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  • [New] AI is highly capital-intensive: S&P estimates the four largest hyperscalers (builders of infrastructure) will spend $2 trillion in capital expenditure by 2030. ABN AMRO Bank
  • [New] AI could unlock up to 4.5 trillion dollars in additional U.S. labour productivity annually if broadly adopted. Solutions Review Technology News and Vendor Reviews
  • [New] AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to 10-20% within five years. Forbes
  • [New] The AI power consumption surge will probably be at its most intense between 2025 and 2030 when AI will take up a quarter of all data center load. FABTECH
  • [New] SoftBank Group Corp. plans to have 1 billion AI agents working in place of humans by the end of this year. The Asahi Shimbun
  • [New] The surge in deployment and monetization of AI technologies across the broader economy will continue at a breakneck pace in 2026, as total global spending on AI is expected to exceed $2 trillion. O'Dwyers PR
  • [New] In 2026, AI-powered facial recognition will reduce false alerts and personalize user responses. Signify
  • [New] The race for Artificial Intelligence AI will remain a key growth driver, especially in the U.S. and Asian economies involved in the production chain, with $400 billion in investments planned by major tech companies. Societe Generale
  • [New] Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is expected to launch its next-generation V4 model in February, with internal tests suggesting strong performance in coding tasks compared with models from OpenAI and Anthropic. MarketingProfs
  • [New] By leveraging strengths in digital and social domains, JTB Group will enhance industry-wide value creation in the AI era and further advance its Intelligence for Creating Connections. JTB GROUP SITE
  • [New] Electricity demand from AI and data centers is widely expected to rise 60-150% by 2030, and that growth is concentrating in specific regions, tightening local grids and reshaping utility planning. Watershed
  • [New] Building Future Ready HR Teams For the AI Age Gartner AI is expected to automate many HR tasks, with 60% of HR work predicted to be completed by intelligent agents by 2030, pushing HR roles to evolve. The ILR School
  • [New] As AI reshapes New York's economy, city leaders will need to prepare more young New Yorkers for an AI-powered workforce. Center for an Urban Future (CUF)
  • [New] In 2026, general-purpose AI systems will begin to transform major economies and societies in more tangible, noticeable, and irreversible ways than we have seen before. Just Security
  • [New] In 2026, the issue of AI poisoning will break into the mainstream. Atlantic Council
  • [New] In 2026, the United States will double down on exporting the US tech stack as the cornerstone of its international AI strategy. Atlantic Council
  • [New] For the first time, nearly all states have a forum to debate AI's risks, norms, and coordination mechanisms, signaling that AI has crossed into the realm of shared global concern. Atlantic Council
  • [New] NVIDIA's latest research argues SLMs are the future of agentic AI, while Gartner predicts enterprises will use task-specific SLMs three times more than general-purpose LLMs by 2027. byteiota | From Bits to Bytes
  • [New] A major Copilot-driven breach exposes the risks of AI over-permissioning: 2026 will see a headline-grabbing incident where Microsoft Copilot accesses sensitive data or executes privileged actions beyond its intended scope. Radical Data Science
  • [New] In 2026, we expect to see the first instances of physical damage or disruption in the real world resulting from AI exploitation techniques and vulnerabilities, such as indirect prompt injection, data poisoning and excessive agency. HarfangLab
  • [New] In many cases, adoption is moving faster than governance, regulation, and workforce readiness can keep up-pushing AI into the top tier of global risks for the first time. Claims Journal
  • [New] In addition, the roughly half a trillion in capital investments that AI hyperscalers are expected to make in 2026 amounts to more than 1% of GDP. investing.com
  • [New] AI will not just make orbital operations smarter, but it will also integrate space into the fabric of the global economy, by transforming how we produce, protect, and understand the planet. Payload

Last updated: 18 January 2026


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