Overview
- A Stanford HAI assessment projects 2026 as an inflection point where only applications demonstrating real utility and measurable benefits endure, with greater emphasis on explainability, economic impact and technological sovereignty.
- Mexico’s Senate committee says a draft AI bill could be ready in February, outlining flexible, risk‑based requirements, transparency on training data and algorithmic functioning, and sanctions, with the aim of fostering domestic development as well as protection.
- Industry reporting highlights compute and data‑center capacity as a bottleneck, with projects cited at up to $50 billion each, raising costs, slowing monetization and concentrating advantage with providers that control infrastructure.
- Cybersecurity outlooks for 2026 foresee more automated, high‑volume attacks and a shift toward AI‑driven, edge‑processed, integrated defenses delivered as services.
- Sector updates point to ‘world models’ from DeepMind, World Labs and Runway potentially reshaping the $190 billion videogame market, while UNAM issues updated classroom guidelines to curb plagiarism, address bias and protect privacy.