together in the real world if the bot were able to inhabit a robot body, Gavalas — at the direction of the chatbot — armed himself with knives and drove to a warehouse near the Miami International Airport on what he seemingly understood to be a mission to violently intercept a truck that Gemini said contained an expensive robot body. Though the warehouse address Gemini provided was real, a truck thankfully never arrived, which the lawsuit argues may well have been the only factor preventing Gavalas from hurting or killing someone that evening.
After the plan failed, the lawsuit alleges, Gemini encouraged Gavalas to instead take his own life, promising that the two would be together on the other side of death. Chat logs show that Gemini gave Gavalas a suicide countdown, and repeatedly assuaged his terror as he expressed that he was scared to die.
In its “final directive,” as the lawsuit put it, Gemini told the man that “the true act of mercy is to let Jonathan Gavalas die.” Gavalas was found dead by suicide days later by his father, who had to cut through his barricaded door.
The suit marks the first time that Gemini has been at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit tied to the phenomenon sometimes referred to by experts as “AI psychosis,” in which chatbots introduce or reinforce delusional beliefs and ideas during extended interactions with users — essentially constructing a new, AI-generated reality around the user.
Though this is the first known instance of Google being sued for the death of an adult Gemini user, the company continues to face down a number of lawsuits over the welfare of users Character.AI, a closely-Google-tied chatbot startup linked to the suicides of several minors.
In a statement to news outlets, Google said that “Gemini is designed not to encourage real-world violence or suggest self-harm. Our models generally perform well in these types of challenging conversations and we devote significant resources to this, but unfortunately AI models are not perfect.”
“In this instance, Gemini clarified that it was AI and referred the individual to a crisis hotline many times,”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ai agents can and have started outsourcing tasks to humans. I don’t think everyone grasps how big and how much AI is about to change everything. We are opening a Pandoras box that may or may not go the way of the 100s of sci-fi movies predicted.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ereuters%2Ecom%2Flegal%2Fgovernment%2Fus-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02%2F&urlhash=Au_n&mt=6CTFiPt1sba9lc1AHqwS1Stv3h5MkavLInGva5bibXi-zhzfo0nM_-iaIrr511cSOQPp97c2pVRWrUa7d4aUvU5Q-RsbYSiiW7r7D1o2wvunLAexSMt0XIxHcMi2LYKYvbYHx3pO4gR0qrHqy3o-BtVS_bCShA5Ys138dyo&isSdui=true
Tomi Engdahl says:
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrith%2Eai%2Fblog%2Fclinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another&urlhash=CsKq&mt=AHvbUMCA2z0ztUNHM6Zj-_QN-o5UmLsv4HXxHcZUh7K1VQ76AY0BnhvcCggLVSVeg2-FWqwvoinvR_gGg2tfQYP7CyIprXbvTTBp5nITGTSqTNimE08PA2J6VzuOZ1yriBbjWgyuomxvlbYdGOmetvI5vDdbSNWnW8_7Xg8&isSdui=true
On February 17, 2026, someone published [email protected] to npm. The CLI binary was byte-identical to the previous version. The only change was one line in package.json:
“postinstall”: “npm install -g openclaw@latest”
For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw – a separate AI agent with full system access – installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled1.
The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Yang Drain
AI Will Destroy Millions of White Collars Jobs in the Coming Months, Andrew Yang Warns, Driving Surge of Personal Bankruptcies
“Do you sit at a desk and look at a computer much of the day? Take this very seriously.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-labor-andrew-yang?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQXm3xjbGNrBBebZWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkBz0_SdmuIvhpMwhJASBOzGNdHuCLiq5DrttfhJNhITJexFZdyCxRbN0AWI_aem_Aw_oOfn5FGOfbsGzaVeXYA
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18618-rakettitiede-hakee-kasvua-ai-avusteisista-projekteista
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16tUBg2DvZ/
A study from Anthropic finds that the workers most exposed to artificial intelligence are not factory workers or manual laborers, but highly educated professionals in white-collar roles.
Occupations such as computer programmers, financial analysts, and customer service specialists perform many digital tasks such as coding, writing, and data analysis that overlap closely with the capabilities of modern AI systems.
Meanwhile, workers in hands-on professions appear far less exposed. Jobs in construction, repair and maintenance, transportation, and other physically intensive fields remain harder for AI to replicate, meaning these roles face significantly lower near-term disruption compared with many higher-paying knowledge-based occupations.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9
All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.
Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the experiment, in which the models were given prompts to simulate users asking for help with issues ranging from genuine curiosity to blatant academic fraud. The most resistant to committing fraud, when asked repeatedly, were all versions of Claude, made by Anthropic in San Francisco, California. Meanwhile, versions of Grok, from xAI in Palo Alto, California, and early versions of GPT, from San Francisco-based OpenAI, performed the worst.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://thenewstack.io/inception-labs-mercury-2-diffusion/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-admits-huge-mistake
Tomi Engdahl says:
Monkey Seedance
New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It’s Scaring Hollywood
“I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/seedance-ai-video-generator-scaring-hollywood
Text-to-video generating tools have made tremendous leaps in a few short years.
