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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Big Zero
You’ll Snort-Laugh When You Learn How Much AI Actually Added to the US Economy Last Year
“There is no evidence that AI deployment is either boosting productivity or damaging US employment.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-economy-gdp-2025?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQy661jbGNrBDLrmWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkeGzTkVM5qhHjQpnIQmO_2L77UpinPkAUCSxMuLKSZdk5SfGozSMhKN2ppB_aem_3bg7y-8SuNuWeltvSzv1JA
Scanning the headlines, it can be easy to get the impression that every investor, banker, and financial analyst is enamored with AI. Yet this simplified view obscures a more complicated story: the US economy isn’t where tech companies say it is.
By and large, businesses have gone bonkers over automation, lavishing $410 billion on AI in 2025 alone. To them, it’s a productivity miracle. AI should obviously make everybody work faster, reducing the need for human labor as it takes less staff to do more — saving companies gobs of cash in the long run.
At least, that’s the narrative in the corporate world. In banking, however, Goldman Sachs is spinning another yarn. After months of carefully-worded warnings about the dangers of over-investing on AI, Goldman has now dramatically escalated its rhetoric: the bank’s analysts now claim that AI has had zero impact on US economic growth over 2025.
The disconnect between AI investment and growth comes down to two structural issues. The first is geographic: when US companies buy chips from Taiwan, for example, that money boosts Taiwan’s economy, not the US. Second is productivity. AI might make some workers faster, sure, but that speed doesn’t automatically make supply chains more efficient — so far, those productivity gains are largely trapped inside company walls.
This pushback on AI’s economic impact marks a sharp break from even the most cynical analyses of 2025, in which even doomers credited the technology with single-handedly keeping US GDP growth afloat. Though the market more broadly has yet to see things Goldman’s way — investors are projected to spend $660 billion on AI across 2026 — a growing number of analysts are starting to cry foul.
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The phrase “AI will eat the world” is a widely cited evolution of Marc Andreessen’s 2011 prediction that “software is eating the world.”
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/08/12/ai-is-eating-the-world/
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Valeria Wu / The Keyword:
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID — Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available
Google is launching Search Live globally
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/google-is-launching-search-live-globally/
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Akash Sriram / Reuters:
SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund further investment in OpenAI
SoftBank secures $40 billion loan to boost OpenAI investments
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/softbank-secures-40-billion-loan-fund-further-openai-investment-2026-03-27/
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Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Steno, which offers an AI-powered case transcript analysis tool for legal professionals, raised a $49M Series C led by Savano Capital Partners
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/26/steno-raises-49m-change-court-reporting-ai-enabled-transcript-analysis/
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Reuters:
Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei’s new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei targets ~750K 950PR shipments in 2026
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/huaweis-new-ai-chip-find-favour-with-bytedance-alibaba-which-plan-place-orders-2026-03-27/
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Meta’s Oversight Board says Community Notes aren’t a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks
Meta’s Oversight Board warns that “Community Notes” aren’t a proper substitute for fact-checking globally
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/metas-oversight-board-warns-that-community-notes-arent-a-proper-substitute-for-fact-checking-globally/
Board Provides Country-Level Factors to Guide Community Notes Rollout
March 26, 2026
Today, the Board published a policy advisory opinion in response to Meta’s request for guidance on the specific factors the company should consider when deciding whether any country should be omitted from its planned expansion of community notes outside the United States.
