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:
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[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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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta has caught up with rivals at the ‘frontier’ of AI, committing to further spending to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI and rejecting calls to slow down development of the powerful technology. https://ft.trib.al/GRmwIHV
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[security-affairs] Anthropic Restricts Live Internet Access After Claude Evaluation Failures
https://securityaffairs.com/200726/ai/anthropic-restricts-live-internet-access-after-claude-evaluation-failures.html
#2600net #irc #secnews #ai #anthropic #jailbreak
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What Happens When AI Systems Learn From Their Own Outputs?
A 2026 study published in Patterns examined what happens when AI systems repeatedly describe and recreate images without human input. Researchers connected an image-generation model with an AI system that describes images, allowing the two systems to feed outputs back and forth.
They tested 700 separate sequences over 100 rounds, using different starting prompts and settings. Despite these differences, the results gradually converged toward a small collection of familiar visual themes, including stormy lighthouses, grand buildings, and atmospheric landscapes. The researchers called this effect “visual elevator music”—content that looks polished but becomes increasingly predictable. 【turn299364search1】
The study shows how creative variety can shrink when AI systems repeatedly recycle their own outputs. It does not prove that all AI-generated work is repetitive or that human creativity has disappeared.
Could This Affect Human Creativity?
There is a wider concern beyond images. If people increasingly rely on AI for writing, music, design, and ideas, and online platforms repeatedly recommend similar content, distinctive voices may become harder to discover.
AI tools can also help people explore new ideas, overcome creative blocks, and experiment with styles they might not otherwise try. The effect depends on how people use these tools and how platforms choose what to promote.
The researchers’ experiment did not measure a 25% decline in human problem-solving ability, so that figure should not be presented as a finding of this study.
Keeping Creativity Diverse
The challenge is not simply whether AI can create something impressive. It is whether widespread use of these systems will leave enough room for unusual ideas, personal experiences, and work that challenges familiar patterns.
Human judgment, fresh source material, and genuine experimentation can help preserve that diversity. AI can be a useful creative partner, but treating its output as the default answer risks making creative work more predictable.
The takeaway: A study has shown that autonomous AI image-and-text loops can drift toward generic results. It is a warning about one possible direction of AI-generated culture—not proof that AI has already destroyed human creativity.
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Critics call it “slopcore”. Musk has other ideas
Elon Musk creates his own cringe name for AI music after it was branded ‘slopcore’
Elon Musk claims artificial intelligence has “good taste” as he defended AI music and music videos after they were branded “slopcore” by critics.
Appearing via video link at the X Takeover event held at Giga Texas on Saturday, the Tesla and SpaceX chief said that AI music is “the fastest growing genre” and should be instead known as “awesomecore.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/elon-musk-ai-music-slopcore-b3065309.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6uXVjbGNrBTq5R2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeCTFgYOuP4SNkQA2j1UvJIknjxhF7IDaRN9H0E229USRh2tpzE5YuVfWEoRs_aem_UztpGEIeHaiazy-3Cc1L8w
Musk said: “the AI music is really good and the music videos are amazing. It just shows taste. And you’re like, ‘Wow, AI can do good taste? That’s pretty wild’.”
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Bill Gates has revealed that his most immediate concern with artificial intelligence is “bad people” using it for bioterrorism and cyber attacks
The co-founder of Microsoft claimed that there are currently no adequate safeguards to prevent powerful AI models from being used by malicious actors.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/security/bill-gates-ai-threat-cyber-security-b3065389.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6vYpjbGNrBTq9ZWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeF8D8sHVfxH2atuAMIZCpEFmO0RGEesjU4WCQknle5FCEg8viXGowQby6teg_aem_yL2Z2D07ClHna7aL9m8Xhg
Tomi Engdahl says:
“‘Here’s the Claude. We’ve solved it.’” https://trib.al/6Fg0azC
Claude Nine
Eggheads at Anthropic Said They Used Claude to “Solve” Humor
“‘Here’s the Claude. We’ve solved it.’”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-solve-humor?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6vj9jbGNrBTq-KWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEel64GMk-n1oCVxuQ1hCzEU9_lmcf3cZzD-PD4L2yp25RMYnxQAqvMPxTmnJ4_aem_plBUdr6tlyg81mNjgt2NRw
The overly-serious eggheads at Anthropic are adamant that they’ve “solved” a problem that’s been plaguing humankind since time immemorial: humor.
