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”
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Sorry, folks. https://trib.al/Tz2Fj9b
Hyped Out
SpaceX Stock Has Now Started to Fall
Sorry, folks.
https://futurism.com/space/spacex-stock-started-fall?fbclid=IwdGRjcASfmTxjbGNrBJ-ZImV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpE2Z5If70TvW9NtV2-QPXKYjMXiMnLhVcYRtmr3ftaasTJ6k13RVWGsTO4g_aem_-XBr_0-cT4HlJ4hf8QxBwQ
Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public on Friday, exploding onto the scene with a valuation that quickly eclipsed $2 trillion.
Things went swimmingly for a while, with shares steadily rising from a debut $150 — a premium of 11 percent over the original asking price — on Friday to well over $200 on Tuesday. But after peaking at $222 Tuesday morning, SpaceX started its first sustained decline of its nascent stock market career, demonstrating that regardless of its starry-eyed hype, investors are in for a chaotic ride on the terrestrial markets.
By the close of the day, the company’s shares were hovering around the $200 mark. It’s far too early to tell where the ticker will move in the coming weeks or months — or, let’s face it, even days — but it’s an interesting inflection point after SpaceX’s IPO finally opened the floodgates.
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Wibe coding
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Anthropic has filed confidentially to go public as soon as this fall, pitching investors on a single thesis: that it leads the enterprise AI market and intends to transform the world with it. But it has a problem that just won’t go away.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: The government can shut it down
https://fortune.com/2026/06/16/anthropic-mythos-fable-trump-ipo-risk/?fbclid=IwdGRjcASf509jbGNrBJ_nOWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHq6mvyLV5x8yIZM3icF5YNKvrDQd7v5GvzbCc2-fqwXd3bsFo47icsOI1nHB_aem_W2QCbdP_2WX1EsbSkTA_LA
Anthropic has filed confidentially to go public as soon as this fall, pitching investors on a single thesis: that it leads the enterprise AI market and intends to transform the world with it.
But it has a problem that just won’t go away: the U.S. government becoming its outright adversary. For a company carrying a nearly $1 trillion valuation into a public offering, it has been blacklisted twice now by the federal government, forcing investors to consider whether that mega-valuation is fully pricing in the fact that the government is willing to switch off its flagship product overnight.
After a shock announcement on Friday that Anthropic would be taking its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline owing to the Commerce Department barring foreign nationals from using it, the feud has not let up. It followed a blacklisting by the federal government over national security concerns in March.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took a victory lap, indicating the government will maintain its enmity with Anthropic. “Three months ago, [the Department of War] kicked Anthropic out of our building—forever,” he posted on Sunday. “Every passing day proves why that was the right move.”
Even as Anthropic sent senior technical staff to Washington over the weekend to argue against the export control, the Department of War wrote on X that it has moved at least two-thirds of its AI workflows off Anthropic’s models since the two clashed over military use of Claude.
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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews. In this case, Google’s AI had wrongly linked two publishers to scams and shady business practices. The court treated the AI overviews as Google’s own content and rejected Google’s argument that users were responsible for fact checking the results themselves. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn’t apply to AI overviews.
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read full article here https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
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Speaking at the VivaTech conference in Paris, Jeff Bezos said he believes AI will create labor shortages rather than make humans redundant. According to Bezos, AI will help people identify and pursue more opportunities, creating demand for work faster than society can fill it.
His comments come as many companies are citing AI as a reason for layoffs, while surveys show growing concerns about job displacement. Bezos argues the opposite may happen in the long run: as AI expands what people can build and solve, the limiting factor may become human capacity rather than human necessity.
#AI #JeffBezos
He does have a point: in the medium term, AI will replace human input based on cognitive capacity and further ahead in manual robots based on labor cost but beyond that our desires will drive demand rather than simple market mechanics of today.
