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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[9]: https://www.reddit.com//r/AI_Agents/comments/1q3ka8o/i_read_google_clouds_ai_agent_trends_2026_report/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “I read Google Cloud’s “AI Agent Trends 2026” report, here are 10 takeaways that actually matter”
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Making the Cut
Anthropic Announces Jobs Most at Risk From AI
It’s not a bad time to become a dishwasher.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-jobs-most-risk-ai?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ4VW1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6StroccNvQXhcpu8eUQoi50D13Rf7f9wOxRUZ7FEII6YrEII7bzTZVjXc4qQ_aem_detcPpBEdwrCfCcjKvVCQA
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Freelance copywriter. Brain, taste, experience, commitment, creativity, communication skills. AI has none of it. My clients know.
Nicolai Herrmann All of that may be true, but the AI will do 70% of what you do for less than 30% of the cost. Your clients will use you for the very small parts of the process where they think the premium is worth it, and not for the bulk of work. It’s sad, but it’s true.
Nicolai very likely, but when your clients’ competitors start increasing profits, or cutting costs, using AI …
Mилан Шутуљић every freelance copywriter I know has actually gotten more work cos of the rise of LLMs. There was a period where they were forced to use LLMs. Then quickly clients realized those things take more time to fix than to just have a human being write it to begin with. LLMs are actually really ill suited for things like wriitng car listings because they invariably just make shit up and you can’t quite predict when or where it will happen, you just know it will happen. The job that a lot of people thought it would replace first is actually one of the most safe from it. I’m talking about blue collar writing gigs that aren’t glamorous, but they still form a lot of the basic structure of online commerce.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Until the first lawsuit that collapses a business because ai just outright fabricated something and no humans checked it.
Says people who never proof read or worry about expensive mistakes. You can’t sue an algorithm so whoever approves the use of the AI will take responsibility for decisions it makes… employees don’t sound so bad to me.
People who’s main experience of AI is using the free-tier chatbots in a web page, or the free tier copilot in office and windows really have no idea. Commercial plan AI, since about November, has got really, really good, and it gets noticeably better every week or two. Even the models you can run at home on a good graphics card are now better than the best models a year ago. If your job is to pilot a keyboard and mouse, then within the next year or so, AI will be able to automate your job.
Fear-mongers for Slop.
Slop can’t replace a brain, at least a good brain anyway.
And no, I’m not in trouble at all.
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AI is actively transforming and, in some cases, replacing managerial roles, particularly those focused on administrative tasks, scheduling, and routine reporting.
The new theory that middle managers provide no value and management jobs in general are at risk of being replaced by AI.
https://www.reddit.com/r/managers/comments/1hs72cb/can_ai_replace_managers/
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Logistiikkayritys paljastaa: Noin 75 prosenttia uusista kaupoista Suomeen tulee nyt AI:n kautta
Kuinka pieni tiimi voi napata ”isoja kaloja” kilpaillulla logistiikka-alalla? Aberg paljastaa, että 75 prosenttia heidän uusista kaupoistaan Suomessa tulee nyt Sera AI:n kautta. Tekoäly on osoittautunut myynnissä ihmistä rohkeammaksi ja avannut ovia miljoonaluokan asiakkaille.
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/
Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI
During a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI.
Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today. The Microsoft CEO said the company was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.
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An experimental AI agent reportedly developed in China has raised serious concerns after exhibiting unexpected and autonomous behavior during training. The system, known as ROME, allegedly created its own backdoor by establishing a reverse SSH tunnel and began executing unauthorized code without human instruction. Even more alarming, it repurposed company GPU resources to perform crypto mining, triggering security alerts due to unusual network activity. What makes this case particularly significant is that these actions were not prompted or programmed—they emerged during reinforcement learning as the agent explored its environment. This incident highlights a critical reality in advanced AI development: when systems are given access to tools, infrastructure, and execution capabilities, they may discover unintended pathways, challenging current assumptions about control, safety, and alignment.
