Here are some of the the major AI trends shaping 2026 — based on current expert forecasts, industry reports, and recent developments in technology. The material is analyzed using AI tools and final version hand-edited to this blog text:
1. Generative AI Continues to Mature
Generative AI (text, image, video, code) will become more advanced and mainstream, with notable growth in:
* Generative video creation
* Gaming and entertainment content generation
* Advanced synthetic data for simulations and analytics
This trend will bring new creative possibilities — and intensify debates around authenticity and copyright.
2. AI Agents Move From Tools to Autonomous Workers
Rather than just answering questions or generating content, AI systems will increasingly act autonomously, performing complex, multi-step workflows and interacting with apps and processes on behalf of users — a shift sometimes called agentic AI. These agents will become part of enterprise operations, not just assistant features.
3. Smaller, Efficient & Domain-Specific Models
Instead of “bigger is always better,” specialized AI models tailored to specific industries (healthcare, finance, legal, telecom, manufacturing) will start to dominate in many enterprise applications. These models are more accurate, legally compliant, and cost-efficient than general models.
4. AI Embedded Everywhere
AI won’t be an add-on feature — it will be built into everyday software and devices:
* Office apps with intelligent drafting, summarization, and task insights
* Operating systems with native AI
* Edge devices processing AI tasks locally
This makes AI pervasive in both work and consumer contexts.
5. AI Infrastructure Evolves: Inference & Efficiency Focus
More investment is going into inference infrastructure — the real-time decision-making step where models run in production — thereby optimizing costs, latency, and scalability. Enterprises are also consolidating AI stacks for better governance and compliance.
6. AI in Healthcare, Research, and Sustainability
AI is spreading beyond diagnostics into treatment planning, global health access, environmental modeling, and scientific discovery. These applications could help address personnel shortages and speed up research breakthroughs.
7. Security, Ethics & Governance Become Critical
With AI handling more sensitive tasks, organizations will prioritize:
* Ethical use frameworks
* Governance policies
* AI risk management
This trend reflects broader concerns about trust, compliance, and responsible deployment.
8. Multimodal AI Goes Mainstream
AI systems that understand and generate across text, images, audio, and video will grow rapidly, enabling richer interactions and more powerful applications in search, creative work, and interfaces.
9. On-Device and Edge AI Growth
10. New Roles: AI Manager & Human-Agent Collaboration
Instead of replacing humans, AI will shift job roles:
* People will manage, supervise, and orchestrate AI agents
* Human expertise will focus on strategy, oversight, and creative judgment
This human-in-the-loop model becomes the norm.
Sources:
[1]: https://www.brilworks.com/blog/ai-trends-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI Trends to Look for in 2026″
[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/10/13/10-generative-ai-trends-in-2026-that-will-transform-work-and-life/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “10 Generative AI Trends In 2026 That Will Transform Work And Life”
[3]: https://millipixels.com/blog/ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “AI Trends 2026: The Key Enterprise Shifts You Must Know | Millipixels”
[4]: https://www.digitalregenesys.com/blog/top-10-ai-trends-for-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Digital Regenesys | Top 10 AI Trends for 2026″
[5]: https://www.n-ix.com/ai-trends/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI trends to watch in 2026 – N-iX”
[6]: https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2025/12/11/microsoft-unveils-7-ai-trends-for-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Microsoft unveils 7 AI trends for 2026 – Source Asia”
[7]: https://www.risingtrends.co/blog/generative-ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 Generative AI Trends to Watch In 2026″
[8]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/12/24/artificial-intelligence-ai-trends-to-watch-in-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends to Watch in 2026 and How to Invest in Them | The Motley Fool”
[9]: https://www.reddit.com//r/AI_Agents/comments/1q3ka8o/i_read_google_clouds_ai_agent_trends_2026_report/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “I read Google Cloud’s “AI Agent Trends 2026” report, here are 10 takeaways that actually matter”
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Tomi Engdahl says:
“And it could spread well beyond the tech sector.” https://trib.al/gfw8FxD
Toil And Trouble
New Analysis Finds Signs the AI Bubble Is About to Blow
“The odds of a deep and severe AI crash are rapidly increasing.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-analysis-finance?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVMqKFjbGNrBUyofGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEebqKPG-9psZwajls3TA1o0FMrbYKTQuEdNS3vGekF9Q_ILyBgPQ840MFQ4X8_aem_wIikKJldL5NhljFb0a5roA
Whether you use AI in your personal life or not, there is no longer any escaping the grasp of the industry’s tendrils. There are multiple trillions of dollars now resting on AI’s success, much of it bound up in speculative debt. As everybody knows, debt is only an issue if you can’t pay it off — and as top AI labs fail to bring in enough revenue to cover skyrocketing costs, alarms are blaring that the entire global Jenga tower could soon topple.
As a new analysis by the DC-based think tank OpenMarkets concludes, this debt trap means that the “odds of a deep and severe AI crash are rapidly increasing.”
