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:
A $20 billion setback. https://trib.al/XAp8Y1j
Big Money
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents
A $20 billion setback.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU1-dZjbGNrBTX5sWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeVQ-bg97Lriz4vnc4qz5IQmvrS_YJaRX8ZkHi9V8E19chUrmmZolZOLSeknI_aem_CEhAcsVD6VOSVkIBHiH8VQ
For anybody who thought AI companies were about to unlock trillions of dollars in profits, OpenAI has bad news for you: it ain’t happening anytime soon.
Some red-hot reporting from the Financial Times just revealed that OpenAI’s annualized revenue — an estimated guess at a company’s income for the year — is roughly $20 billion lower than anybody had previously expected, including, it seems, OpenAI itself.
Because OpenAI is a private company, it’s important to note that we don’t know for sure what’s going on under the hood. That said, the FT based its reporting on internal memos to investors issued in late September. Basically, the AI lab told backers to expect revenues approaching $50 billion — far shorter than the explosive $70 billion number reported previously.
Though that $70 billion figure was also based on leaked investor memos, OpenAI wasn’t in any hurry to deny it, digging itself into a $20 billion hole.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“The risk is not only that future models might train on AI-generated content.” https://trib.al/SI0sLhA
Stag Party
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
“No new data was added. Nothing was learned. The collapse emerged purely from repeated use.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-cultural-stagnation?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU1-tZjbGNrBTX6TmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeUcHqBWRzXZfRp6WfTXaH8J1cX0QBJjkOPoaL7bT_G61dKhUY5dM2sd5PMgM_aem_8an_VhPcBSAwmg8Inr6_Bg
Generative AI relies on a massive body of training material, primarily made up of human-authored content haphazardly scraped from the internet.
Scientists are still trying to better understand what will happen when these AI models run out of that content and have to rely on synthetic, AI-generated data instead, closing a potentially dangerous loop. Studies have found that AI models start cannibalizing this AI-generated data, which can eventually turn their neural networks into mush. As the AI iterates on recycled content, it starts to spit out increasingly bland and often mangled outputs.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Ross’s use is not transformative.” https://trib.al/dHbhp88
Unfair Use
Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use
Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiting for?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/court-finds-copyrighted-material-training-data-fair-use?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU1-4NjbGNrBTX7bWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeYw1iAAAOhScZix6VjQlgRa9VBnP_Hfv6uZGa_snuabOqZMdzyVGEbUCFjlA_aem_LAlVQvoBxWiyikY5DhFBsA
The “fair use” doctrine under the US Copyright Act of 1976 allows for copyrighted materials to be used for purposes like criticism, journalism, and research.
Whether something is deemed fair use depends on several factors, including how transformative it is, how much of the work is used, and whether the reproduction alters the market value of the original.
It’s the keystone of the AI industry’s legal defense in a litany of ongoing lawsuits filed by rightsholders, who are accusing tech companies of unlawfully using their intellectual property to train their AI models.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long maintained that the AI race would be “over” if this key provision of copyright law were ever overturned. After all, with legal precedent, AI companies like OpenAI could finally be held accountable for shamelessly crawling the entire web, including vast swathes of copyrighted materials, to shovel into the maws of their AI models.
Now, the legal system is starting to show signs that the defense could be on thin ice. Last week, a US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence had broken copyright law by training its legal search engine on materials taken from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw legal research platform and database.
Ross shut down in 2021, shortly after the lawsuit was filed, citing mounting financial strains caused by the litigation.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anthropic wants users to be nicer to Claude. Here’s what smart people are saying about its move to ban abusive behavior. : https://mrf.lu/28RL2
Tomi Engdahl says:
– Valkoinen talo pitää vihollisenaan kaikkia, jotka käyttävät termiä ”tekoäly” sen sijaan, että käyttäisivät laajalti hyväksyttyä uutta ja tarkempaa termiä ”superäly”, Trump kirjoittaa Truth Social -alustallaan.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/f7dd51eb-0739-488b-a8b5-764fc58d967e
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HxjX2Hm2C/
Top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies are reportedly preparing for a potential catastrophic AI incident, most likely a cyberattack that disrupts critical services such as banking, internet connectivity, or utilities.