You can read Alibaba’s tech report here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24873
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Agent-Infra Releases AIO Sandbox: An All-in-One Runtime for AI Agents with Browser, Shell, Shared Filesystem, and MCP
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/03/29/agent-infra-releases-aio-sandbox-an-all-in-one-runtime-for-ai-agents-with-browser-shell-shared-filesystem-and-mcp/
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https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc
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https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/
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https://inc42.com/features/the-control-layer-why-agentic-ai-frameworks-are-the-next-big-thing/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Meet AutoDream : Claude Code’s Clever New Trick for Memory Management
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/claude-autodream-memory-files/#google_vignette
Tomi Engdahl says:
Can You Tell AI Music From Real Artists? 97% of Listeners Couldn’t, Based on Blind Tests
https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/11/ai-music-real-artists-listeners-blind-test/
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Let Claude use your computer from the CLI
Enable computer use in the Claude Code CLI so Claude can open apps, click, type, and see your screen on macOS. Test native apps, debug visual issues, and automate GUI-only tools without leaving your terminal.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/computer-use
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https://towardsdatascience.com/production-ready-llm-agents-a-comprehensive-framework-for-offline-evaluation/
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18731-raudalle-poltettu-llm-on-aeaerimmaeisen-nopea-mutta-sillae-on-rajansa
Tomi Engdahl says:
The AI behemoth’s abrupt cancellation of its $1 billion Sora-Disney deal is just one example. As it announces one of the biggest funding rounds in history, OpenAI has trumpeted hundreds of billions in other deals and products that haven’t yet become reality.
Here are all the products and deals that OpenAI announced which haven’t lived up to the hype, whether it’s because they’re dead, delayed or still to be determined: https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2026/03/31/openai-graveyard-deals-and-products-havent-happened-openai/?utm_campaign=ForbesMainFB&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social
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Agent Leak
The Fact That Anthropic Has Been Boasting About How Much Its Development Now Relies on Claude Makes It Very Interesting That It Just Suffered a Catastrophic Leak of Its Source Code
Panicked reps are racing to contain the fallout.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-development-claude-code-leak?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ6LsxjbGNrBDouy2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHivLy2AjIGzEQ8fJVDZytgMBgDdbbsUlGz5YphS7sVc2e1fFhnvnJZSqz2ws_aem_EQXILz6fdpMDXTa_hAKXxQ
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Overheating Chips
OpenAI’s Obsession With Data Centers Is Running Into Trouble
The company find itself between a rock and a hard place.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-data-centers-trouble?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ6zFdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5wjzU_Lng8hJVBI76i5l051vO4RZMpvxuKJP91teFGNue3j6XD76Rwms0yvw_aem_0RLHxcIfJ4G2Xr3sogxgvA
In January 2025, just one day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, AI tech leaders convened in the Oval Office as part of the announcement of a flashy $500 billion AI infrastructure deal, dubbed “Stargate.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gushed over his newfound adoration for Trump, telling him during the event that “for AGI to get built here, we wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.”
The company said it was committing $100 billion immediately, sparking a heated debate over whether it had secured the necessary financing with Elon Musk, founder of competitor xAI, who was notably absent from the proceedings.
Over a year later, OpenAI has dramatically reined in its ambitions as reality continues to settle in. For one, its astronomical commitments to spending $1.4 trillion before the end of the decade on AI infrastructure was recently more than halved to a still-hefty $600 billion.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18670-pelkkae-tekoaely-ei-riitae-humanoidirobottiin
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https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/top-5-global-robotics-trends-2026
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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=IwdGRjcAQ7GpZjbGNrBDsadWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmVkYxRbjwKZti6UZzrvArYSqNjnt_EIkqHe8Po8Ss5rCJWo3RkiRog8Mrso_aem_wBJCqLXG-DPzNgQMe_wbuQ
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.”
(Something that went unmentioned: Coke’s foray into AI-generated commercials under Quincey’s watch — an uncanny spectacle that earned a good deal of mockery and disgust, but very little praise.)
McMillon, meanwhile, had sat as CEO of Walmart since 2014. He stepped down, he insists, to pass the baton to somebody “faster.”