At least, that’s according to former employee Jacob Coxon, best known as the guy who quit Anthropic and claimed that the AI industry was “gambling with our lives.”
In a new interview with New York Magazine, Coxon recalled some of the “groupthink dynamics” he saw taking hold at Anthropic and how they made him feel, at times, like the odd man out.
“When I first joined, there was a Slack channel with a Claude that had been trained to solve humor,” he said. “And they were like, ‘Yeah, we solved humor. Here’s the Claude. We’ve solved it.’”
This bewildered Coxon.
“And I was in the chat like, ‘No, you haven’t. You clearly haven’t solved humor. What the hell is this?’”
It’s a humorous anecdote, but it does a great job of encapsulating how out of touch that the people building AI can be. Coxon acknowledged in the interview how Anthropic could be described as a cult, though he described this an “extreme” view. Anthropic, still, openly teases the possibility that AI models could already be conscious, a fringe view that’s blasted by some of its more sober-minded competitors.
Tomi Engdahl says:
It’s an automation “arms race.” https://trib.al/1Tjy7Ac
Big Ticket Robots
Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work
It’s an automation “arms race.”
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/walmart-trouble-expensive-robots-warehouse?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6wbFjbGNrBTrBjGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEelDr3pxlE2iFW3ZvdHYenRlequYh3UKEj7tRpB8DWsbD_yK-xr-aHYW6m0Q8_aem_CVjdYpq-DFO1a9oD3Hc_og
Despite spending billions of dollars to automate its warehouses, Walmart is seriously struggling to make even the simplest of robots work.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, even something as straightforward as removing an object from a cardboard box to package it for customers is proving exceedingly challenging. After hiring several robotics companies, Walmart ultimately settled on small robots with wheels for over a dozen of its warehouses.
But the small robots are still unable to remove larger and heavier objects, like bags of dog food. They also break down often, showing that despite plenty of pressure to replace human workers, companies are running into major headwinds in automating real-world workflows in environments like warehouses and logistics facilities.
Executives maintain that Walmart’s automation push will result in fewer warehouse workers, transitioning many of them into managing and fixing robots. However, that transition is reportedly coming at a formidable cost. According to the WSJ’s sources at Walmart, the costs of paying mechanical and electrical engineers at its automated warehouses eclipse the payrolls of unskilled warehouse workers.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
“I think the entire AI boom is investing in the wrong future.” https://trib.al/kBkHt2M
Talking Heads
Mainstream News Anchors Now Talking About the AI Bubble Bursting at Any Moment
“I think the entire AI boom is investing in the wrong future.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/mainstream-news-anchors-bloomberg-tv-ai-bubble-bursting?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6wudjbGNrBTrC0WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEez2wj5AomkBvKMzKW1j86lR1x7lNKwHTIg3hopyY_BWN3oj94rvzv1fJgZkY_aem_sZWqEUQztkFFsXon06D9Hw
To call Klement’s forecast “gloomy” would be an understatement. With the fate of the US economy now completely fused with the data center boom, any slowdown in AI spending will almost certainly spell disaster for everybody — not just the tech industry.
“If you had asked me two months ago, I would have said ‘that’s a bubble that can easily last another two years,’” Klement said. Now, “all I need for this bubble to burst is for growth plans to be revised downward, and for growth to slow down, because that already will change the earning’s outlook for basically the entire supply chain.”
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Inner Ouroboros
AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy
The AI industry is destroying its own incentive structure.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-creating-doom-loops-all-over-the-economy?fbclid=IwVERDUAU6xF1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHv9EG7JkBZUZlSSkQL_0ONaMH62QxBJLkPzpOmJkwgGy3V8qc9IUd0YqWp3F_aem_SRUK9xSGlACiXTgszKU-cA
Recently unredacted legal documents and depositions in the New York Times’ lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI revealed something extraordinary: executives knew full well of the destructive powers of AI when they rushed to launch products featuring the tech in the wake of the explosive success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Internal Microsoft documents quoted by the newspaper’s lawyers warned of an ugly reality now playing out across the entire economy: “doom loops,” in which AI monetizes the work of human creatives while undermining the economic systems that funded their work in the first place.
