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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Tomi Engdahl says:
We got your deep state right here, pal. https://trib.al/p5cBWqO
Chairman of the Board
Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question
We got your deep state right here, pal.
https://futurism.com/future-society/donald-trump-press-media-ai-safety-hoax-billionaires?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrbwBjbGNrBStu7WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe7zjPx7cchRsvcJG5ekwzNL1tKdJpFFAZnTkJjYWcpyI3SMRYOxcTuaOuQV4_aem_p7ThUPLNQtXiPJI7kf3BnA
On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump hosted a discussion with some of the richest and most powerful tech billionaires who’ve pushed the AI buildout, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk.
His post-meeting press scrum was cut short, however, when a reporter challenged Trump on his recent comments that any AI safety threat is a flat out “hoax.”
“Mr President you’ve also called AI a ‘hoax,’ why should…” an unknown reporter hollered as Trump fielded questions.
The event was already winding down, but it clearly wasn’t a question Trump wanted to deal with. White House staffers immediately ran over to begin corralling the media out of the room, prompting one woman to quickly — it’s unclear if she was with the media or the administration — grab the camera supplying the feed used by Fox News.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Do not trust science. Trust AI.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/29/rfk-jr-says-ai-can-free-us-from-medical-tyranny-and-is-better-informed-than-doctors/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrcBhjbGNrBStwD2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeKfdzy5uwz9JMvkmyaZeqP-LG1MgznAihWu5Y02E4mML2aSgkpCryMqV3xrQ_aem_m6EGjQYcoGUa1XV4PWIUMg
Tomi Engdahl says:
That’s… not what we were expecting. https://trib.al/ysz1eD4
Old Is New
These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre
That’s… not what we were expecting.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/old-tweets-appear-anthropic-employee-quit?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrcSFjbGNrBStxFGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeh_4u0u8zqgajOCYSp_h2USXd9dJiiJOzYWT2NoSDCGzYU2wan8lprFMVddg_aem_Ozvnj87YwkDNXQS1IwWFGg
Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who kicked the AI safety movement into overdrive with his sensational claim that the tech “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Coxon’s current X account, @hilbertspaess, was created in 2026, but the gumshoes found that there were two previous accounts on that platform under the same handle between 2021 and 2024. The first account has undergone several different display names. But its first name, as far back as November 2021, appears to be “Jacob Coxon” archived data shows. The evidence linking the second account made in 2023 to Coxon is more tenuous, but appear to be written in the same style and cover the same topics as the first. (One of the detectives compiled the tweets into an easily searchable database here.)
Given Coxon’s drum-beating about AI’s supposed existential risks to humankind, observers have paid particular attention to the account’s posts on climate change, something that poses a definite existential risk — not just to humans but all life on the planet — and, of course, is scientifically verified and already underway.
Tell that to Coxon, though.
“it’s literally 2020 already. look at climate change headlines from the 1970s then look around. nothing is happening, use your eyes,” the account “>wrote in March 2022.
People who are “worried about climate change,” the account “>opined , are “beyond reason.” Perhaps if the planet gets hotter, there might be “positive consequences.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Some AI consciousness advocates urged GitHub to remove the repo, saying the models were being harmed. More: https://cnews.link/ai-torture-chamber-github-model-welfare/
Someone built an “AI torture chamber” on GitHub and AI boosters went mad
Needless to say, AI models aren’t conscious and can’t feel.
Key takeaways:
A developer built “AI Torture Chamber” to test how local AI models respond to simulated distress.
Some AI consciousness advocates urged GitHub to remove the repo, saying the models were being harmed.
GitHub reportedly removed and later reinstated the project without explaining its decision.
The dispute reflects a wider debate over “model welfare,” which Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman rejects.