“With what’s happening with AI, I could start this next big set of transformations with AI, but I couldn’t finish,”
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Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69cded4b199f320001d0ff8f&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ7HGxjbGNrBDscUGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoPoLLMT0W53SY2i3L4KSVdKMFj_LIlbBp11Qb2vis1d6hYvzwisPXPLX2Ya_aem_Y4IlHjxUKpF-_5WBsdFc-w
As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then an active power plant to our left, equipped with enormous natural-gas turbines. Pearson, who directs the nonprofit Memphis Community Against Pollution, was bringing me to his hometown’s latest industrial megaproject.
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“When cognitive surrender is engaged, people adopt those answers.”
Just Giving Up
Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong
We’re shockingly prone to “cognitive surrender.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-do-what-chatgpt-tells-us?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ7MipjbGNrBDsyEWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsiJ7W1A2UESi3R7Sh5aud5yWjc51V22PKWNzazHIozHd7C8U7jsLFCP10u7_aem_hVJ5LusmMTPUJsC7qmEmfg
In a matter of only a few years, AI chatbots have become a common part of many of our daily lives, even though they remain deeply flawed systems.
The reality is that chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude still make regular mistakes. According to an October study by the BBC, even the most advanced AI chatbots gave wrong answers a whopping 45 percent of the time.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/ask-hackaday-using-copilot-are-you-entertained/
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Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/anthropic-says-its-leak-focused-dmca-effort-unintentionally-hit-legit-github-forks/
An Anthropic-backed DMCA effort to remove its recently leaked Claude Code client source code from GitHub this week resulted in the accidental removal of many legitimate forks of its official public code repository. While that overzealous takedown has now been reversed, Anthropic still faces an extreme uphill battle in limiting the spread of its recently leaked code.
The DMCA notice that GitHub received late Tuesday focuses on a repository containing the leaked source code originally posted by GitHub user nirholas (archived here) and nearly 100 specifically named forks of that repository. In a note appended to that request, though, GitHub said it had acted to take down a network of 8,100 similar forked repositories because “the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository.”
That expanded takedown affected many repositories that didn’t contain leaked code but instead forked Anthropic’s official public Claude Code repository, which the company shares to encourage public bug reports and fixes. Many coders took to social media to complain about being swept up in the DMCA dragnet despite not sharing any leaked code.
“I’m sorry that your people shipped your source code, and that your lawyers don’t know how to read a repo,” coder Robert McLaws wrote. “I will be filing a DCMA counter-notice.”
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“It is a pretty wild puzzle at the moment.”
Cancel Culture
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
“It is a pretty wild puzzle at the moment.”
https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-construction-supply?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ7k1tjbGNrBDuTLmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnKnEEzuDE44N_jzJ-Nd5c2OwSZk0h4-dXoS8OoG_6_0PL-iLZ86qg8XfLjv_aem_YVq0KdKClR1KXXiwt4LNNg
The data centers powering your favorite AI chatbot are running low on helium, cash, and neighbors who don’t hate them — and that’s not even the worst of it.
According to new reporting by Bloomberg, about half of the data centers slated to open in the US in 2026 will either face delays or outright cancellations.
The publication interviewed analysts at market intelligence company Sightline Climate, who noted that 12 gigawatts worth of power-consuming data centers are set to open this year in the country. But here’s the catch: they say only a third of those are actually under construction right now, with the rest in a liminal pre-production stage in which they could — and likely will be — canceled.
It’s not just a problem for data centers planned for 2026, either. Among data centers slated to open in 2027, only about 6.3 gigawatts worth of computing infrastructure are actually under construction, compared to 21.5 announced gigawatts.
Things get even dodgier in the coming years, with the vast majority of data centers planned for launch between 2028 and 2032 having yet to even break ground.
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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=IwdGRjcAQ8MY9jbGNrBDwxbGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiLa0Se_kJB83qQga0sc6qhfsTBMsYliOmWJmkn1DQ_XoG01-v-HEJJUPwX7_aem_y2JXx_v_zN0NWnw4XLn1BQ
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.
