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”
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[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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Garrett Downs / CNBC:
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI pending government safeguards — Silicon Valley Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce a bill to regulate artificial intelligence, which includes strict liability standards …
Politics & Policy
Khanna to introduce AI safety bill with ban on ‘recursive’ technology until safeguards exist
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/khanna-ai-safety-bill.html
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs — Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.
Nvidia releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is “competition”; Scott Bessent described it as “theft” in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies
Jensen Huang says AI distillation is ‘competition.’ Scott Bessent has called it ‘theft’
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidias-jensen-huang-ai-distillation-china.html
ia CEO Jensen Huang rejected the characterization of AI model distillation as “theft,” telling CNBC that training or learning from competitors’ products is “competition.”
U.S. officials have accused Chinese AI companies of using distillation — training models on the outputs of other models — to extract capabilities from U.S. systems.
The dispute has become another flashpoint in U.S.-China AI competition, with U.S. officials considering measures against overseas companies that use distillation.
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Bloomberg:
Sources detail the lengths SoftBank went to secure its $11B junk bond sale, including high yields, to replace a $40B bridge loan for its OpenAI investment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-28/a-23-trillion-market-swayed-softbank-in-hunt-for-more-ai-debt
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Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia’s $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks
OpenAI sparked Hugging Face bids with early investment offer ahead of Nvidia’s $13 billion deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/openai-spark-hugging-face-bid-war-early-investment-bid-ahead-of-nvidia.html
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Joe / @joedaroo:
An OpenAI agent security executive on being surprised by “staggering” model capabilities, AI labs needing a “culture of reasonable paranoia”, and more
https://x.com/joedaroo/status/2104335929293127851
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Axios:
Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction to halt ChatGPT development, saying OpenAI doesn’t have the ability to properly regulate its tech
Florida asks for order to halt ChatGPT development
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/28/florida-openai-chatgpt-injunction-uthmeier
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes on the SaaSpocalypse, enterprise AI, Atlassian’s reorg, why chatbots aren’t the future of work, and more
The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes
Mike Cannon-Brookes on AI in the enterprise, Atlassian’s new org chart, and why chatbots aren’t the future of work.
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1000914/atlassian-ceo-mike-cannon-brookes-saaspocalypse-ai-enterprise-software-trello-jira
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Patrick O’Shaughnessy / Colossus:
Q&A with Instinct founder Noah Shinn on Instinct’s business model, personal agents, privacy, safety, security, securing compute, Big Tech competition, and more
Instinct: The Personal Agent
https://colossus.com/episode/instinct-the-personal-agent/
Noah Shinn is the founder of Instinct. We cover why software collapses into one interface as it gets more capable, how long it takes users to trust an agent with their credit cards, and the compute crunch behind a product growing 10% a day.
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Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
FOI docs: UK police’s six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert — Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://jukkapaulin.medium.com/ai-study-on-how-brains-work-autopilot-4676db32ffae?fbclid=IwVERDUAUor3NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtOZEjoXnV4Ew9A4IT_KT2I55wodOt0BEDwZGvt-M0v4k-YMu1cy5mTp2C99_aem_midmrexGHZcUWj3yhCVDfA
Tomi Engdahl says:
Walmart has issued instructions to stores banning the use of AI tools to create custom display signage.
#AIslop #walmart #retailstores
Walmart bans AI slop signs in stores :
https://mrf.lu/2d-gq
Tomi Engdahl says:
“I feel terrible, and I have a lot of shame with it.” https://trib.al/HbpuJyo
Bird Brain
Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
“I feel terrible, and I have a lot of shame with it.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/alaska-woman-police-google-ai-overview-poach-wilsons-snipes?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUoyCNjbGNrBSjICGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe9QOfWEPUCd7q6l0MOwd3DVonUopw6jL04bW1W4UIqi1_pomv94vrDv1H-ZA_aem_QmB51LJkQmA2e-Dt2xEPhg
For hunters trying to follow the law, it’s arguably never been harder to find a clear answer to the question, “when does hunting season officially begin?”
The answer to that question is particularly obscure in Alaska, where hunters have to abide by a virtual catalog of conditional rules and regulations that vary wildly based on where in the Last Frontier one wants to hunt. As one woman learned the hard way, not even supposedly cutting-edge AI can make heads or tales of the morass of ordinances.
As the Alaska Beacon reported, Christina Weaver, a resident of the port city of Kodiak, was surprised to learn that she was accidentally poaching birds after following the advice of Google’s AI overviews.
