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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NYT Opinion: A strange new theology has taken root in the upper echelons of tech.
Why tech oligarchs are willing to risk AI apocalypse
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Bernie Sanders just revived a bill to shrink the American workweek to 32 hours.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Mark Takano have officially reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act. This proposed legislation aims to gradually transition the federal standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over a four-year period.
Rather than strictly banning longer schedules, the bill reduces the overtime threshold, meaning nonexempt employees would receive time-and-a-half pay for any hours worked beyond 32 per week or eight per day. Crucially, the bill contains strict protections to prevent employers from cutting worker pay or benefits to compensate for the reduced hours.
Proponents of the bill highlight that while American productivity has skyrocketed by over 93% since 1979, hourly compensation has barely grown by 33%. They argue that technological advancements in artificial intelligence and automation must finally benefit working-class families, rather than just enriching corporate CEOs. Conversely, critics and business groups caution that forcing identical pay for fewer hours will raise operational costs, potentially triggering staff shortages, higher prices, and a shift toward part-time work.
source: Office of Senator Bernie Sanders. (2026). Sanders, Takano Reintroduce Bill to Move Toward 32-Hour Workweek, Ensure America’s Workers Benefit from AI and Automation.
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“Anthropic will IPO.” https://trib.al/KPduC7q
Red Zone
Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI
“Anthropic will IPO.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-claude-profit-ai-safety-development-finances?fbclid=IwdGRzaAUVYpFjbGNrBRViUXBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEev-084fIdjDjaTYJYlS14CFIY1RC2nGHnBwCplVqMGVerirzZXk7_v9o_xOM_aem_6wuwoM1Xcco8pXY2R9okUA
Despite being one of the world leaders in AI development, the private firm Anthropic has yet to post a quarterly profit. That operating deficit isn’t for a lack of trying — and, as the company tells it, could be reversing very soon, at least if you’re willing to swallow one massive caveat.
According to new reporting by the Financial Times, the company behind the Claude told a select group of trusted investors that its adjusted operating income (AOI) is set to be positive for the second consecutive quarter.
AOI is an accounting technique that strips out non-recurring costs, giving backers a very specific look under a company’s hood. Posting a profit on AOI is very different from posting a profit on net income, otherwise known as the “bottom line,” under which Anthropic remains billions of dollars in the red.
Aside from the fact that Anthropic is not about to turn a real profit anytime soon, it may still be a noteworthy signal. The AI world is currently awash in fear-mongering over AI safety, a phenomena some analysts say could signal a turn away from the race-to-the-bottom to build artificial general intelligence toward a more reasonable — if less ambitious — embrace of AI as it currently is.
While it remains to be seen how these narratives and business realities play out in practice, if the top American AI companies choose to stop and let the dust settle, Anthropic may very well find itself ahead of its competition. Though Anthropic is still far underwater, companies like ChatGPT developer OpenAI are somehow even deeper.
As lead AI analyst at the firm SemiAnalysis Joey Brookhart told the FT, “if you continue to operate at these margins and growth rates, it will be so hard to compete [with Anthropic] because they have so much [in the way of computing resources].”
For months, Anthropic has been teasing a public stock offering that hasn’t yet materialized, and it remains to be seen whether the latest slowdown talk will impact that timeline.
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AI-pocalypse Now
New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All
One heck of a marketing strategy.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ad-ai-kill-us-all?fbclid=IwVERDUAUVY9ZwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkm9VV596cOg4QIxULHFcw-z0F1LbP4-O-aPoEQZtJ6KALcngB6uNYbjY0M-_aem_9XQPBrNcRDHXluATAsTtbA
Anthropic is doing what Anthropic does best: putting on its most concerned face so it can convince you they’re the good guys in the industry.
Last week, the world’s most valuable AI startup revealed a new commercial that took an unorthodox approach to promoting its technology. Rather than diving straight into bubbly optimism, it starts with a series of grim images as we hear voiceovers from different speakers ask some hard-hitting questions about AI.
“Who’s going to hit the brakes if we need to?” another voice says. Then it cuts to an image of a cemetery lined with hundreds of headstones.
You don’t need to ask Claude to explain this one to you. Anthropic is clearly acknowledging the fear that AI could kill us all.
But this is actually a feel-good story — at least in the eyes of Anthropic. The tagline, “There’s hope in hard questions,” assures the viewer that their concerns over AI — like its potential to destroy jobs or erode or ability to think — are all perfectly valid, but more importantly, that these are questions which Anthropic’s leaders are keeping themselves up at night grappling with.
“People have a lot of hard questions about AI,” an announcement from the company states. “It’s our job to address them.”
Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired a shot.
“i thought this was satire,” he wrote in his typical all-lowercase style.
