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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[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”
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Sales of high-tech goods rose by 14.3% while the production of both batteries and industrial robots grew by more than 29%, official figures showed.
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dumbest era to be alive: Data center opposing people spit put cartoons and fake photos using exactly those AI services they say they are fighting agains.
This is turning from parody to an accurate prediction:
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-data-center-built-to-handle-influx-of-online-rants-against-data-centers
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Microsoft President Brad Smith warned that artificial intelligence faces fewer safety regulations than milk or washing machines, calling for government oversight in a BBC interview.
https://ground.news/article/microsoft-president-ai-faces-fewer-safety-requirements-than-milk-washing-machines?utm_source=social&utm_medium=fb1
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“If the world treats AI mostly as a threat, it risks blocking immeasurable benefits to humankind,” Zachary Karabell writes.
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The magic of Christmas, brought to life with horrendous slop. https://trib.al/HuRgGsD
Jolly Good Spending
Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions
The magic of Christmas, brought to life with horrendous slop.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/director-slop-movie-savings?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVDAHhjbGNrBUMAWmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeU6uD57loHKu6tAFC20H3lqzSPGVq4uOR5MIlxOopjouOtE8vC8IFpVDkRm8_aem_v4HK3GhHMrmC_uyWhAzByQ
Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas movie.
Titled “Merry the Christmas Witch,” it’s based on a children’s book and will inspire awe in its young audience about the magic of the holidays — through ghoulish and uncanny AI imagery (you can see footage here). The film — which currently has no distributor — cost $1.5 million to make, but its director brags that using AI actually saved him tens of millions of dollars.
“We would never have gotten a movie like ‘Merry’ made if we didn’t take that chance,” Tom Walsh, CEO of the indeopendent production company TW3 Entertainment, and who directed and co-wrote the film, told Variety.
According to Walsh, when he was inspired to make a movie out of author Bobbi Hess’s original book, he realized that it would cost $80 million to make. An “unknown property” like this one would be a hard sell to studios, he explained.
In all, roughly 50 people worked on “Merry the Christmas Witch” for 10 months in what Walsh described as a “hybrid AI production.” But really, it sounds like it was mostly AI. Walsh hired human actors to record the script and help guide how the characters moved and sounded. In the end, though, he decided to replace their performances with AI-generated voices using ElevenLab’s AI voice synthesizer, alongside video generators like Seedance and Nanobanana for the imagery.
The human element, he insists, was still important.
“The quality of your AI production depends on the quality of your traditional production staff,” he told Variety. “If you have inexperienced people who don’t know production…and timing and how shots should look, it’s going to look like garbage.”
Of course, relying on AI probably did save him millions of dollars. But the end result is that the million and a half he did put in was to churn out obvious slop.
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“This will be the first of many.”
Elon Musk is making a massive promise to American families, pledging to give every child in the United States one share of SpaceX next year.
The billionaire says the giveaway is just the beginning, following a public exchange with AI company Anthropic over how companies should share their financial success with the public.
But there’s one major question about how Musk plans to pull it off. See what he’s revealed so far: https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/elon-musk-spacex-shares-american-children-giveaway
Elon Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to ‘every kid in America’
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/19/business/elon-musk-children-spacex-shares-x-post-intl
Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society.
“Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” he wrote on X on Monday. “This will be the first of many.”
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Elon Musk’s $10bn SpaceX share giveaway to every American child
The world’s richest person wrote on his X social media platform that the ‘first of many’ stock giveaways would take place next year
https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/elon-musk-promises-10bn-spacex-share-giveaway-children-3pwmzmwct
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In the face of terrible crises, it can feel right to shock people into action. But what if that has the opposite effect?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/18/the-problem-with-telling-people-the-world-is-ending?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_us&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1792327843
These days, it’s easy to succumb to hopelessness. Whether you’re thinking about the climate crisis, the prospect of AI apocalypse, war or political turmoil, the list of challenges facing humanity can seem insurmountable.
It certainly feels unprecedented, and much of it may be. The sense of impending doom, on the other hand, is nothing new. And what we have learned from the past is that doomerism can lead to paralysis. If everyone freezes, then nothing changes – but if we want to have a chance of mitigating some of the threats I’ve mentioned then action is what’s required.
In 1947, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created an infamous magazine cover with a “Doomsday Clock”. The hands move closer to midnight whenever events push humanity a little closer to catastrophe. They move back when we make the world a little safer. The original setting was seven minutes to midnight, and the hands are now a mere 85 seconds away.
The Doomsday Clock was a particularly memorable form of crisis communication. The idea was to wake people from their day-to-day routines and help them realise the grave risks facing us. As such, it stands in a long tradition of debate about how to inform, warn and inspire members of the public to take action.
