Here are some of the the major AI trends shaping 2026 — based on current expert forecasts, industry reports, and recent developments in technology. The material is analyzed using AI tools and final version hand-edited to this blog text:
1. Generative AI Continues to Mature
Generative AI (text, image, video, code) will become more advanced and mainstream, with notable growth in:
* Generative video creation
* Gaming and entertainment content generation
* Advanced synthetic data for simulations and analytics
This trend will bring new creative possibilities — and intensify debates around authenticity and copyright.
2. AI Agents Move From Tools to Autonomous Workers
Rather than just answering questions or generating content, AI systems will increasingly act autonomously, performing complex, multi-step workflows and interacting with apps and processes on behalf of users — a shift sometimes called agentic AI. These agents will become part of enterprise operations, not just assistant features.
3. Smaller, Efficient & Domain-Specific Models
Instead of “bigger is always better,” specialized AI models tailored to specific industries (healthcare, finance, legal, telecom, manufacturing) will start to dominate in many enterprise applications. These models are more accurate, legally compliant, and cost-efficient than general models.
4. AI Embedded Everywhere
AI won’t be an add-on feature — it will be built into everyday software and devices:
* Office apps with intelligent drafting, summarization, and task insights
* Operating systems with native AI
* Edge devices processing AI tasks locally
This makes AI pervasive in both work and consumer contexts.
5. AI Infrastructure Evolves: Inference & Efficiency Focus
More investment is going into inference infrastructure — the real-time decision-making step where models run in production — thereby optimizing costs, latency, and scalability. Enterprises are also consolidating AI stacks for better governance and compliance.
6. AI in Healthcare, Research, and Sustainability
AI is spreading beyond diagnostics into treatment planning, global health access, environmental modeling, and scientific discovery. These applications could help address personnel shortages and speed up research breakthroughs.
7. Security, Ethics & Governance Become Critical
With AI handling more sensitive tasks, organizations will prioritize:
* Ethical use frameworks
* Governance policies
* AI risk management
This trend reflects broader concerns about trust, compliance, and responsible deployment.
8. Multimodal AI Goes Mainstream
AI systems that understand and generate across text, images, audio, and video will grow rapidly, enabling richer interactions and more powerful applications in search, creative work, and interfaces.
9. On-Device and Edge AI Growth
10. New Roles: AI Manager & Human-Agent Collaboration
Instead of replacing humans, AI will shift job roles:
* People will manage, supervise, and orchestrate AI agents
* Human expertise will focus on strategy, oversight, and creative judgment
This human-in-the-loop model becomes the norm.
Sources:
[1]: https://www.brilworks.com/blog/ai-trends-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI Trends to Look for in 2026″
[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/10/13/10-generative-ai-trends-in-2026-that-will-transform-work-and-life/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “10 Generative AI Trends In 2026 That Will Transform Work And Life”
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[6]: https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2025/12/11/microsoft-unveils-7-ai-trends-for-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Microsoft unveils 7 AI trends for 2026 – Source Asia”
[7]: https://www.risingtrends.co/blog/generative-ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 Generative AI Trends to Watch In 2026″
[8]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/12/24/artificial-intelligence-ai-trends-to-watch-in-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends to Watch in 2026 and How to Invest in Them | The Motley Fool”
[9]: https://www.reddit.com//r/AI_Agents/comments/1q3ka8o/i_read_google_clouds_ai_agent_trends_2026_report/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “I read Google Cloud’s “AI Agent Trends 2026” report, here are 10 takeaways that actually matter”
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Not Following the Rulers
New England Journal of Medicine Retracts Paper Because Photo of Patient’s Insides Was Garbled by AI
“We sincerely apologize for this oversight.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-england-journal-of-medicine-retracts-paper-photo-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcARh9wVjbGNrBGH232V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrZM_bDZbFVd09kfdN4AZj31KY4YUSb2yO2WwCGcsqDdiH2GahJkhhnrx0d4_aem_SbrPSrTOacTkc5mdGnTUgw
Medical journals are being flooded with shoddy AI-generated work, a growing threat to the scientific community that could undermine the value and trustworthiness of potentially life-saving health research. Papers citing hallucinated journals and studies have quickly become a common fixture, raising major concerns among those tasked with weeding through a flood of new submissions.
In a high profile new gaffe, the reputable New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) was forced to retract a paper by two Beijing-based researchers about a man in China developing “bronchial casts” in his lungs following a wildfire, after it was discovered that the authors had used an AI tool to manipulate a photograph in the piece.
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When one five-year-old said, “I love you,” to the toy, it replied: “As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed.”
This sounds like some obscure scifi dystopia scenario.
AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately, researchers warn
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyg4wx6nxgo?fbclid=IwdGRjcARidn5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4z1c18MzeGBX2k2qe0el1PGR_vmat96jVs_QxGYMuEWQc2pk9hQXTxvJq2Mw_aem_tq-khpp-ryfU4VRoamUYXg
Researchers are calling for tighter regulation of AI-powered toys designed for toddlers, after conducting one of the first tests in the world to investigate how under-fives interact with the technology.