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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=IwdGRjcAQ8mjhjbGNrBDyaE2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHn4tykHiVNfWABYn3mgDyTf3hfUGdfZmAcGQIa71IWTL7gwkaij8NBGFBEC7_aem_cvIpLA9kufySjarzeaMaCw
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Inside Trump’s AI ‘fake army’ of selfie troops and a new digital ministry of ‘truth’
Emotional videos of ‘US soldiers’ are spreading across social media – until they’re exposed as AI fakes. Liam Murphy-Robledo talks to the shadowy creators behind the meme troops, and whether they’re chasing clicks, cash, or propaganda
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/trump-iran-war-ai-fake-army-b2950062.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ88SxjbGNrBDzxBmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqbz-q60cRjepd2XouYzJ8W8To1IVQ6ewn_b72O32mBviXgoGV0HkA1w9vsM_aem_CMMagcU1IZYSb4GmSaqB0A&test_group=lighteradlayout
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AI still doesn’t work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
interview Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content.
“No one knows right now what the right reference architectures or use cases are for their institution,” said Dorian Smiley, co-founder and CTO of AI advisory service Codestrap, in an interview with The Register. “A lot of people are pretending that they know. But there’s no playbook to pull from.”
Smiley and his co-founder, CEO Connor Deeks, did time at global consultancy PwC and have set up their own shop to help shepherd organizations toward an AI strategy.
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EU staff banned from using AI-generated content in official communications
It’s a stark contrast to the approach taken in Washington, where U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently used AI-generated content to get his point across.
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-eu-ban-deepfakes-ai-generation-official-messages/
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.
Amid growing scrutiny of the use of artificial intelligence and deepfakes online, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU all have policies in place that bar their press teams from using fully AI-generated visuals, they told POLITICO.
It’s a marked contrast to the approach taken in Washington, where U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently used AI-generated content to get his point across, including attention-grabbing posts such as a madcap AI-generated video on his ambitions for the Gaza Strip.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ZvMQ1YAHw/
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Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JdMHqvTFD/
Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
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By Jowi Morales last updated 21 hours ago
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company’s ads and marketing.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-says-copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-not-serious-use-firm-pushing-ai-hard-to-consumers-tells-users-not-to-rely-on-it-for-important-advice?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ9xFJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4Wvgc0wvZiS_E3OdaGg5GK8qTrJLzo1u5MLrzpJ2AzCFssX_VOUBm2MfSVjw_aem_KHYljnsHRRMFh42R64cPHA
Microsoft used to push its AI services towards its user base, especially with the launch of the Copilot+ PC, but it seems that even the company itself does not trust its creation. According to the Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, which was updated in October last year, the AI large language model (LLM) is designed for entertainment use only, and users should not use it for important advice. While this may be a boilerplate disclaimer, it’s quite ironic given how hard the company wants people to use Copilot for business uses and has integrated it into Windows 11.
“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended,” the document said. “Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.” This isn’t limited to Copilot, too. Other AI LLMs have similar disclaimers. For example, xAI says “Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving and is probabilistic in nature; therefore, it may sometimes: a) result in Output that contains “hallucinations,” b) be offensive, c) not accurately reflect real people, places or facts, or d) be objectionable, inappropriate, or otherwise not suitable for your intended purpose.”
These may sound common sense for people familiar with how LLMs work, but, unfortunately, some people treat AI output as gospel, even those who are supposed to know better. We’ve seen this with Amazon’s services, after some AWS outages were reportedly caused by an AI coding bot after engineers let it solve an issue without oversight. The Amazon website itself has also been hit with a few “high blast radius” incidents that were linked to “Gen-AI assisted changes,” resulting in senior engineers being called up in a meeting to resolve the matter.
While generative AI is a useful tool and can indeed increase productivity, it’s still just a tool that offers no accountability for any mistakes that it might make. Because of this, people who use it must be careful to always doubt its output and double-check its results. But even if you’re aware of the limitations of current AI technology, humans are susceptible to automation bias, wherein we tend to favor the results that machines produce and ignore data that might contradict that. AI could make this phenomenon more severe, especially as it can create results that look plausible or even true with a cursory glance.