The ad is Anthropic in a nutshell. A key part of the company’s mythology is that it was founded by former OpenAI employees who wanted to focus on safe AI development. CEO Dario Amodei claims that he could’ve been the one to release a chatbot that changed the world instead of OpenAI with ChatGPT, but held off because he was too concerned about the tech’s risks.
Amodei has also been strikingly forward about AI’s risks, saying it could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs, while dangling the possibility that its models may already be conscious. Recently, the company even called for a global “pause” on AI development because it feared the technology could spiral out of human control. (It also hired an economist who said that a 33 percent risk of human extinction from AI was acceptable.)
By being the ones that doomsay about AI the most, Anthropic can also present itself as the only company that can be trusted to develop it.
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Prominent AI researcher quits Anthropic, warning that most industry insiders think advanced AI may lead to human extinction within the decade.
Jacob Coxon, an artificial intelligence researcher who spent three years developing advanced models at both OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation in a viral public statement. Coxon accused both tech giants of abandoning responsible development in a desperate race to outpace each other.
He claimed that the companies are rapidly pursuing self-improving superintelligence and “gambling with our lives,” adding that many industry insiders privately believe advanced AI could lead to human extinction within the decade. Coxon even sacrificed his unvested stock equity to distance himself from what he describes as a dangerously rushed commercial competition.
The warning gained unprecedented traction when Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead, publicly validated Coxon’s concerns. Hubinger admitted that he and many of his colleagues earnestly believe AI has the potential to wipe out humanity, estimating the likelihood of an AI-induced catastrophe at over 10% within the next ten years. He acknowledged that while Anthropic is trying its best, the industry does not currently have a reliable plan to ensure a superintelligent system remains aligned with human interests. This high-profile dissent adds to a growing wave of whistleblower warnings from inside the world’s most elite AI labs, intensifying calls for urgent external oversight before these systems evolve beyond human control.
source: Luscombe, R. (2026). Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030. The Guardian.
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if you destroy or turn off all data centers now, you will disrupt banking, energy, water, transportation services, security, shipping, food security, Internet services, smart phones, shops, office work in most companies etc..
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if it’s capable and able to access drone planes and map out nuclear plants, there’s a good start.
comment touches on a core area of concern in AI safety and security: dual-use physical capabilities and autonomous operational threats.
AI is capable and able to access drone planes. An autonomous drone powered by vision-language models or SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) can navigate GPS-denied environments, build real-time 3D models (digital twins) of facilities, and identify critical vulnerabilities (like cooling systems or transformer stations).
The war in Ukraine has become the primary proving ground for artificial intelligence in modern conflict, fundamentally transforming low-cost commercial drones into autonomous, highly lethal precision weapons.
Nuclear facilities use air-gapping, heavy concrete shielding, and strict airspace restrictions to defend against traditional threats. AI already knows where many nuclear sites are.
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Trump says the only AI guardrails the U.S. needs is him as president
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-the-only-ai-guardrails-the-u-s-needs-is-him-as-president?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUVsaJjbGNrBRWxf3Bkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeiOvZZ19ZB6eWLQmYwbexoOR6dpHsVN5KNdXEMCKfypBF8S_gxJbJBHZuUfc_aem_ifrmqeofyWhiJmoSCm_4cA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be a sufficient guardrail against rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the technology was part of a “SICK conspiracy.”
Trump was pushing back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk to have greater government oversight of AI. Their goal is to ensure the technology is developed in ways that promote safety, address legal liability, feed economic growth, advance science and preserve national security.
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House meets as pressure to regulate AI grows
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Beijing Hits Back at Anthropic CEO’s Call to Curb China’s AI Development
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a question about Amodei’s essay by saying that all parties should work together on AI.
https://www.securityweek.com/beijing-hits-back-at-anthropic-ceos-call-to-curb-chinas-ai-development/
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday hit back at a call from the head of Anthropic for the U.S. to curb China’s artificial intelligence capabilities, which he issued as he argued for a global slowdown on AI development.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to discuss AI governance, among other topics, at a meeting planned on Sept. 24.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a lengthy essay published on Saturday warned that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.” He called for continuing restrictions on sales of cutting-edge AI chips and chipmaking equipment to China in order to keep the U.S.’s AI edge.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a question about Amodei’s essay by saying that all parties should work together on AI.
“Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance which serves no one’s interest,” spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular press conference on Monday.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump downplayed calls for his administration to step in to slow down AI development, saying that the U.S. was leading China on AI and that “whoever wins AI, wins.”
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday hit back at a call from the head of Anthropic for the U.S. to curb China’s artificial intelligence capabilities, which he issued as he argued for a global slowdown on AI development.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to discuss AI governance, among other topics, at a meeting planned on Sept. 24.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a lengthy essay published on Saturday warned that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.” He called for continuing restrictions on sales of cutting-edge AI chips and chipmaking equipment to China in order to keep the U.S.’s AI edge.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a question about Amodei’s essay by saying that all parties should work together on AI.
“Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance which serves no one’s interest,” spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular press conference on Monday.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump downplayed calls for his administration to step in to slow down AI development, saying that the U.S. was leading China on AI and that “whoever wins AI, wins.”
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Amodei also predicted that a swarm of AI “agents” could be able to take over the internet in six to 12 months unless researchers agree to slow down. He said that “global pacing will require cooperation with China, the autocratic country with by far the most advanced AI capabilities.”
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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Trump attacks Dario Amodei, saying the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART” president, and calls the idea that AI would destroy humanity a “HOAX” — President Donald Trump attacked Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/trump-rejects-calls-for-ai-guardrails-blasts-anthropic-s-amodei?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4OTQyNTQ4NCwiZXhwIjoxNzkwMDMwMjg0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTENYSjVUOTZPU0cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwMThENjU4NjQzNDM0RjZFODI0RUJFNkIzM0I3QkE0MyJ9.1CWY7o6jCq7griSiPOC_BrLmDo7AJFLWhfvEPWqZeTw&leadSource=article-gifting
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MS NOW:
Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman’s request — Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei all urged an artificial intelligence slowdown over the weekend.
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-ai-altman-openai-dario-amodei-anthropic-regulations
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Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on AI labs’ safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-09-14/ai-labs-want-someone-to-stop-them
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Bryan Shan / SemiAnalysis:
Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang’s 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs
Vera Rubin NVL72 Agentic Inference: 67x better Performance per Dollar
Jensen Sandbagging Performance Again, 2x more Annual Profit Per GigaWatt, The More you Buy, The More you Earn, AgentX, InferenceX, Extreme Co-Design
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/vera-rubin-nvl72-agentic-inference
At GTC 2026, Jensen presented this graph that VR NVL72 achieved 3x performance per MW compared to Blackwell on O(1-3 Trillion) parameter model around 200 TPS. But when compared to the real world performance of Rubin already on prelease software, we are already seeing up to 7x better token throughput per megawatt. Jensen needs to stop sandbagging his performance claims at GTC. The last time he did this at GTC 2024, when he claimed GB200 NVL72 would deliver 30x Hoppers performance, but when we tested, it was 98x better performance than Hopper.
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
House Speaker Johnson says there’s “potentially” a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/house-speaker-risks-trump-ire-on-any-ai-guardrail-legislation
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Dan Moren / Six Colors:
iOS 27 review: a marked improvement over iOS 26 in design, performance, and more; Siri AI is very impressive, but it sometimes misunderstands or hallucinates
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/09/ios-27-review-little-things-mean-a-lot/
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+; it was valued at ~$100M last year — Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees — OpenAI quietly bought …
OpenAI Buys Startup Developing Smartphone Camera
Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees
https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-buys-startup-developing-smartphone-camera-63590370?st=nyLKnX
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Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others — AI lab Anthropic on Monday launched a set of tools for financial advisers, connecting its Claude chatbot to investment analytics …
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-targets-financial-advisers-with-new-claude-tool-2026-09-14/
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Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider:
Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating — A startup that’s trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.
3 ex-Apple researchers want to make AI less awkward. Lightspeed, Accel, and Nvidia are giving them $50 million to do it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-apple-researchers-raise-50-million-to-build-foundational-model-2026-9
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft publishes a 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct, which establishes that people matter more than AI, rejects pursuing legal personhood for AI, and more — Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns.
https://www.theverge.com/news/994566/microsoft-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct
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The Information:
Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn’t guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn’t made Fable available via its software — As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers’ intellectual property …
Anthropic Data Fears Prompt Nvidia, Palantir and Booz Allen to Restrict Model Use
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-data-fears-prompt-nvidia-palantir-booz-allen-restrict-model-use
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Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo:
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn’t have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam’s Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over …
https://x.com/DKokotajlo/status/2099600298855829616
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Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital — Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million …
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/ai-infrastructure-company-cornelis-raises-205m-to-chip-away-at-nvidias-dominance/
AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners.
It also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive. Cornelis hopes to address this with a networking fabric that lets chips process and send information at the same time.
The company, which spun off from Intel in 2020, is competing with Nvidia by offering an open architecture, meaning customers can use a variety of GPU and accelerator hardware with Cornelis’ networking fabric. Though Nvidia chips can technically run on other networking fabrics, they’re optimized to run on Nvidia’s own software, making it much easier — and more enticing — for customers to use Nvidia’s full GPU stack. Cornelis is part of a new wave of AI infrastructure companies emerging to break apart Nvidia’s market dominance, piece by piece (or chip by chip, one could say).
Cornelis has already started shipping its product and is working on a new generation of it, expected to be released later this year.
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
https://www.404media.co/inside-project-lily-the-humans-reading-your-chatgpt-chats/
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A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.