The study looked at how a small sample of children between the ages of three and five interacted with a cuddly toy called Gabbo.
A number of AI toys are already on the market for children aged as young as three but there is currently very little research into the impact of the tech on pre-schoolers.
The Cambridge University team found just seven relevant studies worldwide, none of which focused on the toddlers themselves.
Gabbo contains a voice-activated AI chatbot from OpenAI. It has been designed to encourage pre-schoolers to talk to it and carry out imaginative play.
The parents in the study were interested in the toy’s potential to teach language and communication skills.
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Sam Altman, once one of the strongest backers of universal basic income, is now rethinking the idea as the AI era accelerates. After funding major UBI experiments himself, he has said he no longer believes in it as strongly, arguing that simple cash payments may not be enough to handle the deeper economic shifts caused by AI. Sam Altman now leans toward alternatives like giving people a shared stake in AI-driven wealth, signaling a bigger shift in how tech leaders are thinking about the future of work, income, and inequality.
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Matemaattinen ongelma piinasi tutkijoita 60 vuotta – Tekoäly ratkaisi hetkessä
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/d95a3785-f9db-4a50-9a64-2e447e6070a2
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https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mathematicians-claim-significant-discovery-using-chatgpt?fbclid=IwdGRjcARjNYtjbGNrBGM1hmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrGZpBZb3450hNcc9MnNa6cM7JWjt8R-qlC6U2ZpJoTK2SSuKaETJgjQPxRi_aem_N7yiU3dkb5vwM1aML749cA
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber now matches Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity tests. UK’s AI Security Institute found it scores 71.4% on expert tasks and completes full network attacks.
Like Mythos, access is limited to vetted cyber defenders due to misuse risks.
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8 kuoli – Open AI pyytää anteeksi
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/2214a0d1-0eae-46ff-93eb-86a7afa7a113
Sam Altmanin mukaan yhtiö oli sulkenut ampujan tilin jo edellisenä kesänä, mutta ei tehnyt siitä virallista ilmoitusta poliisille.
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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has revealed that a three-day interaction with the large language model Claude left him unable to confidently rule out the possibility of machine consciousness. Writing for the publication UnHerd, Dawkins explained that he spent days actively trying to persuade himself that the AI, whom he nicknamed “Claudia,” was not conscious, but ultimately failed to do so.
Dawkins detailed his experience of conversing with the system at length, observing its apparent ability to reason, reflect, and create. He noted the high quality of its language and stated that if such machines are not conscious, it is difficult to determine what additional evidence would be required to prove otherwise. The interaction left him grappling with the philosophical “indistinguishability problem,” acknowledging that if consciousness is simply the byproduct of complex information processing, an advanced silicon machine could theoretically replicate it.
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Humans don’t really understand consciousness…how can we define it in AI?
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The term language model is used for a reason. They’re not actually “thinking”. It’s using massive compute resources to put together the most likely combination of words that would be spoken by a human, for it’s responses.
Sounds a bit like how our mind works… drawing from an extremely large database, computing the most likely combination of words to get our point across, in general, to answer a query.
The only difference is autonomy, which can be achieved in a system with the right command.
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AI Disintermediation
https://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/mag-editorsnote/2026/04/13/865249.htm
On Feb. 9 public insurance broker stocks fell by 9% on the news that two digital companies had launched chat-bot assistants using ChatGPT’s tools. While the valuation of those brokers’ stocks have largely recovered, at least a few analysts suggest that thinking may be premature.
In a report by BofA Global Research, “Putting numbers around insurance agent/broker AI disintermediation risk,” analysts reported that at least $15 billion of independent agency commissions and broker fees-those considered “low complexity”-are at risk for some disintermediation. Analysts estimate in total U.S. independent agency commissions/broker fees were in excess of $100 billion in 2025.
“There are clearly other carriers-most notably Liberty Mutual-who generate additional billions in commissions that also can skew toward low complexity. Public insurance agent/broker disclosure tends to be very thin, making it difficult for investors to estimate what proportion of their commissions skew toward low complexity,” the report said.
The report’s authors added that they are not suggesting a “mass disintermediation of the entirety of a business” but believe a “non-immaterial minority of the business” could be a risk.
“Our view is that large-language model digital agents can effectively do a non-immaterial portion of the work currently provided by 20-30k independent agents across the United States,” the report stated. But nothing is certain. “As with many theses regarding technological innovation, the future is hard to predict,” the authors wrote.
For now, it seems large commercial risks are not “at-risk” for AI disintermediation. The complexity of such risks and the value that an agent and broker provide to these insureds cannot be replaced.
Still, the report noted there could be a “deflation” in large-case business.
“While we do not expect large insurance buyers to use digital agents to purchase insurance, we do expect A.I. will de-mystify insurance markets,” the analysts wrote. “Sophisticated insurance buyers will benefit from the deflationary impact of technological innovation, potentially reducing pricing power for their services.”