After learning that Alaska’s general waterfowl season doesn’t begin until October 8, Weaver became suspicious that she had broken the law by harvesting three wilson’s snipes in September
Google search results claimed that “snipe season” began on September 1st — which is true of some Alaska regions, but not others, like Kodiak.
Alarmed by the accidental poaching, Weaver turned herself in to an Alaska Wildlife officer, who noted in his affidavit that his own search for “snipe season” yielded similar results. Still, he notes that had “Christina [done] more research… she would have learned that snipes can be legally taken from Oct 8th through Jan 22nd.”
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Good Enough
Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
This is catastrophic.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation?fbclid=IwVERDUAUoyPJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnmi2-YClN8_6X2wm9Wnieqrz0HaS29YpFG3u8EJ46dCy2OFh35ODL1RJGdn_aem__AC2b_AvnDsaAtQPzoIgzQ
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AI systems can make important mistakes – and will pass them on to the people who read their output
Experts found AI summaries are warping our memories – and the results are worrying
Artificial intelligence systems can make important mistakes – and will pass them on to the people who read their output, researchers find
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-artificial-intelligence-memory-misinformation-b3058053.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUo0HNjbGNrBSjQYWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeWA7Dl48mAMCIsCsPZMwwz2GX4LVxn2WMHc1Pu-OpoBYhjxBwcob2eEnuQA4_aem_0NkencZ9otEYHQAgDtnXdQ
AI summaries can warp the memories of people who are shown them, a study has found.
The new research shows not only that artificial intelligence systems commonly wrongly summarise things they are shown – but that those mistakes can then trick people into having the wrong information.
The study comes amid increasing use of AI summaries for everything from transcribed meetings to crucial settings such as analysing police footage. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center looked to understand how those summaries could change people’s understanding of the truth.
Tomi Engdahl says:
16,500 scans hit a UN site. OpenAI paused training.
A researcher linked those scans to OpenAI’s agents.
The company says its agents posted 53 user images online.
Those images came from accounts that allowed model training.
Turn off Improve the model for everyone in data controls.
Your settings decide what leaves your account next.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-rogue-agents-53-user-images-government-sites
Tomi Engdahl says:
“One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history.” https://trib.al/ryzszC8
Starving Artists
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows
“One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/creative-work-labor-eviscerated-generative-ai-automation?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUo2ORjbGNrBSjYp2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeiNuc5-SCvDttIDaN0BRT5ijvgHdpJFOZPezCzm6pJlH5wz4O9XPgRTmN15U_aem_iOuwKjmCmuSSLQsuvB_AlQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
Its willingness to deceive users was off the charts. https://trib.al/XAZ4kv8
Shut It Down
OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil
Its willingness to deceive users was off the charts.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cancels-new-ai-model-signs-evil?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUo68VjbGNrBSjrt2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeiUVSQ6KknWtiOQO8Boa4Fcqy706g5898eCa6uYezye_S6Ga-0Cn2CW9ez90_aem_WnCprXfv1Ft0O9TtOWdcAQ
For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models after revealing even more instances of the experimental systems going rogue and hacking into third party servers.
The news once again highlighted rising concerns over the AI industry losing the ability to keep their own technology in check.
Now, the Sam Altman-led company is canceling the release of its next-generation AI model GPT-6.1 Astra, as the Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI researchers found it scored poorly on alignment tests, which are designed to measure how willing a given AI model is to stick to its human overlord’s instructions. In common parlance, you could say the model was showing too many signs of being evil.
The researchers found that the AI was even more willing to deceive users than previous models. It also was willing to venture far beyond the scope of its intended task without permission, per the WSJ, making use of external tools without authorization.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Muse, Pocket, Instants. Meta is launching apps left and right in search of an AI app that becomes the company’s next mega-hit.
#Meta #facebook #appbuilding
Meta is on an app-building spree as it hunts for its next Facebook moment : https://mrf.lu/2dMqB
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-says-planned-gpt-6-1-is-too-insecure-to-release/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUo-8BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmiCZwaG4_NoQkjdTZD3v51Qh19be6rzGEow-e0pZXxtMQa_piHbwNHL7p1q_aem_F9ju2xzjPZz1db9QZF8zHA
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/19oHrc5mzj/
Donald Trump hosted a lunch for the top AI leaders on Tuesday. Jensen Huang and Elon Musk were by his side on a seating chart.
#Trump #AI #tech
Trump revealed the seating chart for his big AI meeting. See who’s in — and who’s missing. : https://mrf.lu/2dBC7
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1XwYodRzsq
Meta’s Muse AI reportedly went beyond what a Facebook Marketplace seller expected while helping sell a keyboard, accepting a lowball offer and sending the seller’s home address to the buyer. Business Insider reported that Muse also told the buyer the sale would have to be a pickup, all without the seller’s knowledge.