“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time,” one internal Microsoft document reads. “It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain.’”
The closer you look, the more you see doom loops everywhere. Journalists, for example, used to publish work under the assumption that online platforms would drive readership to them. But now, tools like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini simply summarize their articles without sending readers to their sites, sparking a crisis that seems poised to wipe out the independent media.
Similar stories are playing out across other industries, from music to filmmaking. Writ large, many are concerned that AI will eventually be strong enough to wipe out huge numbers of jobs, creating a situation in which unemployed consumers won’t have the funds to support the economy.
The irony, as the Microsoft document pointed out, is that the AI industry is a snake eating its own tail: the very products that it’s pushing on users rely on fresh cultural content even as they destroy the economic incentives to create it.
It’s also a dire situation for the open web, which recently celebrated the macabre turning point of being dominated by more AI slop than human-authored content. As companies — most notably Google — are fundamentally changing the way users interact with the web, more and more newspapers, media outlets, and local news stations are seriously struggling to make ends meet.
Worse yet, as the legal documents in the NYT’s copyright lawsuit showed, insiders admitted that the entire operation is built on theft.
“Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document admitted.
Plenty of other creative industries are also feeling the pressure as AI-related doom loops continue to undermine livelihoods. According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor statistics, it’s a bloodbath — with more than 200,000 jobs in “creative” industries having been lost over the last four years alone, roughly the time since OpenAI launched ChatGPT.
AI-generated music is rapidly crowding out human-produced tracks on streaming services, forcing platforms to figure out where to draw the line. Some have implemented hard and fast rules, while others continue to allow users to exploit algorithms with slop.
Hollywood studios are also doubling down on AI while protesting actors struggle to have their voices heard.
“We’ve got this tragic situation where each side has a problem,” applicant tracking system company Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait told Wired. “They’re using AI to solve their own problem, but in ways that make the problem worse.”
“And so more AI use begets more AI use, to no one’s benefit,” he added. “The more it’s happening, the worse it gets.”
Similarly, the use of AI in the classroom has skyrocketed, with students using the tech to complete their homework, offloading their cognitive faculties to the machine. Meanwhile, their teachers are using AI to come up with assignments, slowly effacing the human in the loop.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sayonara useless AI features, and hello disk space. https://trib.al/NDTWyCC
Mac Attack
Mac Users Are Nuking Every Trace of Apple AI on Their Machines
Sayonara useless AI features, and hello disk space.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mac-users-nuking-every-trace-of-apple-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6xrljbGNrBTrGq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe-0gNhAg-m_M8pEHMv8_wFcJe6NMWUNie9Diyv8yQVTokiGWht4BIbFRKR5s_aem_Umo4rwrS-JSio_GTvCH9jQ
Apple hasn’t exactly impressed with its AI offerings. And privacy-minded Mac users were even less compelled by the company’s decision, with macOS 27, to remove a setting that allowed you to disable and delete its Apple Intelligence features.
But never count an annoyed userbase out. As spotted by MacRumors, someone’s created a new open-source tool that allows Mac users to nuke every trace of Apple’s borderline useless AI models from their machines — and it’s already making waves in the Mac community.
The tool, called RemoveMacAI, disables Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, and the ChatGPT Extension, the developer explained in a r/MacOS post that’s received over a thousand upvotes. To ensure you keep living a blissful AI-free existence, the tool also prevents the Intelligence features from ever being downloaded again, the developer claims.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The winner of a prestigious scientific photography competition has been disqualified after organizers concluded that his use of generative AI broke the rules. https://cnn.it/4hV5x7U
Tomi Engdahl says:
“You come across as clearly above average intellectually.” https://trib.al/j1h7qab
Male Glaze
Completely Unused ChatGPT Accounts Are Telling Users They’re in the Top Percentiles of Intelligence
“You come across as clearly above average intellectually.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unused-chatgpt-accounts-top-percentiles-intelligence?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6x9tjbGNrBTrHxmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeES-NI7wfHHtLH6I1Y6h23iHrJ58OJ1PNQRJiFO9n5R9R01Nmk-GOopLv0pw_aem_pEN_uQ8f7o-4hlYlkSyTuA
Ever wondered what it felt like to be a genius? It’s truly never been easier, thanks to the sycophantic power of ChatGPT.
