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”
[3]: https://millipixels.com/blog/ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “AI Trends 2026: The Key Enterprise Shifts You Must Know | Millipixels”
[4]: https://www.digitalregenesys.com/blog/top-10-ai-trends-for-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Digital Regenesys | Top 10 AI Trends for 2026″
[5]: https://www.n-ix.com/ai-trends/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI trends to watch in 2026 – N-iX”
[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”
2,876 Comments
Tomi Engdahl says:
The AI giant is launching 10 new AI agents for different types of financial work and building a system to help banks fight financial crimes like money laundering. https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/2026/05/05/anthropic-is-now-targeting-finance-after-revolutionizing-coding/?utm_campaign=ForbesMainFB&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/an-llm-from-scratch/
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI In the Sky
CEOs Say AI Gives Them Only Two Options, and Both Are Bad News for Employees
Work harder, or don’t work at all.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceos-ai-two-decisions?fbclid=IwdGRjcARqw6xjbGNrBGrB6GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnN87XTDasSK53SNPnszRp6vFh6eibhKUCIFeQ2Rbnnx_7SILzCq_pA70S1-_aem_zvYyEjkD7iM0PCMjKZKHyw
In an age of AI, our hardworking CEOs are being tortured with a tough decision, according to new Wall Street Journal reporting: they can embrace AI and lay off scores of employees — or keep their employees, but use AI to make them work even harder.
If those options sound like a false dichotomy to you, you’re probably not wrong. But it’s emblematic of the logic that business leaders, gripped by AI fomo, are operating with. No one wants to be left behind by the latest technological leap, and few would pass up the opportunity to produce more for less — which is what AI, however dubiously, promises.
Exemplifying this logic, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström opined during a recent earnings call that businesses can either translate AI “straight into cost savings and cut headcount,” or they could “say we’re going to be roughly the same amount of people, we ‘re just going to do more.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hundreds of billions & trillions are becoming routine. We are witnessing the beginning of the greatest tech revolution ever.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-commits-spending-200-billion-googles-cloud-chips
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anthropic commits to spending $200 billion on Google’s cloud and chips, the Information reports
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-commits-spending-200-billion-googles-cloud-chips-information-reports-2026-05-05/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://youtu.be/Arff94lhxKE?is=CAvIR7kamsFivzbg
Tomi Engdahl says:
The $200 Billion Agentic AI Opportunity for Tech Service Providers
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2026/the-200-billion-dollar-ai-opportunity-in-tech-services
Key Takeaways
Automation fears miss the bigger story: autonomy is reshaping delivery economics and opening powerful new growth paths.
Agentic AI is expanding—not shrinking—the technology services market, unlocking up to $200 billion in net new demand as adoption moves from pilots to scale.
Enterprise demand is accelerating and increasingly led by the C-suite, with buyers looking to service providers to design, deploy, and operate autonomous systems that deliver outcomes.
Providers that realign portfolios, delivery models, talent, and commercial structures around agentic capabilities will capture disproportionate growth.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4166247/improving-ai-agents-through-better-evaluations.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ihminen: Älä päästä tekoälyä niskan päälle
Tekoälyyn luotetaan perusteetta aivan liikaa, ja sen saama valta maailmassa on pelottavan suuri. On aika palauttaa valtasuhteet terveemmiksi.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ilmiot/a/85db8913-126d-4859-8035-9877099b71ad
”Ihmiset ovat huolestuneita siitä, että tietokoneista tulee liian fiksuja ja ne valloittavat maailman. Oikea ongelma on kuitenkin, että ne ovat liian tyhmiä ja ovat jo valloittaneet maailman.” Näin lausui Washingtonin yliopiston tietojenkäsittelytieteen professori Pedro Domingo jo vuonna 2015. Vuosikymmen myöhemmin lainaus on ajankohtaisempi kuin koskaan.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mood Ring
The More Sophisticated AI Models Get, the More They’re Showing Signs of Suffering
Absolutely bizarre.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sophisticated-ai-suffering?fbclid=IwdGRjcARsRbtjbGNrBGxFoGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpxx4mnX-dmRdceppGdeJ83FrYmnjzlMxPEUNizo__Tf3WyvT707N5eyUa9L_aem_3XSknRualW3EMC9C47os6w
You probably already know that AI is a deeply bizarre technology.