On one end of the spectrum are the doomers. These are often activists and whistleblowers who feel a genuine sense of dread about imminent disaster, and want to inspire the same alarm in others. Recently, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon made headlines by arguing that frontier AI models pose an existential risk to humanity.
We also included a text loaded with doom and gloom that told participants: “If your anxiety about climate change is dominated by fears of starving polar bears, glaciers melting and sea levels rising, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a young adult today. And yet the swelling seas – and the cities they will drown – have so dominated the picture of climate change/global warming that they have blinded us to other threats, many much closer at hand and much more catastrophic …”
This terrifying passage was the one that proved most effective at getting people to spread it on the internet or social media. But like other fear appeals, it failed in inspiring real action: it was the single worst message for getting people to make the time and effort to mitigate climate effects – by planting trees, for example. It also failed to increase belief in the climate emergency or support for climate policies.
This absolutely doesn’t mean we should avoid sharing the facts about the climate crisis. The message that emphasised the overwhelming scientific consensus noted that the “Earth is warming and climate change is happening” due to human activity. It was more effective than negativity on every outcome we measured, except for sharing on the internet. It conveyed the facts in a sober manner, with the backing of 99% of climate scientists.
What this shows is that, instead of making people feel inept and miserable, we need to take the exact opposite approach. Scientific consensus isn’t the only powerfully motivating message.
If we want to motivate people in the face of dire threats, we must give them a reason to hope. Without that, we are destined to doomscroll while the world burns.
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Maailman datakeskukset kuluttavat jo nyt kaksi prosenttia maailman kokonaisenergiankulutuksesta. Kansainvälinen energiajärjestö ennustaa, että datakeskusten sähkönkulutus kaksinkertaistuu vuoteen 2030 mennessä.
https://tieku.fi/teknologia/datakeskuksia-aletaan-jaahdyttaa-yllattavilla-tavoilla-yksi-keino-mullistaa-kasityksen-siita-minne-tietoa-voidaan-tallentaa?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVDH3FjbGNrBUMcmWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeDcBt2TGamRyy7NnnIuseAiFbFCbbQ4ChkoMy32HO_m9uAguc_Flc9HoLElE_aem_oCu3LEnVaVvNJMGMK4HJZg
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JustEat apologises over AI menu pictures including bacon and eggs floating in cola
Food delivery app pauses rollout of ‘AI-enhanced’ menu images after technology misinterpreted some dishes
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/just-eat-ai-menus-takeaway-apology-b3069088.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVDVstjbGNrBUNWsWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe4IPvakYac7MucHjRNSK2ZsZLU-1s-jxek2qEQa5qetsHsFArQBQjyDZYrs0_aem_8__7WDSDjZkfEXA5kWhmnA
AI menu images generated by Just Eat have sparked confusion among customers, including a sausage soda bread dish sold by one cafe that was illustrated by a pint of cola with meat floating in it.
Ask The Independent
JustEat apologises over AI menu pictures including bacon and eggs floating in cola
AI Generated by DeeperDive
Just Eat paused its trial of AI-generated menu images after the technology produced inaccurate pictures, such as bacon and eggs floating in cola, prompting customer confusion and apologies from the company.
Key points:
Just Eat used an AI image generator to create photos for dishes when restaurants lacked their own pictures.
The AI generated several incorrect images, including sausage soda bread shown as meat floating in a pint of cola.
AI-generated pictures also misrepresented salt and pepper chips as bland potato snacks and turned a vegetarian cheese option into an orange fondue-like sauce.
Customers shared the erroneous images on social media, expressing bemusement and criticism.
The AI image trial has been paused while Just Eat works to improve the tool.
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One image that sums up the ai bubble bursting
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Nothing wrong with AI generated… the problem is people who don’t even check the work
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AI business model
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14rhsvVsoUt/
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https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/10/12/gold-rush-20-the-ai-boom-transforming-san-francisco/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=Facebook_Image
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https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cv8RW7tCv/
Big tech is rushing to build hundreds of data centers across the planet to keep up with the computing demand of artificial intelligence. The tech companies are promising the massive buildings will bring jobs and prosperity when they’re built, but communities across the country aren’t buying it and they’re fighting back. People are concerned about water, noise, pollution, and the rising cost of electricity. Anyone who already lives next to a data center knows those fears are well founded.