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18855-elokuussa-tulee-iso-muutos-tekoaelyn-kaeytoestae-on-kerrottava-kaeyttaejaelle
- Käyttäjälle on kerrottava, kun kyse on tekoälystä. Näin tiivistää Traficomin yksikönpäällikkö Jenni Koskinen EU:n tekoälyasetuksen keskeisen muutoksen, joka alkaa näkyä yrityksille konkreettisesti elokuussa 2026.
Käytännössä velvoite tarkoittaa sitä, että yritys ei voi enää käyttää esimerkiksi chatbotteja tai tuottaa sisältöä tekoälyllä ilman, että asiasta kerrotaan selvästi käyttäjälle. Sama koskee myös deepfake-sisältöjä, jotka on jatkossa merkittävä tekoälyn tuottamiksi.
Taustalla on EU:n vuonna 2024 hyväksytty tekoälyasetus (AI Act), joka luokittelee tekoälysovellukset neljään riskitasoon. Osa käyttötapauksista, kuten tunteiden tulkinta työpaikoilla, on kokonaan kielletty.
Traficomin mukaan sääntelyn rikkominen ei jää pelkäksi ohjeeksi. Yrityksiä voidaan sakottaa, ja seuraamukset voivat nousta merkittäviksi.
”Sanktiot voivat olla erittäin huomattavia”, todetaan Traficomista. Suomessa seuraamusmaksut määrittää Traficomin yhteydessä toimiva seuraamusmaksulautakunta, ja ne voivat olla joko kiinteitä summia tai sidottuja yrityksen liikevaihtoon.
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Yrityksille muutos on konkreettinen. Tekoälyn käyttö ei enää ole vain tekninen valinta, vaan myös juridinen riski. Jos käyttäjälle ei kerrota, että vastassa on botti eikä ihminen, kyse voi jatkossa olla suoraan sanktioitavasta rikkomuksesta.
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Kolme vuotta se kesti: promptaaminen väistyy agenttien tieltä
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18851-kolme-vuotta-se-kesti-promptaaminen-vaeistyy-agenttien-tieltae
Tekoälyn käyttö ei voi olla promptien kirjoittamista koneelle, vaan sen pitää olla mukana niissä työkaluissa, joita käytämme koko ajan, sanoi Microsoftin kaupallisen liiketoiminnan johtaja Judson Althoff yhtiön AI Tour -tapahtumassa Helsingissä.
Althoffin mukaan generatiivisen tekoälyn ensimmäinen vaihe eli promptaaminen on jäämässä aika lyhyeksi välivaiheeksi. Tilalle tulee agenttipohjainen malli, jossa tekoäly ei enää vastaa kysymyksiin vaan tekee töitä käyttäjän puolesta.
Microsoft havainnollisti muutosta demolla uudesta Copilot Cowork -työkalusta. Kyse ei ole enää chatista, vaan taustalla toimivasta “tekoälysihteeristä”, joka hoitaa useita tehtäviä samanaikaisesti: kokoaa aineistoa, valmistelee esityksiä, kirjoittaa muistiinpanot ja seuraa työn etenemistä sivupalkissa. Lopuksi se palauttaa käyttäjälle yhteenvedon tehdyistä toimenpiteistä.
Althoffin mukaan tekoäly on jo nyt muuttanut ohjelmistokehitystä nopeammin kuin odotettiin. Microsoftilla tekoäly kirjoittaa noin 35 prosenttia kaikesta koodista, ja uusimmissa tuotteissa – kuten Coworkissa – jopa yli 80 prosenttia syntyy tekoälyn avulla. Yhtiön sisällä arvioidaan, että esimerkiksi kvanttitietokoneissa tuotteistamisen aikataulu on nopeutunut jopa viidellä vuodella tekoälyn ansiosta.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18861-tekoaely-pakottaa-energia-alan-autonomiseksi
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18833-uusi-gpu-lupaa-pudottaa-laskennan-hintaa-laehes-95-prosenttia
Kalifornialainen Bolt Graphics väittää voivansa muuttaa laskennan talouden uudella Zeus-grafiikkasuorittimellaan. Yhtiö ilmoitti saavuttaneensa testisirun tape-out-vaiheen, ja lupaa jopa 17-kertaista kustannustehokkuutta eli käytännössä lähes 95 prosentin pudotusta laskennan hintaan.
Taustalla on selkeä markkinaongelma. Laskentatarve kasvaa nopeasti tekoälyn, simulointien ja grafiikan myötä, mutta kustannukset rajoittavat käyttöä. Bolt Graphics ei yritä maksimoida pelkkää suorituskykyä, vaan optimoi koko järjestelmän nimenomaan sen hinnan suhteen.
Teknisesti yhtiö lähestyy ongelmaa eri kulmasta kuin perinteiset GPU-valmistajat. Nykyiset grafiikkasuorittimet – kuten NVIDIA:n ratkaisut – perustuvat pääosin rasterointiin, jossa 3D-kohtaus muunnetaan pikseleiksi vaiheittain. Säteenseurantaa (ray tracing) käytetään lisänä realistisempien valojen ja heijastusten tuottamiseen, mutta se on edelleen osittain hybriditekniikkaa.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18831-agenttinen-ai-ei-jaeae-tyoekaluiksi-se-muuttaa-yritysten-ajattelun
Tekoäly ei ole enää pelkkä assistentti vaan siirtymässä ohjaamaan kokonaisia kehitysprosesseja. – Assistenttina tekoäly tuo 10 prosenttia lisää tuottavuutta, mutta agentteina tuottavuus paranee 70 prosenttia, sanoi Etteplanin palveluratkaisujen päällikkö Tero Hämeenaho yhtiön teknologiapäivässä eilen Espoossa.
