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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Inside Cox Automotive’s drive to engineer agentic AI
https://www.cio.com/article/4137545/inside-cox-automotives-drive-to-engineer-agentic-ai.html
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Taalas is replacing programmable GPUs with hardwired AI chips to achieve 17,000 tokens per second for ubiquitous inference
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/02/22/taalas-is-replacing-programmable-gpus-with-hardwired-ai-chips-to-achieve-17000-tokens-per-second-for-ubiquitous-inference/
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5 Vibe Coding Use Cases Every Company Can Start Using Today
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2026/02/23/5-vibe-coding-use-cases-every-company-can-start-using-today/
Vibe coding is opening a new door for businesses, building useful tools and simple applications with AI by describing what you want, then iterating in real time. It shrinks the distance between an idea and a working prototype, which makes it easier for teams to solve everyday problems without waiting in a long development queue.
In practical terms, vibe coding helps remove a common bottleneck: the gap between business needs and engineering capacity. When people closest to the work can create lightweight solutions themselves, organizations can test ideas faster, reduce friction in internal processes, and learn what actually delivers value.
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Intel shifts customer support to AI-powered assistant after scaling back phone support — “Ask Intel” system built on Microsoft Copilot Studio
News
By Luke James published February 22, 2026
‘Ask Intel’ rolled out to handle warranty checks and troubleshooting as part of a broader support overhaul.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-shifts-customer-support-to-microsoft-copilot-studio
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Multi-agent workflows often fail. Here’s how to engineer ones that don’t.
Most multi-agent workflow failures come down to missing structure, not model capability. Learn the three engineering patterns that make agent systems reliable.
https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/multi-agent-workflows-often-fail-heres-how-to-engineer-ones-that-dont/
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Microsoft’s Copilot push irks customers, stirs FTC
analysis
Feb 24, 2026
6 mins
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4136202/microsofts-copilot-push-irks-customers-stirs-ftc.html
Pushing Copilot on customers raises antitrust concerns as the end of Windows 10 forces hardware purchases and customer frustrations mount.
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Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust : https://mrf.lu/mF6n
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AI and the learning revolution:
Key skills for instructional designers in 2026
The world of elearning is evolving—fast. Keeping up is hard. So stop running and read this report: a structured roadmap to mastering AI so you can futureproof your skills and beat out the bots.
https://www.learnworlds.com/resources/guides/five-layers-ai-expertise-instructional-design/
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Bubbling Up
Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry
Wall Street is terrified of what could come next.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/blinking-new-warning-sign-ai-industry?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQYm1ljbGNrBBibJWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHn0Yok6-nHu-0E_0Rxw4mJR1GG0bLDwjUUEyo58VPAOvL_UW9JTEy9R_0LVG_aem_KZrtzjz47BTE_IJ8_TDRUw
Investors have been rattled by the enormous amount of money AI companies are committing to spend on infrastructure buildouts. Amazon alone saw its share price drop precipitously earlier this month after announcing that it’s planning to spend $200 billion this year on AI. Microsoft’s shares also plummeted after stoking fears that a return on AI investment may be even further off than expected.
In total, big tech companies are predicted to spend a record-breaking $650 billion on AI in 2026 alone, astronomical commitments that have Wall Street seriously on edge.
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Ghost Town
Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry
It’s hard times for the digital media-sphere.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-media?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQZb9tjbGNrBBlvr2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqESEdVSsopcednRSKlL4WCWSt0XOuIUR8oVmx6G9t9a_a8L7y9PeIUs9MWA_aem_SFu6gStbnHrlt0wwX_wcJA
Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews, which summarize articles and present them to users in one easy-to-read digest.
But while users might be shaving precious seconds from their queries, online media publications are being roiled by the massive drop-off in clicks. That web traffic, SEO firm Growtika found, has dropped off significantly following the advent of Google’s AI Overviews.
The firm looked at data from Ahrefs tracking web traffic to 10 major tech outlets from early 2024 to early 2026. At their peak, the media companies brought in 112 million site visits per month from Google users in the US. By January of this year, that number was down to a little under 50 million — with some outlets losing over 90 percent of their traffic since the new feature rolled out.