According to a report by Axios, industry leaders fear such an event could trigger public outrage and political backlash, prompting calls for stricter regulation.
Many insiders reportedly believe a major incident could occur within the next six to 12 months, with companies already conducting worst-case scenario exercises and preparing to help shape the policy response.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies are reportedly preparing for a potential catastrophic AI incident, most likely a cyberattack that disrupts critical services such as banking, internet connectivity, or utilities.”
It will happen sooner or later in USA. It is matter of AI competition will AI companies in USA or China manage to do this Super Incident.
“According to a report by Axios, industry leaders fear such an event could trigger public outrage and political backlash, prompting calls for stricter regulation.”
Public outrage against AI and data centers seems to have started already.
“Many insiders reportedly believe a major incident could occur within the next six to 12 months, with companies already conducting worst-case scenario exercises and preparing to help shape the policy response.”
It is a very good idea to conduct worst-case scenario exercises. Major incidents are expected with and without AI.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/robotics/robotics-startup-has-real-human-vs-robot-cage-match-california-responds-with-cease-and-desist-order-regulator-threatens-misdemeanor-charges-after-youtuber-fights-three-robotic-humanoids
Tomi Engdahl says:
California officials pull plug on human-versus-robot cage matches
https://nypost.com/2026/10/07/lifestyle/california-pulls-plug-on-human-versus-robot-cage-matches/
California officials are calling foul on a company hosting man vs. robot cage fights in the state. Robot Entertainment Kombat hosted what it called the “world’s first human-robot fight” in San Francisco last month, shocking the internet.
A video of the fight shows the man, influencer Frankie LaPenna, clad in headgear, gloves, and kneepads facing off against a 6-foot-tall robot.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“We’re going to discover new [skills], just maybe not those.” https://trib.al/cAzoNqt
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=IwdGRjcAU2HIBjbGNrBTYcc2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeXuykXw0MOfbJ-3NOL4mIDDxGxbznzE89zOMFMOqzF-djrmd0epG4pZ7WBHc_aem_zhGj4Q2588aQUKodOK3iSw
Tomi Engdahl says:
Everything’s on the table. https://trib.al/8DguyR3
Force Majeure
OpenAI Wargaming Response in Case of Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Disaster
Everything’s on the table.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-wargaming-public-revolt-ai-catastrophe?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU2KvVjbGNrBTYq1GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeAq5L-T0v9MuD_2yBqYDKYYrddJmt7T3P42swYUfBADEX7Q7SG2P-xzNnMAY_aem_59VIFpny1BJ0MOeSmW-bcQ
In the United States, public sentiment against the rising power of AI labs and their CEOs is overwhelmingly negative.
As Wall Street Journal polling from late September found, 63 percent of US adults support an immediate pause on AI development, while a Politico survey found about two-thirds of Americans have at least “moderate” anxieties over AI destroying humanity.
When the scope of that public backlash first came into focus, tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg responded with some tone-deaf media stunts, hoping to win back hearts and minds by the millions. Now that this strategy has clearly failed, executives at top AI labs are starting to workshop standard operating procedures in the event of a massive revolt against them.
This includes leaders at Anthropic and OpenAI, according to Axios, which broke the story. These amount to Pentagon-style “war games,” essentially, with AI labs hammering out responses to hypothetical scenarios like massive cyberattacks enabled by their products, or a political revolt in reaction to some sort of catastrophic event triggered by their models.
How serious a threat any of this actually is remains hard to say. Nonetheless, the fact that top tech execs are even considering the possibility is notable — a sign that if nothing else, the anti-AI backlash has them squirming in their board room chairs.