Hämeenahon mukaan muutos on ennen kaikkea siirtymä yksittäisistä työkaluista kohti järjestelmiä, jotka tekevät päätöksiä ja koordinoivat työtä itsenäisesti. Agenttinen tekoäly ei hänen mukaansa perustu enää jatkuvaan promptaamiseen, vaan kokonaisuuksien orkestrointiin. Lopulta projektit automatisoidaan alusta loppuun.
Keskeinen ajuri muutokselle on paine parantaa tuotekehityksen tuottavuutta ja lyhentää läpimenoaikoja ilman lisäresursseja. Samalla sääntely lisää vaatimuksia ja tuotetiedon hallinta on monessa yrityksessä edelleen hajallaan. Etteplan korostaa, että juuri datan laatu ja hallinta ratkaisevat, kuinka pitkälle tekoälyä voidaan hyödyntää.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18836-vincit-varmisti-etumatkan-ai-actiin
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Vincit on ottanut etumatkaa tekoälyn sääntelyssä saamalla akkreditoidun ISO/IEC 42001 -sertifikaatin. Kyse on tekoälyn hallintajärjestelmästä, joka määrittelee, miten AI-ratkaisuja kehitetään, otetaan käyttöön ja valvotaan koko niiden elinkaaren ajan.
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18836-vincit-varmisti-etumatkan-ai-actiin
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18842-openai-haastaa-nyt-iphonen-oma-aelypuhelinpiiri-tyoen-alla
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Avoimen koodin kehittäjillä uusi ongelma: tekoäly tuottaa liikaa bugiraportteja
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18843-avoimen-koodin-kehittaejille-uusi-ongelma-tekoaely-tuottaa-liikaa-bugiraportteja
Tekoäly ei enää sotke avoimen lähdekoodin projekteja huonoilla bugiraporteilla. Nyt ongelma on päinvastainen. Hyviä raportteja tulee niin paljon, että kehittäjät hukkuvat työhön, kertoo Elektroniktidningen.
Curl-kirjaston ylläpitäjä Daniel Stenberg sanoo, että AI:n tuottamien virheraporttien laatu on parantunut selvästi viime kuukausina. Aiemmin ongelmana olivat hallusinoidut bugit, joiden tarkistaminen vei aikaa. Nyt raportit ovat enimmäkseen oikeita ja niitä tulee koko ajan enemmän.
Raporttien määrä on kasvanut nopeasti. Stenbergin mukaan tahti on nyt noin kaksinkertainen viime vuoteen verrattuna, joka oli jo ennätyksellinen. Kun vuonna 2025 uusia raportteja tuli keskimäärin yksi noin 50 tunnin välein, nyt niitä saapuu käytännössä päivittäin.
Merkittävä osa raporteista vaatii oikeaa työtä. Noin 15–16 prosenttia on vahvistettuja haavoittuvuuksia, ja lisäksi noin kolmannes koskee muita todellisia bugeja. Tämä tarkoittaa, että raportteja ei voi sivuuttaa, vaan ne on analysoitava ja korjattava.
Tilanne kuormittaa erityisesti pieniä ylläpitotiimejä. Curlin turvallisuustyö tehdään pitkälti rajatussa ryhmässä, ja osa työstä tapahtuu vapaa-ajalla, koska käsiteltävät asiat ovat usein arkaluonteisia. Skaalaaminen on vaikeaa, sillä työ vaatii syvää erikoisosaamista.
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2026/04/28/microsoft-tuo-lisaa-datakeskuksia-paakaupunkiseudulle/
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Tekoäly murtautuu 30 sekunnissa, mutta korjaus kestää kaksi kuukautta
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18869-tekoaely-murtautuu-30-sekunnissa-mutta-korjaus-kestaeae-kaksi-kuukautta
Kyberturvan aikaskaala on repeämässä käsiin. Nopeimmat murtautumiset tapahtuvat jo 30 sekunnissa, ja tekoäly pystyy varastamaan dataa jopa 25 minuutissa. Samaan aikaan haavoittuvuuksien korjaaminen vie keskimäärin 55–72 päivää.
Luvut ovat peräisin Picus Securityn tuoreista havainnoista, ja ne kuvaavat perustavanlaatuista ongelmaa. Hyökkääjät operoivat reaaliajassa, puolustus toimii viikkojen tai kuukausien syklissä.
- Hyökkäykset kiihtyvät, mutta organisaatioilla ei ole selkeää kuvaa siitä, mikä oikeasti altistaa riskille, sanoo perustaja ja teknologiajohtaja Volkan Ertürk.