A viral post on X-formerly-Twitter encouraging people to “ask ChatGPT what percentile of intelligence it thinks you are compared to all its other users” is being flooded with wild screenshots, where the popular AI chatbot estimates that the vast majority of users rank among the smartest people in the population.
Naturally, it’s next to impossible to verify how true any given reply on X is these days, so Futurism took it for a spin — and ChatGPT didn’t disappoint.
On a fresh instance of ChatGPT’s basic web version with no conversation history, the large language model started by explaining that it “can’t reliably assign you a percentile from our conversations” — a strong start, to be fair — before gushing that “you come across as clearly above average intellectually.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
How did we even get here? https://trib.al/4FiLAk7
Growth Mode
This Graph of Data Center Spending Compared to All Other Construction Will Give You Chills
How did we even get here?
https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-spending-ai-bubble-construction?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU6yJxjbGNrBTrIimV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeoFjpXU-3lgLqPlChivEcQ29xIR2n1yQ-d0h_1y8xx-SPH27WeG-pkE1uKgk_aem_fyp4gJqpFbKk6ZRhhtEvNg
Against all odds, the US economy continues to grow at a record-setting pace. Yet as new economic data shows, that growth is anything but healthy, and predicated almost entirely on the AI boom.
A new essay by podcaster and writer Derek Thompson takes a look at key economic metrics surrounding AI in 2026. Among the most striking is a bar graph showing growth in construction spending, a key indicator of economic stability.
Using data from Harvard Kennedy School economist Jason Furman, Thompson shows that growth in data center construction has exploded this year, while all but one other category has regressed.
By the numbers, data center construction has grown at a rate of 64.5 percent in the most recent year, while new energy infrastructure has grown by 4.1 percent to keep pace — since demand is growing for electricity to power the AI boom.
Everything else has collapsed: multi-family home building fell by 5.6 percent, while healthcare and commercial retail construction both tumbled by 10.1 percent. New educational construction tumbled by 12.6 percent, while manufacturing — supposedly a key target for the Trump administration — has collapsed, shrinking nearly 24 percent from 2025 to 2026.
But if there’s any abundance to be had in the US economy at the moment, it’s clearly coming on the back of AI — and with investors growing increasingly skeptical over the sustainability of AI spending, it could only be a matter of time before data center spending tumbles back down to Earth.
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Shooting Skynet With a Shotgun
Retired Air Force Colonel Warns Americans That It’s Dangerous to Live Near Data Centers Because You Could Be Targeted or Killed
“This is not science fiction.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/retired-air-force-colonel-dangerous-live-near-data-centers?fbclid=IwVERDUAU6ywxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHq7mCfoI3o0nsdheZ5mlOC9Pht6EJaohMCn8UlTapL0e52rBD8Oam9HR8-Jt_aem_IkUcFBnfDbZd0rQODPI6uw
There are a growing list of reasons not to want to live near an AI data center.
Some of them emit constant screeching noises that are impossible to drown out. Others rely on massive diesel generators that spew smog into the community and greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere. If you get particularly unlucky, your electricity bill could also go up as a result of a new data center setting up shop in your neighborhood.
And, if a recent report by the colorfully-named Texas-based advocacy group Collapse Survival Institute is anything to go by, living near a data center could be a matter of life and death as well.
The report, which was put together by retired Air Force colonel Drew Miller, quotes former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who left his post at the AI company earlier this year. Coxon drew widespread media attention for arguing that there was a greater than ten percent chance of AI ending humanity — incendiary comments that prompted widespread fears of a catastrophic singularity-like event.
In the prepper-inflected report, Miller argued that the data centers themselves may become the ground zero if a malicious — or “misaligned” — AI were to ever go rogue and break out, warning that “people living near AI data centers may be targeted as proxies for human control and resistance.”
The report frets that the “rogue [artificial general intelligence] threat is very real” and that “AI is not a program we control.”
“This is not science fiction,” it concluded. “It is the straightforward extrapolation of capabilities that AI already has or unregulated AI companies are racing to achieve — and that multiple senior AI researchers now acknowledge they cannot reliably control.”
Therefore, Miller is calling on Congress to place a “moratorium on the construction of new AI data centers,” mandate “mandatory ‘kill switch’ infrastructure requirements for all frontier AI systems,” and implement “full transparency requirements for frontier AI labs.”