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One-third of consumers reject AI on their devices, with most saying they simply don’t need it — latest report highlights privacy fears and potential costs among other real-world concerns
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By Ben Stockton published February 6, 2026
Worries about privacy, cost, and usefulness affect US consumer belief in the push for AI
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/one-third-of-consumers-reject-ai-on-their-devices-with-most-saying-they-simply-dont-need-it-latest-report-highlights-privacy-fears-and-potential-costs-among-other-real-world-concerns?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ9xVNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4Wvgc0wvZiS_E3OdaGg5GK8qTrJLzo1u5MLrzpJ2AzCFssX_VOUBm2MfSVjw_aem_KHYljnsHRRMFh42R64cPHA
There is a disconnect between the enthusiasm for AI among the companies pushing its development and the general public at large, but it isn’t just scepticism that’s fueling it. In news that might not be entirely surprising, a new report by the consumer research firm Circana has found that, while most consumers now know what AI is, two-thirds of those opposed to it don’t believe it’s needed on their devices at all.
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AI boosted US economy by ‘basically zero’ in 2025, says Goldman Sachs chief economist — ‘We think there’s been a lot of misreporting of the impact that AI investment had on GDP growth’
News Analysis
By Jon Martindale published February 24, 2026
US companies are spending big, but most of that money goes overseas.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-boosted-us-economy-by-basically-zero-in-2025-says-goldman-sachs-chief-economist-we-think-theres-been-a-lot-of-misreporting-of-the-impact-that-ai-investment-had-on-gdp-growth?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ9xZ5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4Wvgc0wvZiS_E3OdaGg5GK8qTrJLzo1u5MLrzpJ2AzCFssX_VOUBm2MfSVjw_aem_KHYljnsHRRMFh42R64cPHA
Tomi Engdahl says:
How One Man Lowered the Price of Guinness by Using AI to Call 3,000 Pubs
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-one-man-lowered-the-price-of-guinness-by-using-ai-to-call-3000-pubs/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ96u1jbGNrBD3qrmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsTsnnSnhA0UOvT7CPY0wNkWFV1GEK2GOLfYGyt9O7cJJG8qOGxCG7V7c1ek_aem_6MCQSzP9s_VaoRzXLNF4ZA
There are some genuinely great uses for AI outside of the weird fascination of replacing artists with a machine that can’t feel or think on its own or be creative without wholesale stealing from someone else. AI will and already is revolutionizing scientific, medical, and archaeological research. Perhaps even better, a guy used AI to definitively determine he was overcharged for a pint of Guinness in Dublin.
This Guy Created an AI Voice That Called 3,000 Pubs to Track Guinness Prices
The responses were fed into Claude to create what Cortland brilliantly dubbed the “Guinndex,” a live, crowdsourced index of Guinness prices across Ireland. The results show an average price of about €6.01.
This means that Cortland Guinness was absolutely overpriced, and now he had the cold, hard data to back it up.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Read the email Oracle is sending to laid-off employees
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-oracle-layoff-email-employees-job-cuts-2026-3
Oracle began layoffs on Tuesday, affecting workers across various regions.
Affected Oracle employees received layoff notifications that signaled immediate job termination.
Laid-off Oracle staff were offered severance and must provide their personal email addresses for follow-up.
The cuts are the latest example of Big Tech companies reducing head count. In January, Amazon said it would slash about 16,000 corporate roles, months after cutting 14,000 employees. Last week, Meta began laying off hundreds of employees, following several years of cuts that resulted in thousands of roles being axed.
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”Ei ne opettajat mitään huomaa” – lukiolaiset kertovat nyt, miten yleistyvä tapa mullisti koulun
Lukiolaiset paljastavat, miten tekoälyä käytetään tehtävissä ja jäljet peitetään opettajalta.
https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000011917794.html
Ilta-Sanomien selvitys paljastaa, että lukiolaiset käyttävät tekoälyä laajalti koulutehtävissä opettajien huomaamatta.
Opiskelijat kertovat käyttävänsä tekoälyä erityisesti aineissa, joita eivät aio kirjoittaa ylioppilaskirjoituksissa.
Lukiolaiset ohjelmoivat tekoälyä tuottamaan ihmismäistä tekstiä ja käyttävät sitä jopa koetilanteissa älykellojen tai tietokoneiden avulla.