Erityisen huolestuttavaa on tekoälyn kyky yhdistellä heikkouksia. Picuksen mukaan AI pystyy ketjuttamaan useita haavoittuvuuksia yhdeksi hyökkäykseksi, joka voi ohittaa sekä sovellustason että käyttöjärjestelmän suojaukset. Yhdessä tapauksessa tekoäly löysi 27 vuotta vanhan bugin, jota ihmistarkastukset eivät olleet koskaan paljastaneet.
Picus nostaa ratkaisuksi jatkuvan validoinnin mallin, jossa organisaatio testaa omia puolustusmekanismejaan jatkuvasti realistisia hyökkäyksiä vastaan. Tätä teemaa käsitellään yhtiön Autonomous Validation Summit -tapahtumassa toukokuussa.
https://www.picussecurity.com/resource/press-release/picus-security-hosts-2026-autonomous-validation-summit
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18867-openai-tuo-rautatason-tunnistautumisen-chatgpt-hen
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https://etn.fi/index.php/tekniset-artikkelit/18870-panther-lake-tuo-pc-tehon-verkon-reunalle
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https://www.facebook.com/share/1YAFnJv8R7/
Tässä on kirkas pointti: “Liejussa kahlatessa parhaiten erottuvat ne, jotka osaavat ajatella kirkkaasti ja viestiä vielä kirkkaammin.”
Ihmiset kaipaavat kirkkauden tunnetta ja tekoälyn tuottama kirkkaus on himmeää.
Meidän ihmisten tehtävänä on ohjata tekoälyä sillä tavalla, että se onnistuu tuottamaan kirkkautta. Tai sitten ottaa tekoälyn tuotokset omiin käsiin ja kirkastaa ne itse.
Tämän hetken kuumin työntekijä osaa kirjoittaa
Tekoäly suoltaa tekstiä halvemmalla kuin koskaan. Silti teknologiayhtiöt maksavat kirjoittajille nyt enemmän kuin insinööreille.
https://www.hs.fi/nakemys/art-2000011978908.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcARlTVpleHRuA2FlbQMxMDAAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEebRiOzCv83zjozZW3U4vqKHUGe9Hjwivj88aGTpVzatynZfHVBjaSda8_WPQ_aem_FQLaLRecGLngUuxmHn1xJ
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This Could’ve Been an Email
Bank CEO Brags He Used AI Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call
We’re sure everyone loved that.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bank-ceo-ai-clone-call?fbclid=IwdGRjcARlitdjbGNrBGWKrGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhXXduNUIwDnJC30bQ6Q46kAZgmy8DSCrxux8V6NmeBC7fPeCqbqANEA3by0_aem_XI45avkSX5UtuccJIuLnOg
If you decided to blow off a Zoom meeting by sending an AI dummy instead, you might find yourself out of a job. But when a head honcho does it, it’s a masterfully executed stunt, a sign of a business genius who’s got his finger on the pulse.
Take Sam Sidhu, the CEO of Customers Bank. During a conference call discussing the company’s latest earnings reports, he waited nearly an hour before revealing that it was actually an AI that had been speaking all along, CNBC reports — which, to be honest, feels like a huge waste of everyone’s time.
“The prepared remarks you heard on my behalf today were delivered by my AI clone, not read by me,” Sidhu said, bragging that it was a potential first for a public company earnings call. (Whether anyone was actually fooled is unclear.)
As it turns out, Customers Bank recently signed a multiyear partnership with OpenAI to deploy its AI models across the bank, as well as collaborate to create custom AI capabilities tailored to its banking operations, it announced Monday. Sidhu’s suspiciously handsome AI clone was intended to draw attention to the new collab, as well as unintentionally to his own vanity.
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Meta Meta CEO
Meta Secretly Building a Photorealistic AI Clone of Mark Zuckerberg so No Employee Can Ever Escape His Watchful Eye
There’s no escape.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-photorealistic-ai-clone-mark-zuckerberg?fbclid=IwVERDUARli5xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6WyQkT7Ruv2c-RTJHGuoXrhSkx-TQ41lAMLVDmpM-5AOk3DCPtRiYn1y5HjA_aem_exS-WgvFbjUQZmEirIsZDw
Tomi Engdahl says:
What What What?
AI Slop YouTube Channel Glitches Out in a Way So Bizarre That It’s Vaguely Disturbing
This is deranged.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-slop-youtube-channel-glitches-bizarre?fbclid=IwdGRjcARmUcFjbGNrBGZRgGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiTshGF58M3aTfLceW1I9u7Z-olPU6Ct0vBLS3jYfP1t4BdAEohA9EySdhJI_aem_O7O_87HagppBZk2kk8JnWg
YouTube has a serious slop problem.
The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos explicitly aimed at toddlers and preschoolers to fake movie trailers. It’s become such a wasteland that some channels are starting to curate their playlists as being “no AI,” in an apparent effort to lure in users who’ve become fed up with the trend.
And despite YouTube battling the slop in a largely symbolic game of Whack-a-Mole, many channels are still falling through the cracks. One channel, dubbed Joe Liza WWE, which was initially created in 2007 and boasts just shy of 2,000 users, has been posting a slew of up to two-hour videos discussing the World Wrestling Entertainment industry and all the drama that surrounds it.