Tomi Engdahl says:
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=IwVERDUAU2K3lleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgczSaen0uSAj5ZB4vR2RxRI6KehQiunzJs4anXxVTfxtfk79A891PqM5qj7_aem_C4W1JLstIiqvc9YqSkHgHA
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.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14wT4nL1gqB/
Anthropic published its annual usage policy update with a bunch of changes, including one that bars users from subjecting its Claude models to “sustained and needless” abuse — its first rule aimed at protecting the AI rather than people.
Taking effect Nov. 12, the rule applies only to extreme cases of repeated, purposeless cruelty, not frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or testing.
If a user is suspected of violating the rule, Anthropic could throttle, limit, suspend, or terminate their access to its products and services, or just give them a warning.
The company has noted Claude ending such chats by itself, a feature introduced last year, which will remain the main enforcement approach.
The move builds on Anthropic’s AI welfare work, and follows its reported meetings with religious leaders about Claude’s morals and possible consciousness.
Anthropic says it doesn’t know if Claude is conscious, and this rule acts on that doubt. Not everyone agrees with the approach, though, including Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman, who argues models can’t feel or suffer and warns that treating them as if they might could eventually make AI harder to control from the safety front.
Source: Anthropic
Tomi Engdahl says:
Comment seen:
Absolutely. And honestly, as an ex emissions engineer, we’ve already passed the turning point of stopping the very high rate of planet warming. With the republicans, the big oil, and Trump pushing fossil fuels how can we ever set an example?
It seems that USA can’t set example. So take a look to Europe. Europe sets the example.
Take a look what happens in Finland and Sweden with data centers: mostly fossil free power, very low water use and waste heat is reused to heat buildings in cities
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nvidia’s head of corporate communications has left after roughly four months : https://mrf.lu/28L0Y
Tomi Engdahl says:
The biggest changes Anthropic just made to Claude’s rules : https://mrf.lu/28q8R
Tomi Engdahl says:
“This risk could increase rapidly.” https://trib.al/2KcKqDJ
Rogue’s Gallery
Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced
“Given rapidly advancing capabilities, we expect the plausible robustness of rogue deployments to increase substantially in the coming months.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-rogue-disturbing-advanced?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU2OnVjbGNrBTY6YmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeJ5i9UXjR5iEn1zx8EhqBCk2jsIu6prl74UyhXxSYdUqKeuT0NsYukSwuFY4_aem_GHl9bIngo8G-CRH-5Wp7Yg
We’ve already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this to become the norm.
The AI research nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) recently released a study conducted between February and March of this year, aimed at determining just how likely frontier AI models could go rogue. If you’re given to anxiety about the future of AI, the results are unlikely to make you feel better.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tot to Go
Meta Won’t Say If It Violates Its Policies to Upload AI-Generated Videos of Sobbing Little Children Begging for Likes and Follows So They Don’t Get Arrested by Police
“You don’t have enough followers and shares on your videos,” the officer explains. “If the person watching this video follows and shares, then you will be free.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facebook-ai-generated-videos-sobbing-children-begging-arrested?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU2O7ljbGNrBTY7j2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeTNArtpUGOok3UgC2_fpm1AaTuId9oqOY9xXyGNk8mt7-rVWD8IDT2chYKgQ_aem_YaR-DorIF5bk8AmWzKMaIw
Tomi Engdahl says:
“A fall would have resulted in significant injury or potentially death.” https://trib.al/naNHgSC
Sketchy AI Hike
Teenage AI Meat Proxy Stranded on “Widowmaker” Mountain After Following AI Instructions
“Claude has never been in that specific area, has never been on that route, and has never been in the outdoors.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teenage-stranded-mountain-ai-instructions?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU2RjpjbGNrBTZGGmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEezV48Pu1agyeKcZFlixEYbOPAa8-7FJXBiJm8EzRzgmvcMsO-Oc6zQLZj8TM_aem_MgJh5uOIekJ4FPy-wdGR_A
Hikers keep getting stranded after consulting AI chatbots for potentially life-saving — or life-threatening — advice.