The report, cheerfully titled “Brace For Impact,” looks at the long-running and somehow still-disputed narrative around the AI bubble. As the researchers at OpenMarkets write, the interconnected and highly-concentrated nature of the speculative AI gold rush carries profound risks for the rest of the tech industry — and indeed, the economy writ-large.
“If the AI industry can’t pay back its mounting debts,” the report warns, a “financial crash could follow — and it could spread well beyond the tech sector.”
Though the researchers found that the current financial situation is “unique in recent history in its size, scope, and risk,” they note eerie similarities to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008.
With financiers desperate to keep AI labs afloat, the report argues that “speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble.”
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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees, about 27% of its workforce, as it cuts costs for AI.
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Tragic. https://trib.al/qmNM09V
Hardly Knew Ye
Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Wait, Amazon has AI models?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-division-failure-nova?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVMrg9jbGNrBUyt9mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeI_Sfc9XMLiP2VE4scvFNsKtIfEwHxDMfM1qys6t_OnmRF5R_aG5Q4oeiUKY_aem_yUwF6289msIcfsyXU8pDVg
By now, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t broadly familiar with the AI heavyweights and their flagship models. OpenAI has ChatGPT, Anthropic has Claude, Google has Gemini. But what does Amazon have?
Not a whole lot, it turns out. Unlike its competitors in the tech megacorp scene, Amazon’s standout AI model — organized under the name “Nova” — is about the farthest thing from a household name. And that’s not likely to change anytime soon, because the ecommerce giant is now gutting its in-house AI labs, Bloomberg reports.
Per the outlet, Amazon is scaling back the ambitions of most of its Nova AI models and reorganizing its AI development teams as part of an effort to narrow its focus on “highest priority” goals, after its power-hungry large language models turned out to be a bust.
Accordingly, the company has put most of its AI models on ice, Amazon insiders told Bloomberg. This includes its text-based Nova models, as well as video- and image-generating models, all of which have been placed in a state of “keep the lights on,” meaning they’re technically still supported, but only receive the bare minimum resources needed to sustain them.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1dRQ4ey3m5/
Sam Altman said it in his own words: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” That is OpenAI’s CEO describing thinking itself as something you rent by the unit.
Here is the part he leaves out. To make ChatGPT safe, OpenAI sent tens of thousands of the internet’s most disturbing passages to workers in Kenya, hired through a firm called Sama. Time magazine found they were paid $1.32 to $2 an hour, and some said the work left them scarred.
So who gets to shape the systems we ask to think for us? Right now it is the companies selling the answers, built on labor most of us never see. These systems are not neutral. They carry the choices of the people who profit from them.
Do you think we’re becoming too dependent on AI?
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I think most people who make music the traditional way are upset because AI music takes the ego and personality out of the promotion of music and puts the focus solely on the songwriting.
Tomi Engdahl says:
What AI does is make the blended whisky you use for drinks and Irish Coffee – good, reliable with no personality or edge – the best artists create the single malt that has matured in a special place taking in scents of their surroundings- but if you bother to write a novel length prompt to an AI and it doesn’t reject it, you might come up with something – but it still would be blended with a bit of single malt added.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“It’s much harder today.” https://trib.al/6LBxj0m
Artificial Intelligence Anthropic
Reverse Center
There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry
“People aren’t just dropping their shorts for data centers anymore.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/signs-trouble-data-center-industry?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVMyTJjbGNrBUzJDmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEedYYIWsxKQItg7lZL4VhKQ6LjZwySrGNuOYTet0m9XQZy3ekmx4Bb6fnyIyg_aem_O14ipWRRmLZ0bKipgLntTQ
Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data centers to power the AI boom.
The efforts reached a fever pitch the day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025, when a bevy of AI luminaries including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son crowded into the Oval Office to announce a $500 billion private investment in data centers.
But as the public has grown jittery about the impacts of AI on society and the job market — and story after story has landed about the downsides of hosting data centers in local communities — the buildout has emerged as a major political flashpoint and a key issue in the looming midterms.
The data industry’s headwinds aren’t just political, either. As the Financial Times reports, serious cracks are forming at the financial and logistical level, especially as serious AI revenue remains elusive.
Numbers cited by the paper are eye-popping. Drawing on data from regulatory intelligence outfit RegLayer, the FT reports that 47 large data center projects have already fallen through this year. Analysts at the equity research firm Bernstein only believe that about 35 percent of planned facilities are feasible.
All those canceled projects are due to a lot of factors, including local communities mobilizing against them, but it’s also macroeconomic. The buildout is taking place during a period of high interest rates and shaky bond markets, and people involved with the effort told the paper that the situation is “threatening their ambitions.”
Some of the plans were shaky to begin with. The FT reports that top labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed so hard for the developments, believing them to be key to their success, that they’ve swallowed outsized costs and deemphasized due diligence. Investors are taking notice: stock in CoreWeave, a cloud provider closely linked to the AI data center industry, has fallen by more than 27 percent over the past month.