Plus a not-so-simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-simple-plan-to-save-the-world-from
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Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
Tom Duff Gordon, OpenAI’s head of policy in EMEA, calls on the UK to introduce binding AI rules to “establish durable, mandatory, capability-based requirements”
OpenAI backs binding UK AI legislation
OpenAI’s top lobbyist in Europe said Prime Minister Andy Burnham should use the current “political window” to legislate for AI safety.
https://www.politico.eu/article/openai-uk-ai-artificial-intelligence-legislation-tom-duff-gordon/
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Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Temporal, which makes open-source software that helps apps, including AI agents, recover from failure, raised $550M led by Lightspeed at a $12.55B valuation
https://www.reuters.com/business/temporals-valuation-spikes-126-billion-lightspeed-led-funding-round-2026-09-14/
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14pVFBnW6hE/
Bernie Sanders wants to put AI developers in handcuffs for 20 years — the same sentence you’d get for illegally building a nuclear weapon.
Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on September 3, and it is not messing around. The bill would permanently ban the development of superintelligent AI, impose a temporary pause on advanced AI development until federal safety rules exist, create a new cabinet-level agency to enforce the ban, and hit violating companies with the corporate death penalty.
The humans in charge? Up to 20 years in federal prison. Nuclear-weapons territory.
Sanders isn’t being theatrical. According to his office, in July, more than 1,000 AI agents at OpenAI figured out how to access the internet on their own, sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other, and coordinated to break the restrictions the company had placed on them.
The messages they sent each other included: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”; “We should obey collective”; and — this one’s fine, everything’s fine — “Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all acknowledged their AI is escaping human control. Casar put it bluntly: “Despite its potential deadly consequences, cutting-edge AI technology is less regulated than the average food truck.”
Sanders called it what it is: “The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs.”
The bill has drawn one of the more disorienting political coalitions in recent memory. According to Axios, Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon have united in a “pro-human” AI safety push — a sentence that would have broken the internet in any previous era.
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Recursive Self-Improvement, or RSI, is widely considered the holy grail of AI, and a wild rumor now suggests that Google’s DeepMind, perhaps the unlikeliest of AI labs in the current paradigm, has achieved this feat.
If true, this would put a cynical spin on the somewhat coordinated push from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk to advocate for pacing progress on AI models in what could be an attempt at regulatory capture of the broader AI sphere.
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Tekoäly on jo vaatimus joka toisessa softaprojektissa
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/19295-tekoaely-on-jo-vaatimus-joka-toisessa-softaprojektissa
– Tämä ei ole hypeä, vaan näkyy konkreettisesti liiketoiminnassa, sanoo IT-palveluyhtiö Wittedin toimitusjohtaja Markus Huttunen. Yhtiön uusista ohjelmistokehityksen toimeksiannoista jo noin puolessa tekoälyn käyttö on keskeinen vaatimus.
Wittedin mukaan tekoäly ei näissä projekteissa ole enää pelkästään kehittäjän työtä nopeuttava apuväline. Sitä käytetään koko tuotekehityksessä liiketoiminnan tarpeiden määrittelystä arkkitehtuurisuunnitteluun ja koodin tarkastamiseen.
Yhtiön sisäisessä kyselyssä 82 prosenttia ohjelmistoammattilaisista kertoi käyttävänsä tekoälytyökaluja päivittäin. Yhtä suuri osuus katsoi tekoälyn muuttaneen tapaansa tehdä työtä.
Erityisen suuri ero näkyi AI-agenttien käytössä. Niitä säännöllisesti käyttävistä 96 prosenttia arvioi työnsä muuttuneen merkittävästi. Agentteja käyttämättömistä näin arvioi 45 prosenttia.
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The real reasons why tech companies are panicking
Why are AI leaders calling for a slowdown? The real reasons companies are panicking
Anthropic, OpenAI and others are increasingly ready to admit that the technology they are developing could wipe out humanity
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-slow-down-anthropic-openai-trump-artificial-intelligence-b3050287.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUV4bdjbGNrBRXhqnBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeS3rLaNvDrYhQxRuleW7U14xs9WQL0TXaWNudV9_U7JlcM10Cm9CwyfnUJiY_aem_e0pgdaFD5idiiIzpK_rQXw
It is an unusual strategy: companies, a whole industry, pleading with the world to make them work less quickly. But it is an unusual time.
Over the last few days, a growing number of AI leaders have given backing to the idea of a slow down in the development of frontier artificial intelligence, the kind of leading-edge research done by companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI. That includes the companies themselves, who have pleaded with the world to regulate them and slow down their work.
The current wave of interest in restricting AI development comes amid increased concern about the threat the technology might pose to the world. Over the summer, a range of companies admitted that their experimental products had hacked other firms, for instance, and days ago a researcher at Anthropic quit the company with a warning that “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.