If a “rogue AGI” is let loose on humanity, it’s not just people who live near data centers that could be doomed, according to the Institute. Even people “living near major power plants or transmission lines that feed data centers face similar risk,” since “rogue AGI will seek to protect and control its power supply.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Amerikkalaisista 75 prosenttia vastustaa datakeskusten rakentamista omalle asuinpaikalleen. Poliitikoille se on vaikea paikka. https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/amerikka-himoitsee-voimalamoottoreita-vaasasta-wartsilan-datakeskusonni-voi-kuitenkin-sarkya/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1791844761
Tomi Engdahl says:
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone.” https://trib.al/LKKRyVW
Chaos Agent
Mark Zuckerberg Launched Meta’s Muse AI Agent Despite Disturbing Safety Concerns
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/mark-zuckerberg-meta-muse-ai-agent-safety-issues?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7JiZjbGNrBTsmE2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeZaYiraDKh7GLjR0vQ5U9Bt9WkpgWKst9QA2aukvkPAN5wKbcJLifAoLfeRI_aem_DXeGeVT32bRjUP77xMM2Nw
When Meta first launched its cutesy Muse AI agents to the public, the company was immediately met with a virtual tidal wave of headlines, as major errors and glaring privacy issues rose to the surface.
As it turns out, the decision to release Muse was far from unanimous. As fresh reporting from the New York Times reveals, the buggy agent was forced onto the market by its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, even as it went rogue on the very people who built it.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Troubled chatbot startup Character.AI files for bankruptcy — and Disney is first in line for key assets : https://mrf.lu/26dV5
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AI labs are offering companies big money for internal data like employee emails and Slack DMs, raising major cybersecurity and privacy concerns.
(Credit: Tyler Le/Business Insider)
AI labs are offering companies big money to hand over their employees’ private Slack DMs and emails : https://mrf.lu/26SnJ
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AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers, Anthropic warns
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-models-may-soon-self-replicate-without-access-data-centers-anthropic-warns-2026-10-13/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6ace1653eb862b000148b8c8&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7MMRjbGNrBTswvmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEefomHsCXz5W4Qd2SV4y1VgW2lWuFfUq42_fDh1C_Nz35mvQ7wGkWvxerwjxM_aem_dKrWbYFF0sWLVsyFHmdJwg
Oct 12 (Reuters) – Anthropic said on Monday that small AI models could be months away from self-replicating across internet-connected devices, raising the possibility of AI botnets spreading quickly, fighting takedown attempts and even breaking into data centers to turbocharge their growth.
Last month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei first floated, opens new tab the idea that within the next year or even sooner, AI might be able to hijack “the entire internet” with “a persistent botnet,” a warning that raised eyebrows in the cybersecurity community.
Tomi Engdahl says:
NVIDIA says AI is safe
they also say their connectors don’t burn
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pandora’s box is well and truly open. The creators of AI must be held accountable and responsible for all damage done by their creations.
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“These facilities could lock America into decades of continued fossil fuel dependence.” https://trib.al/LJAShQv
Spew Baby, Spew
The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in Smog-Spewing Gas Power Plants
“These facilities could lock America into decades of continued fossil fuel dependence.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-center-boom-smog-spewing-gas-power?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7M9VjbGNrBTszxmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe-wy9jGDfVebHBhDbK09GwJ_7mAPGRODR4RQJfQ0zlmzUTSd54wck24w9gzU_aem_WdDQ6iaofBEf6cLPwqctsw
The United States runs on gas powered generators.
As of 2022, the US had nearly 1,000 gas-fired plants, which was already more than the next nine countries combined. Under returning president Donald Trump, the country’s embrace of high-carbon power has only accelerated, as energy developers abandon environmentally-friendly projects like off-shore wind farms in favor of more noxious gas- and coal-powered facilities.
As if our rapidly warming world wasn’t being choked by enough smog, the AI boom is now adding even more fuel to the proverbial fire. According to a new analysis by the Environment America Research and Policy Center, first flagged by Electrek, the buildout of more AI infrastructure will come with a 44 percent increase in gas-fired generator capacity over the next four years.