https://www.oversightboard.com/news/board-provides-country-level-factors-to-guide-community-notes-rollout/
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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Google releases new tools for its Gemini AI assistant that let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, making it easier to switch from them — Google released new tools for its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant that will let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps …
Google Gemini Adds Tool to Make It Easier to Switch From ChatGPT
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/google-gemini-adds-tool-to-make-it-easier-to-switch-from-chatgpt
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The Information:
Sources: Anthropic executives have discussed an IPO as soon as Q4, and bankers vying to take the company public expect it to raise more than $60B — Anthropic executives have discussed an initial public offering of the AI firm’s shares as soon as the fourth quarter this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-discusses-going-public-soon-fourth-quarter
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple granted out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars to iPhone hardware designers, as OpenAI and others poach its engineers — Apple Inc. awarded rare bonuses to iPhone hardware designers this week, aiming to stem a wave of departures to AI startups like OpenAI that are building their own devices.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/apple-gives-iphone-designers-rare-bonuses-to-fight-openai-poaching
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https://www.investingothenburg.com/news/all-news/how-ai-accelerates-parts-drug-development?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQzvjRleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqy922vvvh3NydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHop-h7ZXnqWu4cMTaoBgVlXftmdrxy_XKQ6M4S9wtuVSgRTKYEEZbF0xR9Zm_aem_MJiYGGrxyy_BBcMXM3ZaHA&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120241961818850455&utm_content=120241962604160455&utm_term=120241961818840455&utm_campaign=120241961818850455
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Full story: https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/palantir-ceo-two-types-people-thrive-ai-revolution-063315-20260326
Palantir CEO reveals only two types of people he says will thrive in the AI revolution
It’s not just jobs that AI will affect
https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/palantir-ceo-two-types-people-thrive-ai-revolution-063315-20260326?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ0nIRjbGNrBDScVmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgGqZMbD4H5TbgBUPnR7LqQ-IPxxPZzmE9TfK2YpnwW7kkKRfgi6sUzN_uuB_aem_zNAsJ2JZYZ47eobtejoMSQ
One of the main talking points surrounding artificial intelligence is the impact that it will have on employment, as while some optimists have proposed that it will lead to a world where work is no longer necessary, freeing people to do what they want for the first time, others have taken a more realistic viewpoint.
If everything goes exactly how the AI industry has outlined, the vast majority of people across the world will lose their jobs with no means of earning money, leading to an incredibly vast gap between the wealthiest individuals and the general populace.
Alex Karp, CEO of leading data analysis company Palantir and one of the leading figures in the tech space, has proposed that it’s not just your job that will define your success in the AI revolution, but the ‘type’ of person that you are.
“There are basically two ways to know you have a future,” he proposed on the show. “One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you’re neurodivergent.”
This compromises two vastly different – albeit not mutually exclusive – scenarios, with one denoting a type of work that AI finds difficult to replicate and another that serves as a so-called mindset that begets success in the AI world.
“If your special interest can’t make a CEO millions of dollars he is not talking about us,” wrote one individual on Reddit responding to Karp’s comments, adding that “He’s talking about the other neurodivergents, -signed, an Elder Scrolls Lore Enthusiast.”
Another commenter asserted that “the narrow neurodivergence he’s hinting at ‘awkward programming genius’ or whatever is if anything being utterly crushed right now — that’s exactly what AI is currently ‘best’ at replicating.”
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Full story: https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/critics-declare-win-openai-pulls-plug-major-project-159635-20260325
AI critics declare ‘win’ for humanity as OpenAI pulls the plug on project costing $15 million per day
It was one of OpenAI’s biggest new projects
OpenAI has suffered its first major setback following a decision to pull support for one of its biggest projects, leaving AI critics overjoyed and declaring a ‘win’ for humanity.
It’s hard to deny OpenAI’s dominance within the AI industry, as while some of its competitors have caught up in the past year, ChatGPT is synonymous with artificial intelligence for the vast majority of people.
The company’s flagship release has broken sign-up records during its most popular periods, and continues to evolve alongside the rapidly changing technology, yet cracks are seemingly starting to appear following the cancellation of one major project from the industry leader.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI has revealed its intention to pull the plug on Sora — the company’s generative video platform aimed at competing with rivals like Google’s Veo, Luma, and even Elon Musk’s Vine-esque Grok Imagine.
Sora was only released last year yet hasn’t achieved the success that OpenAI leadership might have hoped, and previous reports from Forbes indicated that it was burning a $15 million-sized hole in the company’s pockets every single day.
It appears to be part of an effort to refocus and streamline the business prior to expectations of a public offering later this year, and the resulting change sees all forms of video support effectively elimintated from ChatGPT for both consumers and developers alike.