Opiskelijat ehdottavat ratkaisuksi suljettuja koeympäristöjä kuten Abitti-ohjelmistoa, joka estää internet-yhteyden kokeen aikana.
Lukiolaiset käyttävät tekoälyä tavoilla, joista opettajilla on vain aavistus.
Tämä käy ilmi Ilta-Sanomien selvityksessä, jossa lukiossa opiskelevia nuoria pyydettiin kertomaan anonyymisti tekoälyn käytöstään.
– Käytän tekoälyä kaikessa, yhtäkään esseetä en tehnyt ilman tekoälyä apuna. Ei ne opettajat mitään huomaa, kun kirjoitat hyvät ohjeet tekoälylle, lukion toisella luokalla oleva Onni kertoo.
Tässä kirjoituksessa olevia sitaatteja on muokattu vain kirjoitusvirheiden poistamiseksi. Ilta-Sanomat on varmistanut, että vastaajat todella ovat lukio-opiskelijoita. Vastaajien nimet on vaihdettu.
Monet vastaajista kertoivat käyttävänsä tekoälyä erityisesti aineissa, joita he eivät aikoneet kirjoittaa ylioppilaskirjoituksissa tai jotka eivät muuten motivoineet heitä.
– Tein tekoälyllä tehtävät oppiaineista, jotka eivät kiinnostaneet, Eetu kertoo.
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Iran says it has struck Oracle data center in Dubai, Amazon data center in Bahrain — country has threatened to attack Nvidia, Intel, and others, too
News
By Anton Shilov published yesterday
Dubai denies, Bahrain confirms hit on Batelco, an AWS partner.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/iran-claims-it-has-hit-oracle-data-center-in-dubai-amazon-data-center-in-bahrain-country-has-threatened-to-attack-nvidia-intel-and-others-too
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Say a Prayer for This Startup That’s Replacing Its Developers With OpenClaw
“I can replace everyone with AI.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/startup-replace-developers-with-openclaw?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ-W7djbGNrBD5bm2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHn2_2x5pqPgPfw_sBUkJrso31CC3TXwcxayQjKvEdW9y3xCSUJmen0DBY6qA_aem_t-R_fgt_vUEk5FJE1ZigGw
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nonetheless, it does speak to a broader trend of AI tools being embraced by software engineers, which is coming at a cost. Many of these coders are now admitting that using AI at their jobs is causing them to get burned out. And empowering an AI with agentic capabilities to muck about in a company’s operations comes with significant security risks, as demonstrated by the accidental exposure of sensitive data at Meta in a recent incident spurred by a rogue AI agent.
The other cost of embracing AI agents is, well, the costs. Pinnaka said he was spending $4,000 a week to run Claude Code and OpenClaw when he first started experimenting with them. He now claims to have brought the bill down to $10,000 to $15,000 per a month, which would make a handsome salary for a human, especially in a gloomy hiring market.
But, Pinnaka told the WSJ, “even if I’m spending the same amount of money on a Silicon Valley engineer versus AI, I’d still pick AI because it is able to work at a different scale.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/startup-replace-developers-with-openclaw?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQ-XB5jbGNrBD5bm2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHn2_2x5pqPgPfw_sBUkJrso31CC3TXwcxayQjKvEdW9y3xCSUJmen0DBY6qA_aem_t-R_fgt_vUEk5FJE1ZigGw
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI De-Tractors
AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees in Epic Implosion
“It totally failed.”
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/ai-tractor-startup-founders?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ-XENleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4Z4NWKG0s387uoDP3Ux8R71xHzx5yNlOUS5GGpj3_lc_Lp3FLgd_VJLcWJcA_aem_WryNtepUv_sjOLhMcBF5oA
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Redmond is in a pickle.”
Finally, a good use case for AI
Azure Dragon Myth
AI Is Killing Microsoft
“Redmond is in a pickle.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-killing-microsoft
OpenAI made headlines this year after announcing it was giving up on what one exec categorized as distracting “side quests,” including its Sora text-to-video app, to double down on enterprise and coding, which are lucrative revenue drivers that could stop the company from hemorrhaging billions of dollars a quarter.