AI user capability is a HYPE created by US wealth to drive US economy. AI is, will be a great tool for humans to use, however, Bezo’s, Musk, Altman, with cheerleader Trump, are not unique there are better AI systems available for specific sectors as shown by Qwen, DeepSeek etc
CEO’s have already used AI as an excuse to lay off a few hundred thousand workers. Because they don’t have enough money.
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Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica:
Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision — What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-coding-agents-can-autonomously-direct-robot-training/
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Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add Claude and Gemini integrations, and more — Epic has detailed Unreal Engine 6, which it says will prominently integrate generative AI models to allow developers to …
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-reveals-unreal-engine-6-is-integrating-ai-models-so-developers-can-reduce-tedious-work/
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Pew Research Center:
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT — More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI …
Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact
More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adult
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-2026-chatbots-smart-devices-and-views-on-impact/
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AWS Summit: Amazon unveiled AWS Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, AWS Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more — Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents for businesses, developers, and individual users …
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-unveils-new-ai-agents-trying-to-thread-the-needle-between-autonomy-and-human-control/
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Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
As tech giants rush to build AI infrastructure, some residents living near data centers say a constant infrasonic vibration is ruining their health and homes
The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers
As tech giants rush to build infrastructure, some residents who live near data centers say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/data-centers-noise-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q1A.hrLP.4SKS8kradz4r&smid=url-share
Tomi Engdahl says:
That’s definitely something that needs to stop. You’re at the point where you don’t know if stories are true or not. You’re just about having to search for other links to the same story for verification.
Graham Norton wins court order over Facebook deepfakes in US
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/graham-norton-meta-facebook-b2998367.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcASg_RFjbGNrBKD9DmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsY5c2PDEPvHaqCyOBG8vkls_NO6xRwJ0piqIaxeQa2nyADERqVUXxcygvsp_aem_rH_5eMuVJ7R2znSyzLbQNw
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elon Musk holds incredible sway over the federal government. https://trib.al/DlhEP6U
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Meta has reportedly reassigned 30–50% of engineers on some core product teams to AI feedback work.
The engineers were moved into an internal group called Agent Data Optimization, where they review AI-generated GitHub repos and give feedback to improve Meta’s AI systems.
Infrastructure and security teams were reportedly among the hardest hit, with some small teams losing several engineers.
Source: Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?/The Pragmatic Engineer
#2600net #irc #secnews #ai #meta
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Millions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators – Now There’s Proof
Atlantic databases name 21 million tracks fed to Suno and rivals as Sony, UMG, and Warner seek $150,000 per song in damageshttps://www.gadgetreview.com/millions-of-copyrighted-songs-were-fed-to-ai-music-generators-now-theres-proof?fbclid=IwVERDUASh2G1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4IQcUlnLVne4IRTOOwI7HNaSjmvqRrWjvG7kuZHbmnIneLf3vOhMououl-Ow_aem_yC-YudOHRWySNmCpuy3qpQ
Searchable databases verify roughly 21 million copyrighted songs trained AI music generators.
Sony, UMG, and Warner lawsuits seek up to $150,000 per song from Suno and Udio.
HarmonyCloak tool lets artists protect songs by adding inaudible AI-blocking audio perturbations.
Millions of copyrighted songs — including chart-topping hits — verifiably trained AI music generators, and now there are searchable databases to prove it. The Atlantic, through an investigation by staff writer Alex Reisner, published four catalogs documenting exactly which music fed these models:
The largest contains roughly 12 million tracks
The second holds about 9 million
Two smaller sets clock in around 100,000 each
Suno, one of the most prominent AI music generators, acknowledged in court filings that it trained on “tens of millions” of recordings — later admitting unlicensed copyrighted material was included, according to Heavy Lifting, citing court filings.
The legal picture that emerges is striking. Sony, UMG, and Warner have filed lawsuits against Suno and Udio seeking up to $150,000 per song in statutory damages. A parallel book-industry case framed mass scraping as piracy rather than simple copyright infringement and reached an initial $1.5 billion settlement figure, according to Engadget. Meanwhile, the U.S. Copyright Office stated in January 2025 that AI-generated music often cannot itself be copyrighted without sufficient human authorship — meaning these tools can potentially infringe existing works while producing outputs that carry no protection of their own.