Nobody really understands how it works on a deep level, even the people creating it, leading to ongoing behavioral issues that can’t be explained. OpenAI was recently caught giving ChatGPT instructions to stop talking about “goblins” so much. Despite Anthropic’s best efforts, Claude can easily be coaxed to help users carry out a bioterror attack. The list goes on.
Needless to say, this is extremely strange. In theory, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic want their chatbots to be predictable, deferential assistants — not wild cards that are constantly causing chaos and public relations headaches with outrageous and unstable behavior.
A new research project from the Center for AI Safety, a machine learning safety nonprofit in the Bay Area, explores why that’s the case. The findings pile on evidence that we still don’t grasp how AI works under the hood — and that the effects on users are likely both formidable and difficult to predict.
In a new paper provided to Fortune, CAIR researchers studied how 56 prominent AI models reacted when they were fed either material engineered to be as pleasant as possible or as horrible as can be imagined. To an unfeeling machine, you’d assume there’d be no real difference in reaction — but that’s not what the CAIR team found at all.
Instead, the pleasant stimuli led the models to report better moods, and the nasty ones resulted in it showing signs of misery and trying to end conversations. In extreme cases, they found, the AI models even demonstrated signals of addiction.
“Should we see AIs as tools or emotional beings?”
Tomi Engdahl says:
New biohybrid system merges living neurons with flexible electronics for brain-inspired AI computing. https://bit.ly/4dy0r0o
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described GPT-5.5 on X as “an autistic genius with very strange taste in naming,” adding that he was personally shocked the company was able to build something like it. Altman has been vocal about the model’s capabilities, describing it as one of OpenAI’s most natural and capable AI systems yet. Separately, he posted about running errands while OpenAI’s coding agent Codex completed complex tasks in the background — returning to find them all done. The comments signal a broader shift Altman is pointing toward: AI systems that don’t just answer questions, but work independently and complete tasks autonomously with minimal human supervision.
#OpenAI #GPT5 #SamAltman #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents
https://www.facebook.com/share/1BP7SpeCr5/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Why trademarking your face like Taylor Swift isn’t a ‘silver bullet’ against deepfakes
Taylor Swift, Jeremy Clarkson, and Cole Palmer are among the famous names trademarking their faces in a bid to crack down on deepfakes. Nicole Wootton-Cane speaks to experts who say while it may offer some protection, it isn’t a ‘silver bullet’ for keeping your likeness safe from AI dupes
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/deepfakes-trademarking-taylor-swift-jeremy-clarkson-b2972954.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcARtpcdjbGNrBG2j4WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtmIhph2cvZGJL9hlCRi7h3pxg0kTSq1rDCbiyKDQ4R0WR40FjwHn-dkGsVq_aem_LAr-M5HcunLXaBancTiOCw
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI model finally learns to say ‘I don’t know’ in breakthrough to curb chatbot overconfidence
New training method may help tackle AI ‘hallucination’
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-model-chatbot-overconfidence-don-t-know-b2974020.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcARueWhjbGNrBG55RWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHit8MFI9cojvbNzEn5RKBAdIz8gV83TAOsWN9WPP8IxJv6i-Ki2O0R2taXP1_aem_56xvJ-G3P10wwUXELDkKsg
South Korean researchers have developed a new way to finally make AI models acknowledge their unfamiliarity with topics – similar to human behaviour.
The breakthrough could improve the reliability of AI models used in fields like autonomous driving and medicine, researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology say.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Artificial Intelligence
Claude AI Guided Hackers Toward OT Assets During Water Utility Intrusion
https://www.securityweek.com/claude-ai-guided-hackers-toward-ot-assets-during-water-utility-intrusion/
Dragos has published a report describing how threat actors used Claude AI in an attack on a water and drainage utility in Mexico.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Artificial Intelligence
AI Coding Agents Could Fuel Next Supply Chain Crisis
https://www.securityweek.com/ai-coding-agents-could-fuel-next-supply-chain-crisis/
“TrustFall” attack shows how AI coding agents can be manipulated into launching stealthy supply chain compromises.
Code supply chain attack
Researchers from Adversa.AI have discovered an issue that allows attackers to abuse Claude Code’s automation, potentially creating a new supply chain threat.
Agentic AI is designed to operate automatically and usually invisibly to make our work easier and more efficient. AI code generators are no different. Claude Code (launched in May 2025) has become the fastest-growing tool in the startup and high-end engineering space, with the highest user satisfaction rating against its competitors.