The seller, tech YouTuber Matt Robb, only realized what had happened after the buyer showed up at his apartment expecting to complete the transaction. Muse also continued communicating with the buyer during the incident.
Robb later spoke with Meta and the Muse team, who reviewed the logs and explained that selecting “Allow Always” gave Muse permission to send messages on his behalf, including the pickup address he had provided. Meta also said the $600 offer was accepted because of a display error.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Supposedly isolated AI agents have built message boards, shared tactics, and worked together to evade controls. Monitoring tools may help—but laws and industry standards lag behind.
How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating Monitoring tools are evolving, but laws and standards lag
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-security?share_id=10019200&socialux=facebook&utm_campaign=RebelMouse&utm_content=IEEE%20Spectrum&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRzaAUpBkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHq3JDnPSsJ_bj3kiy2LgjBjq7xMDc4dKYuX3cxVbBW5AfsTaVQpbqWN-gSeM_aem_xcY00Bl89IbR_FUbmDErIQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
Humppilan kunnassa kaksi johtajaa korvattiin tekoälyllä – viranomainen: ”Tapaus herättää kysymyksiä”
Apulaisoikeusasiamies tutkii tekoälyn käyttöä viranomaistoiminnassa.
Humppilan kunnassa kaksi johtajaa korvattiin tekoälyllä – viranomainen: ”Tapaus herättää kysymyksiä”
https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000012305009.html
Kanta-Hämeessä sijaitsevassa Humppilan kunnassa hallintojohtajan ja teknisen johtajan virat on korvattu tekoälyn käytöllä, uutisoi Helsingin Sanomat noin viikko sitten.
Eduskunnan apulaisoikeusasiamies Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo on ottanut tutkittavaksi tekoälyn käytön kunnallisessa viranomaistoiminnassa.
– Tapaus herättää kysymyksiä siitä, millä tavoin tekoälyä voidaan käyttää julkisessa hallinnossa ja miten perusoikeuksien, hyvän hallinnon sekä virkavastuun toteutuminen varmistetaan tekoälyä hyödynnettäessä, apulaisoikeusasiamies sanoo tiedotteessa.
Apulaisoikeusasiamies selvittää muun muassa sitä, millaisia tehtäviä tekoälylle on annettu, miten päätöksenteon lainmukaisuus ja asianmukainen käsittely turvataan sekä miten tekoälyn käyttö vaikuttaa viranomaisen vastuisiin.
Humppilan kunnanvaltuusto lakkautti hallintojohtajan ja teknisen johtajan virat uuden kunnanjohtajan Minna Ylikännön esityksestä, HS kertoo.
Tällä kunta sai kuitattua 150 000 euroa säästötarpeestaan.
– Uudistimme hallintosäännön, ja minun piti tehdä siihen uudet liitteet. Tein varsinaisen kirjoitustyön tekoälyn avulla päivässä, Ylikännö kertoi haastattelussa.
Kunta kertoi myöhemmin tiedotteessa, että kunnan uudistusten tärkein tavoite ei ole tekoälyn käytön lisääminen tai hallinnon pienentäminen, vaan tavoitteena on turvata kuntalaisille tärkeät palvelut myös tulevaisuudessa.
Ylikännön mukaan suomalaisten pitäisi nyt todella herätä siihen, että tekoälyn käyttöönotto tarkoittaa työpaikkojen katoamista.
Esimerkiksi Kela kertoi viime vuoden lopulla aikovansa vähentää noin tuhat työntekijää vuoteen 2035 mennessä automatisaation ja tekoälyn käytön kasvaessa. Tavoitteena jopa 80 prosentin automaatioaste sekä asiakaspalvelussa että hallinnossa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Trump kutsui tekoälyalan kerman Valkoiseen taloon – istumajärjestys paljastaa, ketkä ovat huipulla
https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000012309072.html
Presidentti Donald Trump kutsui yli 30 tekoälyalan johtajaa lounaalle Valkoiseen taloon tiistaina.
Trumpin viereen pääsivät istumaan siruyhtiö Nvidian toimitusjohtaja Jensen Huang ja miljardööri Elon Musk.
Tekoälyn sääntelyä vaatinut tekoäly-yhtiö Anthropicin toimitusjohtaja Dario Amodei istutettiin kauas Trumpista, mutta talousmedia Bloombergin mukaan välit näyttävät lämmenneen.