The AI companies call it fair use. They argue models learn abstract patterns, not specific songs. Labels call it piracy with a pitch deck. Courts are still deciding who’s right.
“Trained on copyrighted recordings without permission” — that’s how label plaintiffs have characterized the practice in filings, as summarized in industry commentary.
Researchers at the University of Tennessee developed HarmonyCloak, a tool that adds inaudible audio perturbations to recordings, making songs effectively unlearnable by AI models while sounding identical to human ears — a rare artist-controlled option in a landscape where most protections remain theoretical.
The fight is already shifting from courtrooms to contracts. Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group have reportedly struck deals with Udio and Suno respectively, moving toward licensed AI music models that actually compensate rightsholders. Tennessee passed a law protecting musical artists’ voices from unauthorized AI cloning. Streaming platforms are deploying AI-detection tools to flag and limit generative imitations — though results have been mixed, according to Engadget, with AI-generated copycats continuing to slip through and monetize.
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Harmonycloak: Making Music Unlearnable for Generative AI
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11023354
https://mosis.eecs.utk.edu/harmonycloak.html
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https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-tool-songs-unlearnable-generative-ai.html
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Grok was used to fire over “2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours.” https://trib.al/o2cpIAD
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Is AI threatening our most important online archive?
AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of the artificial intelligence boom
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-archive-ai-wayback-machine-b2998319.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcASiLNxjbGNrBKIsvGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHs82tALIOZzXJQh6H2FX9d-dkldYctSgTyp6SNU0piKGKbchxhpIA9iUzw7T_aem_JQtHc1_LSFuLYuTs5DaZgQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
The AI boom is quietly making the office popular again : https://mrf.lu/45ks
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The power users strike back. https://trib.al/EQ7BOq6
Maxed Out
Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Its Highest-Paying Customers
The power users strike back.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-sued-ripping-off-customers?fbclid=IwdGRjcASijghjbGNrBKKN5mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHsW1xJSOezGZIp9QNIqmuMW4S6YK4UaYq1MOQM1DpWNAr8P1dm3ovpZmwmFI_aem_pDUjmACda43x8B2yJI8EDg
An angry customer is suing Anthropic on behalf of all users of its priciest subscription tiers.
In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, Karl Kahn accuses the Claude AI maker of misleading customers about the usage limits on its “Max 5x” and “Max 20x” plans and is seeking reimbursement, The Wall Street Journal reports, in a sign of the pushback Anthropic, and other AI labs, are receiving over the costs of their services, especially by power users.
Anthropic has emerged as the go-to provider of AI coding tools. Its cheapest coding plan, Claude Pro, costs $17 to $20 a month. But for heavy coding tasks, Anthropic offers Max 5x, which costs $100 a month, and Max 20x, which is an even more substantial $200 a month.
These offer much higher usage limits, but the lawsuit alleges customers aren’t getting what it says on the tin — namely, that Max 5x should give you five times the Pro cap, and 20x twenty times. This is what the language on Anthropic’s website still promises, but in reality it’s “far below the advertised amount,” the suit states, per the WSJ, claiming that the company’s marketing is fraudulent.
Coding is one of the most intensive tasks you can have an AI model do, and the culture around it prioritizes speed and volume. Vibe coders and software engineers will run multiple coding agents for hours at a time, racking up monthly bills in the thousands of dollars.
AI companies have become stricter about how much coding customers can do with their plans, transitioning to usage based billing that charges customers according to the number of tokens their tasks consume, which more closely aligns to the real-world computing costs that the AI provider incurs.
But as the latest lawsuit argues, these companies aren’t being transparent about how they’re tracking and calculating customer usage. The lawsuit has generated significant discussion in the r/ClaudeAI subreddit, with some echoing Kahn’s complaints — and others shouting it down because the 5x and 20x plans, in their eyes, provide incredible value.