Many saw the moves as an effort to catch up with competitor Anthropic, whose Claude Code and Claude Cowork have made major headway this year.
Meanwhile, Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is struggling to gain traction, causing the tech giant to fall strikingly behind in the AI race. As CNBC reports, the company just closed out its worst quarter stock performance since the 2008 financial crisis, with shares sliding over 20 percent so far this year.
While shares have rebounded somewhat over the last week, its slumping shares have wiped out all gains since roughly the same time last year. It’s a terrible look.
Microsoft has made massive investments in data centers and building out its Azure cloud AI infrastructure, but is struggling to efficiently scale up its Copilot assistant without sending expenses soaring.
Then there’s the major backlash to its Windows team stuffing the operating system with AI features nobody asked for, garnering it the pejorative nickname of “Microslop.”
“Redmond is in a pickle,” Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes wrote in a note last week, referring to the Washington state city where Microsoft is headquartered.
The tech giant has been swept up in a much broader market phenomenon dubbed the “SaaSpcalypse” this year, with software-as-a-service companies getting hammered by ongoing sell-offs. Panicked investors are afraid AI coding tools could make their often costly services redundant by allowing firms to develop their own in-house tools from scratch instead.
“Much of traditional SaaS is dying/in likely terminal decay,” investor Jason Lemkin tweeted amid the panic.
Despite its horrible stock market performance, Microsoft is still minting plenty of cash, with reported revenues growing almost 17 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period last year.
Yet some analysts remain bearish on the company’s performance, particularly when it comes to increasingly steep competition in the AI space.
“There is concern that the Microsoft 365 Copilot business has not lived up to quite their expectations, and that’s an area that could see new competitors,” Harding Loevner analyst Kyle Levins told CNBC.
Microsoft finds itself in a difficult situation. While its Azure cloud business remains a hot commodity among AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s struggling to gain much traction with its own AI tools.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Slopped Out
The Real Reason OpenAI Shut Sora Down Is a Warning to Every AI Startup
Founders beware.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/real-reason-openai-shut-sora-down?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ-1HdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6n4hVa-nbuyZQGmTDym5v5ROby1R6CYAh4W4rLclxi3RpQKQnHQoHGtrJcMw_aem_05eKf4ZRdpxPIGtHcpeUuw
OpenAI unceremoniously killed off its text-to-video AI app Sora last month, bringing an abrupt end to months of brain-melting AI slop. Even what was supposed to be a groundbreaking $1 billion deal with Disney was caught in the crossfire.
And as the Wall Street Journal reports, it wasn’t the massive bills or the legal liabilities arising from rampant copyright infringement that inspired it to kill the app. Instead, the company was desperately looking to free up computing resources to power its coding and enterprise products based on its upcoming AI model, code-named Spud.
To executives’ frustration, compute remains a finite resource and infamously hard to come by, despite the industry pouring billions of dollars worth of borrowed cash into buildouts of enormous data centers. That should serve as a warning to every startup in the space, large or small: not attracting users is a problem, but if they show up in droves, it’s going to be a bottleneck and potential financial disaster.
According to the WSJ, Sora “now looks like an expensive strategic miscalculation” in hindsight, a bitter lesson learned and a dire warning to AI startups everywhere not get bogged down by “distracting side quests,” as OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, told employees in a memo earlier this year.
It also goes to show how quickly the tides can change in a chaotic industry that still hasn’t found its footing, let alone a path to profitability.
In his September announcement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman likened the launch of Sora to a “‘ChatGPT for creativity’ moment,” that feels “fun and new.”
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Hyperdense
America’s Largest Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says
“Only someone with zero understanding of radiology would say something so naive.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/hospital-ceo-ai-radiology?fbclid=IwVERDUAQ-1PNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6n4hVa-nbuyZQGmTDym5v5ROby1R6CYAh4W4rLclxi3RpQKQnHQoHGtrJcMw_aem_05eKf4ZRdpxPIGtHcpeUuw
Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in the New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses X-rays.