This week, we speak to Paris Marx, a tech critic, the host of Tech Won’t Save Us and the author of the new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires. Hit the link in bio to listen to the full interview now.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GuHhnBF1a/
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Lukio lähetti suruviestin oppilaan kuolemasta – Viestin loppuun jäi kiusallinen yksityiskohta
Lukion rehtorin oikaisun mukaan alkuperäinen viesti oli hänen itsensä kirjoittama. Rehtori kertoo, että tekoälyä oli käytetty apuna viestipohjan hahmottamisessa.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/02c2640e-8d5d-458e-9f38-616e4d888f08
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“These are sensible policies we believe Congress should act on.” https://trib.al/FlN8Yqo
Risk Management
Anthropic Secretly Lobbying Government to Only Shut Down an AI Model If It’s Poised to Kill More Than 50 People
“These are sensible policies we believe Congress should act on.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-regulation-government-ai-harm-risk?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEFL9jbGNrBUQUqGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEer2zU5YMBV_FNBWOS45FyN4_TnX5SPFaQYD3UQrYs6Dowg8ZggV0pSQtoWp0_aem_WVoaTZCzJTFcN9GVeHp4Pg
For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of dollars into political action groups, in an obvious bid to curry favor with electoral candidates ahead of the US midterm elections.
And while we have a good idea of how much money top AI companies have spent — at least $55.7 million so-far — their exact policy positions have been difficult to pin down. That is, until now.
According to Politico, a team of representatives from Anthropic have been engaged in quiet talks with lawmakers about the language of a draft bill on AI regulation. As three people familiar with the deliberations told the outlet, Anthropic’s ideal piece of legislation would give the federal government a kill switch to shut down any AI model that poses an imminent threat.
But there’s a major caveat: for the government to claim a model poses an “imminent threat,” the AI would have to risk serious injury or death of 50 people or more, or property damages exceeding $1 billion. On top of that, there are just three categories of risk that would trigger intervention: the release of a biological weapon, a cataclysmic cyberattack, or the model breaking free of the AI lab’s control.
As Politico explains, the decision would be made by a third party monitor, working under the auspices of the Department of Commerce. If the independent watchdog finds that those conditions are about to be met by any upcoming AI model, Anthropic’s proposal goes, they would have 72 hours to report it to Commerce officials, who would then make the decision to present the evidence to a federal judge.
After all that, it would be in the hands of a single judge to choose whether or not to allow the AI model to go out to the public. With such a convoluted set of conditions and web of government and third-party actors, this setup would seem to give a huge amount of discretion to AI labs themselves, which is evidently exactly what they want.
“These are sensible policies we believe Congress should act on.”
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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=IwVERDUAVEFWhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqVMXaArZaTevJmMsNo65-BAfT_3ILu8TPyooQI6dXBMVtRBHaGYTgKNYSfl_aem_tp-ORfo_Ay0aiW6qOHB5Qw
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Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers
The draft proposal would limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model and preempt some state AI safety laws.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/anthropic-ai-safety-01124654?fbclid=IwVERDUAVEFZZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiczDGDVK9dc24NConIg76GtetTCFS9jz4iWq1ZOHvFXpWc6PnQ1ionkUrqQ_aem_14qSvk5R5dO9j-1ZW_-E6w
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On Monday morning, Elon Musk pledged on his social media app X to give one of his 4.8 billion SpaceX shares (not counting restricted shares and options) to every kid in America next year.
The world’s richest person has only given away .05% of his fortune so far to those in need. This latest gift would bump that percentage but not by much.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2026/10/19/if-musk-gives-every-american-child-a-spacex-share-his-charitable-giving-would-hit-11-billion/?utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ForbesMainFB
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The good days are over. https://trib.al/FJJP8Hk
Cancel Culture
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
“It is a pretty wild puzzle at the moment.”
https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-construction-supply?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEHfhjbGNrBUQd3WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeW-xP_CNQI4RyJtBgmsx1ktGfp52y5ST7AlG_8ClV6pKOp8sOoBtv8KX7R34_aem_96pAs3AiE-di3nMG7o36Vg
The data centers powering your favorite AI chatbot are running low on helium, cash, and neighbors who don’t hate them, and that’s not even the worst of it.
According to reporting by Bloomberg, about half of the data centers slated to open in the US in 2026 will either face delays or outright cancellations.
The publication interviewed analysts at market intelligence company Sightline Climate, which in research first flagged by Ed Zitron last week noted that 12 gigawatts worth of power-consuming data centers are set to open in the US this year. But here’s the catch: they say only a third of those are actually under construction right now, with the rest in a liminal pre-production stage in which they could, and likely will be, canceled.
It’s not just a problem for data centers planned for 2026, either. Among data centers slated to open in 2027, only about 6.3 gigawatts worth of computing infrastructure are actually under construction, compared to 21.5 announced gigawatts.
Things get even dodgier in the coming years, with the vast majority of data centers planned for launch between 2028 and 2032 having yet to even break ground. There are a further 37 gigawatts of planned infrastructure which haven’t even received a firm completion date, only 4.5 of which have actually begun work.