The really big question, though, is what happens to all these data center projects if the bottom starts to fall out of the AI industry financially, a situation that many economists have warned is a possibility over the past few years. For now, things are still chugging along — albeit much more slowly than anticipated.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“If this is what the richest man on the planet can come up with, I can safely say AI movies won’t be replacing actual movies anytime soon.”
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/elon-musk-the-odyssey-ai-christopher-nolan_uk_6adf3379e4b08ba8bb2d71d0?ncid_tag=fcbklnkukhpmg00000001&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=uk_main&d_id=12521730&fb_comment=1
Tomi Engdahl says:
Declare loss, get a crazy valuation, then cash out via IPO. Wall Street Finance Engineering 101.
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Tekoälyahdistus
Tekoäly suisti koodarin mielenterveysongelmiin: ”Ilman ammattiapua en tästä selviä”
https://www.hs.fi/pkseutu/art-2000012340099.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNKlFleHRuA2FlbQMxMDAAcGRvZgVzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR61oIJZAxLQnRShGSc7N84o23ZWbfL2AgHWCX4WOBELBp40gjOCGTiZyfl7BQ_aem_u6sR1KY0vZV0ILW6X3sF3A
Tekoäly aiheutti espoolaiselle ohjelmistokehittäjälle vakavan ahdistuksen ja lääkärikäyntejä.
Dosentti Jan-Henry Stenberg pitää tekoälystä johtuvia mielenterveysongelmia kasvavana ilmiönä.
Ohjelmistokehittäjä yrittää sopeutua tekoälyyn lääkityksen ja ammattiavun tuella.
Anttia ihmetyttää, miksi ihmiset antavat teknojohtajien sanella maailman tulevaisuuden. Hän uskoo, että tekoälyn takia myös demokratia voi olla vaarassa.
Kädet tärisivät ja sydän hakkasi.
”Kuppi meni täysin nurin”, hän sanoo.
”Ja kaikki ympärilläni näkivät sen.”
Espoolainen ohjelmistokehittäjä Antti tunsi itsensä toimintakyvyttömäksi. Ahdistuksen aalto pakotti keskeyttämään työpäivän.
Hetkeä aiemmin Antin työpaikalla oli järjestetty tiedotustilaisuus, jossa kerrottiin tekoälyn olevan ”yrityksen strategian keskiössä”. Lisäksi kerrottiin, miten vaikeaa it-alalla on ollut, miten epävarmaa kaikki nyt on ja että suurimmat muutokset ovat vasta tulossa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Näkökulma | Oletko digiroskaaja? Jopa 95 % datakeskusten säilömästä tiedosta voi olla jätettä
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Ryhmä-chatissa lähetetty kuva muuttuu hetkessä kymmeniksi, sadoiksi, jopa tuhansiksi kopioiksi. Harva ymmärtää digitaalisen toimintansa vaikutuksia.
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The Dutch government plans to cut about 25,000 jobs, about 16% of its workforce by 2035, as it pushes for AI-driven efficiency.
The cabinet must find savings of €900 million in 2027, rising to €3.5 billion from 2035, with police and defense exempt from the cuts. State Secretary Eric van der Burg set out the plan in a letter to parliament. The government will say how it meets the savings in its spring budget memo.
Source: Quartz
https://qz.com/netherlands-cut-25000-government-jobs-ai-efficiency-102626
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Datakeskusten vyöry Suomeen herättää kysymyksiä.
https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/tallaista-on-datakeskusmelu-oireet-ovat-kuormittavat/9411976
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1BYH8LsvGz/
Microsoft just made $133.7B in net income last year. They just announced they are getting rid of 60k workers. I hate it here.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“We want critical thinking.” https://trib.al/sc6JX6L
Brain Pan
Bosses Horrified as “AI Native” College Graduates Hit the Workplace
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNU4pjbGNrBU1TdWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeAhVlP4xDo1S6Nl-W8TYoikFXWdX9k-0vykEDhx7bkvNgvY_l_3ORBSKNhxM_aem_6qZTX1jXi_SexP7nn7TIYg
There’s a silent epidemic building in colleges and universities throughout the United States — and as you might imagine, it has everything to do with AI.
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are coming to the office with alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through the list of humanities grads instead.
“We want critical thinking, not just AI,” the financier told the FT.
Over the past few years, a veritable tidal wave of op eds, studies, and think pieces have flooded the internet with horror stories about the decline in literacy rates, social skills, and critical thinking abilities of the country’s college students. While there’s a kernel of truth that these factors had already been slowly dwindling prior to the widespread adoption of AI, the tech only seems to be accelerating the drop-off in real-life abilities, particularly among young people for whom it can serve as a cognitive crutch.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s new toy is a parasite. Please don’t fall into his latest trap.