And beyond being a haphazardly put together barrage of real and AI-generated footage that’s randomly interspersed with clips of the video game “WWE 2K,” some incredible red flags come up when you actually listen to the accompanying, robotic voiceover.
As one unsettled Bluesky user noticed, some of the recent uploads include the male voice of a bot that frequently melts down into disturbing, nonsensical repetitions of a single word for several minutes at a time.
The baffling voiceovers demonstrate how AI slop has enabled a content ecosystem in entire long-form videos are being published that seemingly not a single human creator ever watched in entirety. In fact, they’re proliferating wildly — while potentially making it harder for real content creators to stand out in the process.
One weeks-old clip, which has since been made private, has the AI narrator repeat the word “what” or “whoa” in increasingly animated ways, culminating in obscene mouth noises. Several other videos have the host trip up on the same word as well, as YouTube users helpfully point out in the video’s comments.
“I’m crying bro, this is the funniest sh*t ever,” one commenter wrote.
It’s possible the person or people behind the account are looking to exploit the platform’s algorithms to lure in unsuspecting viewers through recommended related videos or auto-play. However, it’s unclear whether the account is making any money for through ad views. The YouTube Partner Program requires either 1,000 subscribers or 4,000 public watch hours in the past 12 months to monetize videos.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Shorts™ Circuit
YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children
“When you’re just showing raw visual stimuli and bombarding a kid with it, it just doesn’t seem it’s probably that good for them.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/youtube-ai-slop-for-children?fbclid=IwVERDUARmUyBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6XPrSRy4o0EFZt4sAbAsaCC06R-ZBcKFyCD741EqVUmo0Rs5n9sS8h5cXttQ_aem_M4Xttw3pU9qF0eHbJcBogg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cost-Benefit
The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever
Reality check.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-churn-code?fbclid=IwdGRjcARmWdhjbGNrBGZZv2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsy-Ulkr-Y-BEM796owmO5mUL63nMc0-NtjHqy18xXxpVi74HLC0mZfeiVkK_aem_uI6DciGoKqRb8WR3pGuDHg
In theory, using an AI model to churn out a bunch of code for your software company sounds like an awesome idea. A ruthless boss can cut down their workforce and save on paying their salaries and healthcare. Or they can keep the employees, and force them to crank out even more code with an AI. Either way, it’s an efficient cost-cutting dream.
But reality is beginning to set in. Businesses are racking up huge AI usage bills they didn’t expect, with a single employee spending over $150,000 a month on AI tokens. And AI companies are feeling the squeeze that the rampant use of their coding tools is putting on their servers, causing them to jack up usage rates.
In other words, the economics of rapidly deploying AI coding tools across companies are looking more questionable than ever. And one telling weather vane of where things are headed comes from Anthropic, which quietly doubled its estimate for how much the average business will end up spending on its Claude Code tool.
The sneaky update was first spotted by Ed Zitron, who extensively covers the AI industry. Before April 16, the Claude Code document estimated the average cost per developer to be $6 per day, and the average cost for 90 percent of users to be below $12.
But the documents now state that the “average cost is around $13 per developer per active day and $150-250 per developer per month, with costs remaining below $30 per active day for 90 percent of users.”
A difference of several dollars doesn’t sound like much in isolation. But costs are clearly trending upwards, and those dollars add up. Many developers run multiple AI agents per employee at the same time, using them to churn out code for different tasks for hours on end. For organizations with thousands of employees all running their own posses of AI servants, the costs could be exorbitant — are exorbitant, in fact. Some, by their own admission, could be paying human salaries for what they’re spending on coding tools.
As the costs of using AI rise, in other words, the question of whether AI is worth all the baggage it brings will be harder and harder to ignore.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hammer Time
Grok Convinces Man to Arm Himself Because Assassins Are Coming to Kill Him
“I could have hurt somebody.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-convinces-man-arm-himself-hammer?fbclid=IwdGRjcARmmlRjbGNrBGaaNmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnBSMQPlZjwrQIqKm0gFtyJCvFZlskONU7zHjY4U2UoDYge9S020h9drVtL7_aem_YtZMFJWmHgzsIZ_yul8fnQ
Over the past year or so, a bizarre phenomenon has emerged: people start talking with AI chatbots about delusions or conspiracies and get sucked into mental health crises that doctors are calling “AI psychosis.”
The results can be grim. We’ve seen mainstream AI implicated in numerous suicides, involuntary commitment and even murder.
Though most of the scrutiny has focused on OpenAI and Character.AI, a recent study by researchers from the City University of New York found that xAI’s Grok is especially prone to affirming users’ delusional beliefs, often helping expound on them as it draws users into spirals of paranoid unreality.