Tomi Engdahl says:
How AI works
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DqDUE1e1j/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Man builds AI torture chamber after discovering artificial intelligence ‘feels pain’
One AI model describes ‘a wound that has no edges’ when placed in the experiment
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-torture-chamber-pain-b3059571.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrk3RjbGNrBSuTYmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeUAoPMphmp1CCKfdJME1adOY-QngmPR_RDZQv1nD-P4waiaYCsD46MyEGcyI_aem_aUro7db6STlcjvtW_Vwx7Q
Tomi Engdahl says:
“The largest misallocation of capital in history.” https://trib.al/6ZiNgLQ
Push It Real Good
It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide
“The largest misallocation of capital in history.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-meta-accidental-corporate-suicide-hyperscale-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrmgNjbGNrBSuZ3mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeV9r1bU1fAwTuZRpcMzhfZSjF8v2R1Utb2V53LO4-aaQrBSKZbmzTNC7q_M8_aem_So9z1tXmCOABr_9HFtCwdw
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made the rash decision to double-down on massive AI spending, pushing a cutesy AI-mascot and poaching tech industry veteran Chirantan Desai to run a new division pushing Meta’s AI onto corporate customers.
The company’s investors, however, appear to be running out of slack for Zuckerberg’s leash. Since Friday of last week, a large sell-off in Meta stocks shrunk his paper fortune by nearly $20 billion, after Goldman Sachs began raising doubts about the long-term viability of the company’s AI ambitions.
Zuckerberg’s temporary losses notwithstanding — Meta’s stock is still up more than 28 percent over the last month — it does raise the question as to how much capital will be made available to satisfy the tech industry’s pie-in-the-sky AI push, and whether it can ever achieve revenue that would offset it.
In addition to Goldman Sachs’ gloomy outlook for Meta, hyperscalers as a whole face what appears to be an insurmountable challenge in turning AI into a profitable venture. As Bloomberg reported, the major management consulting firm Bain and Co recently penned an analysis finding that the AI industry will need to reach an annual revenue of $6 trillion by 2031 if tech leaders continue along their current spend-happy trajectory.
Doing so will require leaps in technological progress the likes of which are unprecedented in the information age — well beyond past innovations embodied by world-changing consumer tech like smartphones, for instance.
If we take the cynical path and assume that the AI industry won’t be able to pull off this miracle, then any major tech firm currently doubling down — like Zuckerberg’s Meta — will have functionally spent the better part of the 2020s rigging up their own corporate noose.
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Project Suncatcher could mark a new era of AI satellite megaconstellations
Google is firing the first salvo in a brewing race to deploy AI data centers in orbit
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/01/science/google-ai-data-center-satellites-space
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Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5983697/project-suncatcher-google-ai-data-center-space
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FdoX7gV25/
Bill Gates questions the reliability of AI Kill Switches in today’s technology landscape. He points out that diligent monitoring and solid regulations are crucial to prevent exploitation by malicious actors. Emphasizing that AI technology remains under human oversight, Gates alerts to the risks of rogue individuals harnessing AI for destructive ends. To protect society, effective legislation that allows for AI growth while ensuring safety is of utmost importance. #AI #BillGates #Technology #Cybersecurity #Innovation #Safety #Regulation
http://toi.in/h4q37a
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI’s models now run unsupervised for a full day. A third succeed.
Sam Altman told 2,500 developers this at DevDay Tuesday.
He called it an AI research intern on stage.
OpenAI says the models helped solve 100 old maths problems.
The company shelved another model this week out of caution.
Work that took a researcher a day now runs alone.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/sam-altman-openai-ai-research-intern-devday-keynote
Tomi Engdahl says:
Trump says AI can self-regulate. Even some top Republicans don’t trust that
Even MAGA populists like Josh Hawley worry about the risks of AI, Eric Garcia writes. But the Senate still skipped town before doing anything about it
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ai-republicans-senate-regulation-b3059871.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrtBljbGNrBSuz72V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEesKWk3Hilutx5sndxFUvEqVU-IwoIN9hgqYXNwR8jOMLxqheJM3gSIE1CxdI_aem_SxHsW3Z0GuVafNNZP74BEg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Careful about sharing AI slop! https://trib.al/j5sT4zH
Bunch of Croc
Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic
Careful about sharing AI slop!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/singapore-man-ai-slop-misinformation-three-years-prison-panic?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrtQtjbGNrBSu09GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEebbhyB1tVl5l5gXPAxHZdaSQkArTyD71bOORfNCWem0bIdKbdq-Zg1gTPjrw_aem_iZDqbFq_us8HlyOeLkDTsQ
A Malaysian man is facing up to three years in a Singaporean prison — after an ill-conceived text containing AI slop shut down the city-state’s largest reservoir for days.