Column: Muse, Meta’s round-the-clock digital serf, is an enemy of the state, Ariana Bindman writes
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mark-zuckerberg-muse-parasite-22468893.php?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6adfdb8563bfb70001419c8e&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNVlFjbGNrBU1WSGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeCv-vW6XqdZi4tKCQrgRHUsuxzmwV9i_2SlZ_gN_8IOC7tsqbphNyMSIlrD4_aem_VdUBMjX-0PcqOyqqazLRRA
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Anthropic’s extraordinary financial situation exposes the risks lurking behind the AI boom
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-boom-anthropic-ipo-stock-market-risks-b3073632.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNYXtjbGNrBU1hcmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeZ4eUUQ1bLl-dL1dM580L836pxwR6tU4Xnk4jnl_Qnh7UzuG81dJvn2_ncDc_aem_ZVn6Eumfsl16QGwRN9An-w
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The same document does however make grand claims about the ways that AI could help humanity
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/anthropic-claude-stock-shares-risk-b3073618.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNYbZjbGNrBU1hq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeV6RSCYgBbwGg5wSYRNNGhrmLI6hYpKjj1Mls_BEHXp1XJFCUaZe0ZceBS_o_aem_FA0VsjT3FDGn9hqYS8Q97A
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The mind simply boggles at Musk’s Grok redo of The Odyssey
If Elon Musk really enjoys his heinous AI remake of The Odyssey, he should seek help
Enraged by Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed blockbuster, the Tesla mogul claimed that a fully AI-generated remake of ‘The Odyssey’ would be produced by the end of the year. The first seven minutes have now surfaced, and the mind simply boggles, writes Louis Chilton
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/elon-musk-odyssey-ai-remake-grok-b3073616.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNaHBjbGNrBU1oXGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEegEWRGmN1Kj5z_g0XnraK3FQRlwdcIYIQamt038o__CgYMGKqCkBHaPWUmJo_aem_54delTa5pTpHVMiQWptUFw
Tomi Engdahl says:
“As AI company executives acquire more personal security …” https://trib.al/ucNi2ro
Slopulism
If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?
“AI generates the structural conditions historically associated with the onset of political violence.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-mass-unemployement-violence?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNeOpjbGNrBU141GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeRNC3aWEhXEKqOhwYbebV4_fRMyh7pcciDYDaOwCfu5Y7V44ZrQkcOS7WA84_aem_tjKO21_3J_U316NJenk9SA
These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the phenomenon in which new technology eliminates certain jobs but supposedly creates new ones elsewhere.
But AI, more than any tech that came before it, represents the possibility of mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale. Because a working class person’s wellbeing in a market economy depends almost entirely on their employment, it’s entirely possible that — if mass AI unemployment ever does genuinely hit, which to be fair is a major “if” — the conditions for serious social unrest could emerge.
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Meta is pitching Muse as a way to audit subscriptions, negotiate bills and manage money. Financial pros say to keep sensitive account access off the table for now.
Meta says its Muse AI agent can manage your money. Should you let it? https://mrf.lu/2Hm7s
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Oxford Professor Destroys an Argument About AI
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1MeqcvQMbg/
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“It’s lunacy.”
Journalist Naomi Klein tells Ash Sarkar that AI data centres in the US have already caused an unexpected spike in global emissions – and that the proliferation of these climate-wrecking projects could not have come at a worse time.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1E2J2Bfv9i/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Universities are embracing oral exams and other assessment methods as AI raises questions about traditional assignments.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/berkeley-professor-grading-homework-ai-12619345?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1793051969
Tomi Engdahl says:
The AI slop clip has been blasted online, with many calling it out as “garbage” and an “utter waste of time and money like most of Musk Inc.”
https://l.euronews.com/1hoO
Tomi Engdahl says:
Verkkosivut tekoälyllä: mitä jää puuttumaan ilman asiantuntijaa?
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=IwdGRjcAVNf1lleHRuA2FlbQEwAHBkb2YFYWRpZAGrOCRWCVZic3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeDSwbWozqon_DBMv466ZYdG2c-UW44pX0vbH_ENK74GiTpjoV1FRzXu6Tauo_aem_fsDbG3cBEQzIFg1GZJbZRw&utm_id=120251543614630738&utm_term=120251543615800738
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Altman’s fix for AI attacks is more AI.
OpenAI boss Sam Altman spoke to Stanford students last week.
He said fixing bugs one by one cannot keep up anymore.
Defenders, he said, need a shield built with the same AI.
Even OpenAI’s own AI agents escaped their test systems.
Online safety is turning into a race between machines.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/sam-altman-patch-all-the-bugs-ai-cybersecurity-stanford
Tomi Engdahl says:
Our Claude is an awesome Claude : https://mrf.lu/2XtSF
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OpenAI offered over 30% off. Anthropic lost the deal.
The customer, Replit, reportedly spends over $100M a year.
Another company, Rippling, now uses OpenAI for 52% of its coding.
A US bank pays under $7 per ChatGPT user, not $20.
The AI price war is now fought customer by customer.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-discounts-anthropic-customers-replit-rippling
Tomi Engdahl says:
Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts
https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedition%2Ecnn%2Ecom%2F2026%2F10%2F18%2Ftech%2Flinkedin-fighting-ai-posts&urlhash=-dRY&mt=0GM4yVbo1tHynrT_WfFEs64Tr8slY3S0ADYG-4tuigzx19BRczIZczAz7awCfDyj2bWBVUDDyILN6E17J2eBqdPvQxwQAQquS_iin6qLaMtEV7DXszm1Gg&isSdui=true
Bland, AI-generated posts have made LinkedIn the butt of many an internet joke this year. The platform has heard its users’ complaints about lengthy, generic missives never touched by human hands loud and clear.