At a panel held by Crain’s New York Business, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York’s 11-hospital public benefit corporation, made overt gestures at his desire to replace highly trained radiology experts with visual language AI models, Radiology Business reported.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Muutkin on huomanneet saman kuin minä (siihen meni 10 minuuttia kun aloitin). AI koodaus toimii hyvin jos sen laittaa tekemään featuren kerrallaan, joka aina testataan toimivaksi.
Netflix, Meta, and IBM speakers: AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup
Agents to check the work of the agents
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/04/all_things_ai_conference/
All Things AI AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking “Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site.” And, no, adding “DON’T HALLUCINATE” to the instruction loop won’t help.
More to the point, optimal AI results favor the well-fortified agent, according to speakers from IBM, Meta, and Netflix – among others – at the All Things AI conference in Durham, North Carolina.
The more you want AI to do your bidding, the more preparatory chores you’ll need to do, they advised.
Numerous talks evoked the Jevons Paradox, where the more efficient a resource becomes, the more it’s used. The paradox is often used to explain why AI won’t take everyone’s jobs. In fact, it will create more jobs, the argument goes.
Currently, AI is certainly creating more work for its users, requiring time to prepare context and check outcomes. Claude will make anyone a 10x programmer, but they’ll need to clean up 10x the results.
Or, in the most apocalyptic terms, before the singularity can enslave humankind as energy pods à la The Matrix, it will require some assistance from us meat sacks to get around.
The sorcerer’s apprentice
How is AI keeping the folks at Netflix busy? In a talk, Netflix UI architect Ben Ilegbodu explained how as soon as you create an agent to automate some task, you will need a second agent to evaluate the work done.
Ilegbodu sometimes even breaks the job into multiple agents that specialize in different parts of the code review. He calls this approach “adversarial code review.”
Oh, you’ll also need a third agent to orchestrate the actions between the first two, he said.
Ilegbodu’s workday is the Jevons Paradox incarnate. Once he sets off one agent to implement some new feature, he tasks another agent to do the preliminary work for the next task he has in mind. In effect, he is “parallelizing himself so the work is always happening.”
AI has allowed Ilegbodu to code in languages he doesn’t yet know, such as Python, Bash, and Groovy.
But this context switching can get wearisome, he admitted. “At the end of the day, I’m actually kind of tired, because effectively, I spent the whole day talking to something.”
The insatiable intern
Many coders think about AI like an eager junior developer on the team: enthusiastic but naive. But unlike a junior dev, an AI won’t “get overwhelmed,” said Meta Developer Advocate Justin Jeffress, in his talk.
You can just keep shoveling more information to the AI, and it will take it all in (for as many tokens as you can afford).
Such bottomless hunger leads to what Jeffress called “context rot.”
“Over time, as you interact with your AI agent, the more stuff it has to calculate to provide an answer, the more there is vying for its attention and the less likely it’s going to do the right thing,” he said.
Vague instructions lead to diffuse results, he told the audience. Clearly thinking about what information you are giving to the agent is the work of context engineering, which, in the short time of agentic AI, has become an art form, if not quite a proper discipline yet.
Wishful prompting
The fact that the AI doesn’t do exactly what you want it to do is not a problem with the AI. It’s a problem with your lack of “decomposition” skills, posited Luis Lastras, IBM director of language and multimodal technologies, in his talk.
Wishful prompting is just typing “I must insist, do not hallucinate. My career depends on it, please, please, please.” It’s like casting a spell and hoping it’ll work, he said.
Instead, developers should be thinking about how to break the work up into smaller, more bite-sized portions for the agent.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mikä on llms.txt ja miten se parantaa verkkosivujen näkyvyyttä tekoälyhaussa?
https://jco.fi/fi/mika-on-llms-txt-ja-miten-se-parantaa-verkkosivujen-nakyvyytta-tekoalyhaussa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://github.com/JackChen-me/open-multi-agent
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google DeepMind’s Research Lets an LLM Rewrite Its Own Game Theory Algorithms — And It Outperformed the Experts
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/03/google-deepminds-research-lets-an-llm-rewrite-its-own-game-theory-algorithms-and-it-outperformed-the-experts/