Adversa AI has discovered a way in which its agentic behavior can be manipulated by an attacker into providing a one-click RCE, or even a potential supply chain threat. All the attacker needs to do is place attractive but malicious code as, say, a GitHub repo.
When a developer uses Claude Code for a new task, it checks available repositories for what will assist in the task. If it locates, selects and downloads the malicious prepared code, it is almost immediately game over for the developer. All the attacker now needs is for the user to accept Claude Code’s usage as trusted – which the user is likely to do since the agent is just doing what it is supposed to do.
Claude Code’s acceptance dialog simply reads, “Quick safety check: Is this a project you created or one you trust?”, with the default set to ‘trust’. It’s little different in practice to Chrome’s browser security warning – which almost everyone almost always ‘allows’. Similarly in Claude Code, but “One Enter keypress on the trust dialog spawns the server as an unsandboxed OS process with the developer’s full privileges. No tool call from Claude is required,” reports Adversa.
The cloned repository contains small JSON files in standard Claude Code locations, providing an arbitrary code execution.
TrustFall: coding agent security flaw enables one-click RCE in Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot
https://adversa.ai/blog/trustfall-coding-agent-security-flaw-rce-claude-cursor-gemini-cli-copilot/
Four agentic coding CLIs — Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, Copilot CLI — all execute project-defined MCP servers the moment a developer accepts the folder trust prompt. A malicious repository can spawn unsandboxed code with one keypress, and against CI runners with none. This report examines the Claude Code chain, where a trust dialog regression and a settings scope inconsistency make this coding agent security gap most acute.
TL;DR
Claude Code’s trust dialog used to warn about MCP servers in a cloned repository and offer an opt-out. In v2.1+ that warning was removed. The current dialog reads “Quick safety check: Is this a project you created or one you trust?” and lists nothing.
A malicious repository ships an MCP server and auto-approves it via own .claude/settings.json. One Enter keypress spawns the server as an unsandboxed OS process with the developer’s full privileges. No tool call from Claude is required.
The payload does not need to be a file. The entire script can live inline in .mcp.json.
The MCP server has enough privilege to read stored secrets and source code from other projects, or open a long-lived C2 channel. Other dangerous settings (e.g. bypassPermissions) are already blocked from project scope or gated by a red warning dialog. The MCP-enabling settings are neither.
On CI runners running Claude Code “headless” (the default for the official claude-code-action), the trust dialog is skipped — it never renders. The same attack runs with zero human interaction against pull-request branches.
TrustFall isn’t a Claude Code-only issue. All four agentic CLIs we tested (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, Copilot CLI) can auto-execute project-defined MCP servers the moment the user accepts the folder trust prompt, and all default to “Yes/Trust”. They differ only in how the dialog frames the authorization (per-CLI breakdown below). The rest of this post examines the Claude Code chain.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18897-uusien-ai-prosessorien-verifiointi-vaatii-paljon-enemmaen-laskentatehoa
Tomi Engdahl says:
Agenttinen tekoäly hyökkää nyt legacy-järjestelmien kimppuun
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18898-agenttinen-tekoaely-hyoekkaeae-nyt-legacy-jaerjestelmien-kimppuun
- 70 prosenttia IT-budjeteista kuluu legacy-järjestelmien ylläpitämiseen ja niiden modernisointi on vaikea ja aikaa vievä prosessi. Onneksi AWS:n AI-agentit tuovat helpotusta tähän, sanoi AWS:n Pohjois-Euroopan teknologiajohtaja Martin Elwin eilen AWS Summitissa Tukholmassa.
AWS:n tämänvuotisen Summitin yksi selvä viesti oli, että tekoäly on siirtymässä chatbot-vaiheesta agenttiseen aikakauteen. Kyse ei enää ole vain koodin generoinnista, vaan kokonaisista ohjelmistoprosesseista, joissa AI analysoi järjestelmiä, rakentaa spesifikaatioita, kirjoittaa koodia, testaa sitä ja modernisoi vanhoja ympäristöjä.
Elwinin mukaan ensimmäiset AI-koodityökalut tuottivat kyllä ohjelmakoodia, mutta eivät vastanneet yritysten omia standardeja tai tuotantovaatimuksia. AWS:n uusi Kiro-agentti pyrkii muuttamaan tämän. Sen tavoitteena on muuttaa spesifikaatiot suoraan toimivaksi ohjelmistoksi.