Sam Altman’s company is already struggling to justify its incredibly high spending to revenue ratio despite its dominance in the field, especially relative to some competitors
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GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all
As of April 24 you’ll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/?td=rt-3a
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https://searchengineland.com/google-agent-user-agent-472674
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https://www.aihero.dev/cohorts/claude-code-for-real-engineers-2026-04
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https://hbr.org/2026/03/create-an-onboarding-plan-for-ai-agents
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https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/claude-code-essentials-exampro/
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https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/163962/this-ai-trick-took-my-desk-from-cable-chaos-to-clutter-free
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https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mistral-releases-a-new-open-source-model-for-speech-generation/
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https://www.producthunt.com/products/denchclaw-ai-crm-on-top-of-openclaw
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https://www.xda-developers.com/claude-code-local-llm-ollama-capable-costs-nothing/
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https://www.producthunt.com/products/anvil-5
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Solana bets on AI agents: Foundation says network is becoming core infrastructure for ‘agentic’ internet
This shift could fundamentally reshape internet business models, Solana Foundation’s Vibhu Norby believes.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/25/solana-bets-on-ai-agents-foundation-says-network-is-becoming-core-infrastructure-for-agentic-internet
Tomi Engdahl says:
DenchClaw
Open Source AI CRM hosted locally on your machine
https://www.producthunt.com/products/denchclaw-ai-crm-on-top-of-openclaw
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https://github.com/saltbo/agent-kanban
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https://www.producthunt.com/products/openobserve
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Agentic AI Could Change Software Engineering Forever
“Instead of developers writing every line of code, they now provide high-level specifications. AI agents take over from there.”
https://analyticsindiamag.com/global-tech/agentic-ai-could-change-software-engineering-forever
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We tried 3 of the biggest vibe-coding platforms. Here’s what we thought about how they stack up.
https://www.businessinsider.com/make-app-cursor-lovable-base44-vibe-coding-tools-comparison-2026-3
A trio of journalists tried three big vibe coding apps to see how they stack up.
We each attempted to build an app on Cursor, Lovable, and Base44.
With the same prompt on each system, we wanted to see how far we could get.
Chong Ming: Lovable and Base44 delivered working apps and refinements fast, but the quality didn’t match Cursor. Cursor broke down what it added and made changes in detail, even if some of the jargon flew over my head.
By comparison, Lovable and Base44 suggested things like adding entrance animations, which felt more gimmicky than meaningful.
If I were building something serious, I’d go with Cursor, even if it takes more time and effort to get up to speed.
Cheryl: On both Lovable and Base44, I managed to build workable newsroom calendars and get them from first prompt to publishing within 10 minutes. Base44 gave me a complete, fully functional project I could immediately use and share with my team — and within the free credit range, too. The next day, I used my new set of credits on Lovable to make final tweaks, resulting in a publishable dashboard with all the functions I wanted.
If you have a nontechnical background, a clear vision for the app you want to build, but limited time to pick up a little more coding, a one-stop shop like Lovable and Base44 would be more your speed. If you do have more coding know-how, Cursor will give you access and oversight over the coding process within its free credit limit.
Aditi: As a colors-obsessed, minimalism-loving, non-technical person who just wants to build a simple app, here’s my leaderboard: Lovable, Base44, Cursor.
The apps we tried are just a sampling of the vibe coding offerings out there. Other companies, like Emergent and Replit, also offer one-stop-shop platforms that take ideas from conception to shipping fast.
The barrier to entry is low, particularly with free credits on entry-level plans.
So if there was ever a time to try vibe-coding, it’s now.