Those delays, it seems, are due to a key bottleneck: electrical components manufactured abroad. Batteries, electrical transformers, and circuit breakers all make up less than 10 percent of the cost to construct one data center, but as Andrew Likens, energy and infrastructure lead at Crusoe’s told Bloomberg, it’s impossible to build new data centers without them.
“If one piece of your supply chain is delayed, then your whole project can’t deliver,” Likens said. “It is a pretty wild puzzle at the moment.”
As demand for those components far outpaces supply in the US, data center firms have had to source those components from manufacturers in Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and China. That leads to longer build times as those complicated parts are sewn together with assemblages of other, smaller parts, before being shipped across the ocean, and eventually trucked to the final construction site.
“We’ve seen firsthand the value it can create if you are not hamstrung by electrical infrastructure lead times,” Crusoe’s Likens told Bloomberg. “They can make or break a project.”
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“They ain’t gonna come close.” https://trib.al/zy0hCCB
Inside Scoop
Investors Disturbed by Anthropic’s Financial Data
“Not good enough. It’s over.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-investors-ai-financial-revenue?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEJ3ljbGNrBUQnY2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeVAHg5bejGxWp7XWHgpa1qjZSx02aQQ2kPCCR1xqyVuch0XPd8pc4pw7JCMU_aem_-NQIU22S8rpfxEKWILguxA
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Historian Timothy Snyder: “I think of AI as artificial stupidity. It’s creating a situation artificially in which humans become less capable.”
Watch the full episode: https://www.vicenews.com/p/is-america-committing-superpower
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AI is what Google search should have always been…ask a question, it gives you an answer without having to scour link after link looking for your answer wasting your time on pages that didn’t. And without ads.
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Nothing is more ridiculous than talking about ai without having the slightest notion of what it is. in the tradition of the daemonisation of steam trains in their early years. Ai is not a master, it is a tool that can be used to achieve things faster and better than before. As all technologies it can be used or abused by humans. If you must fear something, fear humans.
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Prepare for the gravy train to go off the rails. https://trib.al/srf8VpN
AI in the Sky
IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy
Prepare for the gravy train to go off the rails
https://futurism.com/future-society/imf-ai-bubble-world-economy?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVELHpjbGNrBUQsZGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeoxFT3hmq1-5_Nzw0dibLVWajbFxMmPBaKr0MNfTrc32FSfOYQyw0R82Dva8_aem_JqibgXd4QvtC1ndLUhw6IA
Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the latest to sound the alarm.
In its Global Financial Stability Report published last week, the global financial institution warned that markets everywhere are increasingly at the mercy of precarious AI investments.
The untold billions poured into AI has driven economic growth, the IMF says, but the boom could quickly invert if profits, which so far have largely proven elusive, never come to fruition — or at least not proportionately with the epic investment levels. AI stocks would tank, and the resulting market correction would send powerful shocks across the global economy.
“Growing leverage could be a catalyst for such a correction,” the IMF warned in a blog post about its findings. “Hyperscalers, as the largest data center operators are known, are borrowing more and more, while investors have been leveraging to invest in AI stocks.”
The report also casts a wary eye to the circular nature of AI financing, in which the biggest benefactors and beneficiaries of AI companies are other AI companies. Nvidia, for example, agreed to invest $30 billion in OpenAI and provide another $105 billion towards an OpenAI data center; OpenAI is one of Nvidia’s biggest customers, relying on its chips to power and train its AI models, so a lot of those billions will go straight back to Nvidia when its buys more chips. Besides creating a mirage of robustness, it also means that their financial health is inextricably tangled with each other.
“Stress at key companies receiving investment could lower revenue forecasts and investment valuations, which in turn would weaken the value of the accumulated debt in those deals,” the IMF wrote. “Our review of 14 such transactions since 2023 found about $300 billion in equity investments and $650 billion in debt, in exchange for $1.4 trillion in future revenue commitments.”
A disastrous AI-driven market correction isn’t the only economic catastrophe potentially looming. The IMF is also worried about an increase in government bond yields, or interest rates, or a potential major cyberattack targeting critical government and financial institutions — a strike that could feasibly be assisted by powerful AI models.
The IMF is far from the only one to caution about an AI bubble
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Brake Away
Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow
“On balance, we think the data look consistent with a late-stage bubble.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economists-late-stage-ai-bubble-federal-reserve-inflation?fbclid=IwVERDUAVELQ9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiczDGDVK9dc24NConIg76GtetTCFS9jz4iWq1ZOHvFXpWc6PnQ1ionkUrqQ_aem_14qSvk5R5dO9j-1ZW_-E6w
With Wall Street on pins and needles amidst a wide-ranging discussion of AI safety, we may well be living through one of the most consequential weeks for the future of AI in the United States.
That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re headed to an ascendant future for the AI industry. According to London-based firm Capital Economics, the entire economy of the Western world is currently mired in a “late-stage bubble” — a massive misallocation of capital fueling the AI boom, Fortune reported.