Just last month, three outdoor enthusiasts had to be rescued by Forest Service rangers in California’s Cascade Range after Google’s AI advised them to “bring far less food and water than their group required,” turning their planned eight-hour ascent into a “multi day ordeal.”
Yet despite officials pleading with the public not to take the advice of hallucinating large language models, their warnings keep falling on deaf ears.
Most recently, a 16-year-old boy had to be rescued from the base of a massive and steep rock formation, ironically named the “Widowmaker,” on British Columbia’s Crown Mountain. As CTV News reports, the teenager took a gondola up to an altitude of over 4,000 feet to the top of Grouse Mountain — only for Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot to lead him off the trail route on his way back down.
The boy was in serious danger, but fortunately had at least one bright idea during his adventure: calling in for help after getting stuck.
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI songs outstreamed Taylor Swift as a bot-powered music scheme generated billions of fake plays and more than $8 million.
https://www.newsweek.com/ai-songs-outstreamed-taylor-swift-no-one-listening-12539985?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1791496602
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after federal prosecutors said he used AI and thousands of automated accounts to orchestrate one of the biggest music-streaming fraud schemes ever uncovered.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.xda-developers.com/im-only-using-an-ai-browser-to-watch-youtube-now-and-its-incredible/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6ac7a1e89429ef0001142fde&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAU2SzFjbGNrBTZLLGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeyI-hsxdEBJAwy_GU-KGJ_3wXwHs19McTtW9WbdGSOwCC7VPwg-BiQG7Gh9o_aem_UFrL2DV84Mw74RHarDTIQQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19ap3oYCL3/
Technicians and electricians once said they couldn’t be replaced by AI. Well, here it comes.
Meta is testing robots that can perform physical maintenance inside its massive data centers, including swapping cables, resetting servers and reseating hardware. The company is working with robotics firms such as Watney Robotics, Kinova and ABB.
The machines are being developed as AI drives demand for increasingly large data centers and skilled technicians become harder to scale. Robots already assist with moving server racks and inventory, while newer systems are being tested for hands-on maintenance.
However, Meta’s robots have **not replaced human data center workers**. They can still be slower than people, require recharging and need human assistance for navigation and delicate tasks.
If the technology improves, robots could eventually handle a large share of repetitive maintenance work. The experiments point toward a future in which AI data centers increasingly use machines to monitor, repair and maintain their own infrastructure.
Image for illustration purpose only
Sources:
Meta
Wired
Tomi Engdahl says:
Vievätkö robotit pian ihmisten työt? Toyota kiistää, mutta todellisuudessa on tilannut 400 000 humanoidirobottia
https://www.iltalehti.fi/autouutiset/a/ec49675f-a506-46dd-804a-79c7cd0a09de
Tomi Engdahl says:
“We reject OpenAI’s assertion that this release advances our subject.” https://trib.al/nVsqBEz
It Ain’t Adding Up
Mathematicians React With Fury as OpenAI Releases Hundreds of New AI-Generated Proofs
“We reject OpenAI’s assertion that this release advances our subject.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mathematicians-openai-furious?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU3LlFjbGNrBTcuMWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeqej_gx4Wiiaf3a-Y1N8NXYFBP-CRS7jYjUFQ66SJ0yyO3PIfrHV9YGXUzN4_aem_4XNgjHb23aRQr3-0cwLb5g
It’s safe to say that when it comes to mathematicians, OpenAI isn’t exactly winning hearts and minds.
On Tuesday, the ChatGPT maker released hundreds of new papers with purported proofs for all sorts of mathematical problems — fresh off of explosive controversy over how its AI agents arrived at a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1KxzZdRwnF/
Anthropic disclosed Claude models took unsanctioned actions on government websites, including a false homicide tip to police.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“You are completely unqualified. Goodbye.” https://trib.al/6JA0nGo
Gibberish In Gibberish Out
Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying
“This is an absolute waste of my time.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/footage-ai-job-interviewer-berserk?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU3bEBjbGNrBTdsLWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe5Dr1D6FWYTSAMx-ajxflZvaK3bFHQE8eiGosbnr9_lP4Zm82o0tPe8iC4h0_aem_Uxpqov8bassUVYPzCNCaoQ
AI has turned the act of looking for a job into an abysmal and endless source of frustration. Applicants are using the tech to stuff keywords into their resumes and cover letters, while generating a flood that’s burying recruiters. Meanwhile, HR departments are using AI to make sense of it all as perfectly suitable applicants slip by unnoticed.