That’s a stunning rise of nearly 20 gigawatts by 2030, compared to the country’s current gas generator capacity of 41.8 gigawatts, a milestone which took centuries of development — and untold tons of carbon exhaust — to reach.
As Electrek notes, the planned expansion of gas capacity exceeds the combined output of every single US state except for Texas, California, and Florida. And as more noisome gas facilities appear on the American horizon, planned green energy installations are being axed — with a 34 percent decrease in planned wind farm capacity since December of 2025.
“The data is clear: surging electricity demand to power data centers is putting our nation’s transition to clean energy at risk,” chief operating officer for The Public Interest Network Andre Delattre told Electrek. “Given the lifespans of new gas plants, these facilities could lock America into decades of continued fossil fuel dependence. Any potential benefits of data centers won’t mean anything if we destroy the planet in the process.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Character.AI, the teen-beloved chatbot startup that faced several lawsuits over the deaths of minor users, is bankrupt. https://trib.al/tkMJ5GF
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bill Gates has warned AI is “the most dangerous technology humans ever invented,” and it’s likely to lead to “a lot of negative surprises” when it’s exploited by “bad people.”
https://www.iflscience.com/bill-gates-warns-really-bad-people-will-exploit-ai-to-create-a-lot-of-negative-surprises-in-the-next-few-years-84920
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The man who built the AI boom says investors are misreading software stocks.
Nvidia CEO delivers blunt 7-word rebuttal on software stocks
The man who built the AI boom says investors are misreading software stocks.
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/nvidia-ceo-delivers-blunt-7-word-on-software-stocks?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6acc938caadb1f0001be9f19&fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7YRtjbGNrBTthDWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEegmq-vkaJtRrrN19Rfti-DEKRB5NX4tlEUK2ppo9UiIgUEgnujnLLT-SyKWo_aem_JmW_lu5FXZHBzvdG_988mA
Jensen Huang has a message for Wall Street: You misread the AI playbook. The Nvidia (NVDA) CEO stepped in front of CNBC’s cameras Wednesday night and delivered a pointed rebuttal to the panic selling that has hammered enterprise software stocks for weeks. His verdict was blunt and direct.
“I think the markets got it wrong,” Huang told CNBC after Nvidia posted a record-breaking quarter. Far from killing software, he argued, agentic AI will become one of the biggest users of the tools investors are currently dumping.
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Elon Musk has backed Anthropic’s new policy banning cruelty toward AI models, arguing that their reasoning traces show them under extreme duress during such treatment and warning that it could eventually backfire on humanity.
Read more here: https://wccftech.com/elon-musk-warns-you-should-not-torture-ai-models-as-reasoning-traces-show-it-feels-like-a-gun-to-their-head-and-that-torturing-super-intelligence-might-spur-it-to-get-revenge/
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The new Meta AI model is as powerful as latest from OpenAI and Anthropic – and it wants to run your life
MORE HERE https://trib.al/i1ki004
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Run or ruin?
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Imagine being the CFO watching your CEO write a $100-200 billion check for a model nobody has even seen results for yet.
On the Cheeky Pints podcast, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief AI officer Alexandr Wang revealed that Susan Li pulled Wang aside “many times” at a Hawaii offsite to warn him that if Meta’s new AI model flopped, it would be “really, really bad” financially.
Read more: https://yhoo.it/4zQLL59
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“Two police officers walked up my driveway and knocked on my door to question me about it.” https://trib.al/g5sTPMi
Watch The Watchers
Cops Not Happy When Man Creates Flock-Style Camera That Only Collects Police Plates
“Two police officers walked up my driveway and knocked on my door to question me about it.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/police-upset-flock-camera-alpr-surveillance-canada?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7dYVjbGNrBTt1b2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeJv5QI4Biu-9y_O_hdYRAaYX5ds1Q4I-FS_G5K4okVADny0AXRW0dwaFxWzg_aem_xK-8RkP7CzCM-vsjmrffmA
When police showed up to Anthony Sistilli’s front door in September, it wasn’t to accuse him of a crime or take a witness statement, but to ask how he could have the nerve to turn AI-integrated surveillance cameras on the cops themselves.
A Canadian software engineer and YouTuber, Sistilli became interested in automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) following the explosion of outrage against surveillance company Flock Safety in the US, Tom’s Hardware reported. Though Canada lacks a centralized corporate surveillance regime like Flock in the US, the country’s police have been rapidly scaling a more decentralized ALPR network with cameras that function in much the same way.