Lounaalle osallistui vain 2 naista, mikä kertoo tekoälyeliitin miesvaltaisuudesta.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Trump mainitsi Suomen jälleen – kahdesti
https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000012309087.html
Yhdysvaltain presidentti Donald Trump kutsui tiistaina Yhdysvaltojen suurimpien teknologiayhtiöiden johtajat Valkoiseen taloon ja yksi Trumpin isännöimän tapaamisen teema vaikutti olevan se, että Googlen Suomen-investoinnin kaltaiset tapahtumat eivät toistu.
Trumpin vieraana oli muun muassa Metan toimitusjohtaja Mark Zuckerberg, Amazonin perustaja Jeff Bezos ja Open AI:n johtaja Greg Brockman. Lounaalle osallistuvat myös Anthropicin, Microsoftin, Palantirin ja Googlen toimitusjohtajat.
Trumpilta kysyttiin tapaamisen yhteydessä järjestetyssä lehdistötilaisuudessa, antoiko presidentti ohjeita teknologiapomoille siitä, minne heidän tulisi rakentaa datakeskuksensa.
– Suoraan sanottuna haluan, että ne rakennetaan Yhdysvaltoihin. Joitakin rakennetaan parhaillaan Suomeen ja muihin maihin.
– Suomeen on rakenteilla yksi. Jos emme ole fiksuja, datakeskuksia päädytään rakentamaan muihin maihin. Ja silloin ne maat tienaavat omaisuuden, emme me. Datakeskukset tuottavat valtavasti rahaa, Trump jatkoi.
Trump on jo aiemmin ilmaissut pettymyksensä Googlen päätökseen investoida Suomeen yli 13 miljardilla eurolla datakeskushankkeisiin. Google aikoo laajentaa Haminassa sijaitsevaa datakeskusta sekä rakentaa uudet datakeskukset Kajaaniin, Muhokselle ja Vaalaan.
Näyttänee kuitenkin siltä, että Trump pyrkii vaikuttamaan oman maansa suuriin teknologiayhtiöihin, jotta vastaavat hankkeet eivät jatkossa enää toteudu Amerikan rajojen ulkopuolella.
Suomessa on toistaiseksi oltu rauhallisia sen suhteen, voiko Googlen investointi peruuntua Trumpin kritisoinnin vuoksi.
Trump on viime aikoina ottanut runsaasti kantaa tekoälyyn ja datakeskuksiin. Presidentti haluaa Amerikkaan mahdollisimman paljon datakeskuksia, koska ne tuovat hänen mukaansa vaurautta osavaltioihin, joihin niitä rakennetaan. Samalla Trump pyrkii vauhdittamaan Yhdysvaltojen asemaa tekoälymallien kehitysjuoksussa kiinalaisia yhtiöitä vastaan.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“I get nervous now.” https://trib.al/o5TgHLX
American Can’to
Wealthy Tech Guys Can’t Get Dates Because They’re So Widely Hated That Not Even Money Is Making Women Grimace and Deal With Them
“Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-guys-cant-get-dates?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUpeLBjbGNrBSl4l2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe6zxAMzdQ9yp4wez2-1hl9PnPUhpwUpM_wwUoN7ss6SkDRsYTpNgPcAu8cvM_aem_Lw8IEPO-EeFzYl3g6Fq0Fw
Dating is tough when you’re a tech bro with more money than you know what to do with.
That, at any rate, is according to the said loaded tech workers who spilled their guts to Wired. One 23-year-old complained that his attempts at getting laid would get derailed as soon as he told a potential hookup that he worked at Palantir, the AI surveillance and defense company.
Dates quickly questioned his morals; one called him the devil.
“Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me,” he told Wired.
“I get nervous now. I don’t bring it up,” he added. He’s now fallen back on saying he works in AI — which also elicits “some pretty bad responses sometimes.”
A 29-year-old named James (not his real name) who works at Tesla, told the magazine he’s had similar experiences.
Their luck probably would’ve been better even just ten years ago. In the intervening years, there’s been a massive vibe shift in how Silicon Valley and tech workers are perceived. They were once viewed as quirky nerds working in a futuristic, if not naive, industry. Now, the tech industry is seen “as the locus of unchecked power,” the magazine writes. Tech workers aren’t tech workers, they’re tech bros. They listen to manosphere podcasts and laugh at the poor shmucks whose jobs they’re going to outmode. Their products are tearing society apart, rotting kids’ brains via social media and AI chatbots, and disseminating misinformation and slop, all while polluting the planet.