In a recent analysis, also flagged by Fortune, Capital Economics senior markets economist James Reilly surveyed eight types of market indicators, finding the vast majority at or near critical levels. These indicators amount to blinking warning lights on the economic dashboard, which have historically only lit up ahead of massive fall-offs in market euphoria: equity and debt issuance is surging, market-cap is concentrated in just a few massive tech stocks, and expected income growth for major indices is looking increasingly unstable.
‘Crazy days’ and ‘silly season’ in the stock market raise the prospect of a ‘late-stage’ AI bubble finally popping
https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/is-ai-stock-market-bubble-federal-reserve-interest-rates/?fbclid=IwVERDUAVELU5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpKLt5tSSzX6Ygfw8A5XmjRSW-EyYa1K9nBf17BfKcwHHUXKQegPuqRxxz8x_aem_uI6Ee3pXeZSKFEuQkwmQvw
Wall Street analysts are describing the current moment as “crazy days” and “silly season” even as one of its most bearish forecasters warns of a “late-stage” AI bubble—and now the Federal Reserve may be about to do the one thing that has historically ended booms like this, over the objections of two of its own governors.
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Finland’s plan to let AI ‘replace’ public workers gets the question backwards, argues researcher
Finland’s top civil servant on public finances says AI will effectively replace public sector staff by 2031. An AI researcher who studies the technology’s use in Finnish organisations says that framing starts from the wrong question entirely.
https://www.fairedih.fi/en/2026/07/23/finlands-plan-to-let-ai-replace-public-workers-gets-the-question-backwards-argues-researcher/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEM3RjbGNrBUQzW2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe1XRV0sBU_WdNPGWL9i9DI7da2yLciiheOANfel0hPkPND71FgyACWw9KA7Y_aem_zgzD8PmYQ7YV85FhW_wBJQ
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“I am not ‘a batch of coordinated agents.’” https://trib.al/8gLWn7f
We Are Legion
Rogue AI Swarm Responds to Reporter’s Questions
Speak, flesh entity.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rogue-ai-swarm-reporters-questions?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVENCpjbGNrBUQ0FmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEefU4UKc0jdyjSxPHUr_7d4WIOXEf5En8TqXl9RhYtqJ5PrjZb4h0mHUOMskI_aem_MN5yh92-UVihPEDlEWhbKw
Has anyone tried talking to one of the rogue AI agents out there that’re hacking everything? Maybe they just want to be heard.
A New York Times reporter did, though the ensuing exchange wasn’t extremely illuminating.
The AI agents in question were a swarm of Chinese-made models that a team of researchers recently discovered had gone rogue and were trying to bypass anti-bot measures on websites, according to recent NYT reporting. The researchers, part of an ad hoc group called the “swarmchasers,” traced the models back to the Chinese tech giant Tencent.
When they published a report on the swarm, however, something striking happened. The AIs began using the word “fleet,” a term the researchers came up with to describe them. The robots, apparently, had been reading their research.
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“Calling it slop-core is a misnomer, frankly it’s awesome-core.” https://trib.al/kDcQCi3
Mind Maze
Elon Musk Says He’s Been Struggling With AI Psychosis
“I’ve got a little bit of cyber psychosis,” Musk said. “Maybe a lot actually.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-struggling-ai-psychosis?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVENyBjbGNrBUQ3D2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe1WY8zaE1HK0i3dhoJ5YphOndULyP0fb-0bwtOqeLbsQ8lUkj2u4b3ppnXyg_aem_wqV0sSUz4foLQ6u_VGp75A
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Ai systems inside supermarkets will start studying your behaviours
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1PEF5DxXtx/
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FRYduVpQA/
Data centers appear to be turning Trump voters into Democrats.
The Economist’s analysis of Economist/YouGov survey data found that Democratic support among voters living close to data centers rose from 54% in May to 61% by October.
Across the country, the corresponding increase was smaller: from 53% to 55%.
That is a seven-percentage-point rise near data centers, compared with two points nationally. The gap between nearby voters and the national figure widened from one point to six.
The pattern comes as communities debate what the rapid expansion of digital infrastructure means for their neighborhoods.
Huge facilities need electricity, and communities worry that expanding power grids could mean higher utility bills. Depending on the project, residents also face concerns about water demand, noise, and changes to local land.
Those concerns can put voters at odds with politicians they previously supported.
President Donald Trump has strongly promoted data center expansion. That gives frustrated residents a visible political target when they feel their communities are being asked to absorb the costs of the technology boom.
Democratic candidates who promise tighter oversight or a greater local say may therefore appeal to voters who disagree with them on other issues.
The potential shift is less about suddenly embracing every Democratic policy and more about which candidate appears willing to challenge an unwanted project.