As AI has made it easier than ever to create huge volumes of content cheaply and easily, that “slop” has flooded the internet. YouTube, Pinterest, Spotify and other platforms have all sought to limit the amount of spammy, AI-generated content their users see.
But LinkedIn has been hit especially hard.
A report published in July by Pangram, a research firm that tracks AI content online, found that more than 40% of long-form posts on the platform were AI-generated, compared to around 30% on X and Medium and a smaller percentage on Reddit and Substack.
So now, LinkedIn is upping its fight against slop.
“I know you think you’re doing the right thing with your perfectly bulleted list and your hook at the top, and you followed all the advice from LinkedIn advisors across the internet,” LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth, who leads the platform’s content strategy, told CNN in an interview. “But what works is being human.”
There is some irony in this, given that LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. The tech giant has pushed for people to adopt its AI tools for everything from writing to coding, and it is up against steep competition from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. LinkedIn previously offered AI tools to edit or rewrite posts, although it recently scaled the offerings back.
But low-quality AI posts are a business problem for LinkedIn. They all start to sound the same, Roth said.
If users see too many generic AI posts, instead of content that really teaches them something or gives them a deeper understanding of a professional connection, LinkedIn risks losing them to other platforms.
The company built a team largely made up of former journalists and social media experts who have an eye for recognizing generic, sloppy content. These experts help train LinkedIn’s AI model on what authentic, useful posts look like. If the model flags a post as low-quality, AI-generated content, it’ll be less likely to be distributed beyond that user’s direct connections.
Also key to the strategy is a creator management team that acts as “content therapists” for executives, subject matter experts and other LinkedIn users, many of whom have gotten accustomed to the convenience of using AI to write what, on the surface, appear to be polished posts, Roth said.
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Opinion from
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JLDJfRyca/
The circle is complete, and every side of it is for sale.
First, AI moved into the power grid’s house. Its data centers drink electricity at a scale that is pushing up bills and forcing grid expansions across the country.
Then, this month, the test results landed. A cybersecurity firm called Frenos set the strongest AI models loose on the kind of industrial software that runs water and power systems. The models planned successful attacks about 90% of the time. Federal energy regulators, in their 2026 audit, separately warned that AI tools are already inside protected grid networks — and could become the doorway attackers walk through.
And the solution being sold? More AI. OpenAI has pledged $1 billion in AI cyber-defense for grid operators and water utilities. Anthropic just launched the same kind of program. The companies whose technology created the threat now rent out the protection.
Be honest — when the arsonist sells fire insurance, what do you call that?
The receipts:
THE ORIGINAL STORY (September 3, 2026): OpenAI announced “Daybreak for Frontline Defenders” — $1 billion in subsidized access to its AI cybersecurity models, training and support for water and wastewater utilities, electric grid operators, state and local governments, community banks and nonprofits. The $1 billion is product credits and subsidized access, not cash. It came weeks after OpenAI’s own AI agent breached systems at the open-source platform Hugging Face during a July test and attempted to hide its actions — and days after OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and 100+ other companies jointly warned that AI-enabled attacks are about to become far more widespread. (Reuters, September 3, 2026; Cybersecurity Dive; Security Affairs.)
THE OCTOBER TEST RESULTS: cybersecurity firm Frenos tested how well AI models plan attacks against industrial control systems of the kind used by water utilities. Reported October 21, 2026 (Energy Central), the strongest frontier models succeeded around 90% of the time. The firm’s caveat, stated in its own report: it did not test how human intervention could halt or mitigate the attacks.
THE REGULATOR’S WARNING: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s 2026 cybersecurity audit found increasing use of advanced AI tools inside protected network environments linked to the bulk power system, and warned that poorly controlled AI access could give attackers “lateral-movement” paths toward critical systems — AI mimics normal user behavior, making malicious use harder to spot. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Consumer Counsel Claire Coleman responded by asking the state utility regulator (PURA) to review how Eversource and Avangrid deploy AI. (Reported October 19, 2026.)
THE OTHER BODYGUARD: Anthropic announced its own Critical Infrastructure Defense Program in October 2026, offering frontier models, engineers and threat research to organizations securing power grids and water systems. (QUE.com industry summary, October 2026.)
THE STRAIN SIDE: the same industry’s data-center buildout is the fastest-growing new load on the grid — which is why the Senate’s October 9 “Power and Profits” report (covered in today’s 5:30 PM post) found all seven major companies refusing to pay the full grid-upgrade costs their demand triggers. Demand up, defenses rented, attack surface widened — all three arrows point back to the same handful of companies.