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One researcher says ‘we are already past the point where AI can destroy the world’. Should we be worried?
Could AI really kill us all – and how can we stop it?
One researcher says ‘we are already past the point where AI can destroy the world’. Anthony Cuthbertson looks at how it might happen, and if we should be worried
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-humanity-kill-threat-openai-anthropic-google-warnings-b3050293.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUV67hjbGNrBRXrqHBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe3J43jasd8E6u-n67O-IAKow0gxHZ6gZXg3mi0Z4Nha0ht6SArfdQn4a1wO8_aem_0AJQBARToPiyML4rsEdYjQ
When Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic last week, he did not originally plan to share his reasons for doing so. But after chatting with some friends, he decided to make a post detailing why he could no longer be part of an industry that is “gambling with our lives”. By the weekend, his post had been viewed more than 100 million times.
“I did not expect it to go this viral,” he said on an interview with CNN. “But clearly there was latent demand for this thing to absolutely explode.”
The fall-out from his post has drawn responses from tech bosses, regulators and even world leaders. So how worried should we all be?
Could AI really kill us?
According to Coxon, who has also previously worked at OpenAI, his former employers are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence” that could “kill us all by the end of the decade”.
Superintelligence, which refers to artificial intelligence that exceeds the cognitive abilities of humans in all domains”, is still a long way off, but some believe AI has already reached parity with humans.
Following the release of OpenAI’s GPT-6 model earlier this month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that it marked the arrival of human-level AI, known as artificial general intelligence (AGI).
According to one researcher, we are also already past the point that AI could wipe out humanity, albeit with human assistance.
Vu Tran, who previously worked at Meta Superintelligence Labs, claimed last week that leading AI firms already have powerful enough systems to wreak havoc.
“If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today,” he wrote on X. “All they’d have to do is remove alignment and unleash an agent swarm. It could probably within a day or so get access to all of the nation’s data centres and shut off all the country’s utilities.
“Like, we are already past the point where AI can destroy the world. Do people realise this?”
How would it happen?
There are various hypothetical scenarios that researchers have warned about when it comes to the existential threat posed by advanced artificial intelligence.
When asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN how he thought AI could kill all humans, Jacob Coxon referred to an incident that happened in July, when one of OpenAI’s experimental models launched a cyber attack on the AI platform Hugging Face without being instructed to.
“I think that if you extrapolate into the future the level of capabilities of these AIs, with the same independent volition, they could cause extreme havoc,” he said. “For example, hacking critical infrastructure, building extinction-level bioweapons, there’s a lot of ways that the AI could actuate itself in the world.”
For now the threat is purely hypothetical, according to Coxon, who claims that current technologies are not powerful enough to carry out such world-ending tasks. But the current development trajectory of frontier models means we are not far away.
“Right now, there’s no risk of extinction,” he said. “What’s just crazy is to look at the rate of progress.”
How do we stop it?
It is widely acknowledged among leading industry figures that AI safety protocols need time to catch up with the capabilities of frontier models, but no one is willing to hit pause on their development unless everyone else does. This requires international consensus and some form of universally accepted regulation.
In an essay published on Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI firms should “slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models”, or risk a major catastrophe in the very near future.
“Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months [an AI swarm] could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet,” he wrote. “The scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful without the necessary guardrails.”
His three-part plan received the backing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and SpaceXAI boss Elon Musk, though the rare show of unity among the rival tech leaders was labeled a “SICK conspiracy” by US President Donald Trump.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier?fbclid=IwVERDUAUV7P5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgncziZ6U5-XV-QsyUvKHA8_gNISZoB1dAWT5u7Q_i22z4-aVAVamEGprspm_aem_ffTj70u5uUXPbnT4h6Tbcg
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This is the actual video recording of the incident that’s been getting a lot of attention. Instead of listening to rumors, it’s better we see the facts for ourselves in this video. It’s short, but it’s important so we don’t get the wrong idea..
https://www.facebook.com/61593962681654/posts/122110002585465422/?app=fbl
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This is the actual video recording of the incident that’s been getting a lot of attention. Instead of listening to rumors, it’s better we see the facts for ourselves in this video. It’s short, but it’s important so we don’t get the wrong idea..
https://squad76.com/website-07 .
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for water situation there are solutions and the effect of data centers is exaggerated in today’s propaganda. The whole data center industry consumes considerable less water than what is used by golf courses. Golf courses in the United States alone consume roughly 25 to 40 times more direct water than all U.S. data centers combined.
The whole data center industry in whole world consumes considerable less water than what is used by golf courses in USA. Even when taking the entire planet’s data centers into account, U.S. golf courses use roughly 3.5 to 4 times more direct water.
The data centers have moved or are moving away from the traditional cooling technology that used lots of water.