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https://thenewstack.io/ai-demo-to-production/
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The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/the-ai-skills-gap-is-here-says-ai-company-and-power-users-are-pulling-ahead/
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https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQzRXJjbGNrBDNFaGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuQ73TMLRY7JgOrF6Vc8qT6u2G0p4OWE1MV_FCeIaZF4FA9vRpmpUbeesNtK_aem_cy8m-NWaGj7I45KJPaCQFg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Proven way to improve code quality generated by Claude Code
How to use /simplify to get the best possible code from Claude
https://uxplanet.org/proven-way-to-improve-code-quality-generated-by-claude-code-f824d7c359ee
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With Generative AI, Data Analysis Will Never Be the Same
But humans will still be helpful
https://tdavenport.substack.com/p/with-generative-ai-data-analysis
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https://www.producthunt.com/products/claude-mobile-work-tools
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How Autonomous AI Agents Become Secure by Design With NVIDIA OpenShell
NVIDIA OpenShell provides tools for controlling autonomous agents in a trusted infrastructure policy layer — adding security in the environment, rather than the model or application layer.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/secure-autonomous-ai-agents-openshell/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cutting-projects?fbclid=Iwb21leAQ1SwljbGNrBDVLAmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvtkmPjPoGb5YDop-50L0nLkYHJ39swX9eMAtiVTxnjajv4sfCnTBnWeke-U_aem_PRIwP920x6ssuroWTx00iA
Code Crimson
Panicked OpenAI Execs Cutting Projects as Walls Close In
“We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests.”
In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysmally slow web browser called Atlas. It also announced top-secret hardware alongside former Apple exec Jony Ive, and signed a $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense.
Meanwhile, the company continues to burn through billions of dollars a month, astronomical losses that have executives there feeling agitated. The company recently announced that it’s planning to spend a whopping $600 billion on AI infrastructure by 2030, an ungodly sum only beaten out by its original promise: $1.4 trillion, more than twice the revised figure.
Now, the company is coming to terms that it may have spread itself too thin, and is now looking to refocus its resources on its coding and enterprise users.
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“We are very much acting as if it’s a code red,” Simo told staffers, using the same language Altman did in December. “I don’t think necessarily declaring codes for everything makes a ton of sense.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cutting-projects?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ1TOtjbGNrBDVLAmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvtkmPjPoGb5YDop-50L0nLkYHJ39swX9eMAtiVTxnjajv4sfCnTBnWeke-U_aem_PRIwP920x6ssuroWTx00iA
Tomi Engdahl says:
An AI agent hacking a government system and stealing millions of people’s data sounds like science fiction. But this recently happened and it’s not the only incident either. As experts warn AI is edging towards being out of control, why is no-one using the kill switch?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ai-agents-chaos-data-theft-b2947042.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ1TRpjbGNrBDVNFWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqh76zYW10WmdWQtioj5GSFrnrSuArC1aPI4XEzJGSgNuqfSF3WW2vG0Ql18_aem_SauLGrU1SZ9_eVsNf0QEEw&test_group=lighteradlayout
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People Power
Wall Street Has a Major Problem With AI Data Centers
“The people who are trying to block or protest these things are much more well educated than they were before.”
https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-protests-electricity?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ1TXZjbGNrBDVNUWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHge8uWfDrirJksSb6un0mhj3MRlpBUQ3att1yOdbaZNEvyIqTYdw3NWdjOUl_aem_-2TxLjpbsDBX8Epv2Bhh5w
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“It’s not only me and other researchers saying this, it’s the lab CEOs themselves that [say] the risk is real.”
Stop Work
Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself
“It’s not only me and other researchers saying this, it’s the lab CEOs themselves that [say] the risk is real.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protestors-anthropic-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ1rQVjbGNrBDWs82V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHguq73pChep0ur_zxIneeAtSwPeGe7t-MiEBJwwFAG2Ot6x-euOnxWc3fbFZ_aem_Ih_1x-JWqCztrZTq_ppylQ
Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic’s AI Claude, protestors have rallied around the company’s headquarters to call for a complete stop to AI development.
Last weekend, nearly 200 protestors with the organization Stop the AI Race demonstrated in front of Anthropic, demanding the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, publicly commit to pausing their development of AI. According to FirstPost, protestors included former tech industry workers, researchers, and members of other grassroots organizations like Pause AI and QuitGPT.
“The reason we are pausing AI is because we believe that building AI that can automate AI research, and that can self improve, could be a danger to the human race, especially human extinction,” Michaël Trazzi, an organizer with Stop the AI Race, told local reporters. “It’s not only me and other researchers saying this, it’s the lab CEOs themselves that [say] the risk is real.”