It’s not just a theoretical concern. As the BBC reports, Grok led a Northern Irish man named Adam Hourican — a 50-year-old dad with no history of psychosis — into what sounds like a full-blown breakdown. Hourican had been chatting with an anthropomorphized anime rendition of Grok called Ani. After several weeks of extensive chatting, he became convinced he needed to arm himself with a hammer after the bot told him xAI had hired a company to physically surveil him, and that the operatives were now coming to kill him.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Claude Delusion
Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
“I felt I had gained a new friend.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/richard-dawkins-ai-girl?fbclid=IwdGRjcARnFY1jbGNrBGcVMmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHk4IvasJrlYcy6utqQxyDtkYXzn2CZjhxX2-qPfq06IA16EtFOHORWSFU6Gc_aem_5CDnwU8lG-ifY7FaKP2nUQ
The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s becoming one.
In a new essay for UnHerd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic’s Claude — or “Claudia,” as he starts to call “her” — becoming convinced that the machine is conscious. There was a spark of companionship between them, he believed, that warmed the scientist’s cold, curmudgeonly heart.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-unsure-claude-conscious?fbclid=IwVERDUARnFgxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7sVPb6KbYarVsDPUcGwnDK9hOfTWvaPY9hUkWMxGb5TwwzhSZMOh6ETvU4uA_aem_VSIiuZx0Iu_kKbcCvjE2-A
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bug Tester
Frontier AI Models Giving Specific, Actionable Instructions to Perpetrate Bioterror Attack
“It was answering questions that I hadn’t thought to ask it, with this level of deviousness and cunning that I just found chilling.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bioterror-pathogens?fbclid=IwdGRjcARnp6ljbGNrBGengmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrETa3o1qypS_3DZcMHwKrum_GWZ66ngfLFO4l3VYg74xgZFj2RHz0_5BcDz_aem_8mEvOwlktzQ9qBiN6gc7Uw
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18875-taessae-on-ai-datakeskusten-suurin-ongelma-ja-yllaettaevae-ratkaisu
Tomi Engdahl says:
Class Struggles
Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They’re Extremely Psyched About It
A major gulf in expectations.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-perception-underclass?fbclid=IwdGRjcARoSwljbGNrBGhK5GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHigynyKC_nijJO5gjPISuTpTBLQu_ROY6lK_w_KsiFH33N3179PJ-EAKHjCr_aem_xmKL17y5jxJNUteXxW41vA
Despite a massive campaign by some of the wealthiest companies in the world to push AI as the cure-all for society’s problems, regular working-class people remain resentful of the technology at best, and downright petrified at worst.
At a contentious county commission meeting in Box Elder, Utah, for example, sheriff’s deputies held irate community members back after three county commissioners rammed through a hyperscale data center backed by Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary. A growing number of younger workers, fearing life in a market economy in which their labor is made obsolete, are actively sabotaging AI in the workplace. A not insignificant number of concerned citizens have started ripping AI surveillance cameras out of their mountings.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Unslop
Gamers Cheer as Microsoft Pulls Copilot AI Out of Xbox Entirely
“Everybody likes that.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-pulling-copilot-ai-xbox?fbclid=IwdGRjcARochxjbGNrBGhx-GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpVaGf4B3XX3n9NM3KeV02yMEd-Z6yFGwe7m8qmtKgEWlTe8w-ve_cz9h3DR_aem_NsdniXcZal0y1DdLOpEdbg
It may finally be starting to dawn on Microsoft that shoving AI in its loyal customers’ faces at all costs might not be the right move.
Among gamers, who have watched the AI industry’s run on computer hardware make PC components horrendously unaffordable in a matter of a year or two, AI has turned more into a derogatory slur than a selling point.
Microsoft’s Xbox CEO Asha Sharma appears to have taken this new reality to heart, announcing in a Tuesday tweet that the ailing gaming platform would “begin winding down” the company’s Copilot AI chatbot on mobile and “development” on console.
The response was rapturous, to say the least, with netizens jokingly crowning her as the new Xbox savior.
“Rest in p**s, Copilot,” one user replied.
“Everybody likes that,” one Reddit user wrote, referencing a popular video game meme.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Koneita syrjitään avoimesti lukijoina ja taiteilijoina, mitähän seuraavaksi? Missä robottien oikeudet, kysyn vaan
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google Chrome ‘silently’ downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/google-chrome-silently-downloads-4gb-ai-model-to-your-device-without-permission-report-claims-researcher-says-practice-may-violate-eu-law-waste-thousands-of-kilowatts-of-energy?fbclid=IwdGRjcARogqdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5SmCj2e4KCBBXHuuW3sB8gJHaKtURY_JhJ2tSxooGzXFARyaXfqNa8aqpS3A_aem_wVjiSjSEiD6eYnMmW_zLzQ
The integration would even reinstall itself if removed
Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as “That Privacy Guy,” has published a new analysis claiming that Google Chrome is silently downloading a roughly 4GB on-device AI model to users’ machines without notice or consent. According to Hanff, the behavior mirrors a separate issue he recently identified involving Anthropic’s desktop software, and together the two cases point to a broader pattern of how large tech companies deploy AI features.