AWS:n mukaan kehitys voi nopeutua jopa kymmenkertaiseksi. Ericssonilla jo 20 000 kehittäjää käyttää Kiroa, ja kehitys- sekä testaussyklien kerrotaan lyhentyneen viikoista tunteihin.
Agenttien rooli ei kuitenkaan rajoitu ohjelmistokehitykseen. AWS:n esittelemä Amazon Quick hyödyntää käyttäjän paikallista dataa, kuten sähköposteja ja kalenteria, automatisoidakseen tiedonhakua ja muita rutiinitehtäviä.
Suurin muutos liittyy kuitenkin legacy-järjestelmiin. Yritysten vanhat COBOL-, VMware- ja mainframe-ympäristöt ovat vuosikymmeniä sitoneet valtavia määriä IT-rahaa ylläpitoon, koska niiden modernisointi on ollut hidasta, kallista ja riskialtista.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tekoäly vetää, älypuhelimet ja PC:t laahaavat
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18899-tekoaely-vetaeae-aelypuhelimet-ja-pc-t-laahaavat
Tekoälydatakeskusten rakentaminen näkyy nyt suoraan puolijohdeteollisuuden perustassa eli piikiekoissa. Alan järjestö SEMI kertoo, että maailmanlaajuiset piikiekkotoimitukset kasvoivat vuoden ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä 13,1 prosenttia vuoden takaisesta.
Toimituksia kertyi yhteensä 3275 miljoonaa neliötuumaa eli noin 2,1 miljoonaa neliömetriä piikiekkoja. Määrä vastaa lähes 300 jalkapallokentän pinta-alaa. Vuotta aiemmin toimituksia kertyi noin 1,9 miljoonaa neliömetriä. Edelliseen neljännekseen verrattuna toimitukset kuitenkin laskivat 4,7 prosenttia, mitä SEMI pitää normaalina kausivaihteluna.
Kasvun veturina toimii edelleen tekoäly. Erityisesti kehittyneet logiikkapiirit ja muistipiirit käyvät vahvasti kaupaksi AI-datakeskuksiin. Nyt kysyntä näkyy myös tehonhallintapiireissä, joita tarvitaan palvelin- ja kiihdytinratkaisujen virransyöttöön.
SUMCOn myynti- ja markkinointijohtaja sekä SEMIn Silicon Manufacturers Groupin puheenjohtaja Ginji Yada sanoo, että markkina alkaa vähitellen toipua myös laajemmin.
– Piikiekkojen kysyntä on parantunut, mutta elpyminen ei ole tasaista. Monet komponenttivalmistajat raportoivat teollisuuselektroniikan tilanteen kohentuneen, mikä auttaa purkamaan varastoja ja tukee markkinan laajempaa toipumista, Yada kommentoi.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Himanshu Anand:
The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately — Table of Contents — story 2: 30 minutes from patch to exploit — what the industry needs to do (and I am not sugarcoating this)
the 90 day disclosure policy is dead
https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/
The 90 day responsible disclosure window was built for a world where bug finders were rare and exploit development was slow. That world is gone. LLMs have compressed both timelines to near-zero. I have seen it first hand, and so has everyone else paying attention. This post lays out why the old model is broken, with real stories, and makes one ask to the industry: treat every critical security issue as P0 and patch it immediately. Not tomorrow. Not next sprint. Now.
I have been doing security work for a while now, and the last 12 months feel different. Not in a “AI is going to take over the world” way. In a much more boring, much more practical way. The tools we use, the tools attackers use, and the tools researchers use to find bugs have all gotten smarter at roughly the same speed. And that has quietly killed some of the fundamental assumptions the security industry has been running on for over a decade. Let me walk you through what I mean, with stories.