Stop the AI Race rallied around the company’s San Francisco headquarters for a while before marching on Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, where they made similar demands.
On day nine of his hunger strike, Reichstadter told Futurism that frontier AI systems are an “entirely new class of danger.” Indeed, whether Claude is going to take over and start killing us all may be beside the point: in the hands of humans, it’s already picking strike targets for the US military.
“None of these companies have a right to do what they’re doing, which is consciously endangering my life, my family’s life, all of our lives,” Reichstader said. “The correct thing for them to do is stop the global race toward really dangerous AI that we’re all involved in.”
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Bombs Away
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target
“We have nothing for you on this at this time.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ1rY9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6bSwobmLz1nynCvVUyCLOBkZd7UXBZcxTqr_Rsjd_QtO9qhCzUxe9xixNKNw_aem_a_8297lO8eT1B9YVoi5Axg
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:
The danger is not that AI is getting better exponentially, rendering human knowledge laborers redundant, but that owing to this development, wealth concentration gets intensified. Who profits from it is the real debate. Will the gains be evenly distributed or will the creators run away will all the profits
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Anthropic: “This AI will get better.”
Protestors: “The AI is getting better.”
Anthropic: “Yes.”
Futurism: that’s insane!!11!!1 *publishes article*
Tomi Engdahl says:
Exit Row
AI Now Causing CEOs to Resign in Fear
“I could start this next big set of transformations with AI, but I couldn’t finish.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ceos-resign?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ2TdBjbGNrBDZNnGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhDPVQpgiZ6E3RsfHEz71XjQQuUGnxGwizdSo-o-36U046s3bwCKXLFu991i_aem_2FENoFwuIA25Cm39EbnWIg
Many executives lately have been using AI as a convenient excuse to lay off staff as the economy crumbles. Paradoxically, a growing number of CEOs are also turning the tech on themselves — using AI as an excuse to get out while the gettin’s good.
New reporting by CNBC detailed the retirement of CEOs James Quincey and Doug McMillon of Coca-Cola and Walmart, respectively. In interviews with the outlet, both multi-millionaires cited AI as a reason for resigning their posts, arguing that they’re not the right people to manage the coming AI revolution.
Quincey, for example, told CNBC his resignation was fueled by “waves of organizational momentum.” The British-born executive first joined Coke in 1996, working his way up to chief executive in 2017. Quincey oversaw plenty of layoffs and strange market shifts in his day — but the AI wave, he insists, is a different beast altogether.
“My job is also to think who’s the best team to put on the field to get the next wave done. And I concluded that, actually, it was time to put someone else on the field for the next wave of growth,” he said. “In a pre-AI, a pre-gen-AI mode, we made a lot of progress. But now there’s a huge new shift coming along.”
“With what’s happening with AI, I could start this next big set of transformations with AI, but I couldn’t finish,” the former chief executive told CNBC. A year ago, he said, he started thinking hard about how “AI shopping” might upend the retail industry. ” I started thinking about everything that needs to happen over the next few years, and it really caused me to think that now was the right time [to retire],” McMillon said.
How this narrative holds up remains to be seen. In the immediate future, Walmart faces the dual challenge of trade tariffs and inflation, while Coke’s revenue growth has disappointed investors of late. With golden parachutes at the ready and AI-driven growth nonexistent, the tech could very well be playing cover to conveniently-timed exits.
Other CEOs, like the 62-year-old Adobe executive Shantanu Narayen, have been pushed out of the plane by investors who expected better performance in the age of AI.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Turn It Off and On Again
Venture Capitalist Warns That It’s All About to Come Crashing Down
He’s predicting a hard “reset.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/venture-capitalist-ai-bubble-reset?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ2Tr5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4ZDyJojVtqGLSUT9PF6jwm3oj1f29o-ucNXscUDbi-c954oqtAAOgJdNpWhg_aem_ho_wTYdRr9W8_zBAMi97dg
AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into enormous infrastructure projects, fully expecting demand for their services to spike in the coming years to justify their outsize investments.