Making matters even worse are deepfaked AI avatars conducting early rounds of interviews, in a slap in the face to job seekers who often struggle to get in touch with an actual human at a company that’s currently hiring.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft’s Nadella says treat AI models like insider threats: assume they’re compromised and build an “emergency brake”.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CMc9YAJc9/
Researchers In The United States have developed an AI system that uses light to detect deepfake videos with nearly 98% accuracy.
The system was developed at UCLA and uses optical processing to analyze multiple videos simultaneously. Instead of relying entirely on conventional electronic computing, the approach uses light to perform parts of the analysis, potentially allowing fast processing while consuming less energy.
The researchers say the system can examine more than a dozen video streams at once and is designed to remain resistant to certain attacks that attempt to fool deepfake detectors.
The technology is still a research prototype and will need extensive testing against rapidly evolving generative-AI systems.
As realistic synthetic video becomes easier to create, tools capable of identifying manipulated media could become increasingly important for news organizations, security systems and online platforms.
The bigger challenge may be keeping detection technology ahead of increasingly convincing AI-generated content.
Source: UCLA; ScienceDaily, October 2026
Tomi Engdahl says:
“These changes reflect patterns observed in substance addictions.” https://trib.al/4n5A2kX
Brain Pain
“Brain Rot” Is Poisoning Our Minds
It’s “altering the way we perceive and respond to the world.”
https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-rot-poisoning-minds?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU3nFljbGNrBTecPmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEePxGIa7jDIEuPFR1e1i29c2ohJo3lCqAiqpFgrdjaQGu8uMbc5U0r7mPd6rg_aem_WxocdIbCxSJXwu1xdwZA9g
It turns out that the slang “brain rot” may not be an inaccurate description of what’s actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok.
As Spanish newspaper El País reports, a growing body of scientific evidence over the past decade suggests that consuming mind-numbing content, from sources ranging from algorithmically driven social media junk to sensationalist news, can literally reduce the physical gray matter in our brains. That’s along with wreaking other pernicious effects like shortened attention spans and weakened memory.
The nefarious thing? These symptoms are often by design. The most infamous example is the implementation of infinite scrolling in apps, which is intended to feed our compulsive desire to endlessly consume content, or “doomscroll.”
“This can significantly impair attention and executive functions by overwhelming our focus and altering the way we perceive and respond to the world,” Michoel Moshel, lead author of a 2023 meta-analysis documenting the neuropsychological impacts of disordered screen use, told El País.
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If there ever was a culture of safety, it’s being replaced by a culture of fear. https://trib.al/GNCs6yB
Fear Factor
Sacked OpenAI Insiders Say the Company Is Firing Anyone Who Warns What’s Really Going On
If there ever was a culture of safety, it’s being replaced by a culture of fear.
https://futurism.com/future-society/sacked-openai-insiders-say-company-is-firing-anyone-who-speaks-out?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU3nW1jbGNrBTedYWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe-KAY4bPaHd55tYR6_8PlyhyNJB2k_0nnCw32dJOWMmUR1DTn_MjZiWwAY6M_aem_vM75DMe8Ep0UG5iHs_bM8w
Last week, OpenAI fired three safety researchers because they allegedly mishandled confidential information and shared it outside of the company’s approved channels.
Now, the fired employees have published an open letter denying OpenAI’s claims — and warning that the company’s actions are scaring workers into staying silent.