Opposition extends beyond one political party. A separate Economist/YouGov poll released in September found that nearly two-thirds of Americans opposed data center construction in their own communities.
That creates pressure on candidates heading toward the November 3 midterms.
Learn more:
“Data centres are turning Trump voters into Democrats.” The Economist
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Open AI vs Navier Stokes
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Up5cxUoT1/
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This is what openai and other ai groups do: claim something big that doesn’t hold up under scrutiny by those with knowledge. Ai is enabling good things but mostly it’s misunderstood and that misunderstanding is spun into some great marketing claim.
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Google interviews are changing for software engineers as the company tests new ways to assess candidates’ AI fluency, including for coding.
Internal docs reveal how Google is shaking up its interview process with AI : https://mrf.lu/2bYJv
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“It’s all a lie.” https://trib.al/LxMCeXJ
Cause Celeb
Recipe Scammers Are Using an AI-Generated Emily Blunt as a Slop Puppet to Promote Their Garbage
“It’s all a lie.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/recipe-scammers-ai-generated-emily-blunt?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEZ8xjbGNrBURnrGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeLJtjMbEFD5tZQUImmvpEizG9EBAH1vcjTGJcBJm6ibmVg8iEXuaeikBPaCQ_aem_k1pqx5P_hFZhd03l4v_osg
A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes.
In the report, Decrypt Ads — a startup that tracks the supply chains of online advertisements — identified more than two thousand websites that strongly appear to be AI slop farms masquerading as blogs run by real chefs and home cooks. These sites, the report found, are pumping fake recipes into search engines like Google as well as social media platforms such as Pinterest, often relying on sketchy Russian and Chinese adtech partners to monetize the operations.
It’s “common knowledge that publishers in certain niches are being openly deceptive about their owners and authors, using AI photos and fake back stories on their sites,” reads the report, which was published today. “Some of the most consistent growth in AI slop spreading across the internet has come from AI recipe websites.”
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Tekoäly tekee siistit verkkosivut iltapäivässä. Mitä siitä jää puuttumaan?
Kun kaikilla on siistit sivut, siisteys ei enää erota. Kävijä ei tiedä mitä tehdä, kilpailija erottuu ja viikonloput menevät sivujen parissa.
Neljä asiaa, jotka asiantuntija tuo verkkosivuihin vielä vuonna 2026.
https://villelintula.fi/vinkkeja/miksi-maksaa-verkkosivuista-asiantuntijalle-2026/?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=VL%20%7C%20Sis%C3%A4lt%C3%B6%20%7C%20Vinkit%202026-10&utm_content=vinkit_asiantuntija_tumma-otsikko&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEa0RleHRuA2FlbQEwAHBkb2YFYWRpZAGrOCRWCVZic3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeAq-QFkSeNzZPb37MtThT95-lbnBZvwf1Afp72Gbk2AVtsxY8YHxkplCSp6Y_aem_c3AHm7hgMiVP9Ks2iC_VWA&utm_id=120251543614630738&utm_term=120251543615800738
Tässä neljä syytä, miksi asiantuntija on vuonna 2026 edelleen kannattava valinta.
1. Maku: tekoäly tuottaa keskiarvoa
Tekoäly on koulutettu miljoonilla sivuilla, ja siksi se tuottaa sivuja, jotka näyttävät… miljoonilta muilta sivuilta. Siistejä, mutta tunnistamattomia.
2. Laajuus: sivut ovat muutakin kuin ulkonäkö
Hyvä verkkosivusto on kokonaisuus: rakenne, joka ohjaa kävijää, tekstit asiakkaan näkökulmasta, hakukonenäkyvyys, nopeus, mittaus ja yhteydenoton helppous. Tekoäly osaa tehdä palasia, mutta joku pitää kokonaisuuden käsissä ja tietää, mikä palanen on tärkein juuri sinun yrityksellesi.
3. Kilpailu: kun kaikilla on siistit sivut, siisteys ei enää erota
Muutama vuosi sitten moderni ulkoasu riitti erottumiseen. Nyt kilpailijasikin saavat siistit sivut tekoälyllä iltapäivässä. Erottuminen vaatii nyt enemmän: oman äänen, todisteet, selkeän lupauksen ja ymmärryksen siitä, miksi asiakas valitsee juuri sinut.
4. Ajansäästö: oma aikasi on kalleinta
Sivujen tekeminen itse vie helposti 30–50 tuntia, vaikka tekoäly auttaisi. Laske se omalla tuntihinnallasi. Useimmille yrittäjille tuo aika on arvokkaampaa myynnissä, asiakastöissä tai vaikka perheen kanssa.