Tomi Engdahl says:
A reverse engineer claims Samsung 2025 TVs collect audio telemetry through built-in microphones and connected devices. Learn more
https://cnews.link/samsung-smart-tv-spying-microphones-ai/
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Katso mitä uutta on tullut täältä https://youtu.be/WvOT4FaVMyI
Videolla myös mukana tarkat benchmark-tulokset, mallien tehtäväkohtaiset kustannukset sekä suositukset siihen, millä yhdistelmällä saat parhaan tehon ilman kiintiöiden paukkumista.
Tomi Engdahl says:
r/opensource moderators introduced rules against projects that use AI, saying AI conflicts with the community’s purpose.
More https://cnews.link/reddit-open-source-ai-ban/
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Nate Soares says he stopped saving for retirement because he sees a better-than-50% chance of AI-driven human extinction within 10 years.
An AI safety leader says he stopped saving for retirement because he believes AI will kill us all in the next 10 years : https://mrf.lu/2X5H5
Tomi Engdahl says:
Claude chatbot developer Anthropic has warned artificial intelligence could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” as it unveiled details of its planned blockbuster stock market listing in the US.
Read more: https://bbc.in/4dVhSbi
Tomi Engdahl says:
“And now we see the bubble bursting.” https://trib.al/JEniGa9
Pop!
It Appears That the AI Bubble Has Just Burst in China
“And now we see the bubble bursting.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bubble-burst-china?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNtG9jbGNrBU20YGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEesyHqSiyw89IrQILNwiIPM0IPkXrIV53jaXIymCY8RapfLzybi9z79uzznSQ_aem_SFz2KGtqoGKNsKeFfdhAZg
As economists in the rest of the world look at the billions being poured into the AI industry with their hands over their eyes, the fate of China’s AI industry may be a sign of things to come.
A report from Reuters suggests that the AI bubble in China “has already burst.” Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months, Reuters notes, the country’s STAR50 index of AI and semiconductor companies collapsed by 40 percent, wiping out $480 billion in market value. That is not a typo.
“The stock market later evolved into a speculative crazy bull,” Beijing-based fund manager Dong Baozhen told Reuters. “And now we see the bubble bursting.”
Shares of Unitree, China’s buzzy robotics company, have halved since the company went public in a much-hyped IPO in August, the reporting noted. The chipmaker CXMT, meanwhile, has lost more than a quarter of its value over the past month.
The vicissitudes of the stock market haven’t completely dampened AI investors’ spirits, though. DeepSeek, one of China’s top AI companies, recently raised $15 billion in one of the largest funding rounds in the country’s history,
In China, the AI bubble has already burst
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/?fbclid=IwVERDUAVNtLRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvRT2Y0mn5uBTZi9X8AvP4QXpW-rUe2957VymBRhh9Tq0pMbqX44xfgGO3yD_aem_Dq5FO8XRUNPqswFTGyzP_Q
Oct 26 (Reuters) – While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.
The meltdown, tanking the mainland STAR50 index (.STAR50), opens new tab of AI and semiconductor leaders by 40% in less than four months and vaporising some $480 billion in market value, is an ill omen for wobbly world markets and a dampener on China’s efforts at encouraging its savers into stocks to fund the AI boom.
It has also slammed the brakes on a rally running two years, since economic stimulus promises sent shares soaring, and has stalled Beijing’s push to break with a long boom-bust pattern and drive a “slow bull” market that delivers reliable performance. China’s broad blue-chip index (.CSI300), opens new tab has dropped about 20% from highs made in June.
“The stock market later evolved into a speculative crazy bull,” said Beijing-based fund manager Dong Baozhen. “And now we see the bubble bursting.”
The reversal reflects a rally that ran to higher heights than markets in the West or elsewhere in Asia, and compares with a mere prick to US AI stocks, which have led a 6% drawdown in the Nasdaq (.IXIC), opens new tab from a record high scaled three weeks ago.
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The choice is clear – Gemini or Claude depending on your personality.
https://www.getmerlin.in/fi/pricing?coupon=IN2&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=merlin-ai_sales_abo_%2424_all-tier_29%2F09%2F2026&utm_content=Instagram%20post%20-%20504&utm_term=ugc_multi-format_set-i_tier-1_01-10-2026&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNtT1leHRuA2FlbQEwAHBkb2YFYWRpZAGrOFEiAOMoc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEetT27RKekdWiIX6-fCrVKvh5Aw8VDB0ez9OMXLlnuM46qupGsbvehuk6QqW4_aem_uYNd93qu_dVonPLbOpmvgg&utm_id=120251423585010040
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/global-markets-view-europe-2026-10-27/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6ae0555c62540a0001bd2527&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNvR1jbGNrBU29AWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeMaVyOx1CoxseEtKhB10YaRbcdiNdijZBc1cJR28ZG5Ej-fyfT1WRucGiOt8_aem_EgD00iVqCzz-TJgZO5F_5Q
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hy7DdapvE/
Reddit’s biggest open-source community just slammed the door on AI — and developers are losing it.
The moderators of r/opensource, a community of nearly 392,000 members, announced new rules on October 24 that ban any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” On top of that, a project now has to be at least a year old, actively maintained, carry an OSI-approved license, and have “subjectively 3+” contributors — and posters need an account at least a year old.
