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🤖 17 predictions for AI in 2026
🦾Plus: 💰 ByteDance to spend $14B on Nvidia AI chips in 2026
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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🚗Tesla FSD cross country
🤖The AI Futures Project updated its timeline model
💰 ByteDance to spend $14B on Nvidia AI chips in 2026
🌟Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen-Image-2512
💡 AI Tutorial:How to build an app with Replit inside ChatGPT
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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Models will continue to improve their capabilities, but it will take a while for the full impact to be felt across the economy. What will 2026 bring? We asked eight friends of Understanding AI to contribute predictions, and threw another nine in ourselves. We give a confidence score for each prediction; a prediction with 90% confidence should be right nine times out of ten.
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This post will briefly explain how the model works, present our timelines and takeoff forecasts, and compare it to our previous (AI 2027) models (spoiler: the AI Futures Model predicts about 3 years longer timelines to full coding automation than our previous model, mostly due to being less bullish on pre-full-automation AI R&D speedups).
A Tesla owner successfully drove coast-to-coast across the US on Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised with zero interventions during the trip. Their Model 3 completed the drive in 2 days and 20 hours, starting at the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles, CA, and ending in Myrtle Beach, SC. It was accomplished with Tesla FSD V14.2 on AI4 hardware.
ByteDance plans to spend about 100 billion yuan (US$14 billion) on artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia in 2026, a hefty increase from roughly 85 billion yuan in 2025, if the US company is allowed to sell its H200 graphic processing units in China, according to people familiar with the matter.
Qwen team introduced Qwen-Image-2512, the December update of Qwen-Image’s text-to-image foundational model. You are welcome to try the latest model at Qwen Chat. Compared to the base Qwen-Image model released in August, Qwen-Image-2512 features the following key improvements:
Media Leaders on AI: Insights from Disney, ESPN, Forrester Research
The explosion of visual content is almost unbelievable, and creative, marketing, and ad teams are struggling to keep up. Content workflows are slowing down, and teams can't find the right assets quickly enough.
The crucial question is: How can you still win with the influx of content and keep pace with demand?
Find out on Jan 14, 2026, at 10am PT/1pm ET as industry leaders—including Phyllis Davidson, VP Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and former media executive Oke Okaro as they draw on their deep media research and experience from ESPN, Disney, Reuters, and beyond.
In the webinar, "The Future of Content Workflows: How AI is Powering the Next Wave," you’ll learn:
The forces reshaping content operations
Where current systems are falling short
How leading organizations are using multimodal AI to extend their platforms
What deeper image and video understanding unlocks for monetization
Get clear insight and actionable perspective from the leaders who built and transformed top media and entertainment organizations.
AI Tutorial
How to build an app with Replit inside ChatGPT
Go to ChatGPT and sign up
Open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Replit, then click Connect and continue to Replit.
Once connected, go to chat > click ‘+’ > select Replit to start using it
Enter your prompt and press Enter.
Sample Prompt: Build a simple to-do app with a clean UI. Users should be able to add tasks, mark them as complete, and delete them. Include a title at the top and store tasks in memory so they persist during the session.
ChatGPT will instantly generate a live, interactive app—no tab switching, no setup.
Want changes? Just type what you want next, and the app updates in real time.
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