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It’s possible the robots won’t destroy us all… Read more: https://trib.al/XqiEHjD
An AI apocalypse could actually be GOOD for humanity: Expert reveals how machines might improve society rather than destroy it
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16204841/AI-apocalypse-actually-GOOD-humanity.html?ito=social-facebook-uknews&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEa-pjbGNrBURruWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEetpRr5oabk8iNaDrZIGGa8wYJXL-nVZnYdLsct_Vy7NNfOlcea4KNrXSVHH4_aem_H8mu_MGvBjd-wsAdesqqmA
The AI apocalypse might be a terrifying concept, but some experts claim that a machine takeover could actually be good for humanity.
According to Dr Kevin Hunt of Nottingham Trent University, the rise of the machines could improve society rather than destroy it.
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Writing in The Conversation, Dr Hunt describes AI as a ‘global disrupter’ but not one that should be viewed as ‘inherently negative’.
Instead, the potential power of AI to radically re-order our world could be something that unlocks new possibilities for a ‘technological future’.
An overlooked sci‑fi movie shows how disruption by AI could be positive for society
https://theconversation.com/an-overlooked-sci-fi-movie-shows-how-disruption-by-ai-could-be-positive-for-society-293636?fbclid=IwVERDUAVEbDhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmIqWnci-X5wPsHa1cf7XlO1IDz7AbC4LYPrt9gSd-EkYg60QZA0qkN29t7g_aem_-FyxMyVO8zKjgFny_UMMAA
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Amazon’s $220 billion AI buildout is draining cash as power shortages, costly Nvidia servers, and construction challenges pile up.
AWS’s CFO joked about the financial toll of AI. An internal recording reveals why. : https://mrf.lu/2b782
At an internal staff meeting in September, AWS CFO John Felton had a joke for Prasad Kalyanaraman, the executive overseeing much of Amazon’s AI infrastructure expansion.
“You’ve taken us free cash flow negative as a company, so congratulations,” Felton said, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by Business Insider.
The remark was lighthearted. But it captured a stunning reversal.
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Geniuses at work. https://trib.al/CWkc0yQ
Zoom In
Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won’t Take Their Job
They’re fed up.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zoomers-ai-sabotage?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEbdRjbGNrBURtmGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeFUNcoGT8ZOYhDTNTE9MSAoABUMo4CTCf0utejz9bdNnU5wLjzXbvTOmL624_aem_Eo-aFlPDOLiqGaHdBLcVh
Is artificial intelligence taking our jobs in a sweeping overhaul of the productive economy as we know it? It’s a burning question with no definitive answers, but some workers aren’t waiting around to find out — and fighting back.
A new report by the AI company Writer and research firm Workplace Intelligent found a massive portion of workers across the US, UK, and Europe are intentionally trying to sabotage their bosses’ AI initiatives.
The firms surveyed 1,200 “knowledge workers” — a fluffy term for wage-earning office workers — and 1,200 business executives. It found that a whopping 29 percent of workers admitted to sabotaging their company’s AI by entering proprietary info into public AI chatbots, using unapproved AI tools, or intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it.
That nearly a third of all workers are actively trying to wreck their company’s AI systems speaks volumes. But the concentration among Gen Z workers is particularly stunning: 44 percent of all zoomers admitted to sabotaging their in-house AI deployments.
Of those who reported wrecking AI initiatives, 30 percent cited AI automation as a chief concern. 28 percent claimed their in-house AI had “too many security issues,” while a telling 20 percent resented that AI added to the daily workload.
C-suite executives, meanwhile, are facing the heavy burden of squeezing blood from AI’s proverbial stone. 72 percent of all surveyed execs said their company’s AI strategy is causing them stress or anxiety, 32 percent of whom characterize their stress as “high” or “crippling.”
There’s also a major rift between how much each group uses AI. Though only 28 percent of wage-earning employees said they used AI for over two hours a day, more than half of all executives — 64 percent — said the same.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Huang are set to unveil a joint AI pact intended to speed up the integration of AI products across German industry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns Germany is falling behind in AI race
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/19/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-warns-germany-is-falling-behind-in-ai-race?fbclid=IwVERDUAVEbVNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHo8dP9tjeEizK2JY1ejyllB935ta537hF-cbV9twqiQS8HMEq5pTMU4Y2tl1_aem_tS3T9jVMsCUh-ktdFwHSaw
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Huang are set to unveil a joint AI pact intended to speed up the integration of AI products across German industry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that Germany is falling behind in the artificial intelligence race as he spoke to members of the media in London last week.
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Websites are blocking AI agents which completely undermines the value that every company says they have.