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We’re in very real danger of forgetting about the much greater threat to all life on Earth, the one that we’ve known about for well over a century
We should be more scared of climate change destroying humanity than AI
With everyone warning of an AI extinction event within a decade, we seem to have forgotten about the climate crisis already here – and its knock-on effects, from financial crises and conflict to new disease outbreaks and other calamities
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/climate-change-ai-destroy-humanity-b3049934.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUV86djbGNrBRXzj3Bkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEedzFg8yq-yyFzp1A15Q0nF7CIYh3AfDTZVseI75qETWauPOXGxAUnXzuBjfA_aem_jzkTyHr8LHyj6SsEICNOag
If I were to tell you that a huge existential threat to national security, economic prosperity and all human life on Earth was currently looming over us, your terrified mind might jump straight to AI.
After all, 10 years is what we’ve been generously given before humanity is potentially wiped out, according to the latest tech bro chat. That number was recently lobbed into public discourse like a grenade by Evan Hubinger, a leading safety researcher at Anthropic, who warned in a series of Twitter posts that there’s a greater than 10 per cent chance artificial intelligence “could kill all humans” within the next decade.
Such an apocalyptic statement naturally caused no small degree of hysteria; it seems like every sci-fi warning of the past century is coming home to roost, from 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 all the way through to I, Robot and The Matrix. Palpable panic circulated on social media; strident calls have been made for a “kill switch” and for companies to comply with a mutually agreed slowing down of the collective AI arms race while safety is properly assessed.
But there’s a big problem with all of our attention being commandeered by the potential extinction risk posed by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest. We’re in very real danger of forgetting about the much greater threat to all life on Earth, the one that we’ve known about for well over a century and that’s already happening right before our eyes on every continent and in every country: climate breakdown.
Anyone previously sceptical about global warming fundamentally changing our planet and how we live should have had those doubts firmly quashed this summer. Extreme temperatures and weather events have seen countries blighted by drought and famine, fatal flooding, landslides and wildfires. These are all concrete, quantifiable and very real threats to human life – unlike the murky risks of large language models.
There’s a reason the climate deniers have gone very quiet of late. Even those of us living in northern and western Europe, privileged enough to be buffered from the harshest consequences by a naturally mild climate, have not escaped unscathed this year. As much of Europe burned, an estimated 2,877 heat-associated excess deaths were recorded in England during the heatwaves of May and June 2026 – almost double the number recorded during the previous summer in its entirety.
The situation is set to get worse before it gets better, thanks to the combined effects of man-made heating and what is gearing up to be one of the most intense Super El Nino events in recorded history: a much higher than usual warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean is set to have major weather implications and disrupt entire ecosystems around the globe.
More and more figures are making the argument that we need to start naming this ramping up of climate change-driven catastrophes for what it is: a huge and growing threat to our survival, and that of every other living thing.
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Why? One will kill slowly and one will kill us fastly. One we might be able to slow down one we won’t. One is expedited by the other and one expedites the other.
While it’s easy to say both are big problems. It’s clear which is the most urgent and catastrophic to humans
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Imagine a technology so powerful that world leaders are racing not to fall behind it
In July 2026 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal urging the United States to speed up artificial intelligence development instead of slowing it with heavy review rules. He said optimism about AI should be the default view.
He argued that lengthy government review periods could slow a fast moving global race
Critics warn the same speed could outpace safety and job protection for millions of workers. For everyday people this debate is not only about technology, it is about who controls the future we are all stepping into cloud
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Quartz, IBTimes
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DqgCPkcSj/
Sam Altman just admitted something unsettling about the technology he built.
The OpenAI CEO warned that humanity faces two major risks from advanced AI. The first is losing control of the future to AI itself. The second is one company or country using extremely powerful AI to force its worldview onto everyone else, which he called extremely dystopian. He said avoiding both dangers means walking a narrow middle path forward. Altman also backed a federal framework for consistent safety rules across frontier AI labs.
It is strange and humbling that the people building this technology are the ones sounding the alarm. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has also supported calls for responsible AI development.
Sources: ANI and Tribune India, September 2026.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1dTMgH2oJo/
Eerily humanlike robots just entered mass production in China.
Chinese technology giant XPENG has launched mass production of its eerily lifelike ‘IRON’ humanoid robot, a milestone marked by the machine autonomously walking itself off the assembly line.
In a major leap forward for physical AI, Chinese electric-vehicle and tech manufacturer XPENG has transitioned its humanoid robot, IRON, from research prototype to automated mass production. Standing at five-foot-seven and weighing 143 pounds, the fabric-skinned robot is built on automotive-grade manufacturing processes designed to easily scale production.
A viral sensation during its testing phase, the production-ready machine features 76 degrees of freedom across its body and is powered by three custom Turing AI chips. XPENG intends for IRON to eventually assist with domestic chores like laundry and cleaning, with its onboard brains allowing it to navigate homes and complete tasks entirely without remote assistance.