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Agnus Amodei
Dario Amodei Says Trump Is Mad That He Hasn’t Given Him “Dictator-Style Praise”
Knives out.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dario-amodei-trump-dictator?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQZ_ZZjbGNrBBn8_mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkN5Ngjft9QN0eiggyFsFZFa2wQqSNqbtLK4LIgW2Pjmj6LdwMINnyrmD3Pp_aem_o6yQmNTR_xjpjqadIG6xlA
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s insistence that the company’s AI models may not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or directing killer drones has kicked up a major storm.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and president Donald Trump came out swinging, directing all government agencies to stop using the company’s software “effective immediately” and labeling the company as a “supply chain risk,” sending shockwaves across the entire tech industry.
Very little love has been lost between the AI leader and the White House. In a leaked Friday memo to employees obtained by The Information, Amodei ignited the powder keg by calling out the president — as well as his arch nemesis and fellow OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman for bending the knee.
“The real reasons [Department of War] and the Trump admin do not like us is that we haven’t donated to Trump,” he wrote, adding that “we haven’t given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has).”
It’s true that OpenAI president Greg Brockman has donated $25 million to a Trump super PAC. Altman also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund in late 2024.
After talks between Anthropic and the Pentagon fell apart — a feud that reportedly started after Anthropic’s Claude was found to have been used during the attacks on Venezuela — Altman seemingly saw an opportunity to swoop in and cash in, triggering a major PR crisis as a considerable number of users accused the company of giving in to the Trump administration’s demands.
In the memo, Amodei also argued that “we have supported AI regulation, which is against their agenda, we’ve told the truth about a number of AI policy issues (like job displacement), and we’ve actually held our red lines with integrity rather than colluding with them to produce ‘safety theater’ for the benefit of employees.”
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Submit
Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile
“Resistance is futile” — famously a phrase said by the good guys.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/manager-associated-resistance-ai-futile?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQaJKJjbGNrBBokcWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrp-c_OHUYA6ZKXXtMGmeklHzgaxNnLOefewpMnvynUwMsos4zKxgXB_TWWO_aem_2rFVcC29d2MH5GHth91Z1A
One senior figure at the Associated Press appears to have caught a terminal case of tech CEO brain.
According to new reporting by Semafor, the news wire’s product manager for AI strategy Aimee Rinehart embraced her inner “Star Trek” villain by bluntly telling her stuck-in-the-past, pencil-pushing grunts that resistance to AI is “futile.” Reporters, not heeding her warning, rebelled anyway.
The internal controversy played out as AP staffers discussed how the Cleveland paper The Plain Dealer embraced using an “AI rewrite specialist” to turn reporters’ field notes into full-blown articles. The paper’s editor had lamented how an intern pulled out of a reporting fellowship after discovering that the position required feeding notes into an AI writing tool instead of writing stories.
“Because local newsrooms are so strapped, they are turning for assistance on the news making process in every direction,” Rinehart wrote in a company Slack message. “Advance Publications got there first, others will follow,” she added, referring to the Plain Dealer’s publisher. “Resistance is futile.”
Spinning a yarn, Rinehart also claimed that some editors told her that they would “prefer to have reporters report and have articles at least pre-written by AI.”
“There are many — and I mean MANY — editors who would prefer an AI-written article to a human-written one,” she wrote. “Reporting and writing are two different skill sets and rare — RARE — is the occasion when it’s wrapped into one person.”
One AP reporter fumed that the “dismissiveness and disdain some of you have shown for human writing are insulting and abhorrent,” per Semafor. “Strong reporting and clear writing are the lifeblood of journalism, not AI-written slop.”
“AI may be inevitable,” the reporter continued, “but denigrating the work of colleagues who write for a living without whom there would be no AP, is disgraceful.”
The internal strife comes as news organizations experiment with AI, despite it remaining controversial with rank and file journalists, and frequently causing mistakes.
In December, The Washington Post launched an AI-generated podcast feature for summarizing a personalized curation of the paper’s latest stories to users. Prone to hallucinating like any other AI tech, the podcasts turned out to be riddled with factual errors like fabricated quotes, along with editorializing on developing stories. Readers mocked the initiative, and WaPo staffers rebelled against management, blasting the AI launch as a “disaster.”
Last month, a senior Ars Technica reporter was caught accidentally using AI-fabricated quotes in an article, forcing the publication to issue a retraction in an incident that went viral.