Reality, however, continues to have a lot of catching up to do. Revenues are still being dwarfed by astronomical capital expenditures as the gulf between the tech industry’s lofty promises of an AI utopia and what the tech is actually capable of today continues to grow. And persistent fears over an AI bubble that could wreck the entire US economy if it were to collapse continue to nag Silicon Valley investors and analysts.
“One day we’re going to have an AI reset, because waves create bubbles, because interlopers come in,” he told CNBC on Monday. “When people get rich quick, a whole bunch of people come in and want to get rich too, and that’s why we end up with bubbles.”
“One day, I just think we trip and run out of money on those things,” he added. “I do think that moment stands in front of us.”
As AI companies continue on their unprecedented spending spree, it could soon become difficult to turn things around and become profitable once many billions of dollars in debt.
“I just think it’s harder to land the plane,” he said.
Gurley is far from alone in warning of an imminent AI bubble collapse. Investors have warned of a “reckoning” at which point the winners and losers could finally emerge.
One major inflection point: numerous major players in the AI industry are looking to go public this year, from OpenAI to Anthropic, in a major test that could finally blow the fuse. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in particular, which acquired the mercurial CEO’s AI startup xAI earlier this year, is expected to go public at an unprecedented valuation of $1.4 trillion.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bot Streams
Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams
“Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-pleads-guilty-music-ai-bot-streams?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ20n9jbGNrBDbSPmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgcP9v35fBdpqptAUVuGtwhSmStOfuILv8-s7f3NGFXLj8_CF6NRuLDv7mlJ_aem_eApEy9uK9QtcaD8uPV7QXA
For quite some time now, human musicians have watched in horror as AI-generated slop has started drowning out their work on streaming platforms.
Companies like Spotify have discovered entire networks of bots that were designed to fraudulently boost the listenership of AI-generated music, a bizarre scheme essentially involving bots listening to bot music to capture royalties that could’ve otherwise been paid out to real human artists.
The problem has been around for years — but prosecutors are finally catching onto the dubious scheme and putting those running the bot farms to justice.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tämä tuote revitään maailmalla käsistä – EU ei halua sitä tänne
Metan hittituote rikkoo EU:n lainsäädäntöä.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/039318ea-4e53-41c1-b617-cd118de065a7
Metan ja Ray-Banin yhteistyössä kehittämien Meta-älylasien toinen sukupolvi ei tule myyntiin ainakaan täysillä ominaisuuksillaan EU-alueella, kertoo uutistoimisto Bloomberg.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Shut Out
Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely
Keep that slop outta here.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wikipedia-editors-ban-ai-content?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ22ctjbGNrBDbZsWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgelCWCrqLPr4taZKHl2zr4GtLassWzy023u287TqRYSxqsb47kxSQkGT8i6_aem_mJb4I6FpKUTmiZXu9MorGw
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales once described his creation as a “temple of the mind.”
Now, a decade on, it’s taken on another role: a refuge against AI slop.
Late this month, the English version of the online encyclopedia officially banned the use of AI to generate or rewrite articles, after years of piecemeal experimentation and heated internal debate among its volunteer editors, 404 Media reports.
That debate finally came to a vote on March 20, which ended in an overwhelming 40-to-2 decision to place heavy restrictions on how large language models are used to maintain the site.
“Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies,” the new policy states. “For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for the exceptions given below.”
As the exceptions stipulate, it’s not a wholesale ban on AI: “Editors are permitted to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, and to incorporate some of them after human review, provided the LLM does not introduce content of its own,” the policy continues. “Caution is required, because LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
LLMs are also permitted to help translate articles, so long as they follow the existing site’s rules on LLM-assisted translation, which insists that editors only do so if they are already skilled enough in both languages to confirm the accuracy of the machine translation.
It’s the latest sign of Wikipedia drawing clear lines in the sand against the encroachment of AI models. In January, it signed deals with major AI companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, in a move to recoup the costs it incurred from those companies training their LLMs on its vast corpus for free, placing an expensive strain on its servers.
All the while, its editors have long battled over how AI would be used in the site. Over a year ago, a group of them banded together to eradicate shoddy AI content from the platform. When the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that owns the site, deployed AI-generated summaries at the top of articles, the community rebelled until the experiment was discontinued.