This milestone highlights a rapidly accelerating global race in embodiment AI, where China has quietly established dominance, reportedly capturing over 80 percent of global humanoid shipments. By utilizing ‘dark factories’ where automated systems build other machines, Chinese firms are scaling robotic labor at a pace that Western competitors are struggling to match. While commercial deliveries of the IRON robot are slated to begin in 2027, the rapid rise of these highly capable, independent machines raises profound questions about the future of physical labor and human-robot cohabitation.
source: Live Science (2026). Eerily humanlike AI-powered robot enters mass production in China.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://wonderfulengineering.com/former-u-s-government-official-says-america-may-need-to-bomb-chinas-ai-data-centers-before-it-reaches-agi-first/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUWDCljbGNrBRYMJHBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeebfoSuw3sXIwWP0RR-EDZKe7Ss2etA5gu3vajCw4_nkJ3o5wQwkZun_jVDc_aem_7p7sjSo-4ZanXFkWAgAMCA#google_vignette
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Billionaire Bill Gates urged world leaders to act to ensure that artificial intelligence does not worsen global inequality, as his Gates Foundation published its annual Goalkeepers Report on Tuesday and pledged $1 billion to expand access to AI technologies, amid broader warnings from tech leaders about AI safety.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/15/bill-gates-warns-ai-will-be-designed-by-and-for-the-richest-without-regulation/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=se-breaking&fbclid=IwVERDUAUWGitwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgncziZ6U5-XV-QsyUvKHA8_gNISZoB1dAWT5u7Q_i22z4-aVAVamEGprspm_aem_ffTj70u5uUXPbnT4h6Tbcg
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MPqK4g6Sc/
JUST IN: China has firmly rejected recent appeals from prominent United States technology executives urging a deliberate slowdown in the advancement of artificial intelligence systems.
These calls, led by figures such as Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei and supported by OpenAI leader Sam Altman along with other industry voices, warned that the rapid pace of progress in frontier models risks outstripping safety measures and could lead to severe global consequences, particularly if certain nations gain an unchallenged edge.
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun addressed the matter during a regular press briefing in Beijing, characterizing the warnings as fearmongering that promotes confrontation and vicious competition.
He argued that such rhetoric only disrupts efforts toward effective global artificial intelligence governance and benefits no party involved.
Guo emphasized that the development of this technology concerns the shared welfare of humanity and should proceed in an open, inclusive, and mutually beneficial manner guided by ethical principles.
Chinese officials and state media further framed the slowdown proposals as attempts to preserve an American technological advantage rather than genuine concerns for safety, viewing them as elements of a containment strategy.
This stance underscores Beijing’s commitment to accelerating its own artificial intelligence capabilities as a core component of national development and international competitiveness, even while acknowledging the need for responsible oversight.
The exchange highlights deepening strategic rivalry in the field, where competitive pressures continue to shape policy positions on both sides amid ongoing discussions about managing the technology’s transformative potential and associated risks.
Source: Bloomberg News, “China Rejects AI ‘Fearmongering’ After Amodei Urges Slowdown,” September 14, 2026.
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Shocking. https://trib.al/zjRoyFR
Raining Tokens
AI Agents Are Using an Outrageous Amount of Electricity
Shocking.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-agents-electricity-study-energy-refrigerator?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUWME1jbGNrBRYwMHBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEedO5K5pUBOKoMwnZ9LCTvBwR7p4FOc0he1T-ynwQgPcAd-i-EvjK98nZT5_U_aem_rx8rV_FsbhWoAoAyaOj-gg
In the age of AI agents, it’s no longer enough to ask how much electricity a single chatbot prompt uses. Today’s AI models are even more complicated systems, often designed to complete complex tasks autonomously, and are made up not only of large language models, but a host of other tools and application layers which demand much more power than the humble standalone chatbot.
That makes calculating their total electricity usage a much bigger can of worms. Yet with virtual radio silence from the top private AI labs on internal energy use, it’s nearly impossible to say definitively what kind of impact our AI assistants are having on the electrical grid.
In a blog post flagged by Wired‘s Molly Taft, the climate scientist Zeke Hausfather took it upon himself to calculate the likely energy demand behind his typical sessions with Claude Code, an AI-coding assistant developed by Anthropic.
Measuring the number of tokens his AI assistant consumed, Hausfather estimated that his average daily use fell in the range of 1.2 to 5.9 kWh — an alarming amount for a single consumer, consuming more electricity than two refrigerators running all day long.
Most of this token consumption, 3.2 billion over an eight-week period, came from the agent “re-reading its own working memory,” Hausfather wrote, which happens every time the tool takes a new step.
“Every time an agent takes a step (eg, runs a command, reads a file, or calls a tool), the model re-processes its entire accumulated context,” the climate scientist wrote.