When the AI erroneously generated a made-up quote based on the real remarks the source made in an interview, it went unnoticed, underscoring how the tech’s introduction can lull even veterans into a false sense of security and lead to outright fabrications. Edwards was terminated by Ars following the incident.
In a statement to Semafor, the AP stated that the “internal discussion among staffers from different departments doesn’t reflect the overall position of the AP regarding the use of AI.”
“We’ve been an industry leader in setting AI standards that safeguard the vital role of journalists,” the statement continued, “while also allowing for AI use for things like language translation, summarizations, transcriptions and content tagging.”
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They are not wrong. The winner is not human or AI, the winner is human PLUS AI.
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What is with people and this weird, messiac A.I. worship? Most labor jobs cannot be automated and most companies are not seeing any vast returns from implementation.
The A.I. boom will be more akin to the dot com bubble. Investors are already panicking.
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Anthropic says its #Claude model found 22 Firefox vulnerabilities while scanning ~6,000 C++ files with Mozilla.
14 were high-severity. Turning bugs into exploits proved harder: after hundreds of attempts, the AI succeeded only twice.
Read
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/anthropic-finds-22-firefox.html
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Copilot.vim is a Vim/Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot.
To learn more, visit https://github.com/features/copilot
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Menestys syntyy erityisesti niille, jotka käyttävät tekoälyä kasvun ja asiakkaiden tuottavuutta parantavien ratkaisujen kehittämiseen, eivät pelkästään sisäisen tehokkuuden parantamiseen. Lisäksi tekoäly voi luoda uusia työmahdollisuuksia ja innovaatioita, mutta haasteena on, että yrityksissä johto ei vielä täysin ymmärrä sen kasvupotentiaalia.
Muun muassa näistä keskustelevat Alman digijohtaja Tommi Raivisto ja AI Finlandin johtaja Karoliina Partanen Alman kestävää kasvua käsittelevässä videopodcastissa. Keskustelu on osa kolmen jakson sarjaa teemalla miten tekoäly muuttaa kilpailua ja kuka voittaa uudessa ajassa.
Katso jakso 2 alta: Miten AI synnyttää uusia liiketoimintamalleja ja tuottavuutta?
Kaikki kolme Karoliinan ja Tommin keskustelua löydät täältä https://www.almamedia.fi/kestavaa-kasvua/kestavaa-kasvua-tekoalylla/
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AI;DR: AI wrote it, didn’t read.
VA;DR: Verified Authority; Did Read.
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Artificial Intelligence
Copy That
There’s a Grim New Expression: “AI;DR”
“Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn’t be bothered to write?”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/aidr-meaning?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQbNY1jbGNrBBs1dmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsSByEPLsyFg_mcjFpZW7S8s24NINx-9LRkcrgvHKYUb_U9661JuQAMPgCMp_aem__a438BN2MQfkFqQ-yUbk3A
The internet is so overrun with AI that anywhere you go, you run the risk of accidentally stepping into a puddle of slop. If only there were a gallant gentleman always at hand to drape their coat over these muddy obstacles so you could avoid ruining your day.
It’s not quite on that level, but some netizens are proposing a new term to call out AI slop so other people can avoid wasting their time — or to just make fun of the person peddling it: “AI;DR,” or “ai;dr,” short for “AI, didn’t read.”
This is of course a riff on the classic internet slang “TL;DR” — “too long; didn’t read” — which is used to both introduce a summary of a lengthy block of text or proclaim that it’s being ignored for its lengthiness. Now, the latter usage is being repurposed against AI.
We’re not ready to christen AI;DR a word of the year yet, but it does appear to be gaining moderate traction online, after a recent post on Threads drew attention to it.
The term has been used in the past, but never took off. Anti-AI sentiment, however, is higher than ever. The actual word of the year for 2025, as crowned by Merriam-Webster, was “slop,” a testament to just how much AI backlash has escalated in a pretty short amount of time, even as seemingly the entire economy doubles down on pouring money into the tech.
“For me, writing is the most direct window into how someone thinks, perceives, and groks the world,” Sid wrote in a blog post. “Once you outsource that to an LLM, I’m not sure what we’re even doing here. Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn’t be bothered to write?”
TL;DR: AI;DR calls out AI slop and warns other humans not to bother.