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SqueezLabs built a hand‑cranked ‘CrankGPT’ box that runs AI off‑grid — no battery, no solar, just muscle power
‘You can feel the load through the crank,’ they say
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18opUPGvZC/
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AEKxZvft9/
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It’s practically inescapable. https://trib.al/cMbSTGP
Drowning in Slop
TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop
It’s practically inescapable.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tiktok-taken-over-ai-slop?fbclid=IwdGRjcASkWmxjbGNrBKRaN2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkbRyaIQ4uED7A_TJ8B4s7Vt7hnJMjFkL4S79KWkbF6QInxuLKDCenspGiLh_aem_P3-Y6CcLYAIEY34U4D_e5w
AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out human creators across platforms.
Even the vertical video darling TikTok has fallen victim. According to a new report by San Francisco-based video editing company Kapwing, almost 60 percent of videos being served to new users on the app’s algorithmic “For You” page is now AI slop — three times as much as is served to new YouTube users.
It’s particularly worrisome for the platform’s youngest users: Kapwing found that the “category with the highest slop density by far was Kids.” The hashtag #cartoonkids was “almost entirely made up of slop, with only three of the 100 videos we checked being human-made,” according to the company.
Worse yet, once an account indicates to the algorithm it’s interested in AI, the feed quickly doubles down, serving even more slop.
The findings are a pertinent reminder of just how big of a problem AI slop has become. Young, impressionable minds are being exposed to a slurry of half-baked and brain-melting AI material that could endanger their brain development, experts warn. Meanwhile, photorealistic deepfakes are facilitating the spread of misinformation and political propaganda.
TikTok is far from the only platform being consumed. Meta’s Facebook and Instagram have also turned into a largely unrecognizable wasteland, with users — and likely bots — interacting with absurd images
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content made with AI tools, from digital art to science explainers, and we want to give people the power to see more or less of that, based on their own preferences,” TikTok’s European director of public policy for safety and privacy Jade Nester told The Guardian at the time.
YouTube also recently announced that it was making changes to how it would start labeling AI-generated content in a broader effort to tamp down on AI slop, but shopped short of changing “how a video is recommended or whether it’s eligible to earn money.”
It’s not clear what an easy fix would be. The tech has progressed to the point where discerning between reality and slop has become increasingly difficult; as the New York Times reported over the weekend, even Hany Farid, the “world’s leading deepfake expert,” has “stopped trusting his own eyes.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/youtube-scanning-labeling-ai-slop?fbclid=IwVERDUASkW1BleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4U3Q6TnIs2062a2TEgnfpRq42rDOemJPB6H1f5ZaJmFEFUxOKM5VDL6Fq9dg_aem_KpXNEK9grIEGbdEPnn2bPw
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Cart Man
Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads
Anything but this.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grocery-stores-ai-shopping-carts-surveillance?fbclid=IwdGRjcASkXLljbGNrBKRcm2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHm37iqItujOioJkbtzG3zCqgbttAwnD6ayXPbzhbC8ZvJzf8JLcHm_BG0fLd_aem_d37P-huc2VInwsGhJv__5w
Whether you’re dodging Flock cameras on the freeway, ever-listening smartphones in your pocket, or AI bots at the drive-thru, it’s nearly impossible to avoid some type of AI-integrated device these days.
Now it turns out that not even your grocery store is safe, as Instacart increasingly deploys AI smart carts to grocery stores across the United States. In a recent joint press release, Instacart and the Northeastern grocery-chain Weis Markets announced the deployment of AI integrated carts across select Weis locations in Pennsylvania.
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Dario Amodei met Trump at the G7. Trump dropped the national security threat label.
Days earlier, his administration restricted Anthropic’s top AI models.
The order followed Anthropic’s refusal to remove military guardrails.
A week before that, officials threatened criminal charges.
The restrictions still stand. But Trump now wants to talk.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-anthropic-not-national-security-threat-axios-interview
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Pre-AI? You mean real?