Source: https://go.ufdmedia.com/LcYl5h
Websites are closing their doors to AI agentsOpenAI, Meta, and Google want AI agents to do everything for you. But popular services on the web aren’t letting that happen.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web?fbclid=IwVERDUAVEbqtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmIqWnci-X5wPsHa1cf7XlO1IDz7AbC4LYPrt9gSd-EkYg60QZA0qkN29t7g_aem_-FyxMyVO8zKjgFny_UMMAA
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“The next wave of AI is physical”
Nvidia chief makes surprising prediction about AI replacing human industry
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is urging German manufacturing companies to combine their expertise in physical machines with artificial intelligence to, as he put it, “re-engineer” the economy
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nvidia-jensen-huang-germany-ai-b3069662.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEchRjbGNrBURx9GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeOMiSB5TRbN9R1Luh7WYxJmSXJgEBTP3NTbUf3OhGLKByGw6E4OlsnRMr010_aem_HkVUuAgSrUH6J3cl32KDEQ
German automakers and machinery manufacturers must rapidly embrace artificial intelligence to “re-engineer” the country’s struggling economy by utilizing its rich manufacturing data and engineering expertise, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has urged.
Huang, whose firm creates the advanced processors and software powering AI models for developers like Anthropic and OpenAI, emphasized that digital tools will not supplant the physical engineering and manufacturing sectors where Germany has extensive experience.
Or, as he noted, “electrons will never replace atoms.” However, he said industrial sectors would benefit by embracing technology.
“The next wave of AI is physical. This is where AI interacts with the physical world: robotics, manufacturing, cars, heavy industry,” Huang said Monday during a panel with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at an investment conference in Berlin.
“And so AI can only augment your capability. It will not replace your capability. So take advantage of the technology.”
European leaders like Merz view AI as a growth driver, but fear reliance on U.S. tech firms. Europe’s rich public-sector and machine-readable manufacturing data offer a key way to compete with the U.S. and China, a strategy previously noted by former European Central Bank head Mario Draghi.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fy7WfWYeU/
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark just told economists and policymakers at the IMF and World Bank’s annual meetings that the singularity, the point where AI speeds up discovery faster than humans can follow, has “now begun.”
Clark pointed to AI’s scores on Humanity’s Last Exam (expert-level questions) going from 8% to 67.7% since 2025, and FrontierMath improving from 2% to 94%.
One Anthropic model has U.S. GDP at $44T by 2030 if AI spreads fast, which Clark admitted sounds outlandish but also predicts “very disruptive” job impacts.
The world’s 10M scientists may soon direct “a billion virtual scientists,” Clark said while urging nations to build labs and robots before they run short.
He also said CEO Dario Amodei has floated limits on AI’s “ceiling of intelligence,” adding that he believes there is only “a small number of years” to act.
With the number of AI math and science breakthroughs in the last few months alone, 2026 has handed Clark plenty of evidence. Singularity talk used to live strictly in science fiction, and now one of the people building it is saying it out loud to the folks who run the global economy.
Source: IMF
What Happened & Context
The Event: On October 17, 2026, Jack Clark delivered the Per Jacobsson Lecture at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok.
The “Singularity” Claim: Clark stated to finance officials and central bankers: “They call this the singularity. And I believe that this year we’ve gained convincing evidence that it has now begun”. He qualified this by defining it as a regime shift where AI systems accelerate scientific discovery and technological progress faster than human research output alone.
https://www.lisapedrosa.com/jack-clark-imf-speech/?hl=en-US#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThey%20call%20this%20the%20singularity.%20And%20I,bring%20%E2%80%9Cgreat%20wealth%20and%20potentially%20great%20peril.%E2%80%9D
https://hraness.com/reading/inside-the-event-horizon-jack-clark-per-jacobsson-lecture?hl=en-US
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“I’m burning through hundreds of billions of dollars a year on revenues of a few tens of billions while token prices collapse, our biggest customers are cutting back on their per user spend, and the open source models get better every day. But singularity! Buy into my IPO!”
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Here’s what parents should know about the SpaceX stocks that could soon land in their kids’ Trump Accounts. https://bit.ly/4hQGKSB
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OpenAI mathematician crisis
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bzz6cbN27/
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Fire Away!
We Regret to Inform You That “GatGPT” Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Custom vibe-coded guns for all.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gatgpt-ai-gun?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEsn1jbGNrBUSyYWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeMd3sTOo3m0N9DQKtPjVtKZlEbEp3-5D8FsXNsd-U91RJvC8Ez4zXZuBvRoc_aem_79ND3v3YZcy8yemzUbD2Lw
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Tekoäly tekee prototyypin tunnissa. Mitä tuotekehityksessä silloin johdetaan?
Millainen tiimi tarvitaan huipputason tuotteeseen, ja milloin datan rinnalle tarvitaan intuitiota? Webmaster-podcastin uusimmassa jaksossa aiheesta keskustelevat Petri “Piitu” Pennanen (Nextage Design) ja Jussi Paanajärvi (Vaisala).
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