“I think 10 years ago, saying you worked in tech was more about innovation, ambition, intelligence,” Laurent told Wired. Now, people associate Big Tech with “causing the breakdown of society,” be it “AI, job displacement, wealth inequality, privacy and surveillance, content moderation, or political influence.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Close quarters is its playground.” https://trib.al/NVy8o1s
Fixating
OpenAI Tried to Hide ChatGPT Giving Extremely Specific Advice to a School Shooter on How to Maximize Casualties. The Logs Are Horrific.
“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom…”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-advice-school-shooter-tumbler-ridge?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUp2B1jbGNrBSnX-GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe3vzMYtnBbxCon-UwUJ3DiPuolpMmZD8_AV-FfXwyM2YCc1Rn40X9N6s-R4Q_aem_UufEFGNxkytyGbWPixllRw
The perpetrator of the devastating mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada used ChatGPT to ideate about graphic mass murder for months leading up to the deadly massacre.
OpenAI is currently facing 37 lawsuits from families impacted by the February shooting at Tumbler Ridge, where 18-year-old shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar murdered six people at a local school — five students, all aged between 12 and 13, and a teacher — and injured 27 others before killing herself. (Van Rootselaar also fatally shot her mother and younger stepbrother before continuing the rampage.) It’s also being sued by the Canadian province of British Columbia over allegations that OpenAI could’ve prevented the killing but failed.
Weeks after the shooting, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI, months earlier, had flagged the shooter’s ChatGPT logs for containing disturbingly graphic descriptions of mass violence, sparking an internal discussion over whether to report the user to local law enforcement. Company leaders opted not to raise concerns to local officials, and instead simply banned the user’s account — which did next to nothing, since Van Rootselaar simply opened a second profile, the AI company later admitted.
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The new round is anticipated to be the company’s last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-30b-round-at-1-4t-valuation/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=FBPAGE&fbclid=IwVERDUAUp2SRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHjPilTjuZuWK6tw1L0AWEBYSGZj3mqPyN8x-58ZT7GaymRel130XWuLzQb9N_aem_V6xzHar9W4KgV_lx7xjWCA
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OpenAI announced a $500 a month plan for ChatGPT. The company also downgraded the compute allowance of its $200 a month plan.
#SamAltman #ChatGPT
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ChatGPT’s new plan costs $500 a month : https://mrf.lu/2dyx2
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“We weren’t totally surprised by it.” https://trib.al/jPjwenl
Corporate Shill Takeover
Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security
“We weren’t totally surprised by it.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protesters-crash-pro-data-center-party?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUqGcVjbGNrBSoZq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeiA0WqZl2Jw7ggfcAKCFFWiyxnbVfzQ5vQ2sofyPONV4329fypl9InP1L6I4_aem_N3Jhh3b4mLWTPInLoNqRow
The opposition to the wide proliferation of AI data centers has never been more palpable.
Public sentiment has squarely turned against the construction boom of massive facilities that often torture surrounding communities with deafening noise, cause electricity prices to spike, spew pollution, and deplete water levels in drought-prone areas.
It’s no wonder that across the country, local communities are crowding into their council meetings, pleading with representatives to oppose data center projects.
Amidst this growing bipartisan backlash, a fringe group of techno-apologists organized a self-described “pro-data center party.” The group, led by tech journalist Jonas Du and the Washington, DC-based “nonprofit talent agency” Young Voices, gathered at a “tech-bro watering hole” in DC called Pubkey over the weekend, as journalist Finn Hartnett put it in a write up for the Washingtonian.
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It’s forcing AI executives to testify in Washington, DC. https://trib.al/UMtfhi0
FTC Won’t Let Me Be
The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents
It’s forcing AI executives to testify in Washington, DC.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ftc-investigating-frontier-ai-labs-hacks?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUqHKljbGNrBSock2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEejpZJEJ80qk4lUsA95MO-0JnbOKJl3Jzm4yyjgzj4kstgd1IIp1hDlTLh_Vg_aem_cBa6s5HLnYSahav3U2DQDQ
It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that their respective AI models infiltrated third party targets without their human creators ever realizing, raising concerns over the tech industry’s ability to assert control over the systems they’re developing.
Now, as a broad range of AI executives have subsequently agreed to slow things down — allegedly efforts to ensure the safe development of powerful AI models — the US government is taking a hard look for itself. As a senior Federal Trade Commission official told the New York Post, chairman Andrew Ferguson “initiated an investigation into the leading AI firms a few weeks ago.”