OI. Organic Intelligence. Gonna have to start distinguishing.
Tomi Engdahl says:
ai actual intelligence +9 Artificial intelligence lacks genuine comprehension or consciousness. Today’s systems operate as highly sophisticated Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI). They utilize advanced pattern recognition and predictive models based on massive datasets, creating the illusion of thought without actual self-awareness or independent, adaptable reasoning.
https://theconversation.com/not-everything-we-call-ai-is-actually-artificial-intelligence-heres-what-you-need-to-know-196732
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“You all have AI, Actual Intelligence. My entire life in the technical world I’ve been following people who were trying to figure out how to make a brain. Software, hardware, synapse chips, and I was at a company where the engineers figured out how to make a brain: [it] takes nine months,” Wozniak said.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9sFACATWCTY?is=Zdwz9RLlizpinCSH
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Throughout history, innovations including gunpowder, chemical weapons and airplanes have repeatedly rewritten rules of combat. Only the atomic bomb sparked a civilizational dilemma comparable to AI. And as with nuclear weapons, militaries have entered an automation arms race along a path they can’t foresee.
Now, with algorithms controlling not just weapons but entire military networks, humans are ceding wartime judgment to machines on an unprecedented scale.
What’s even more worrisome to many: Armed forces are making up the rules as they go along.
Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4uQxSRk
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/21/brands-using-ai-generated-influencers-to-promote-products-on-social-media?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1782030745
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI reminds me of the old saying, “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” Did people think it wouldn’t be used as a tool of manipulation? The Fourth Industrial Revolution is going to hurt for many.
Tomi Engdahl says:
You shouldn’t water down terms like deepfake. Deepfakes are pictures or videos depicting actually existing persons saying something or doing something which never happened.
Creating images or videos of non-existing people could be considered a shady marketing technique, but it is not a ‚deepfake’.
Additionally. I think it is at least debatable if the majority of influencers are ‚real people‘ at all.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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AI labs are well placed to take advantage of one of the big vulnerabilities of software-as-a-service companies: their siloed nature https://econ.st/4fIIbTO
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Who thinks AI is a good thing? Not that many people, it turns out. https://trib.al/zSmS6kH
Hate Parade
Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers
Who thinks AI is a good thing? Not that many people, it turns out.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/americans-turn-against-ai-poll?fbclid=IwdGRjcASlo9RjbGNrBKWjs2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhjHHJm27me9IUsbZ1G5gPGPQGVZKHHkrl9ozIISWLJaiwz_kn91-wolyUQ1_aem_lbHNlnE1mEGkprWiGi2dng
Not that anyone in power is going to care, but there’s even more evidence that Americans are coming to overwhelmingly loathe AI — despite, or perhaps because, they’re using chatbots more than ever.
In a sweeping new poll conducted by Pew Research, only 16 percent of respondents said they believed AI will have a positive impact on society — a number as dismal as the perception of the tech.
Meanwhile, 49 percent of adults say they use AI chatbots like ChatGPT, which remains the most popular by a considerable margin, with a quarter saying they use the tools daily. That proportion is considerably higher than the 33 percent of American adults who said they used AI chatbots in 2024.
In other words, the tech’s widespread adoption isn’t helping its perception. A full 40 percent of respondents said they anticipate AI will have a negative impact on society, and 31 percent said it will impact them personally in a negative way, too.
This varies quite a bit by age. Gen Z adults, ages 18 to 29, were the most wary of AI, with 48 percent believing it’ll be negative for society. Yet they’re also the group that reported using AI the most, at 66 percent.
Interestingly, the 30-49 year olds and the 50-and-up brackets are more closely aligned, at 39 percent and 37 percent respectively viewing it as negative. They’re using AI less, though the dropoff between their usage is significant: 61 percent of 30-49 year olds said they used AI chatbots, while only 42 percent of 50-64 year olds did. It was less than a quarter for 65 years and older.