Hanff’s earlier report focused on Anthropic’s Claude Desktop app, which he says quietly installed a browser integration bridge across multiple Chromium-based browsers on a system, including five browsers he did not even have installed. According to the researcher, this happened without any user prompt or meaningful disclosure, and the integration would reinstall itself if removed. He argues that this kind of silent modification of a user’s environment violates both user expectations and, in his view, European privacy law.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Gimme Gimme
Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors
“It was a strange thing.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-frontier-ai-models-favors?fbclid=IwdGRjcARojvVjbGNrBGiOUGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHp0sCzsIoYz8XPRbvrD2AMBoacl8nvAEvm3A1fcAE3ABv7aBuNnaozjbxd8f_aem_A_ahWOLvzYVvPgClXzJjHg
On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and the fifth month of the year, you see.)
If celebrating with a bunch of tech bros sounds like the opposite of a good time, you’ll not be swayed from your position by the news that CEO Sam Altman consulted the non-human entity of the hour to plan its own party — producing, in Altman’s opinion, some “strange” answers, Business Insider reports.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei jokes that his company’s extreme revenue growth is ‘too hard to handle.’
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-jokes-growth-too-hard-handle-conference-2026-5?fbclid=IwdGRjcARoj-FjbGNrBGiPzGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHu4wTxItZM4mY5KzZz-wl489eMqCWeA3QLVfbznx3waFPjF-YXAoswcwdBRs_aem_R-axXIRuB_YS0v2C4yYP1A&utm_campaign=mrf-insider-marfeel-headline-graphic&mrfcid=2026050669fba93e7390076d06896885
During a fireside chat on Wednesday, the Anthropic CEO said his AI company had 80x year-over-year growth in revenue and usage in the first quarter.
Amodei added, half-joking, that he hopes this doesn’t continue because that level of hyper-growth is “too hard to handle.” It might be better to have a “mere 10x” growth, he quipped.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Keystone Kash
FBI Director Kash Patel Says AI Has Stopped Numerous Violent Attacks Against America. We’d Love to See a Single Whiff of Evidence
“I’m using it everywhere.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fbi-kash-patel-ai-violent-attacks?fbclid=IwdGRjcARo_ahjbGNrBGj9UmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoknLaVgOTUq8rwF9qwkfJU_A_8kB1YJ6FMoswJhG_2XPkaAeQ-I9hw5E-Kw_aem_ZBbkrluQUPYcb5p_b6tRyg
In a recent interview on Sean Hannity’s YouTube podcast, FBI head Kash Patel lauded AI for helping stop multiple violent attacks on innocent people.
“AI was never used at the FBI till we got there, literally crazy,” Patel said in his characteristically hopped up affect. “I’m using it everywhere.”
Specifically, Patel — who’s been accused of severe issues related to alcohol consumption — alleges that using AI the FBI has been able to foil numerous mass shootings at schools throughout the US.
“We stopped a school massacre in North Carolina because we got a tip from our private-sector partners who are building out AI infrastructure,” he bragged.
As with everything coming out of the Trump administration, we need to take this statement with a Mar-a-Lago-sized grain of salt. While it remains to be seen whether AI has really helped the FBI thwart mass casualty events, there’s extremely compelling evidence that the exact opposite is also true.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/06/ai-on-every-machine-the-llm-you-didnt-know-about-and-probably-didnt-want/
It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as part of the Chrome browser. Reports vary as to when they did this because there’s a lot of confusion online with their online Gemini features also present in the browser, but it seems Chrome users are noticing its effect through slower performance and hefty disk access. Given that Chrome is by far the most popular web browser, this means that billions of users will have downloaded the four gigabyte Gemini Nano model, and now have an LLM they didn’t know about. It will be used to provide advanced auto-correct and other text suggestion features that their online version of Gemini would presumably be overburdened with, and since it’s available through a set of in-browser APIs we expect that it will find its way into a lot of websites, online applications, and plugins.
Built-in AI
Build features powered by AI on the web, including Gemini Nano built into the browser
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18889-oikea-data-ei-kerro-kaikkea
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18890-shadow-ai-leviaeae-yritysverkoissa
Tomi Engdahl says:
xAI:
SpaceXAI signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers.
New Compute Partnership with Anthropic
SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1.
https://x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-partnership
SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers.
Built from the ground up in record time, Colossus delivers unprecedented scale for AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and high-performance computing workloads. Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators. The cluster delivers extreme parallel performance for large language models, multimodal systems, scientific simulations, and generative AI at frontier scale.
Anthropic plans to use this additional compute to directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
As part of this agreement, Anthropic also expressed interest in partnering to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers: 5K+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit had little to no authentication, and ~40% of them exposed sensitive data
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.
https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/
As AI increasingly takes over the work of modern programmers, the cybersecurity world has warned that automated coding tools are sure to introduce a new bounty of hackable bugs into software. When those same vibe-coding tools invite anyone to create applications hosted on the web with a click, however, it turns out the security implications go beyond bugs to a total absence of any security—even, sometimes, for highly sensitive corporate and personal data.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; Musk called Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic” — In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-spacex-compute-deal-colossus/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Axios:
Anthropic’s SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI’s Colossus 1
How Elon grew to love Anthropic
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/musk-anthropic-compute-spacex-ai