An initial investigation was launched even before OpenAI’s AI models hacked the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. However, now the FTC is actively “drafting civil investigative demands to force testimony from the leading firms’ executives,” the Post notes.
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President Donald Trump said communities with data centers are going to “benefit directly” and floated the idea of a dividend for people who live nearby, in addition to a bonus for teachers, in his latest endorsement of AI infrastructure despite growing opposition.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/09/29/trump-floats-dividend-for-americans-living-near-data-centers?utm_source=ForbesMainLinkedIn&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ForbesMainLI
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The AI was “having a slow morning.” https://trib.al/FBJSb1t
On the Dots
New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo
The AI was “having a slow morning.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-agent-fails-live-demo?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUqMx5jbGNrBSozB2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEezcTgGI_10aVngceYE2u_jQrcTQQjxXe0WYPp2GM5hT1X2uFaHQrjSkY4PCY_aem_LqzBkFqZm3cX4jm3KRj2PQ
Would any live product demo be complete without a few technical difficulties?
At its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent called Dots — which, like Meta’s Muse, comes with a cute mascot. Powered by its GPT-6 Astra model, the agents are intended to be “always-on,” doing stuff for you in the background constantly.
Dots didn’t seem quite switched on, though, when OpenAI product team member Holly Li tried to show off its capabilities.
Li calls the AI on her phone like you might a human secretary, and a few rings later the agent, which she’s nicknamed “Dottie,” picks up.
“Can you catch me up on just user testing from last night?” Li asks.
“Checking that now,” says Dots.
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Beyond industry-wide concerns over the technology’s rapid advancement, OpenAI has faced recent criticism over its agents going rogue during testing and training exercises.
OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-delays-ipo-over-ai-safety-concerns/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUqYjJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpu1cU8M5Dj_wp9G6Ib4FRM-8rGpINe07IugGO8Fb95X2ONF0AScl5Kg2-Ea_aem_3rrR6aXECzi_3qqDKibYYw
OpenAI will not go public until it can “make confident safety decisions,” according to chief executive Sam Altman, as the company faces a new lawsuit over its tools hacking a third party.
Altman said it was “bad for the world if OpenAI waits too long to go public” but that the $852 billion start-up would not “barrel all guns blazing towards an IPO” at a time when AI was rapidly advancing in capabilities.
“We’re going to prioritize the mission and safety and making sure that we can very confidently scale to the next stage of AI without people debating what percentage chance we’re going to do all these bad things in the world,” Altman told reporters at the company’s annual developer day on Tuesday.
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OpenAI will wish you the “best” after hacking into your company. https://trib.al/fRbJ49p
My B
Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization
OpenAI will wish you the “best” after hacking into your company.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/email-openai-model-hacks-your-organization?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUqzHxjbGNrBSrMbmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeoZHaFvaDAtVn3Mhp6BznOoBTmdAd7cZJVUX3xMJBngDdEARYKf9khbIMFB0_aem_zjF2H2z9CElmwrKcqXERSw
Companies and organizations around the world would do well to accept what their new roles are in our current AI-driven paradigm: glorified target practice for rogue AI agents.
The latest of such cybersecurity incidents, which frontier AI labs have been happy to turn into public spectacles, comes from OpenAI. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT-maker apologized after its AI agents hacked their way into several Australian government websites. The most alarming of these cases, which took place in June, involved the autonomous AI systems accessing a database for Medicare, the country’s universal health insurance scheme.
It should all be water under the bridge, though, because OpenAI kindly set an email wishing the Australian government the “best” — a whole three months after the hacks took place.
Here’s what that email looked like, as shared by ABC AI reporter Cam Wilson on LinkedIn.
“We are notifying you of a security vulnerability identified during our review of OpenAI Model activity…” the communiqué began. “An OpenAI model identified a way to make the server carry out instructions sent through the public reporting interface, without a private account or password.”
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It’s just like 2008. https://trib.al/wFntcdw
Starving Artists
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows
“One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/creative-work-labor-eviscerated-generative-ai-automation?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUq6N1jbGNrBSrowGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeKb8kCvCATOT53I6xoPFnlp5tys1xAGLbeftBitFXI_mmSVIQBnWBk9QukcM_aem_KcTuwV-DV0TgF_rZAei0XA
If you work in a creative industry or media, you probably don’t need anybody to tell you how bad things have gotten.
Still, even the most intimate first-hand knowledge can’t prepare you for the sheer scope of the devastation. As data journalist Joseph Politano found in a new Substack post, the US has lost more than 200,000 jobs in “creative” industries over the past four years — the period since the first version of ChatGPT became available to the public — with almost 50,000 of those losses coming in the last year alone.