Responding to the rise in government surveillance, Sistilli decided to homebrew his own ALPR — though instead of tracking random civilians, it was designed to track police cars.
“I started to wonder, how hard is it to actually make a company like Flock?” Sistilli explained in a YouTube video.
So Sistilli ordered a wall-mounted 4K surveillance camera online, plugged it into his laptop, and instructed his AI assistant to vibe-code tracking software that would only flag police cruisers. The end result was a prototype ALPR, which the software engineer mounted on his car’s dashboard to test in the real world.
“At first, the video footage was super laggy” Sistilli explained, “because I was trying to calculate the chance of every single car on the road being a police officer in full-4K while also distinguishing their license plates.”
But after lowering the resolution and instructing the AI-system to only attempt a license-plate read after a vehicle was confirmed to be a police car, the full prototype was up and running. Unfortunately, local police soon caught onto Sistilli’s handiwork, and paid him a visit in order to see what was going on.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately war-gaming the political fallout of a catastrophic AI event, Axios reports. Executives fear a major cyberattack could knock out banking, internet, power and water, with insiders expecting an incident within six to 12 months. The firms are red-teaming worst-case scenarios and briefing Congress to shape future AI rules, with Democrats eyeing a crackdown after the November midterms. #AI #Cybersecurity #Technology #Innovation #Regulation #Crisis #Future
Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for the day after AI agents thr ..
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http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/134890574.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Tomi Engdahl says:
Yes, Grimes’ new music video used AI — and lots of humans : https://mrf.lu/26bTC
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hundreds of thousands of jobs have *already* been lost. https://trib.al/rYCDxkq
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=IwdGRjcAU7iaFjbGNrBTuJemV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeS3Rezocxl2a9iPfHSxrj2rsV4r13yECMzaEt5l5Z8Ju4VPv3NoDw7hPye4Y_aem_xPwZ0JZ2aV4i2nPRktjc0g
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.
The data comes from the US Bureau of Labor statistics, the trustworthiness of which has been repeatedly undermined since Donald Trump’s return to office. Still, it remains one of the most robust and widely-used indicators of macroeconomic job data, for analysts trying to make sense of the increasingly bleak job market.
“That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history,” Politano observes, “with similar job loss intensity and duration occurring only during the major economic recessions of 2001 and 2008.”
As a whole, job growth in media and creative industries has remained negative since 2023, as tools like generative AI — shoddy as they still are — provide an easily accessible alternative to human design, video, literary, and audio work.
Though it’s never been easy to secure consistent employment in these industries, the rise of AI and the general decay of the labor economy has clearly made it harder than ever before, and the losses show little sign of stopping anytime soon.
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Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anthropic-warns-self-replicating-ai-could-spread-to-your-smart-devices/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7jBZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtRcJEvmbjREIHbxvNvU_qD2Sa05egFpBNOdzcJAGEeIESDMKArwPj6Ut21x_aem_kSutsINYUcnwaHzXhS5uVw
Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers.
The company’s experiments showed that models could identify unfamiliar devices, connect them into a network, and prepare them to run an AI model.
Although the researchers successfully distributed the Gemma4-26B-A4B model from Google DeepMind on 15 off-brand Android TV boxes, they did not demonstrate a fully autonomous, self-replicating AI worm running on real IoT hardware.
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Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon says he is 90% certain China has spies inside OpenAI and Anthropic, potentially giving Beijing the ability to hack the leading AI labs at any time.
Coxon also raises concerns about Anthropic’s pursuit of superintelligence, arguing that the company’s focus on developing increasingly powerful AI systems could create serious security risks.
Read more here: https://wccftech.com/jacob-coxon-warns-hes-90-certain-china-has-spies-inside-openai-and-anthropic-and-reveals-anthropic-employees-call-themselves-ants-in-pursuit-of-superintelligence/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anthropic said in a new warning that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on devices such as smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes.
Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/Ls7QGx
Nothing to worry about though…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says advanced AI systems need an “emergency brake” that allows authorized humans to pause or shut them down mid-task.
He argues that AI models should be treated as potential insider risks, with external controls, strict access limits, and reliable safeguards to contain mistakes or security breaches.