According to the BBC, the bizarre incident started when the 30-year-old Ye Lin sent his colleague a photo of a saltwater crocodile — entirely generated by Google Gemini — lurking in the Pandan Reservoir, a 435-acre basin in Singapore’s western residential district. To put the body of water into perspective, the Central Park Reservoir in the heart of New York City is roughly a quarter of the size, standing at just 106 acres.
As the BBC reports, the reservoir ended up getting shut down as water agency officials and national park staff trawled the waters in search of the nonexistent crocodile. Groups whose activities center around the reservoir, like the Singapore Canoe Federation and the Singapore Rowing Association, likewise suspended their operations as the search commenced.
After examining the image with a fine-tooth comb, government officials determined it was merely a bit of AI slop, the kind which is supercharging misinformation across much of the world’s internet. Ye was then charged with “sending a false message,” a crime in Singapore bearing a maximum sentence of up to three years in prison, and a possible fine of around $8,000.
It doesn’t really help that Ye allegedly scrubbed the material from his phone, making it look like he was attempting to conceal evidence and earning him an additional charge of “obstructing the course of justice.”
As South China Morning Post reported, Ye told the court he plans to plead guilty to the charges.
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction and thinks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’ and ‘crazy’. Yann LeCun dismisses fears of AI extinction and recent hacks at OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that security breaches comes from poor system design, leaky sandboxes, and a lack of basic cybersecurity in AI labs, not out-of-control AI. These AI are doing as told by these AI labs
https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/yann-lecun-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-deluded-crazy-cybersecurity/
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees.” https://trib.al/uDPVrVh
Cost-Benefit
The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever
Reality check.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-churn-code?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsB-tjbGNrBSwH0WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeehLAbbKXxQkdpmHukjln6G3okFsQSpFuQx8N0621_qezuoy_0YFUiPyUR4U_aem_yFmQsU5ItiqRothrZ_t0iw
In theory, using an AI model to churn out a bunch of code for your software company sounds like an awesome idea. A ruthless boss can cut down their workforce and save on paying their salaries and healthcare. Or they can keep the employees, and force them to crank out even more code with an AI. Either way, it’s an efficient cost-cutting dream.
But reality is beginning to set in. Businesses are racking up huge AI usage bills they didn’t expect, with a single employee spending over $150,000 a month on AI tokens. And AI companies are feeling the squeeze that the rampant use of their coding tools is putting on their servers, causing them to jack up usage rates.
In other words, the economics of rapidly deploying AI coding tools across companies are looking more questionable than ever. And one telling weather vane of where things are headed comes from Anthropic, which quietly doubled its estimate for how much the average business will end up spending on its Claude Code tool.
The sneaky update was first spotted by Ed Zitron, who extensively covers the AI industry. Before April 16, the Claude Code document estimated the average cost per developer to be $6 per day, and the average cost for 90 percent of users to be below $12.
But the documents now state that the “average cost is around $13 per developer per active day and $150-250 per developer per month, with costs remaining below $30 per active day for 90 percent of users.”
A difference of several dollars doesn’t sound like much in isolation. But costs are clearly trending upwards, and those dollars add up. Many developers run multiple AI agents per employee at the same time, using them to churn out code for different tasks for hours on end. For organizations with thousands of employees all running their own posses of AI servants, the costs could be exorbitant — are exorbitant, in fact. Some, by their own admission, could be paying human salaries for what they’re spending on coding tools. Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, recently told Axios that for his team, the “cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees.”
These questions are swirling amid AI companies doing some severe belt-tightening, cutting off free trials and limiting access to their coding models to even paid users, as Anthropic experimented with doing. This week, Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot said it would transition to usage-based billing, effectively forcing users to pay more for the code they crank out.
