Overview
- Geoffrey Hinton told CNN that AI will get better in 2026 and could replace many jobs beyond call centers, intensifying worries about near-term displacement.
- Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy predicted Big Tech’s hold on competitive models will loosen as efficient training and customization open model building to more companies.
- Ramaswamy also forecast an “HTTP moment” with a common protocol that lets AI agents collaborate across vendors without lock-in.
- Enterprise rollouts are expected to prioritize quantified, domain-specific reliability, continuous learning from user interactions, and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation for more traceable, business-specific outputs.
- Industry reporting underscores a shift from scale to efficiency—spurred by DeepSeek’s low-compute breakthrough—while warning that inference costs, data‑center power limits, and a surge of non‑human identities pose pressing operational and security risks.