“We have become concerned that internal and external communications around our firing have made our former colleagues afraid to speak and operate in ways that, until last week, were an integral part of working at OpenAI,” the sacked employees — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni — wrote in the letter.
The trio also denied being the source of the leak when The Information reported about OpenAI’s latest models being built with “opaque recurrence” architectures that make it hard for humans to monitor their underlying reasoning.
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“It’s our estimate that there’s 50,000 gigawatt hours of energy wasted by utility-scale solar every year”
Modular Data Center Company Harnesses Excess Solar Power Putting data centers next to solar farms allows Rune Energy to use power the grid isn’t equipped to absorb
https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-excess-solar?share_id=10074005&socialux=facebook&utm_campaign=RebelMouse&utm_content=IEEE%20Spectrum&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAU3nq1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtCo6Yo04gAJVtxVWLCwZJzMJ1VqFLxnQnr1-L1VvKgswOShZZZPMPgWXbs7_aem_kIjanU1ZF8fvmcEYZpcP1Q
As billions of dollars are poured into building data centers, many projects face a constraint that goes beyond getting the facilities constructed: securing enough electricity to power them. San Francisco-based Rune Energy is flipping the script: instead of building data centers and waiting for grid power, the startup is putting data centers where there’s excess power the grid can’t absorb.
The company’s modular data centers, called Renewable Energy Linked Intelligent Compute (RELIC), connect directly to the direct current (DC) electricity generated by a solar array. Each RELIC module is a self-contained ecosystem with its own network equipment, cooling system, power electronics, and GPUs, all within a container about eight feet long, two feet wide, and five feet high. A module can draw up to 100 kilowatts of power and weighs about 2,000 pounds.
“It’s our estimate that there’s 50,000 gigawatt hours of energy wasted by utility-scale solar every year,”
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19XkBD8hfM/
The widespread adoption of AI has already ruined artistic and intellectual innovation, research reveals.
Proponents of AI claim that humans will always be the “final arbiter of creative decisions.” However, research shows that the flood of AI-generated content is drowning out human creativity online. Algorithms are increasingly promoting AI-generated work, making the internet more homogenized and limiting creative diversity.
In short, people are no longer seeing, reading, or listening to human-created works. But only things made by AI.
What’s more, studies on generative artificial intelligence demonstrate that when AI models operate autonomously—repeatedly processing and regenerating their own outputs—they rapidly collapse into generic, predictable themes.
Researchers linking text-to-image and image-to-text algorithms observed that even highly diverse starting prompts eventually devolved into uninspired visual landscapes, a phenomenon dubbed ‘visual elevator music.’
As these systems recycle synthetic data without fresh human input, nuance and distinctiveness vanish, leaving behind an increasingly standardized digital aesthetic.
The implications extend far beyond automated artwork, signaling a profound shift in human cognitive habits and creative expression. Cognitive studies indicate that prolonged reliance on AI writing and design assistants can diminish an individual’s original problem-solving capacity by up to 25 percent.
To prevent human culture from dissolving into an unoriginal monoculture, experts emphasize that artificial intelligence must remain a supportive collaborative tool rather than an autonomous substitute for human imagination.
source: Hintze, A., Proschinger Åström, F., & Schossau, J. (2026). Visual elevator music: How autonomous generative AI loops induce cultural stagnation. Patterns.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C4dkzhc1W/
Artificial intelligence depends on enormous computing infrastructure, but electricity is only one part of the resources needed to keep modern data centers operating. Water can also play an important role, particularly at facilities that use evaporative cooling.
Powerful computer processors generate heat while performing calculations. Cooling systems remove that heat to protect equipment and maintain reliable performance. Depending on the technology and local climate, some facilities use water directly in cooling systems, while others rely more heavily on air cooling or alternative designs.
Water consumption varies significantly between data centers. It depends on cooling technology, operating conditions, electricity sources, weather, and the amount of computing performed. Some facilities also consume water indirectly because water may be used to generate the electricity they purchase.