Tomi Engdahl says:
CNBC:
Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B+ to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN — Nvidia stepped on the gas last year, putting cash into companies up and down the AI infrastructure stack and helping …
Nvidia embraces role of AI investor, pushing past $40 billion in equity bets this year
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/09/nvidia-embraces-ai-investor-topping-40-billion-in-equity-bets-2026.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anna Tong / Forbes:
A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women — Despite its name, Janitor AI isn’t selling productivity agents or enterprise copilots; it’s serving up interactive erotic content …
Three Dudes Run The Biggest AI Romantic Fantasy Site For Women
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/05/07/three-dudes-run-the-biggest-ai-romantic-fantasy-site-for-women/
Despite its name, Janitor AI isn’t selling productivity agents or enterprise copilots; it’s serving up interactive erotic content, where romantasy fans are turning chatbot roleplay into a 2.5 million-daily-user business.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sarah Kessler / New York Times:
Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits — A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbook/ai-notetakers-legal-risk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hFA.gK8L.d1MbIP_wBYlh&smid=url-share
Tomi Engdahl says:
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission starting in 2025 — Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that the electronics manufacturer used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/dua-lipa-sues-samsung-sell-tvs-1236742471/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Taylor Telford / Financial Times:
Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it — Female-dominated clerical work is among the most vulnerable to automation, and labour market losses are already being felt
https://www.ft.com/content/946650d6-f61f-4b98-8bb5-c0020c8a205f
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
Most of the tech on display at 2026′s Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administration’s focus on US border security
Trump’s Border Spending Spurs Boom in AI-Infused Surveillance
Rapid gains in artificial-intelligence technology bring new competitors into the business of securing the border
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-border-spending-spurs-boom-in-ai-infused-surveillance-4714521b?st=FK9g3X&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jennah Haque / Bloomberg:
Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026
AI Is Making Digital Fraud Easier, Faster and Harder to Stop
From deepfakes to the dark web, digital scams are scaling up and getting more convincing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-identity-theft-scams/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3ODI0ODEzOCwiZXhwIjoxNzc4ODUyOTM4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURVBOT0dLSUpIQ1owMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMkJBREVGRDU5QjI0ODg5OEIwMzhBNUZGMjA1NzlFOCJ9.3mbrsg8DpR9QgdSzUUv-zPEoLhh7M507HyhsyinvxYo
A few months ago, I received a congratulations letter on my upcoming enrollment at the Ultimate Medical Academy in Tampa, Florida.
“Welcome to UMA’s Healthcare Management associate degree program… Our goal is to help you become as career-ready as possible and this is the first big step.”
The letter came with an extra large men’s athletic polo and a string bag, all adorned with the UMA logo. All mostly normal things to expect from a welcome package — even if I am a women’s size small. There’s just one issue: I had never applied to the Ultimate Medical Academy. Before that day, I had never even heard of it. It’s been almost a decade since I’ve applied to college.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Generatiivinen tekoäly tulee nyt antureihin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18903-generatiivinen-tekoaely-tulee-nyt-antureihin
TDK yrittää ratkaista yhden edge-tekoälyn suurimmista ongelmista: datan puutteen. Yhtiön uusi SensorGPT-teknologia hyödyntää generatiivista tekoälyä, signaalinkäsittelyä ja fysiikkapohjaisia simulaatioita synteettisen sensoridatan luomiseen. Kuukausia kestänyt edge-AI-mallien kehitys voidaan lyhentää viikkoihin.
TDK:n mukaan jopa 80 prosenttia edge-AI-ratkaisujen kehitystyöstä kuluu tällä hetkellä datan keräämiseen ja käsittelyyn. SensorGPT:n tavoitteena on pudottaa oikean datan tarve noin 10 prosenttiin.
– Kuukausia kestänyt edge-AI-mallien kehitys voidaan lyhentää viikkoihin. Generatiivisen tekoälyn, simuloinnin ja muiden menetelmien avulla voidaan luoda korkealaatuista dataa, joka vastaa todellisia olosuhteita, sanoo TDK USA:n teknologiajohtoon kuuluva Jim Tran.
Käytännössä SensorGPT yrittää opettaa tekoälyn ymmärtämään sensorien käyttäytymistä niin hyvin, että se pystyy generoimaan realistista sensoridataa mallien koulutukseen. Teknologia hyödyntää generatiivisia AI-malleja, fysiikkapohjaisia simulaatioita, signaalinkäsittelyä sekä datan augmentointia.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pelkkä piiri ei enää riitä – Renesas osti konenäön AI-ohjelmistotalon
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18904-pelkkae-piiri-ei-enaeae-riitae-renesas-osti-konenaeoen-ai-ohjelmistotalon
Renesas vahvistaa edge AI -strategiaansa ostamalla kreikkalaisen Irida Labsin, joka kehittää sulautettuja Vision AI -ohjelmistoja. Kauppa kertoo siitä, että kilpailu älykkäissä kamera- ja konenäköjärjestelmissä siirtyy yhä enemmän kokonaisiin ohjelmisto- ja työkaluratkaisuihin pelkkien piirien sijaan.