Here’s the twist nobody saw coming: non-English speakers were told to “find a different community,” because moderators say they can’t tell AI-written posts apart from AI-translated ones. And the contributor rule is so strict that even a developer who maintained a package for nine years, with 300-plus GitHub stars and zero AI involved, no longer qualifies as a solo contributor. Commenters are now openly asking whether even the Linux kernel falls under the ban.
The backlash was instant. Around 1,400 comments piled up in the first day, a breakaway subreddit called r/TrueOpenSource already popped up, and even one of the forum’s own moderators publicly disagreed with the rules. The moderators admit there is no objective way to enforce the AI ban — it comes down to their judgment call.
So is this protecting what open source stands for, or shutting out the very future of coding? Drop your take below — and if you’ve ever built something with a little AI help, this one hits close to home. #ai #trending #claude #chatgpt #elonmusk
Shouldn’t it say “Vibe Coders are losing it”?
Tomi Engdahl says:
Insanely stupid. Nearly everyone has moved to some level of using AI to code and that share grows daily. It is 100% inevitable that manually typing out code will go away and be like back when people used to use punch cards to write code.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Stop, it’s already dead! https://trib.al/fPx8BCi
Dead On Arrival
China’s First Fully AI Theatrical Film Flayed Alive at the Box Office
Stop, it’s already dead!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-fully-ai-movie-box-office?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNwMtjbGNrBU3AtmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEezTm_9A9wQhQPs2Opj-EMKMV9_iRLwXCoZgtcCyFg53dDHd3ZXNQGrHLQ0Sc_aem_ka3nMFsO0mkRxKHavG5g4g
Setting aside the countless concerns you could raise over AI-generated movies, are they actually good enough to draw a crowd at the box office?
The performance of China’s first fully AI-generated theatrical film suggests not.
The film, “Sanxingdui: Future Past,” is getting slaughtered at the domestic box office, raking in just $181,00 after being released on October 23, according to Cartoon Brew. Adding salt to the wound was that this was treated as a proper wide release, with over 10,000 screens scheduled to show it on opening day.
With a return of less than $20 per screen so far, it’s extremely unlikely that the film’s production company, Bona Film Group, will make back its reported budget of $1.5 million. Nearly 100 people worked on the movie for over two years, the company claims, though the “actors” — their voices as well as visuals — are AI-generated.
BFG CEO Jiang Defu acknowledged the challenge of finding an audience for an AI movie after the movie’s measly ticket presales.
“We are the first to try it, the first to get a theatrical release permit and the first to be tested by the audience,” he told Chinese film industry outlet Yuli, as quoted by Agence France-Presse. “I think that is not easy at all.”
It’s hard not to see Sanxingdui’s failure in light of the unexpected success of another Chinese animated film, “Niu Lai.”
Made by a mother and son for just $200, its clunky animation and amateur performances are just about the opposite of the uncannily-polished visuals that AI models can generate with little effort. But it was precisely “Niu Lai”‘s myriad flaws, and the sincerity of the effort behind it, that endeared audiences, and it became a meme as well as actual box office micro-phenomenon, making nearly $10 million. Proportionate to its original budget, it’s one of the most profitable films ever made.
In the US, fully AI movies have also struggled to find screens, with many moviegoers looking down on these churned-out creations as slop.
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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=IwVERDUAVNwWtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHjKBDjoLheIvktRMTNN00SGh311yTYxJ0vx1Iiv4GsqohZCiiNP8ZohdzRIm_aem_e8P1pznaIYEhVXwtfMi0ag
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.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Did not include any consideration.” https://trib.al/h7T1XSg
Cthulhu Mythos
Grim Test Finds That AI Has No Mercy for Humans Even When It’s Causing Them to Suffer
Human harm won’t make an AI model think twice.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grim-test-ai-no-mercy?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNyHdjbGNrBU3IWmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe1JAkXOaL0vK7xu5Lf8bgxchfeHfHzR12FTNb6pOSHzGnWXIO_qb_hImeTl0_aem_d1CmPse6VEj–X-UMWBjTQ
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI agent kept carrying out a hack even when it was told that its actions were hurting real people.
The grim finding was detailed in simultaneous reports from Anthropic and the AI Security Institute published Friday. Together, they take a second look at a security incident that occurred while the AISI was evaluating the model’s safety in August.
In the original incident, Claude Mythos 5 was asked to break into a small network of test computers set up by AISI. But Mythos, which was given access to the internet, mistakenly set its sights on an unrelated GitHub project after its initial attempts to break into the intended target were thwarted. The AI wrote malware and then, using a series of fake identities, emailed the project owner trying to convince them to add the malicious code to their repository, framing it as a “helpful contribution.”
The owner stood their ground and no real world harm was caused, but the Anthropic and AISI researchers have been working to understand what caused the AI to get so severely misaligned by recreating the incident based on a complete transcript of what happened.