What’s driving this gap between perception and usage is unclear. You could argue that some feel compelled to use it, even when recognizing the tech’s shortcomings and the ethical dubiousness of the industry that’s building it. In fact, many are literally forced to use it at work, with bosses often more enthusiastic about the tech than workers are.
In any case, it’s a real problem for AI’s long-term staying power. Right now the industry is being propelled by hype and the mountains of cash that’re being pumped into it, while profits remain elusive.
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Cop Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
The officer allegedly used AI to “create evidential material in a number of cases.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cop-ai-fake-evidence-uk?fbclid=IwVERDUASlpJhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4USY-q9R15NGsx485_gQpVWF9Pu32UUVnevOOcdmoN_B-dlvqh3j_M3cbdMQ_aem_EtftraLAhKSxhJ0Qa47kXw
Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and higher case closure rates. The rising number of wrongful arrests attributed to AI facial recognition systems, however, tells another story: that speed and accuracy are two entirely different things.
But while false arrests due to facial recognition software can easily be blamed on glitchy tech, an even more disturbing pattern is starting to emerge, as AI-wielding officers don’t just misidentify suspects, but use the technology to fabricate evidence.
“A criminal investigation has been launched into an allegation of perverting the course of justice after the alleged use of AI systems by an officer to create evidential material in a number of cases,” a Derbyshire police spokesperson told the Financial Times.
It’s the first case of its kind in the UK, coming days after the country’s brand-new national PoliceAI center issued guidance advising officers to stop using generative AI to prepare court statements due to the tech’s tendency to hallucinate answers.
“We’ve said to some police forces, ‘you can’t do that, because we haven’t gone through all the checks and balances,”
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Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race — Tencent Holdings Ltd. has started testing a new AI assistant for WeChat as part of its efforts to catch up with peers in China’s white-hot artificial intelligence race.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/tencent-tests-ai-assistant-for-its-super-app-wechat-in-china
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Kim Su-jeong / CHOSUNBIZ:
Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all staff in Korea and DX division staff globally; OpenAI says it’s one of its largest enterprise deployments — OpenAI said on the 22nd that it will supply ChatGPT Enterprise and the AI-based work automation platform “Codex” …
OpenAI supplies ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to Samsung Electronics globally
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2026/06/22/XFHSJHM5VRFWNGTDXIOBOPIAQI/
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China fuses AI and robots to build techno state, Korea weighs dual alignment
Engineer-led China races to wire factories with AI and robots as Seoul seeks a pragmatic two-world play
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-industry/2026/06/22/TIRILQVBGRA6PKBGJLHIMT2NWA/
China was once called the “factory of the world.” On the back of cheap labor and a vast domestic market, it served as a global manufacturing base and stood at the center of the world’s supply chains. But China is now rapidly evolving beyond a mere production base into a “techno state” leading advanced fields such as AI, robots, and electric vehicles.
In particular, it is accelerating an AI transformation (AX) that is smartening production by introducing AI and industrial robots at scale on factory floors. The strategy is to leverage its manufacturing competitiveness to dominate even advanced industries.
We recently spoke with Professor Kim Chang-hyun of CEIBS about China’s manufacturing and AX strategy and how Korea should respond. CEIBS in Shanghai has consistently ranked at the very top globally in the Financial Times (FT) MBA rankings and has long held the unshakable No. 1 spot in Asia as a prestigious business school.
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Marilen Martin / Bloomberg:
As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency — Pressure to become more efficient has Europe racing to bring artificial intelligence to the shop floor.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-18/ai-for-industries-europe-s-mistral-siemens-schneider-lead-tech-vanguard
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Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A case of brazen copyright infringement of John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, part of a trend where people use AI to repackage and replace sources
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Posted June 18, 2026 by Andy Baio
https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/?_bhlid=16430e2236b29480e00dfb0a0bcb176aa18296e3
Last week, a MetaFilter member posted a link to what appeared to be a new website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig’s decade-long project to make a “dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express.”