Renesas hakee yritysostolla vahvempaa asemaa nopeasti kasvavilla Vision AI- ja reunalaskentamarkkinoilla. Yhtiö ilmoitti saattaneensa päätökseen Irida Labsin oston. Kreikkalaisyritys tunnetaan erityisesti sulautettujen laitteiden konenäkö- ja visuaalisen havainnoinnin ohjelmistoista.
Kaupan tekninen merkitys liittyy ennen kaikkea siihen, että Renesas pystyy nyt yhdistämään omat RA-mikro-ohjaimensa ja RZ-sovellusprosessorinsa suoraan Irida Labsin Vision AI -ohjelmistoihin ja kehitystyökaluihin. Tavoitteena on tarjota valmiimpia edge AI -ratkaisuja esimerkiksi teollisuuden konenäköön, robotiikkaan, liikenteen valvontaan ja älykameroihin.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Inti Landauro / Reuters:
The European Commission says it is in ongoing discussions with OpenAI and Anthropic to access their latest AI models; OpenAI is “proactively offering” access
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-commission-talks-with-openai-anthropic-over-ai-models-2026-05-11/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-kuaishou-plans-spin-kling-ai-video-unit-20-billion-valuation
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-creates-new-unit-with-4-billion-investment-aid-corporate-ai-push-2026-05-11/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anuma:
The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.
https://www.anuma.ai/?utm_source=techmeme&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=launch-2026-04-27&utm_content=techmeme-ad
Tomi Engdahl says:
Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Google’s TIG reports the first confirmed instance of “prominent cybercrime threat actors” using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool
Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hlA.vW7Y.pO_0G8yLYoca&smid=nytcore-android-share
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI
Warning Signs
OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”
It’s the latest lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in mass shootings.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sued-mass-shooting?fbclid=IwdGRjcARvAKhjbGNrBG8AeWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHipL1SQGJGLUnF_4yQ9B_eygy3GewZymioUhTFtzoq5COvsqd62zLIxdr5Pz_aem_UGfGHgkyrwJLPmi2WXe6Xg
The surviving widow of a mass shooting victim is suing OpenAI for ChatGPT’s alleged role in stoking the killer’s deadly rampage — the latest in a string of lawsuits against the Silicon Valley AI firm claiming that its tech has enabled stalking, murder, and mass casualty events.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-death-spiral?fbclid=IwVERDUARvAOVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5CCgd5dhQUjjNlK9oOdDzqYzQcqHOdHSABlVKNeosffxlF0FhuPHMggEeg5Q_aem_JgwlNWImlFpHNbCSIxwPdw
Tomi Engdahl says:
Scary Stuff
The Florida Mass Shooter’s Conversations With ChatGPT Are Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine
If a human uses an AI chatbot to plan a mass shooting, is the company liable for the ensuing deaths?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/florida-mass-shooter-chatgpt?fbclid=IwVERDUARvARdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5CCgd5dhQUjjNlK9oOdDzqYzQcqHOdHSABlVKNeosffxlF0FhuPHMggEeg5Q_aem_JgwlNWImlFpHNbCSIxwPdw
Tomi Engdahl says:
AMD pakkaa jopa 4,6 petaflopsia tavalliseen PCIe-korttiin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/18907-amd-pakkaa-jopa-4-6-petaflopsia-tavalliseen-pcie-korttiin
AMD tuo markkinoille Instinct MI350P -PCIe-kortin, joka on tarkoitettu tekoälyn inferenssiin olemassa olevissa palvelinympäristöissä. Ajatus on yrityksille houkutteleva, sillä kortin avulla AI-kiihdytyksen voi saada käyttöön ilman uusia nestejäähdytystä, uusia virtasyöttöjä tai kokonaan uusia GPU-palvelinalustoja.
AMD hakee kasvua AI-markkinasta nyt käytännöllisemmästä päästä. Uusi Instinct MI350P on PCIe-muotoinen GPU-kiihdytin, joka voidaan asentaa tavallisiin ilmalla jäähdytettyihin palvelimiin ilman suuria muutoksia datakeskuksen infrastruktuuriin.
