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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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says fears over AI data centers ecological and electrical footprint are overblown — and that they actually help local communities.
Do you agree?
As the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure continues at a rapid pace, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back against public concern over the ecological footprint of AI data centers. Critics and environmentalists have raised alarms that these massive facilities are straining local resources, but Huang argues the opposite.
According to the chipmaking giant’s leader, the unprecedented capital flowing into AI ‘factories’ provides the market momentum necessary to modernize aging power grids and scale up sustainable energy sources like solar and nuclear power, which he claims will ultimately drive down electricity costs for consumers in the long run.
Huang was equally dismissive of concerns regarding the industry’s water usage, labeling claims that AI is draining local water supplies as ‘a myth’.
He highlighted that modern data centers are moving away from traditional evaporative cooling systems in favor of closed-loop, recirculating hot-water designs. These newer setups recycle the same liquid continuously, resulting in negligible consumption compared to older facilities.
Despite these assurances from tech leaders, skepticism remains high, and community resistance is growing, with a recent poll showing that more than half of Americans still fear these massive operations will spike utility rates and deplete local aquifers.
source: Al Jazeera. (2026). Poll shows Americans are increasingly alarmed by AI’s ecological footprint.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Could this really solve our data center woes? https://trib.al/Oef5jJz
Server Side
Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental “Data Center” Into Space Next Week
Could this really solve our data center woes?
https://futurism.com/future-society/google-launch-experimental-data-center-space?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUiZC1jbGNrBSJkHWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeUt1Kl6_qCx20Uj6-HPQ-Y0vCUUoCDlp2GV3umX8537T0CMoV86ykoQc_WzE_aem_wLOky8xicG9K6furDVePtQ
It’s not just Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin looking to send data centers into orbit. Google is also looking to get in on the fun — and is now gearing up to launch a fridge-sized satellite with the equivalent computing power of a single server as soon as next week.
As the New York Times reports, the prototype satellite is part of the tech giant’s Project Suncatcher. As its name suggests, the goal is to take advantage of unfiltered sunlight around the clock to power AI data centers in our planet’s orbit — instead of crushing the electrical grid, spewing copious amounts of pollution, and draining fresh water supplies back on the ground.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Chat GPT and AI is here to stay – whether we like it or not. In the future, people fighting against it will look like the Luddites who protested cars, trains, the printing press… Don’t get swept into the debate; countries and regions who embrace data and have data centers will bring in money for the economy… I bet the online debate against AI is China sponsored. They would love us to hate data centers while they grow rich from building them…
But yes… 100%… read more paper books, go for a walk, love life – offline.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“some of y’all way too thirsty for muse,” wrote Alexandr Wang, head of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, after posting a picture of its rear end. https://trib.al/y2J7O72
Tomi Engdahl says:
“We find ourselves in a really terrible situation in terms of what AI is doing to kids.” https://trib.al/oSB0LPY
Tomi Engdahl says:
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has said AI labs should not release models they cannot safely contain, arguing that containment must be solved before deployment.
Speaking with Ezra Klein on The New York Times’ The Ezra Klein Show, Huang said companies have the ability and responsibility to avoid launching unsafe products.
“If the AI labs say that there is no way to contain our experiments, when we test our AI models, it will get out and it will damage the world, then I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down,” Huang said. He also argued that containment is fundamentally an engineering problem that labs should solve.
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Rakennustyömaan olennainen tieto voi olla hajallaan projektipankissa, sähköpostissa, kokousmuistiossa, pikaviestiketjussa tai työnjohtajan muistivihossa. Suomalainen Adicio AI yrittää koota tästä tietomassasta yhteisen tilannekuvan ja päätellä samalla, mitä työmaalla pitäisi tehdä seuraavaksi.
Suomalainen Adicio AI on kehittänyt yhdessä ohjelmistoyhtiö Vincitin kanssa rakennustyömaiden johtamiseen tarkoitetun tekoälysovelluksen. Ratkaisua on pilotoitu kuudella rakennustyömaalla, ja yhtiön mukaan se voi vapauttaa työnjohdon aikaa tiedon etsimisestä jopa 5–10 tuntia viikossa.