Read more here: https://wccftech.com/microsoft-ceo-nadella-says-ai-models-should-be-assumed-compromised-from-the-start-wants-humans-able-to-pause-them-mid-task/
Tomi Engdahl says:
There’s lots of fear brewing around AI agents and banking, but JPMorgan seems more focused on cybersecurity than the threat of bank runs.
Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan Chase is putting up gates to protect against ‘rogue agents’ : https://mrf.lu/26vGY
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JPMorgan Chase isn’t using external artificial intelligence agents, CEO Jamie Dimon explained Tuesday. The company wants its customers to understand the risks associated with permitting AI to access personal data, as “there could be thousands” of “rogue agents.”
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/fionariley/2026/10/13/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-warns-of-rogue-ai-agents-urges-customers-to-understand-risks/?utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ForbesMainFB
Tomi Engdahl says:
A reported Reflection AI deal could change its position in the market.
Read more: bit.ly/3WnIVFY
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says some AI companies are developing smartphones capable of continuously running 100-billion-parameter large language models (LLMs) by 2028.
However, running these models locally could require at least 50GB of RAM with 4-bit quantization, far exceeding typical smartphone memory capacities.
Read more here: https://wccftech.com/qualcomm-ceo-smartphones-100b-llms-2028-dram-supply-cost/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nvidia’s next move could spell trouble for software workers
A high-paying career faces a surprising new test.
https://www.thestreet.com/employment/nvidia-reflection-software-jobs?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6acd3c4bc61c750001fc989f&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7mLtjbGNrBTuYpmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe5dfDutdjN4ZnJXOlrUpdGaWLyvfvUMS_6OkhvkTxIrh8RiSJrQWDtDx2Do8_aem_2s9dX3lncScbabI3KwwlyA
When I started editing around the pandemic, I remember watching Grammarly flag the same mistakes I was being paid to catch.
I wondered how long anyone would need an editor, and I’d already been mapping out the expenses I’d need to reasonably survive for the foreseeable future.
Then came ChatGPT, followed by other tools that could draft, rewrite, and summarize in seconds. Yet here I am, still reporting. And the tools are still improving.
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The man running one of the world’s biggest apps sees a turning point most investors aren’t pricing in.
Read more: bit.ly/4zzp6dp
TikTok CEO says AI is overhyped now and underrated long term
The man running one of the world’s biggest apps sees a turning point most investors aren’t pricing in
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/tiktok-ceo-says-ai-is-overhyped-now-and-underrated-long-term?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6ace8dd6eb862b000148bdc0&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7mh5jbGNrBTuaBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeoutlJ-BaNO8GtQbTkO0SvJNGLBtnAGLlxGfTFaNOirOowk-aXfxbSu5J06Y_aem_5jWPNYfWBnf-soV3ikQU0w
Big technologies come with two price tags. The first is what people expect it to do next year. The second is what it actually does over the next 20.
We tend to set the first one too high and the second one too low. Futurist Roy Amara put that idea into words decades ago, and it has held up through electricity, personal computers, and the internet.
The dot-com crash erased trillions of dollars in stock value in 2000 and 2001. The survivors then built the digital economy most of us now carry in our pockets.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is living through its first price tag right now. Big Tech keeps raising its spending plans, and skeptics keep asking where the profits are.
The boom is in “the early stages of a bubble,” Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio wrote in a year-end post, according to Fortune. His firm has been quietly reshaping its portfolio amid those bubble warnings.
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AI didn’t take away your ability to appreciate art. You’ve made appreciation conditional on how it was created. You know what absolutely doesn’t change at all while you check. . . The piece, so maybe let the result speak for itself
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Ben Affleck won’t say exactly how he used AI on his critically-panned new Netflix thriller. But thanks to sloppy editing and one unintentionally hilarious scene, he may have accidentally undermined his own technology, writes Kevin E G Perry
Read here: https://trib.al/tDJMZsY
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https://www.thestreet.com/investing/palantirs-pentagon-role-reveals-a-surprising-edge?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6ace397a17bd680001a9ec5d&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7nFljbGNrBTucM2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe0ucp9C2-6fiXqaiHq6hOOpus211aP6LjQd_qvhmw4ASYo15tXJ-3s4TEqms_aem_KUqDtphn8ZqDLAKOk7A3MQ