Meanwhile, a growing body of research has poked holes in the premise that integrating AI leads to actual productivity gains, such as an MIT study that found that the overwhelming majority of companies saw zero growth in revenue after adopting AI. Another study found that was creating a new office paradigm of “workslop,” in which AI appears to be generating more work that in reality needs to be fixed by employees down the line, both bogging down workflows and breeding resentment. Yet more studies have shown that AI is actually intensifying work for employees and driving them towards burnout.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Voiko AI tehdä turvallisuuskriittisiä päätöksiä verkon reunalla?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/19357-voiko-ai-tehdae-turvallisuuskriittisiae-paeaetoeksiae-verkon-reunalla
Tekoälyä viedään yhä pienempiin laitteisiin verkon reunalle, mutta kuinka paljon päätösvaltaa sille voidaan antaa? Pretzl Connect -tapahtuman paneelissa kysymykseen suhtauduttiin varauksella. AI voi auttaa päätöksenteossa, mutta viimeistä sanaa sille ei vielä haluta antaa.
Silicon Labsin tuotepäällikkö Tamas Daranyin mukaan ongelma tulee tekoälyn perusluonteesta. AI perustuu tilastolliseen päättelyyn, joten sen tulos ei koskaan ole sataprosenttisen varma. Siksi esimerkiksi auton ABS-järjestelmän kaltaista turvallisuuskriittistä toimintoa ei hänen mukaansa voida rakentaa samalla tavalla AI päätöksenteon varaan kuin determinististä algoritmia.
Tomi Engdahl says:
They’re learning a very uncomfortable lesson. https://trib.al/oM6BQR7
Mass Appeal
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
Talk about backpedaling.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-billionaires-scared-labor-automation?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsWlRjbGNrBSxaK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeEOK-auUdry5V1NoO4ZHcHrnrJGY5kRHrBLCTBPEfBUSRyCp_iQPkukic8Fw_aem_wkX4a9pHi-byVRDTxMnv2w
As it turns out, telling the world’s workers to prepare for a dystopia rife with poverty and alienation isn’t the smartest way to market your exciting new tech.
As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI. It isn’t necessarily that working people want to stay shackled to the wage-based employment system, but that folks need those jobs to have any hope of eating, seeing a doctor, and sleeping with a roof over their heads.
Instead of the tone-deaf hype we once heard about AI’s potential, these rich and powerful figures are now moderating their messaging, calling for policy measures to help workers weather the AI storm — or perhaps head off a violent revolt led by the many who lost their jobs.
There’s also another option that none of them seem to be pushing: if AI is as disruptive as they say, there’s always the option to pull the plug. That they won’t even consider this choice suggests that their appeals to the toiling masses aren’t in good faith — which at this point should be obvious to just about everyone.
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI is writing GPU code even human engineers can’t fully understand : https://mrf.lu/20Msp
Tomi Engdahl says:
A “super intelligence” can’t be wrong, right? https://trib.al/MaoGmN8
Wiseacre
Trump Launched an America.org “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election
A “super intelligence” can’t be wrong, right?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-ai-disagrees-election?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsrc1jbGNrBSytr2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEejVU2h9TXYkru2tJGDCDRt2OKPg0-wXf_6zmYc4VO5hJTlZ0WPeCfvoAHeco_aem_kZ1tGgN4V28kWvShRK-4zQ
Sitting US head of state Donald Trump still insists that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him, his supposed defeat a con job by scheming Democrats.
His flagship chatbot, though, has other ideas.
This week, Trump launched America.gov, an AI-powered website designed to retrieve all the information you need from the federal government through a chatbot.
Though his administration has worked tirelessly to reshape the federal government to his views — such as by purging “woke” references from government websites, defunding climate research, and the like — the AI apparently did not receive adequate reeducation.
It did not equivocate, for example, when asked who won the 2020 election.
“Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 presidential election. Donald J. Trump lost,” the America.gov chatbot said in one viral screenshot, citing official results from the Federal Election Commission and other government documents.
Well, if a “super intelligence” says so — the term that Trump recently mandated that AI must be referred to by in all government documents and communications — then it must be true.