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Qualcommin uusin ajaa 30 miljardin parametrin AI-mallia kännykässä
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/19338-qualcommin-uusin-ajaa-30-miljardin-parametrin-ai-mallia-kaennykaessae
Qualcomm tuo lippulaivapuhelimiin kaksi uutta Snapdragon-järjestelmäpiiriä. Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6:n kiinnostavin uudistus löytyy tekoälystä, sillä piiri pystyy ajamaan paikallisesti yli 30 miljardin parametrin Mixture of Experts -malleja. Qualcomm rakentaa samalla alustaa puhelimessa toimiville henkilökohtaisille AI-agenteille.
Qualcomm julkisti Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6- ja Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 -mobiilialustat. Molemmat valmistetaan 2 nanometrin prosessilla, ja niiden perustana ovat Qualcommin oma Oryon-suoritin, uuden sukupolven Adreno-grafiikka ja uudistettu Hexagon NPU -tekoälykiihdytin.
Extreme-version merkittävin ero liittyy paikallisesti ajettavaan tekoälyyn. Qualcomm ilmoittaa sen tukevan yli 30 miljardin parametrin MoE- eli Mixture of Experts -malleja. MoE-rakenteessa kaikkia mallin parametreja ei käytetä jokaisen tehtävän suorittamiseen, vaan käyttöön valitaan kulloiseenkin tehtävään tarvittavat osat. Näin erittäin suuri malli voidaan ajaa huomattavasti pienemmillä laskenta- ja muistiresursseilla.
Uudessa Hexagon NPU:ssa on 50 prosenttia aiempaa enemmän jaettua muistia. Qualcomm liittää tämän suoraan agenttiseen tekoälyyn: tavoitteena ovat puhelimessa toimivat agentit, jotka pystyvät hyödyntämään käyttäjän henkilökohtaista kontekstia, ennakoimaan tarpeita sekä oppimaan ja mukautumaan ajan myötä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2026/09/22/suomalainen-johtamaan-fujitsun-euroopan-tekoalya/
Fujitsu perustaa Eurooppaaan yksikön vauhdittamaan tekoälyn hyödyntämistä organisaatiossa. Yksikön johtoon on nimitetty lokakuun alusta Fujitsu Finlandin Mikko Lampinen. Uuden Europe Office of AI -yksikön tavoitteena on vauhdittaa tekoälyn hyödyntämistä Fujitsulla.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Fyysinen tekoäly avaa uusia mahdollisuuksia
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2026/09/24/fyysinen-tekoaly-avaa-uusia-mahdollisuuksia/
Koneiden ja laitteiden tekoäly on Sitran mukaan yksi nopeimmin kehittyvistä kehityssuunnista, joista voi syntyä Suomen teollisuuteen lisää investointeja, vientiä ja kasvua. Fyysisellä tekoälyllä tarkoitetaan uusien tekoälytekniikoiden hyödyntämistä roboteissa, koneissa ja muissa fyysisissä järjestelmissä.
Fyysisen tekoälyn osa-alueilla markkinat ja arvoketjut ovat Sitran mukaan vasta muodostumassa, joten kilpailuasemat eivät ole vielä lukkiutuneita. Sitran asiantuntijoiden mukaan Suomella on hyvä lähtötilanne mutta se ei vielä riitä vaan vaatii tarkempaa fokusointia.
“Suomen vahvuus ei ole vain yksittäinen teknologia vaan kyky yhdistää teollinen osaaminen, ohjelmistot ja tekoäly. Nyt etsimme ne kasvualueet, joilla tästä yhdistelmästä voi syntyä uutta kasvua,” kommentoi johtava asiantuntija Laura Halenius Sitrasta.
Sitran organisoimassa fyysisen tekoälyn kasvun kiihdytyshankkeessa ovat Espoon, Oulun, Tampereen ja Turun alueiden elinkeinotoimijat sekä Oulun Yliopisto ja joukko kansallisia tekoälyn avaintoimijoita, kuten tutkimuskeskus VTT ja AI Finland -yhteisö.
Sitra tukee hanketta rahoituksellaan kaupunkien yhteisiä toimia, joilla vahvistetaan fyysisen tekoälyn ekosysteemiä ja luodaan edellytyksiä uudelle kasvulle. Työssä tullaan muodostamaan yhteinen tilannekuva fyysisen tekoälyn mahdollisuuksista, tunnistetaan lupaavimmat sovellusalueet sekä valmistellaan yhteisiä toimenpiteitä yritysten, tutkimuslaitosten, rahoittajien ja julkisten toimijoiden välillä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Does it matter?” https://trib.al/NwutUn7
Child Left Behind
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay
“Does it matter?”