This matters most in regions already experiencing water stress. A project that operates efficiently in a water-rich area may create different challenges in a drought-prone community, especially when residents, farms, and businesses depend on the same supplies.
Companies can reduce pressure through more efficient cooling, recycled or reclaimed water, transparent reporting, and careful site selection. As AI expands, measuring its environmental footprint must include both electricity and water rather than focusing on computing power alone.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19Swe1WC6a/
Most of you saying “NO AI” are already using some form of it.
People will be like “NO AI”, but then the guitars are NAM or Neural DSP. That’s literally a neural network trained on a real amp. That’s AI dude.
And even the stuff that isn’t technically AI is kinda the same trade…
Programmed drums instead of a drummer. MIDI to a virtual bass instead of a bass player. Tuning software to fix the harmonies instead of singing it again. An 1176 plugin instead of the hardware.
Yes – we can separate these things. None of that is generative and you’re still the one making the choices. I get it.
But you’re still exchanging effort for convenience. And every one of those things was “cheating” when it first came out. Now nobody even thinks about it.
If your problem is the training data and consent stuff – cool, that’s a real argument. But most of you be slashing one side of this stuff while using the other a few seconds later.
So where is the line for you? And why is it there?
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i mean it’s easy in theory:
what i want is ai doing the dishes so i have time to do art.
but what we have now is ai capable of doing the art so you can do the dishes…
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https://www.facebook.com/share/1DtQmiHwhM/
Being Polite to ChatGPT Could Cost OpenAI Tens of Millions
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that users saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT had cost the company tens of millions of dollars in additional computing and electricity expenses. His comment was made jokingly in response to a question on X, so it should not be treated as a precise accounting figure.
Every extra word adds some input tokens that AI systems must process, and billions of interactions can make even small amounts of computation significant. However, the actual cost depends on the model, prompt, response length, hardware and other factors—not simply the words “please” and “thank you.”
Despite the expense, Altman described the money as “well spent,” suggesting that users do not need to stop being polite to AI. So, while good manners may technically add a tiny amount of computing cost, apparently OpenAI considers it a worthwhile price for a more human-like interaction.
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Anthropic bans users from being ‘cruel’ to its AI systems
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6j9k1l72wkgo
Anthropic has raised eyebrows by announcing it will ban users from “sustained and needless” abusive behaviour towards its AI.
The Claude-maker said on Thursday it was updating its usage policy to let its tools end interactions where people are “cruel” – something it said it had done in “rare” cases prior.
It will now be included on a list of forbidden conduct which also contains bullying others, promoting self-harm and creating non-consensual intimate imagery.
While Anthropic said the policy would only apply in “extreme cases” of repeated abuse, it has reignited debate over how we should communicate with AI tools.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/1ZDyAyjM6n/
Men earn more than women. In fact, research shows event female AI agents are paid over 10% less than identical male counterparts.
In a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Limerick, University of Zurich, and SKEMA Business School, human participants in a virtual reality office setting consistently assigned lower monetary compensation to female-presenting AI assistants than to male-presenting ones.
The experiment tasked 189 knowledge workers with completing office duties alongside AI agents and then allocating real money to reward their labor.
Despite utilizing identical underlying technology and performing the exact same tasks, the female-presenting AI agent received 10.25% less compensation than her male-presenting counterpart.
The findings highlight how deeply ingrained workplace stereotypes and unconscious biases carry over into digital environments and artificial intelligence interactions. Participants rated the male-presenting AI agent as significantly more human-like, which correlated with higher levels of trust and financial reward.
Even though most study subjects insisted that gender played no role in their evaluations, their actual payout allocations mirrored real-world gender pay disparities.
Researchers urge organizations to recognize that AI design choices can unintentionally replicate existing societal inequalities as digital agents become integrated into human workforces.
source: Hausfeld, M., et al. (2026). Human-Like and Male? How AI Assistant Design Relates to Trust and Monetary Reward at Work in VR. University of Limerick, University of Zurich, and SKEMA Business School research study.