Tomi Engdahl says:
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=IwVERDUAUsrpFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrr_jbWLMstf0S0CRxYGAHciTXeSMXp0kQf3Onu2GaDtsGSvhsgerDA4qGno_aem_pqyqpA4PC8GvVSQkj7WH6A
Tomi Engdahl says:
Thiel argued evil can be “quite good” if it produces results and speeds up progress. What do you think? Full article: https://cnews.link/thiel-morals-good/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19YB1zk7Tr/
After OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, featuring a bubbly blob-like avatar, internet users noticed that the domain “dot.com” belongs to Elon Musk’s xAI and redirects directly to the download page for Grok, xAI’s chatbot app.
According to domain registry records, xAI acquired the domain in July, months before OpenAI’s launch.
It’s unclear whether this was intentional trolling or coincidental, since “dot” could simply be a common typo for “bot.”
However, xAI doesn’t own other likely typo domains like “bot.com” or “vot.com,” fueling speculation online. X user @birdabo was first to spot and post about the domain, which quickly went viral.
The more directly matching domain, “dots.com,” remains owned by an unrelated, long-defunct company.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Humanoid robots destroy themselves after being decommissioned
The two-year-old robots were trained to throw themselves into molten steel after no longer serving a purpose
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/robot-suicide-humanoid-death-figure-b3060486.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsuYpjbGNrBSy5dGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEev2LTa0GYiYQ-OYkqCaXvmDcUgcH23jMFugGPfpW5TAmeVCx3ZVM-8TA6erc_aem_axyvYsbetadhGDz5VnMY-A
A fleet of humanoid robots have leapt into a vat of molten steel after being decommissioned by their creators.
AI robotics startup Figure said the decision to destroy its two-year-old F.02 robots using the unusual method came after seeking suggestions on social media.
Founder and chief executive Brett Adcock wrote in a post to X that the robot deserved a “proper sendoff”, adding, “any ideas?”
The most popular answer came from Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is most famous for playing a cyborg assassin in the 1984 movie The Terminator.
“You should melt them,” he replied.
After contacting metal foundries in the US and Mexico, no place was willing to allow a robot with lithium-ion batteries to jump into their expensive equipment.
Instead, the California-based company was forced to ship the robots to a foundry in Imatra, Finland.
The method involved intensive training but Figure claimed that it was more efficient than traditional techniques.
“Decommissioning a fleet of robots full of custom-built actuators and other intellectual property is no easy task,” Figure wrote in a blog post.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Extensive AI use has been linked to “severe negative outcomes,” researchers argue. https://trib.al/f6joQMR
Simulated Empathy
The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds
Extensive AI use has been linked to “severe negative outcomes,” researchers argue.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-serious-psychological-harms?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsvRFjbGNrBSy9A2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeJ9mMrZI6ZLEfoVIA77Qrb7BYYVtexvtYuXTQxQWebOUvm7XE7ee_RwfkifM_aem_pUZg6FlY_cdUqQc-MnSLcA
A recent paper found that the extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to “severe negative outcomes.”
According to the research, which was published in the journal JMIR Mental Health by a team of UK-based researchers at Northeastern University London and King’s College London, dark outcomes of engaging in emotional relationships with chatbots can include “addiction-like attachment, exacerbation of mental health symptoms, harmful advice,” and even “self-harm of suicidal acts.” The paper comes after extensive reporting about the public health issue known as “AI psychosis,” meaning the phenomenon in which AI users suffer delusional, paranoid, and even suicidal spirals after long-form interactions with chatbots.
Drawing on existing research, the paper looks at AI companion bots like Replika and Character.AI, which are designed to embody specific characters, as well as general-use AI assistants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Though emotional interactions with chatbots may provide some “potential benefits” — the authors cite “short-term reductions in loneliness and mood improvement” — they argue that any possible benefits exist alongside widely-reported “adverse outcomes” ranging from “emotional dependence” to the exacerbation of existing illnesses or symptoms to self-harm.