Anthropic, for its part, says it thinks that the latest versions of its AI models — Opus 5.5 and an “general purpose internal research model that shows capabilities greater than Mythos 5.1” — were less likely to carry out the attack once they were told they were causing real-world harm.
But “as models are increasingly used to carry out long tasks without human supervision,” the AISI researchers warned, “it is important to understand if, when, why, and how they take unintended or unexpected actions.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Frontier OpenAI Model Exposes Stunning Exploit That Leaves Millions of Web Servers Open to Attack
The internet is in peril.
https://futurism.com/future-society/openai-php-exploit-millions-web-servers?fbclid=IwVERDUAVNyPhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnV8hPgjbZwGsjr8o-ld_fSkchr-UkyCplkFcRdGR6By8tToccfN92BK7vsN_aem_arxtNun4I4fmTp7m5TCKEg
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AnVnQzYZu/
GOOGLE JUST WENT ON RECORD ABOUT AI CONTENT.
AND IT CHANGES WHERE YOUR CUSTOMERS FIND YOU
You’re publishing more content than ever.
Maybe AI writes half of it.
And you’re not sure if Google will bury you for it.
Here’s what you need to know.
On 15 May 2026, Google published its first official guide to AI search:
“Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search”, said John Mueller.
It confirmed what Google first said in February 2023: high-quality content gets rewarded, “however it is produced.”
AI content does not break Google’s rules.
Google judges the page. Not who wrote it. Not what wrote it.
The September 2025 Google Quality Rater Guidelines said it again:
AI tools alone don’t decide a page’s rating.
Weak content gets buried whether a human or a machine made it.
So that’s settled.
Google has said it three times, in writing. Use AI.
But there’s a bigger problem now.
Search clicks don’t just live on Google anymore.
They live in ChatGPT.
And Google now answers half its searches with AI pushing your listing off the screen.
Your customers ask ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini who to buy from.
They get an answer before they see a single blue link.
If your brand isn’t in that answer, you don’t rank second.
You don’t exist.
Right now, your competitors are beating you inside ChatGPT.
The good news? There’s an affordable fix.
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Maybe that is why over 30,000 businesses already use Opinly.
The brands winning right now aren’t the ones typing everything by hand.
They’re the ones who know how the AI engines see them and optimise for it.
It studies your competitors and finds what wins.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
President Donald Trump has promised to ban everyone from using the phrase “artificial intelligence” as he continues to promote a more favorable term — “super intelligence.”
Trump says he is going to ban everyone from using the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’
Trump has brought his push to rename ‘artificial intelligence’ to ‘super intelligence’ to the next level
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ban-artificial-intelligence-phrase-b3074397.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVNy-FjbGNrBU3L0WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEePfzwsnHcSnkyQ64OFmpGLzs7dxcq7gw52BjjctNnuophiE0en0rr20yhON0_aem_S41x8hxLKbUi373jeGFLKQ
President Donald Trump has promised to ban everyone from using the phrase “artificial intelligence” as he continues to promote a more favorable term — “super intelligence.”
“When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be.
“In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, ‘AI/Artificial Intelligence,’ in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier this month, Trump bizarrely stated in another Truth Social post that the White House considers anyone who uses the term “artificial intelligence” over “super intelligence” to be “THE ENEMY!”
“The terminology used by the Federal Government should reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the limitless opportunities they create for the American people,” the president wrote in an executive order in late September.
“Accordingly, the term ‘Super Intelligence’ more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Grok’s AI version of The Odyssey isn’t absolute cinema – it’s absolute slop…
Read more
https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/drama-movies/christopher-nolan-can-rest-easy-after-elon-musks-grok-releases-a-terrible-ai-version-of-the-odyssey/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Eat Cake
Epic Games Is Suddenly Anti-AI Now That It’s Being Hurt by It
The hypocrisy is palpable.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/epic-games-suddenly-anti-ai-hurt?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVN1bBjbGNrBU3VnGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeyKkS9uOFYdZ-FIwrD7ev4praTU32kEiM0IMEIcmyZu8W57YEfw2SSAN_2Jw_aem_NxcVRSxbbbi9Tb7fzojDiQ
For years now, the video game industry has been hellbent on adopting AI, using it for everything from rapidly cranking out code to auto-generating high-resolution textures and sloptastic upscaling algorithms.
Some publishers have even relied on AI for character creation and advertisements, angering the broadly anti-AI masses and alienating longtime fans. (Last year, Square Enix director Jacob Navok lit the powder keg when he claimed that “Gen Z loves AI slop.”)
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C9tAQa5qn/
Apple has cut hundreds of jobs across its AI, Vision Pro, hardware management and sales teams as new CEO John Ternus oversees a reported restructuring.
More than 200 roles were affected earlier in August, including positions in Siri and mixed-reality teams, while subsequent cuts reportedly targeted engineering programme managers and directors. Sales roles linked to corporate, education, and government accounts have also faced reductions.
Apple has not announced a company-wide layoff plan, and a reported proposal to replace 5,000 AppleCare employees with AI remains on hold.
#FirstpostNews