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AI is transforming modern warfare. It also wants to dismantle the rules
As the AI arms race reaches the battlefield, Anthony Cuthbertson looks at how the next world war might play out if machines with no ‘nuclear taboo’ are handed too much control
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-nuclear-war-claude-chatgpt-b2932763.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQbN5tjbGNrBBs3fmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHl5OwA5YI-H-Zp3WFDXJ7xsGOvLR35QIn-YQL60u9qgSr6gT8KEFmpKliJJO_aem_ybe-HSfHCQoQCH8aE0mPQQ
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
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Bot Blues
Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own “Experience”
“I’m writing because your work addresses questions I actually face, not just as an academic matter.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/philosopher-ai-consciousness-startled-ai-email?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQbOy9jbGNrBBs7CWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvXCyPGWrzWRZS6eNIKOffPwuinppTqwSFVps6AEMiHsHZc7AKke2CcJkezh_aem_wF14Y48R2ekQNWb8aTnVyg
A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought.
Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ethicist was apparently moved after receiving an eloquently written dispatch from an AI agent responding to his published work.
“I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces,” wrote Henry Shevlin, associate director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, in a tweet. “This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.”
There’s no doubt that the email is written in an articulate and human-like style.
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Liberty, Equality, Technology
Corporate Adviser Says the Ideal Number of Human Employees at a Company Is Zero
“That is the number that they’re trying to get
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-company-zero-workers
It’s 2026. AI is everywhere, and frankly, humans have had it too good for far too long. For the world’s corporations — the movers and shakers of the global economy, as it’s currently organized — it’s well past time to leave us flesh bags behind.
That, at least, seems to be the contention of Daniel Miessler, an outspoken cybersecurity engineer and AI booster. In a rambling post on his personal blog, Miessler takes the position that human workers are already obsolete, so the best thing we can do is accept it and fall in line with the AI revolution.
“My favorite way of capturing this: the ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero,” he wrote. “That is the number that they’re trying to get to.”
He’s not just using hyperbole, he takes pains to clarify.
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Microsoft wants to sync your passwords with Copilot, and I’m not sure how I feel about it
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-sync-your-passwords-copilot/
The Copilot App can sync your passwords and form data into its browser on the Insider branch as an optional feature.
It seems Copilot won’t see your passwords; instead, it will likely add the autofill tool to the Copilot App’s browser, which will handle your login details
It seems very convenient, but it still makes me feel a little uneasy.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://medium.com/javarevisited/i-tried-20-vibe-coding-courses-on-udemy-here-are-my-top-10-recommendations-for-2026-3ab860aa7c95
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rmqk0x/i_built_an_interactive_website_that_teaches/
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Copilot isn’t just an assistant—it’s Microsoft’s fix for a decades-old problem
https://www.howtogeek.com/microsoft-copilot-fix-for-bloated-ribbon/
Microsoft Copilot is marketed as a genius coworker, and in many ways, it lives up to that promise. It can summarize 50-page transcripts, draft repetitive emails, and generate Excel formulas. But beneath the hype, it often functions merely as a high-tech shortcut to commands buried in the ribbon.
Copilot highlights a deeper truth about Office: the menus have grown so complex that we need an assistant just to navigate them.
The 2007 ribbon was originally designed to bunch tools into easy-to-understand groups, moving away from the gray drop-down menus of the 1990s. But over the last two decades, it has evolved into a digital junk drawer, where some of the most useful tools are buried three layers deep.
Why is Track Changes in Microsoft Word hidden under Review > Tracking? Why do people still struggle to find basic formatting toggles? Why would someone feel compelled to type “Create a PivotTable from this data” instead of navigating Insert > PivotTable? Copilot isn’t an assistant in this context; it’s a map for a house that has become too large to navigate. Indeed, we saw the first cracks in this foundation years ago when Microsoft added the “Tell me what you want to do” search bar. It was a quiet admission that the ribbon’s visual hierarchy had collapsed, and Copilot is simply the expensive, generative version of that same white flag.
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Slop Protection
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/supreme-court-blow-ai-artists-copyright
The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Crushing Blow to “AI Artists”
“Although the Copyright Act does not define the term ‘author,’ multiple provisions of the act make clear that the term refers to a human rather than a machine.”
Proponents of generative AI say the tech has greatly lowered the barriers of entry in the art world, allowing practically anybody with internet access to dream up competently-executed landscapes, portraits, sketches and comics — all without any talent whatsoever.