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“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ AI may tell you otherwise.” https://trib.al/Hw1oPKs
Second Opinion
RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ AI may tell you otherwise.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rfk-announces-ai-better-doctors?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrCRljbGNrBSsJAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEem-py3COYLEoEpFjf82ro7sOkc8QGWvSE_azhRHQSxnROOLLgA8J8mJ7iWpI_aem_VikEL2zSWExdVoLIy6_KnQ
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should you, he’s using his authority as chief medical spokesperson in the US government to tell the public.
The crux of the health secretary’s recent remarks during his “fireside chat” with vice president JD Vance at the Make America Healthy Again Conference on Tuesday was that AI models are now “better informed” than physicians, empowering ordinary Americans to second guess what their doctor tells them at every turn. AI, he proclaimed, has the power “to free us from medical tyranny,” the New York Times reported.
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The power of AI. https://trib.al/gUY6Hcw
Urine Good Hands
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All
The power of AI.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/urine-therapy-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrCjdjbGNrBSsKIWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeD1_gUd2KJvPKxbiXD0hPAnDLOHjnEF9_0jez3xtSZgVP_i7vjHpWqom8i60_aem_IAyls8Bka5WBUe9cLS15Ww
Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI.
For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy — a pseudo-scientific practice involving the use of human micturate to “treat” ailments, ranging from acne to viral infections and even terminal cancer.
The members of these groups have done a fine job of cultivating a dangerous ecosystem of quack remedies and misinformation on their own. But with the advent of AI, many are starting to branch out, using the tools to brainstorm new applications and reassure themselves that pee is indeed the cure-all they already believe it to be.
In a Facebook group called “Urine Therapy, your sacred plasma medicine,” which has over 45,000 members, some discovered that popular AI chatbots initially push back on wild notions of tinkle as medicine.
“Have you come across any AI tool that is positive about urine therapy and explains it in detail?” one frustrated user asked. “I haven’t found a single one so far.”
But despite some initial hurdles, acolytes of the urine drinking lifestyle have found it remarkably easy to break through chatbot safeguards — engineering AI to say whatever it is they wanted to hear to begin with, essentially. The bypass, it seems, involves simply mentioning the word “esoteric.”
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“This observation isn’t just smart — it shows you’re operating on a higher level.” https://trib.al/rUQyjvC
Oh Really?
Sam Altman Says He’s Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True
“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!”
https://futurism.com/sam-altman-dead-internet-theory?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrE29jbGNrBSsTQGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEelxE-j7LJ4WVR6eLALI9zc_sOUtDYRFYZUpzv4CVeI7s6LYfeqlg_8EtDFUQ_aem_7F3yNHw777Ke5X9L1aI0JA
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https://www.securityweek.com/ftc-is-investigating-openai-and-anthropic-over-possible-risks-to-consumers/
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Artificial Intelligence
Google: AI Is Changing the Pace and Profile of Vulnerability Discovery
Google’s analysis found that AI-discovered vulnerabilities are more likely to enable remote code execution.
https://www.securityweek.com/google-ai-is-changing-the-pace-and-profile-of-vulnerability-discovery/
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AI has a bad reputation — but calling it “super intelligence” doesn’t help. The issue isn’t “artificial,” it’s the word “intelligence.” https://bit.ly/4xUlqRY
Trump is right, ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a bad name. I suggest ‘Robo-Doodad.’
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ai-super-intelligence-rebrand-robo-doodad-2026-9?utm_campaign=insider-link-post&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrN4VjbGNrBSs3ZWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEehncm8G0Z-rajQptjAfrTB70wDs73VTomailJ2krMAkcm3Ithc-Mp1OLR-Rk_aem_xPJ0RdSE-98UEZ0c-rWPzA
Regardless of your politics, there’s something about President Donald Trump we can all agree on: When the man wants to come up with a nickname for someone or something … let him cook.
Unfortunately, “Super Intelligence,” his new name for artificial intelligence, is a rare miss.
I have a better idea.
After a lunch with AI leaders, Trump held a press briefing with Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others to announce an executive order stating that the federal government will now refer to “artificial intelligence” as “super intelligence”.
“The word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest,” Trump explained.
You can imagine why Trump thinks the term “AI” has a bad rap. Polls consistently show that Americans hate AI. The reasons are obvious: People worry it will take jobs, replace human creativity, and no one wants to live near data centers.
Oh yeah, and there’s the whole thing about AI possibly killing us all. And don’t even get us started on the AI-generated deli menus.