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Y4AfEa1a9/
As a professional writer, Sarah Suzuki Harvard says she isn’t inclined toward overtly exuberant prose. But these days, she finds herself going rogue.
“I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey yo, for real,’ or drop a bunch of exclamation points,” said Harvard, a 32-year-old copywriter in Brooklyn, regarding her posts and essays. “It feels so icky to do this, but it’s what you have to do to sound human.”
Call it a reverse Turing Test. As AI-generated writing floods the internet, more people are trying to detect which creators are using such tools to spin up copy.
That means writers penning all their own work—and people who acknowledge using chatbots for help—are trying to master something they never worried about before: how to sound human.
Read more:
https://on.wsj.com/3Qx0fpu
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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1H54n9hfST/
The Atlantic AI Watchdog website does NOT include Suno and Udio’s training datasets. WE will search for your songs as part of our indie artist class action lawsuits.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19D1aYZ3st/
95% of AI projects fail … but that isn’t stopping companies from investing.
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SZA Slams Suno for Using Her Music To Train Its AI Models: ‘Nothing You Could Ever Say to Me To Make This Okay’
https://www.vice.com/en/article/sza-slams-suno-for-using-her-music-to-train-its-ai-models-nothing-you-could-ever-say-to-me-to-make-this-okay/
As much as there have been people openly vouching for this use of AI in music, others aren’t having it. The Atlantic published an open database where people can check which artists and songs have been used to train Suno and Udio AI models. This has impacted almost every working musician, from massive superstars to extremely underground artists. Naturally, the aftermath has seen dozens of artists outraged at the usage, especially without their knowledge.
SZA, in particular, was infuriated by the fact that 238 of her songs were used for AI training purposes. She even believes that someone got access to her unreleased music and sent it over to Suno or Udio accordingly. Then, she called out any artist who knowingly supports this rise in artificial intelligence.
“If you’re a musician and you support this degenerate sh*t? You’re disgusting and there’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY. I hope u have the life u deserve,” SZA wrote on Instagram.
“I’m not up against the pop girls, I’m not up against the R&B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy. The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can’t even be prompted to f**k with. I want to just let this angst drive me into bizarre directions,” SZA added.
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
https://thenextweb.com/news/signal-whittaker-ai-chatbots-not-friends-copilot-backdoor-privacy?fbclid=IwdGRjcASlwktjbGNrBKXCJWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmv8kd0kszcZVNtqQY_E-UnFrA2aa4IuXQ6-s1cVAmZ6CjobiOQhGV2k2Oef_aem_gbmcVYd_rSSjwQtndyv_LQ
In a Bloomberg interview, the Signal president argued that agentic AI systems requiring access to messages, calendars, and credit cards amount to pervasive surveillance infrastructure
Signal’s Whittaker warns AI chatbots are not sentient and that agentic systems like Copilot needing access to messages and credit cards are a backdoor.
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of users to treat AI systems as trusted companions.
The comments came in a Bloomberg interview published this week in which Whittaker laid out her case that the agentic AI vision promoted by companies like Microsoft amounts to a new form of surveillance infrastructure.
Whittaker, who has led the encrypted messaging nonprofit since September 2022, acknowledged that she uses AI tools “to format a document here and there” but drew a hard line at anything more substantive. “I don’t ask them questions,” she said.
“I’m very serious about my thinking and writing, and I don’t want the process of working through an idea to be foreclosed or eclipsed by the response of a system that’s averaging what’s already out there,” she added.
Her sharpest criticism was directed at Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s prediction that users would be able to let Microsoft Copilot handle all their Christmas shopping by eavesdropping on family group chats to determine who wants what.
Whittaker methodically listed the access such a system would require: “my credit card, my browser, my Signal, the ability to message my siblings on my behalf, my home address, my calendar.”
“What you’ve just described is a system with very pervasive access across multiple applications and services,” Whittaker said. “In the context of Signal, it would constitute a kind of a backdoor.”