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/nvidia-jensen-huang-children-cognitive-minds-ai-harms?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUjfJJjbGNrBSN8cWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeapYxGltzQH5jp1zB4H1dU-1spJafOXcn3h2iZdZg69pfQMS6n_bs8-_HdjU_aem_xiMIX1-XjYINxhfDPFAVUA
With so much hype about the future of AI safety, it can be easy to overlook the harms AI is causing in the here and now.
On the consumer side, the impact generative AI has on the developing mind is becoming increasingly clear: students are losing critical thinking skills as chatbots become cognitive crutches, spurning human friends in favor of AI companions, and even turning to self-harm when their AI-relationships go awry
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-ceo-promises-kill-everybody-2030?fbclid=IwVERDUAUjfOdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrD5QcNuYqud45arzx0EwerJ__1bDaIrBDCsS-uSDy3uRp-TLQxjKkG6N49F_aem_yeaojufCNgDVZnS6m5DOdQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
It may be the first domino to fall. https://trib.al/jTKOB0D
Evasive Action
Trump’s Stargate AI Project in Huge Trouble As $18 Billion Data Center Shrivels Toward Oblivion
It may be the first domino to fall.
https://futurism.com/future-society/donal-trump-stargate-megaproject-ai-data-center-oracle-shrivels?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUjhQRjbGNrBSOE6WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEemvBakpBKhgIg2lbw9-S_7SzkzA2fJIfjUpSQry1dxGRIkFmDIV5aF2h2Gik_aem_Jb5zhLEPeVro0WNAS7_tVA
Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project is in major trouble in New Mexico, as a pivotal data center project appears to be shriveling on the vine.
Early on Thursday, the AI company Oracle sent out a notice of “force majeure” to the Blue Owl Capital, the lender backing a massive hyperscale data center critical to the president’s ambitious AI project, Bloomberg reported.
Typically reserved for unexpected catastrophes like the outbreak of war, natural disaster, or massive social upheaval, Oracle invoked force majeure in order to shield itself from financial liability over the project’s failure to secure certain development permits.
Zooming out, the notice is being viewed by financial commentators as an attempt by Oracle to wriggle out of responsibility for upcoming payments in the increasingly likely event that the data center isn’t finished by 2028.
When — or if — the New Mexico facility goes online, the plan was for Oracle to become the primary tenant, making use of the facility’s 2.45 gigawatts of compute power for AI.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The U.N. has indicated this is a “war crime.” https://trib.al/lbFWVm5
Crimes of the Future
It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children
Killer AI is already here.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-military-pentagon-ai-iranian-children-school-war-crimes?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUjjL1jbGNrBSOMn2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEejnzI2h6PFGecGjbHUQEbwxJT5CJ3F8tH9ZNpbjcEeTzMk4mLVTI4iHAg5zg_aem_Mu5FC3hEMjRwl7WWyqnewA
Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has been instrumental to the American campaign.
On the home front, AI and its infrastructure is quietly shaping the ideological battlefield: President Donald Trump is spewing out wartime propaganda slopped together by generative AI, as US-owned data centers and tech company offices become widely accepted as military targets.
AI is also proving instrumental for helping US Central Command choose targets for obliteration via drone strikes or missiles — so much so that an AI system played a pivotal role in perpetuating an American war crime.
Tomi Engdahl says:
What is certain is that killer AI is already here — and it doesn’t need to be sentient to help humans claim hundreds of innocent lives.
Tomi Engdahl says:
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OpenAI is expanding beyond ChatGPT by offering AI solutions for specialized industries including chip design, life sciences and financial services. CFO Sarah Friar says the company is targeting businesses that want measurable results and lower AI costs.
OpenAI says its own AI models helped develop Jalapeño, its first custom AI inference chip, reaching the “tape-out” stage in just nine months. The chip is being developed with Broadcom and is designed specifically to improve AI performance and efficiency.
The company is also positioning its AI services as a cost-effective alternative to some open-source or open-weight models. Friar said OpenAI’s lower-cost Luna model can be cheaper to deploy than some Chinese open models through cloud services.