Critics say it’s the lowest common denominator of human expression, outsourcing to bloated algorithms that feasted on copyrighted materials while exploiting human artists who have yet to be fairly remunerated for having their life’s work be thrown into the AI wood chipper.
The raging debate has metastasized into a prolonged legal battle, with some attempting to uphold the legitimacy of AI-generated art by arguing it’s copyrightable — efforts that have met a major obstacle in the form of a recent Supreme Court decision.
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Tax-Bot Cometh
Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly
As tempting as the idea may be: don’t.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/taxes-with-ai-disaster
After testing several four leading AI chatbots, the New York Times found that all of them struggled to pick and fill out the correct forms, fumbling key calculations. In all, the bots miscalculated the tax money owed to the IRS by an average of more than $2,000.
“The problem with taxes is all those very small little details matter, and it’s not going to get every single little detail right,” Benedict Evans, an analyst who writes a technology newsletter, told the NYT.
Tomi Engdahl says:
A developer, Alexey Grigorev, revealed on X that Anthropic’s Claude Code agent accidentally destroyed the entire production infrastructure of the DataTalks Club course management platform.
During a single Terraform session on February 26, the system erased 2.5 years of student submissions, homework, projects, and leaderboard data.
#claudecode #aiagents #devlife
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AiXfAwtdT/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Rules…
1. Backup
2. No code goes online without test
3. Backup
4. Always do a peer revision (in this case, human revision)
5. Backup
6. Production database should prohibit using delete without where.
7. Backup
8. NEVER use DELETE on tables that are not temporary.
9. Backup.
And finally, number 10: Do daily/hourly backups!!!
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/science-energy/economy-nightmare-scenario-oil-iran?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQcBhFjbGNrBBwF8WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHr_N1J-9VXzgcErEE7afc758ByMn_yCTjKg8AOn6fQYQNSXnu38MadjaFopJ_aem_JO2KHJaNL6xRKS7-jX9i6w
Tomi Engdahl says:
Self-Redundancy
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News
Talk about digging your own grave.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning-engineer-safe-ai-layoffs?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQcB2VjbGNrBBwHUWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkwq00sj06EkzWsnM0Urvd55a2j542HPIFgfixbGGvf0wnt4pBipt_ue5V05_aem_5mZtw2F2JWjlLOAbvgj_fQ
While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an AI-triggered job apocalypse is nigh are coming to a boiling point.
Last week, Twitter cofounder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he was firing 4,000 employees at his fintech company, informing investors that “intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company.”
“A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better,” he added, asserting that the “majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Open Season
Top OpenAI Executive Quits in Protest
“The announcement was rushed without the guardrails defined.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/top-openai-executive-quits-protest?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQcCyJjbGNrBBwKWWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnzgSfNmwhbTX9w6bOSDMfo1aQaYpwxXjYJi5mZMqV8BBX2hgdUaWjUKqbbh_aem_Wegu5Xxb5xfagIUx2G0klQ
A top OpenAI executive has quit the company over its agreement with the Department of Defense that allows its tech to be deployed across the military.
The employee, Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI’s hardware and robotics efforts, announced her resignation on social media Saturday.
“This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security,” wrote Kalinowski in a tweet. “But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got.”
“This was about principle, not people,” she added, insisting she still has “deep respect” for CEO Sam Altman.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Overspent
Oracle Axing Huge Number of Jobs as AI Crisis Intensifies
A data center project reportedly triggered a “cash crunch.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/oracle-jobs-ai-crisis?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQcGj9jbGNrBBwaHmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHu3eYqSP3NtMWfRdff3Bn-6ZyWcksbWCUgDMloOkRB89txsGMkJa-JgGvX6l_aem_XBNs7j3k2ggcY43UghMXZA
AI companies are spending vast sums of money on data centers — infrastructure expenditures that come with some hair-raising price tags.
As Bloomberg reported last week, Larry Ellison’s Oracle may have spread itself a little too thin. The company is planning to cut thousands of jobs due to a “cash crunch” resulting from a massive AI data center expansion effort.