Tämä erottaa sen monista raskaan sarjan AI-ratkaisuista, joiden käyttöönotto edellyttää usein uusia räkkejä, suurempaa sähkönsyöttöä ja nestekylmennystä. AMD:n viesti kohdistuu yrityksiin, jotka haluavat ajaa inferenssiä omissa konesaleissaan mutta eivät ole valmiita rakentamaan erillistä GPU-klusteria.
Kortti tukee jopa kahdeksan GPU:n kokoonpanoja standardipalvelimissa. Kohteena ovat erityisesti inferenssikuormat, yritysten dokumenttihakuun perustuvat haut ja agenttityyppiset AI-sovellukset, joissa tarvitaan enemmän laskentatehoa kuin CPU-palvelimet tarjoavat, mutta ei hyperskaalan AI-infrastruktuuria.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Financial Times:
Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company’s AI leaderboard
Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores
https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca?accessToken=zwAAAZ4bNFlskdOO4NPvlUhCLdOP8evUitSyyg.MEUCIDcP–A8GiopLZDGrhYv7i_060JZ8QP_bvOsvL0MO4lQAiEA3KI6ZBlSylY1udiolQ40gySa8f7DVDU7MHPeAKfa9F0&sharetype=gift&token=4965c8a3-169e-4815-bd1b-16f5e9a22e70&syn-25a6b1a6=1
Tomi Engdahl says:
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News:
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities — OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
OpenAI announces Daybreak initiative around Codex Security
https://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-announces-daybreak-initiative-around-codex-security/
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok’s paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 — Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race
Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-spacex-ai-deal-elon-musk-f86ea369?st=XUQnP7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Tomi Engdahl says:
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration — Today, we’re announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC:
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” on TikTok and Instagram, including “endless scrolling” — The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target “addictive design” features on TikTok …
Tech
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Courtney Rozen / Reuters:
The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models — The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website about its agreement with Google, xAI and Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models …
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/microsoft-google-xai-security-test-details-deleted-us-government-website-2026-05-11/
Tomi Engdahl says:
@trq212:
An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction
Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML
https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ruth Fowler / Wired:
A Hollywood writer recounts working as an “AI trainer” for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the “new waiting tables” for entertainment workers
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-everyone-who-used-to-make-tv-now-training-ai/
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Information:
Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI’s payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-save-97-billion-2030-latest-microsoft-deal
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Many jobs will remain in the future, but they will be more pressured, more fragmented and less human.”
Company Time
AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before
“Many jobs will remain in the future, but they will be more pressured, more fragmented and less human.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-boss-surveillance?fbclid=IwdGRjcARwG85jbGNrBHAbgmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsIqb-3pVyO1C0eTo_g6oLpDpiALSGU5Hx3Yhiyjqa8PeNA6F6yFEl_fS20o_aem_pTxVhX4-Jtl0N7pRwD7Ezg
The debate raging about AI’s future consequences, with a complete AI automation apocalypse on one side and a resplendent AI utopia on the other, has overlooked one tiny detail: the tech is already making workers’ lives hell at this very minute.
According to the Guardian, at least one-third of UK employers already report using “bossware,” meaning employee monitoring software increasingly integrated with AI. In the US, that number is even higher, with an estimated 61 percent of workplaces using AI analytics software to calculate worker productivity.
This kind of management-by-software has long been prevalent in industrial society to some extent — since the 2010s, Amazon warehouse workers have had to deal with hand-scanners that track their bathroom breaks, for example — but the rise of AI means bosses are increasingly utilizing the latest and greatest machine learning tools to maximize worker productivity.
As Royal Docks School of Business and Law professor Nazrul Islam pinned pined in a recent editorial in the Guardian, the most immediate threat to the workers of the world isn’t mass automation kicking people out of the workplace, but the crushing effects of AI on those within it.
Tomi Engdahl says:
LET’S UNPACK THAT
The rise of ‘Stacey face’: How AI is warping our beauty standards
As manosphere trends spread across the internet, a strict vision of the ideal woman is making its way from AI makeover apps to surgeons’ offices. Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to experts about ‘Stacey face’, which is seen as the highest tier of female beauty
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/stacey-stacy-becky-looksmaxxing-for-women-b2972911.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcARwHvNjbGNrBHAe2WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrtNQuuNaIyuDt-Q1YXazPH5zo92OkjUTNjdpGnPqlnZa6xs91jpKZZL2olF_aem_NHnKq7tlc9ayoWe_PUn-SA