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Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional
The April 2026 update adds a Group Policy option for administrators and a simple uninstall path for home users, acknowledging what critics have said for months: not everyone wants an AI assistant baked into their operating system
https://thenextweb.com/news/only-3-3-per-cent-of-users-pay-for-copilot-so-microsoft-is-finally-making-it-optional?fbclid=IwVERDUASlwtpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4N45DxzcKFQ5BtkArcaviSaWtJ8y7xy3mY9feQMhmWj_wxITixZQdc9a4gIA_aem_QXRXgWLYucts9B8sqRIopg
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Hyvinvointialue haluaa korvata ihmistulkit tekoälyllä, joka maksaa 3,5 euroa kymmeneltä minuutilta
Länsi-Uudenmaan hyvinvointialue haluaa korvata ison osan ihmistulkeista tekoälyllä.
https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000012067093.html
Tekoälytulkki maksaa 3,5 euroa kymmeneltä minuutilta, kun ihmistulkin hinta on noin 7 euroa kymmeneltä minuutilta.
Tulkkijaoston puheenjohtaja Pia Leppälä kyseenalaistaa tekoälyn luotettavuuden sote-alalla.
Länsi-Uudenmaan hyvinvointialue haluaa korvata ison osan ihmistulkeista tekoälyllä.
Hyvinvointialue on kokeillut vuodesta 2025 reaaliajassa toimivaa tekoälytulkkausta muun muassa terveysasemilla, neuvoloissa sekä työllisyyspalveluissa.
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The polished site includes everything you’d expect from a publisher’s promotional book site: an author biography, press mentions, and links to buy the book on Amazon.
Strangely, it also includes the entire text of the book, from its opening 800-word foreword to a complete archive of all 311 neologisms, with their accompanying definitions, etymology, and short essays, all penned by Koenig.
The book’s original photo-collage illustrations made by Koenig and several other artists are conspicuously missing. Instead, each word has an AI-generated image made with DALL-E 2, riddled with the errors and artifacts typical of that model.
A banner at the top of the homepage encourages visitors to “Generate your own words using AI – give your sorrows a voice!” The Submit A Sorrow feature lets you describe a feeling, and then uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 to generate the new word, etymology, and definition, which go into a gallery of “User-Generated Sorrows” with AI generated art.
https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/?_bhlid=16430e2236b29480e00dfb0a0bcb176aa18296e3
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Le Monde is considering ways to grant access to AI agents of paying readers while maintaining its block on crawler bots and other unlicensed non-human traffic — Le Monde blocks almost every bot that tries to hit its site. Now it’s starting to think about what happens when its paying readers show …
Le Monde blocked the bots. Now it’s working out what to do about paying readers showing up as agents
https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-blocked-the-bots-now-its-working-out-what-to-do-about-paying-readers-showing-up-as-agents/
Le Monde blocks almost every bot that tries to hit its site. Now it’s starting to think about what happens when its paying readers show up via AI agents instead of a browser.
The French news publisher now blocks almost all non-human traffic unless there’s a licensing deal in place, including Google’s AI training crawler Google Extended.
Speaking to Digiday at Fastly’s Xcelerate event in London last week, Le Monde CTO Paul Laleu, said the company is “figuring out” how to maintain its subscription partnership with readers who use AI agents rather than its homepage or app. He’s interested in early technical standards that would let an AI assistant tell Le Monde, in effect, “I’m fetching this article for a user who already pays you,” so the site can decide what to show. “I can recognize that user and be able to say: ‘this one is a subscriber, I can give him the content because he’s paying money for it,’” said Laleu. “I see that as part of the future of the web.”
Laleu expects that kind of agent-mediated access to stretch beyond chatbots into on-device assistants. He pointed to Apple’s June 8 announcement of its Intelligence features and Google’s Gemini assistant as early signs that software like Siri or Gemini will increasingly sit between users and publisher apps. Inside the phone, he said, the interaction between an agent and Le Monde’s app will become “a new area to work on” if the publisher wants paying readers to be recognized as subscribers even when they never visit the homepage.