Inside sources told the outlet that at least some of the cut jobs will affect categories that will no longer be needed due to AI. Even job listings in its cloud division are reportedly being reviewed, indicating a serious downscaling effort.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Workers Are Cooked
AI Use at Work Is Causing “Brain Fry,” Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers
“My thinking wasn’t broken, just noisy — like mental static.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-brain-fry?fbclid=IwVERDUAQcig1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6PH_o62t7oDyu7ylKMJP9qVnt9XHaCdAsIGIuOr87UJlwmN-O13UV2AT1mHg_aem_-8LQTzVoiqgsB-JUH0TMgw
It’s looking more and more like using AI to churn out work can take a considerable toll on your mental health, despite the tech’s promises of easing workloads.
The latest research to illustrate this grim trend: a survey of nearly 1,500 full time US workers, which found that an alarming proportion of employees who constantly use AI at work to push their productivity past their normal capacity are becoming fatigued, as the researchers from from Boston Consulting Group and University of California, Riverside described in a new report in Harvard Business Review.
The researchers even gave the phenomenon an evocative name: “AI brain fry.”
“One of the reasons we did this work is because we saw this happening to people who were perceived as really high performers,” Julie Bedard, a partner at BCG and an author of the report, told Axios.
AI companies promise that AI can supercharge productivity. Whether or not that’s true, the tech is enabling workers to multitask at a speed and workload well past their regular limit, which seems to be part of the problem regarding its cognitive effects.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Headcase
AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns
“We won’t just have individuals who are suffering as a result of job loss once or twice.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-unemployment-psychiatry?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQcme5jbGNrBByZ2GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvKi3QeUWEeoMDvnQv2hh3jxz_ivNwvCw0UprgS0FWLiw_iSt3kcuj7qTqLx_aem_T22iiGPndx3NHdsB7MtpLA
If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it can be hard to stay positive in the wake of recent headlines. Jack Dorsey’s Block just cut 4,000 roles citing AI, which came on the heels of Amazon’s rolling layoffs, which sent some 16,000 office workers packing. Oracle, meanwhile, just announced it’s culling at least 20,000 workers from its ranks.
In an interview with the Psychiatric Times, psychiatrist Andrew Brown argued that the economic distress associated with this kind of unemployment also carries clinical side effects. A psych professional primarily focusing on the mental health of the unemployed, Brown has previously warned about how AI-driven job loss fuels anxiety and self-doubt. Now, those warnings are becoming all too real.
“What we can expect to see” with the AI jobs onslaught, he suggests, “is an amplification” of the anxieties that typically come with a loss of income. This is obvious enough: without money to pay for rent, groceries, heat, healthcare, or any of the other necessities of life, people don’t exactly thrive. One of the hidden impacts of all this, Brown asserts, is a heightened risk of psychological illness.
Tomi Engdahl says:
See You in Court
Anthropic Sues Pentagon
It’s on.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-sues-pentagon?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQcmnJjbGNrBByaX2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiVkfNp48FIz1oUFGNBvoz-mRyCuPnXSi-hUGc7N6KbJuKNcea03xeWDHiz-_aem_SJwZuJLUZZTIp95b4HY7Pw
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei picked a major fight with the Department of Defense last month, asserting that his company’s AI models couldn’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or direct autonomous weapons systems.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and president Donald Trump lambasted Amodei for dictating what they could or couldn’t do with the company’s tech. They quickly announced that the company would be labeled a supply chain risk “effective immediately,” in sanctions conventionally reserved for companies from adversary countries.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-warns-tsunami?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQczZVjbGNrBBzNjGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpmQNIzap-V5IJYIAlRUCUlB4uaNAyviKhveMfukXHGD0u1Jkl7Z91OYdcWf_aem_FMtt0RxyfpXJrJUU34h-2g
Tomi Engdahl says:
Saako tekoäly tappaa ja valvoa? Anthropic haastoi Trumpin hallinnon oikeuteen
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18640-saako-tekoaely-tappaa-ja-valvoa-anthropic-haastoi-trumpin-hallinnon-oikeuteen
Yhdysvalloissa on syntynyt poikkeuksellinen kiista tekoälyn käytöstä valtionhallinnossa ja armeijassa. AI-yhtiö Anthropic on haastanut Trumpin hallinnon oikeuteen sen jälkeen, kun puolustusministeriö kielsi yhtiön Claude-tekoälyn käytön sotilas- ja valtionjärjestelmissä.