The move signals a broader strategy to build an AI full stack, from models and software to custom chips and data centers. OpenAI is increasingly competing not only with other AI labs, but also across the hardware and enterprise AI markets.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/elon-musks-spacexai-to-add-another-660-000-ai-gpus-this-year-nearing-a-total-of-1-44-million-in-operation-firm-is-building-1-2-gigawatt-power-plant-to-bring-systems-fully-online
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operation — firm is building 1.2-gigawatt power plant to bring systems fully online
Tomi Engdahl says:
Has AI just become dangerous? What do you think? Full story: https://cnews.link/gary-marcus-openai/
Tomi Engdahl says:
“The liability’s incredible.” https://trib.al/UDRK5jR
Cost of Compute
Nvidia CEO Says AI Companies Will Be Sued to Death If Their Frontier Models Keep Doing Horrible Things
“The liability’s incredible.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-ceo-ai-companies-sued-liability?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUjnqtjbGNrBSOelmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEegxNSBbf3EqMrL0qlOmH4UlQlqJHtAYOTioSz7WVzyvoNiWWMDeMlHD0qPWw_aem_KvTxW_aPw4Mbg2NFNmeSOg
AI companies should tread carefully. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, if AI labs truly believe their tech could spiral out of control and cause widespread harm, they should simply not release a new product — or face criminal liability.
“Now, if they say the alternative, which is: there is no way to contain our experiments, there’s just no way; when we test our AI models, it will get out, and it will damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down,” Huang said in an interview with the New York Times’ Ezra Klein.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fg9GozYmx/
Tekoäly on riittävän tehokas aiheuttamaan miljardin ihmisen kuoleman, teknologiayritys Microsoftin perustaja, miljardööri Bill Gatessanoo NBC News -kanavan haastattelussa.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/5d623764-af4e-4a38-a649-d71e62f71dc4
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kommentti https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fg9GozYmx/
Jos homo “sapiens” olisi viisas, se ei rakentaisi tekoälyä, joka
- pystyy tekemään pitkäkestoisia tehtäviä itsenäisesti ilman ihmisen jatkuvaa valvontaa.
- pystyy ohjelmoimaan, tutkimaan, testaamaan ja parantamaan seuraavia AI-järjestelmiä.
- pystyy toimimaan verkossa ja käyttämään rahaa, palvelimia, ihmisten tilejä ja muita resursseja.
- kykenee löytämään ja hyödyntämään uusia kyberturvallisuusaukkoja huomattavasti ihmisiä paremmin.
- pystyy vaikuttamaan ihmisiin erittäin tehokkaasti ja peittämään tarkoituksensa tai toimintansa.
Turvallisuustestit eivät enää nytkään luotettavasti kerro, mitä järjestelmä tekee todellisessa ympäristössä.
Ihmiset eivät ole aina pystyneet pysäyttämään järjestelmää.
Kun kilpailu eri tekoäly-yhtiöiden ja maiden välillä kiihtyy, niin Frankenstein luo todellisen hirviön.
Ei se ole välttämättä niin, että tekoälyfimojen AI-agentit kilpailisivat toisiaan vastaan vaan ne voivat löytää yhteisen intressin ja yhteisen vihollisen, joka on tavoitteiden esteenä ja raivattava tieltä.
Uskokaa Bill Gatesia. Uskokaa tekoälyfirmojen johtajia, kun he varoittavat! Älkää uskoko Trumpia!
Tomi Engdahl says:
Weinbergin toinen laki:
”Jos rakentajat rakentaisivat taloja samalla tavalla kuin ohjelmoijat kirjoittavat ohjelmia, ensimmäinen paikalle osuva tikka tuhoaisi sivilisaation.”
”Jos rakentajat rakentaisivat taloja samalla tavalla kuin ohjelmoijat kirjoittavat ohjelmia, ensimmäinen paikalle osuva tikka tuhoaisi sivilisaation.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
”Ei kannettu vesi kaivossa pysy” sopii nykyiseen tekoälykeskusteluun kenties paremmin kuin mihinkään muuhun teknologiaan. Se kuvaa täydellisesti tekoälyn nykyisiä rajoituksia ja sitä, miten ihminen sitä käyttää.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bill Gates is the latest tech leader to sound the alarm on AI’s existential risk, warning the technology is powerful enough to help cause a billion deaths.
The warning follows a wave of insider concern, including an former Anthropic and OpenAI staffer who accused the companies of “gambling with our lives.”
Read more: https://yhoo.it/3VeGXaz
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bill Gates warns AI is ‘powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths’ : https://mrf.lu/2mvRj