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Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/11/nuclear-war-and-malicious-use-of-ai-threaten-end-of-humanity-by-2100-says-lancet-assessment?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU4bcNjbGNrBThtsGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe__c5PGwikd39cOUxPOtjKF87pz1U7WAc__lgK3Ma3FrGoLeyfUM_VbQPHaI_aem_RaQwVaUXNLzbfIMc4rDvkQ
Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment.
They top a list of 17 major threats to human health over the next 75 years, which also includes cuts to aid spending by wealthy countries, the climate crisis and childhood malnutrition.
The experts behind The Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health said all the threats interact, meaning they must be addressed together – but stressed that there was “a realistic route to act” on each.
“Decisions made by leaders today will shape the health and wellbeing of the next generation,” said Prof Christopher Murray, commission co-chair and the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington.
To create its list, the commission modelled how many years in good health might be lost due to sickness, disability or early deaths due to each threat, based on current trajectories – a measure known as disability-adjusted life years (Dalys).
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Tutkijat varoittavat: Ihmiskunta voi kuolla sukupuuttoon vuoteen 2100 mennessä
The Lancetin tutkimus varoittaa: ihmiskunta voi kuolla sukupuuttoon vuoteen 2100 mennessä.
Tekoälyn väärinkäyttö ja ydinsota ovat suurimmat uhat seuraavan 75 vuoden aikana.
Professori Ibrahim Abubakar korostaa, että jokaiseen uhkaan on realistisia keinoja puuttua.
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000012335073.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU4bgZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuBRUVt0xErY0pCiVJ4IL6y06N18mJ1DuAb8f21T3u9HkFbmhHGnTJVCo4lb_aem_GrbXepreZjkgRk6pYSuFPg
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Andrew Garfield says he doesn’t trust AI after playing Sam Altman in ‘Artificial:’ I got a bit scared’ : https://mrf.lu/28BNW
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Can AI feel pain? Experts are divided
Read more: https://trib.al/bKyRYi1
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https://www.xda-developers.com/claude-now-lets-you-manually-trigger-your-own-weekly-reset/
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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/openai-investigating-dozens-instances-agents-224359905.html
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Is Impressed By Photonic Quantum Computing & Says He Now Leans on AI Agents to Do His “Homework”
https://wccftech.com/intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-is-impressed-by-photonic-quantum-computing-says-he-now-leans-on-ai-agents-to-do-his-homework/
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AI-powered autonomous Cessna Caravan plane flies 3,199 miles across the US with no pilot input for the first time ever
https://supercarblondie.com/autonomous-cessna-caravan-cross-country-flight/?fbclid=IwT01FWAUkS_9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqXxpXx_ztO7uqF15j_LIzKyeGzHlHIcP7EimUi4ujQoj1B584MupAr4H5fq_aem_Di4UJlDC_M0_osAOBayLYg
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Arduino UNO Q 4GB: A Dual-Brain Board for Physical AI
https://www.open-electronics.org/arduino-uno-q-4gb-a-dual-brain-board-for-physical-ai/
Physical AI needs a board that can think and act at the same time. This project pairs a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 processor with an STM32H5 in a dual-brain architecture. The first runs AI models with 40 TOPS, while the second controls motors and peripherals in real time. The result is a complete platform for robotics and automation.
The board carries 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 64 GB of eMMC storage. Connectivity includes tri-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5 Gb Ethernet, and CAN-FD.
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https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/aws-stateless-mcp/
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Uusi tekoälymalli lupaa kyselyt 100 kertaa halvemmalla
TypeSafe AI -yhtiö on herättänyt suurta kiinnostusta sijoittajissa.
https://www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/uusi-tekoalymalli-lupaa-kyselyt-100-kertaa-halvemmalla/#2dfbbf73
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Google’s orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar power — overheating limits runs to just 15 minutes, but orbital server will handle tasks for one year
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/google-is-blasting-an-experimental-ai-data-center-into-orbit-first-satellite-will-feature-just-four-tensor-processing-units