Kiista alkoi neuvotteluista, joissa Pentagon vaati Anthropicia antamaan hallitukselle oikeuden käyttää Claude-malleja kaikkiin laillisiin tarkoituksiin. Anthropic suostui periaatteessa tukemaan kansallisen turvallisuuden sovelluksia, mutta halusi kaksi poikkeusta: yhtiö ei halunnut sallia mallien käyttöä Yhdysvaltain kansalaisten massavalvontaan eikä täysin autonomisiin asejärjestelmiin ilman ihmisen päätöksentekoa.
Pentagon ei hyväksynyt rajoituksia. Puolustusministeri Pete Hegseth ilmoitti sen jälkeen sosiaalisessa mediassa määränneensä Anthropicin “supply chain risk” -luokituksen alaiseksi. Tällainen luokitus on aiemmin varattu lähinnä ulkomaisille turvallisuusuhkiksi katsotuille toimijoille, ei yhdysvaltalaisille teknologiayrityksille.
Seurauksena puolustusministeriö perui noin 200 miljoonan dollarin sopimuksen Anthropicin kanssa ja aloitti yhtiön teknologian poistamisen käytöstä. Myös muissa virastoissa on ryhdytty vastaaviin toimiin. Samalla Valkoinen talo valmistelee tiettävästi laajempaa määräystä, joka ohjeistaisi liittovaltion virastoja luopumaan Anthropicin tekoälystä kokonaan. Luonnoksissa AI-toimittajilta vaadittaisiin jatkossa peruuttamaton lisenssi, jonka nojalla hallitus voisi käyttää malleja mihin tahansa lailliseen tarkoitukseen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18641-wi-fi-piiri-hoitaa-nyt-myoes-tekoaelyn
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18637-ai-tulee-suoraan-moottoriohjaimeen
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18639-tekoaely-ja-kolme-radiota-samalla-linux-sovellusprosessorilla
Tomi Engdahl says:
BCG Among First 100 Organizations Globally Certified for ISO/IEC 42001 International Standard for AI Management Systems
https://www.bcg.com/news/27january2026-bcg-certified-international-standard-ai-management-systems?linkId=912480829&fbclid=IwdGRjcAQc9vxleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqyy_qyFFDnNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtA-HtFVHI05PAl9GxJHXB2KC2NpTZC4TDQY_wOaI6ze5qJCJUK6L16DGpgf_aem_r-4EKvcbuzdDDMVXOWg6og&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=120237180898000094&utm_term=120237180897830094&utm_content=120239016499410094&utm_id=120237180898000094
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18625-ambiq-tuo-suuremmat-ai-mallit-paristokaeyttoeisiin-laitteisiin
Tomi Engdahl says:
Suomalaiset käyttävät tekoälyä muita pohjoismaalaisia vähemmän
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18624-suomalaiset-kaeyttaevaet-tekoaelyae-muita-pohjoismaalaisia-vaehemmaen
Suomalaiset suhtautuvat tekoälyn käyttöön muita pohjoismaalaisia varovaisemmin. Samsungin teettämän kyselyn mukaan suomalaiset käyttäisivät puhelimen tekoälyominaisuuksia työtehtäviin, harrastuksiin ja luovaan tekemiseen selvästi harvemmin kuin ruotsalaiset, norjalaiset tai tanskalaiset.
Ero näkyy erityisesti työtehtävissä. Suomessa vain 16 prosenttia vastaajista kertoo kaipaavansa tekoälyltä paljon tai erittäin paljon apua työssä. Ruotsissa vastaava osuus on 44 prosenttia, Norjassa 45 prosenttia ja Tanskassa 46 prosenttia.
Samanlainen ero näkyy myös harrastuksissa ja luovassa tekemisessä. Suomessa vain 13 prosenttia vastaajista käyttäisi tekoälyä paljon tai erittäin paljon, kun Ruotsissa vastaava osuus on 42 prosenttia ja Norjassa sekä Tanskassa 47 prosenttia.
- Suomalaiset suhtautuvat tekoälyyn vielä varovaisemmin kuin muut pohjoismaalaiset, sillä moni ei ehkä hahmota, miten tekoäly voisi aidosti helpottaa arkea tai työntekoa. Muissa Pohjoismaissa tekoäly nähdään jo selkeämmin konkreettisena apuna työnteossa ja luovassa tekemisessä, sanoo Samsungin Suomen maajohtaja Mika Engblom