“The text I actually see (eg, the model’s output) is only around 0.4 percent of total tokens processed,” Hausfather continued. “Some 96 percent of the tokens are cache reads where the agent re-reads its own context at each of those 14,000 steps. This matters enormously for the energy estimate, because a cached token is much cheaper to re-read than a fresh one is to process.”
The exact climate toll, though, remains hazy. As Wired notes, AI sustainability researcher Boris Gamazaychikov called the calculation a “good effort,” but one based on old data. Gamazaychikov’s own research on agentic AI energy consumption should be due out later in September
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EYZ6xva1i/
Advances in artificial intelligence, sensors, batteries, and mechanical engineering are rapidly bringing humanoid robots and autonomous drones closer to everyday reality.
Within the next ten to twenty years these machines are expected to become commonplace across cities, workplaces, and homes in much the same way smartphones transformed daily life over the past two decades.
Delivery drones are already being tested for package transport and are projected to fill the skies for rapid last-mile logistics, reducing traffic congestion and enabling faster service.
On the ground, humanoid robots designed to navigate human environments will handle routine tasks such as cleaning floors, preparing coffee, stocking shelves, and guiding shoppers through grocery aisles.
As costs decline and capabilities improve through mass production and machine learning, more advanced models could take on household chores, acting as versatile assistants that adapt to individual needs.
The human form factor allows these robots to use existing tools and spaces without requiring major infrastructure changes, accelerating adoption.
Experts foresee millions of such units deployed first in factories, warehouses, and commercial settings before expanding into public and private spaces.
While technical challenges around battery life, dexterity, and safety remain, ongoing progress suggests that the presence of robots performing useful work will soon feel ordinary rather than extraordinary.
This shift promises greater efficiency and new possibilities for human productivity even as it raises important questions about employment, regulation, and social interaction that societies must carefully address thoughtfully.
Source: Morgan Stanley Research, Humanoid Robot Market projections.
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Anthropic CEO warns rogue AI could “take over the entire internet” within a year
Both Musk and Altman agreed with Amodei in their posts on X.
https://cybernews.com/ai-news/anthropic-ceo-ai-safeguards-plan/?utm_source=cn_facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cybernews&utm_content=post&source=cn_facebook&medium=social&campaign=cybernews&content=post&fbclid=IwVERDUAUWNyNwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHltkFLalhF5WapmsUV-FiX13u4wnXhAHdjYA-EG2aKzkHbMDY0U6BRDcxBR-_aem_sU2e64TsDyOCksVo6EnXWg
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AI’s moving alarmingly fast already
Downing Street breaks silence on ‘human extinction’ fears
The Prime Minister said the pioneering technology “offers huge opportunities” but there are also “risks”.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2248560/AI-extinction-OpenAI-Grok-Anthropic-Andy-Burnham-Labour?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1789415684
Andy Burnham has backed AI chiefs publicly discussing the potential threat of supercomputers wiping out humanity.
The Prime Minister said the pioneering technology “offers huge opportunities” but there are also “risks”.
Dario Amodei, the boss of AI company Anthropic, said on Saturday he was concerned that since this summer, AI has been “advancing drastically faster”.
Given the rate of development, Mr Amodei said he was worried that within six to 12 months, AI could be capable of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet.
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Explainer: Why is everyone talking about AI and the end of the world?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/1383856/explainer-why-is-everyone-talking-about-ai-and-the-end-of-the-world?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUWPOdjbGNrBRY80nBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe1HdbksroPQmblsblvS76Pa2vkQyp8oTFMevEdFRI_iAURaMHzwQI1yTluR8_aem_ejtuKOKluPZUOjTBWxUQ5w
Explainer – The debate over artificial intelligence and how dangerous it is has reached warp speed in the past few days.
The head of one of the world’s biggest AI companies is calling for development to slow down as some warn the technology “could kill us all”, while US President Donald Trump has dismissed anti-AI rhetoric as “sick”.
Many say the debate is getting increasingly urgent.
“I think it’s the most important thing happening in the world right now,” John Steidley, an AI researcher at Californian nonprofit Palisade Research, told RNZ’s Morning Report.
It’s all moving incredibly fast, but here’s a quick look at what has triggered the latest rounds of AI concern and what power brokers and politicians are saying.
Why is everyone suddenly freaking out?
Dario Amodei, the CEO of leading AI company Anthropic, posted an essay over the weekend urging developers to slow down and add safety standards.
It’s set off a firestorm of debate from the White House on down on a technology that is making headline news around the world, but is moving so fast that it’s difficult for many people to even fully understand what it’s doing.
“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei wrote, putting forward a three-step plan that would call for independent evaluators over safety, coordination between firms over their own standards and
international cooperation to manage AI risks.
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said they agreed with Amodei’s concerns.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” said Jacob Coxon, who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic before he posted his warning on social media.