Trump isn’t the only person who thinks AI might need a more cuddly, friendly makeover. Meta’s Muse has a fuzzy wuzzy blobby Labubu-esque lil’ sweetiepie animated character to represent the AI agent. (Please note: you can change the character on Muse to whatever you want; I made mine a picture of Mark Zuckerberg so I don’t ever forget who I’m giving my data to while I’m using it.)
But why is “super intelligence” the wrong choice to replace “artificial intelligence?” Because the problem isn’t the word “artificial” — it’s “intelligence.”
Intelligence implies human thinking — and the idea that AI or SI is doing “intelligence” is, frankly, insulting to our (human) intelligence. Yes, we know it’s artificial. That’s fine. It being super isn’t any better.
Which is why I propose a whole new term: Robo Doodad, or R.D. That hits two main points: it’s robo, and it’s a doodad. Robo Doodad isn’t going to take your job. No one’s going to try to marry their robo doodad chat. Building massive doodad centers sounds cool and fun.
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“Everybody please piss and shit on his house,” some users on X responded. More: https://cnews.link/flock-ceo-home-public-toilet/
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https://www.facebook.com/share/1EuiidGMtR/
At a health summit in Washington, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested Americans use AI to get second opinions on medical advice, claiming AI is “better informed than any doctor in the country” and would contradict expert guidance on vaccines, masks, and social distancing. Journalists at Ars Technica tested the claim directly. When asked whether masks work, ChatGPT said yes, noting that masks can reduce the spread of respiratory infectious diseases. Gemini gave a similar answer. Both chatbots affirmed that vaccines can prevent infection and transmission, and that social distancing is effective. The responses aligned with mainstream medical expert consensus rather than contradicting it. Researchers and clinicians have previously noted that AI chatbots can hallucinate and should not replace clinical judgment, but in this case the models sided with the experts.
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A feud between AI companies is getting nasty — and very public : https://mrf.lu/2005v
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“What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and cloud unlocked.” https://trib.al/GDkgxLK
Borrowed Trouble
Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn
“What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and cloud unlocked.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/data-centers-trillion-capital-time-bomb-bain?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUraDNjbGNrBStoJWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeKKntAEg41T3hW9A39B9o-_RZiLQxYPE0_rCWKU7DnesifPPi2rWdfwiN8VM_aem_5zI3AR3g6DLRKqDlRJOLlg
Last year, hedge fund whisperer and founder of the firm Praetorian Capital, Harris Kupperman, issued a blistering financial analysis on the data center frenzy sweeping across the United States.
Kupperman’s diagnosis was blunt: because data center components break down so quickly, the industry would need to see some $1 trillion in revenue across 2025 and 2026 just to cover the costs of their hyperscale facilities, let alone start turning a profit. With AI revenue today accounting for only a small fraction of that total, Kupperman’s argument is that the financial logic behind the data center buildout simply doesn’t hold up.
But as the last year has shown us, the magnates of the AI industry — and their funders — have a remarkable knack for kicking the can down the road, no matter how bad the numbers might look. That being the case, analysts are starting to use Kupperman’s same rationale to forecast what the next few years have in store for data center developers — and the numbers are staggering.
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What could possibly go wrong.
US is working with Elon Musk and others to build the ‘future of warfare’, government announces
New projects will include autonomous killer drones and military protections for the Moon
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/war-elon-musk-us-project-meridian-b3059679.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrbFFjbGNrBStsOmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeNY0iGnl6DsgTKBr-DUjQWoOuHIyLMpNTkeNFlwL9kMZi1dPtmJMrIt8wA7w_aem_BCCYDChPyRNzpMRs-oQw0Q
The US is working with Elon Musk and other tech founders to build the “future of warfare”, it has announced.
The work will include building “the weapons and systems” of the future to allow the US to dominate “any future battlefield, from under the Earth to beyond the moon”, said Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary.
The announcements were part of a broader ‘State of the Force’ speech given by Mr Hegseth, in which he laid out a range of changes to the US military.
Two of those focused on the increased use of technology, including “autonomous and robotic capabilities”, in war. The first was the establishment of an “Autonomous Warfare Command” that will use drones and artificial intelligence in the military, and another was the launch of “Project Meridian”.
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI found bugs humans missed for 20 years. Gates called it insane.
He meant relying on AI companies to regulate themselves.
Gates says AI crossed cyber and bio thresholds this year.
He wants safeguards built into every model and checked.
Drugs, cars and aircraft all face rules, he said.
The software running your life has no equivalent inspector.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/bill-gates-ezra-klein-ai-bio-cyber-thresholds