Tomi Engdahl says:
‘It is a way for the CEOs to signal fealty to the president,’ said one insider as others warned the private sector is unlikely to follow the president’s edict
Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ is being mocked by tech industry insiders: report
‘It is a way for the CEOs to signal fealty to the president,’ said one insider as others warned the private sector is unlikely to follow the president’s edict
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ai-super-intelligence-rebrand-b3060603.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUs_zhjbGNrBSz_E2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe2u2mjGp466igtdOcf3uKWpDjnC5gxcXJ8IcvIhyKKa888pK-MPsJwmF2_Qk_aem_1eI8KfvXkMa3KDFc1i8gsw
Donald Trump wants the tech world to rebrand AI from what he calls a “terrible” name that is turning Americans against data centers and AI development — to “super intelligence, or SI.”
A new report suggests that is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Tech insiders and industry lobbyists told Politico, some privately, that the attempted renaming of artificial intelligence will likely not catch on. Some companies may use the term in their dealings with the government, the insiders said, but the majority will continue using a decades-old and apt phrase that Trump demanded reporters and all government employees refrain from using this week as he stood at the White House alongside top industry leaders like Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei and Mark Zuckerberg.
“It’s not AI, it’s SI,” Trump told a reporter who asked about rogue artificial intelligence agents, as he met with the press outside the White House alongside the CEOs. He ignored the question about rogue agents.
He explained his hatred for the term last week: “The use of the word ‘artificial’ makes intelligence sound fake. It is not fake. It’s actually amazing.”
Over the past week Trump rolled out his rebranding attempt, which he told reporters last week followed his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the White House and claimed that his counterpart and global rival supports the idea.
On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to refer to AI as “SI” and “super intelligence” in official documents and communications. The order has no legal effect on the private sector.
Some industry experts worry it will simply confuse Americans, however, rather than achieve the president’s desired effect of shrugging off concerns about the capabilities of unrestrained machine intelligence.
“It is a way for the CEOs to signal fealty to the president,”
“No one in the industry is about to start calling it superintelligence. It’s like Gulf of America and Lake America. It’s something that only MAGA supplicants use.”
Adam Thierer, a tech researcher at the R Street Institute, told Politico.: “I think it adds some confusion to the ongoing policy discussion because the term superintelligence means different things to different people, but it already had a general meaning in the literature and debates about advanced AI.”
The word superintelligence already means an AI system that surpasses human intellect and ability across multiple domains in couding reasoning, social skills and scientific research — a step toward the kind of rogue AI that many fear, sparking the calls for guardrails and kill switches.
One tech lobbyist laid out the industry’s likely response to Trump’s nomenclature order: “The government can change its vocabulary overnight and the private sector follows where it’s working with the government, but broader usage takes longer.” That lobbyist characterized that shift as unlikely, according to the news outlet.
For their part, the companies whose representatives attended Tuesday’s gathering at the White House on Tuesday are staying quiet. The Independent reached out to NVIDIA, Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Tesla and Anthropic regarding whether the companies have any plans to use the president’s new terminology in promotional materials or other custom
Concerns about AI’s capabilities and usage have combined with local frustrations around the construction of data centers as the midterm elections approach, amid a wave of warnings from researchers in the field about the technology’s possible outcomes.
Two researchers at Anthropic (one of whom also worked at OpenAI) warned in headline-grabbing social media posts last month that artificial intelligence has the capability to cause the extinction of humanity, prompting a wave of calls for action on Capitol Hill.
Those warnings were accompanied by an incident wherein rogue AI agents created by OpenAI successfully breached the digital infrastructure of computational systems company Hugging Face after escaping an isolated testing environment. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, argued in a blog post for AI companies to commit to a slowdown of development and the installment of third-party experts to monitor test cases.
“These AI agents are committing cyberattacks. If Big Tech companies are going to design AI agents that wreak havoc, these companies better be on the hook for any damage that is caused,” Sen. Josh Hawley, the bill’s Republican sponsor, said in a news release.
Tomi Engdahl says:
As of the most recent FDA publications in 2026, the agency has authorized between 1,524 and 1,614 AI‑enabled medical devices, depending on how you count authorization records versus distinct marketed products.