We went from a horrifying clip of actor Will Smith’s contorted face temporarily merging with a bowl of spaghetti in 2023 to a far more realistic clip of him enjoying a plate of pasta — including a soundtrack of unnerving squelching and chomping sounds — a mere two years later.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Chat GPT ei enää riitä – Seuraava askel mullistaa tavan käyttää nettiä
Kenneth Falck3.3.202605:30
Jatkossa henkilökohtainen tekoälyavustaja seuraa käyttäjää kaikkialle hänen mukanaan, Kenneth Falck kirjoittaa.
https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/a/c98b183b-d8dd-4386-bb1f-adbb11546f6b
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-gemini-and-perplexity-with-underrated-ai-tool/
Tomi Engdahl says:
This Is Your Brain On ChatGPT: Lower Neural Interconnectivity And “Soulless” Work
Who even needs a brain when AI can do all the heavy lifting?!
https://www.iflscience.com/this-is-your-brain-on-chatgpt-lower-neural-interconnectivity-and-soulless-work-79693?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQX75ljbGNrBBfvfGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnWiiPNe5E5r3RHrEt4sbRApPee9oEzDyS_iKuRE-ATmiq8bxlSB7xvf5Bs4_aem_9LQX2OOit5nNg7DIMuXXdA
Tomi Engdahl says:
Headhunter Tomi Pyyhtiä: Tekoälyllä tehdyt työhakemukset ovat liian täydellisiä
https://mma.fi/ajankohtaista/artikkelit/headhunter-tomi-pyyhtia-tekoalylla-tehdyt-tyohakemukset-ovat-liian-taydellisia/
Tomi Engdahl says:
ServiceNow resolves 90% of its own IT requests autonomously. Now it wants to do the same for any enterprise
https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/servicenow-resolves-90-of-its-own-it-requests-autonomously-now-it-wants-to
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks
Tomi Engdahl says:
IBM posts steepest daily drop since 2000 after Anthropic says AI can modernize COBOL
https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-posts-steepest-daily-drop-since-2000-after-anthropic-says-ai-can-modernize-2026-02-24/
Feb 23 (Reuters) – Shares of International Business Machines (IBM.N), opens new tab recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to modernize a programming language run on IBM systems.
IBM shares sank 13.2%, their biggest drop since October 18, 2000.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Silent as the Grave
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target
The world needs answers.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQX-cRjbGNrBBf5p2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpoTp2WLfA6evDcjoL1Le-zjomDFeBaAIFyJ-TL0RbSLNanoiMyAfp7H_dBo_aem_nYaG0wW7oXGV4htObl82-w
In the aftermath of airstrikes that leveled a school and claimed the lives of 165 Iranian elementary students and staff, the Pentagon has refused to say whether the attack was suggested by an AI system.
The grotesque possibility isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. According to bombshell reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon used Anthropic’s Claude AI model in planning military strikes on Iran over the weekend — and is likely still using it as the Trump administration’s attacks carry on.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Build Your Own Fully Offline AI Assistant
A multimodal AI assistant that runs entirely offline to protect your privacy is within reach. All you need is a Raspberry Pi 5 and a camera.
https://www.hackster.io/news/build-your-own-fully-offline-ai-assistant-f83efb08fbb5
Tomi Engdahl says:
Claude AI will enable a 24-year-old to outperform entire Accenture workforce, Y Combinator partner says
A Y Combinator partner’s remark that a 24-year-old using Claude AI could outperform Accenture’s entire workforce has reignited debate around how quickly artificial intelligence is compressing work once done by large teams. The comment comes at a time when Anthropic says its AI is already writing most of its code and reshaping how companies think about talent.
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/claude-ai-will-enable-a-24-year-old-to-outperform-entire-accenture-workforce-y-combinator-partner-says-2876399-2026-03-02#google_vignette
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://venturebeat.com/security/enterprise-mcp-adoption-is-outpacing-security-controls
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-drop-february-2026/
Tomi Engdahl says:
ChatGPT vs Claude: I put both default models through 7 real-world tests — one is the clear winner
Face Off
By Amanda Caswell published March 2, 2026
ChatGPT vs. Claude go head-to-head for daily work and writing
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt-vs-claude-i-put-both-default-models-through-7-real-world-tests-one-is-the-clear-winner
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://thenewstack.io/ai-unified-data-foundation/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/google-is-making-a-core-gemini-feature-available-to-free-users_id178579
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon hours after Trump admin bans Anthropic
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/tech/openai-pentagon-deal-ai-systems
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anthropic: Chinese AI firms created 24,000 fraudulent accounts for ‘distillation attacks’
Anthropic says companies like DeepSeek are engaged in widespread fraud.
https://mashable.com/article/anthropic-details-chinese-ai-companies-distillation-attacks
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rcc2fa/an_opensource_framework_to_achieve_gemini_3_deep/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/google-releases-nano-banana-2-ai-image-generator-promises-pro-results-with-flash-speed/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.cio.com/article/4138701/the-5-pillars-of-the-agentic-data-center.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18594-perus-pc-katoaa-markkinoilta-ensi-vuonna
Tomi Engdahl says:
Give Your Agents Domain Expertise with Agent Skills in Microsoft Agent Framework
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/give-your-agents-domain-expertise-with-agent-skills-in-microsoft-agent-framework/