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Big tech sparks AI risks

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Tech giants poured massive investments into AI and rolled out autonomous agent programs worldwide, prompting researchers and analysts to warn of systemic risks, market concentration and economic disruption.

Handelsblatt
Artificial Intelligence: The Awakening – Why AI Is Reaching a New Stage

ChatGPT is yesterday: New agent programs like Open Claw autonomously solve problems and complete entire steps of a task. The results are fascinating - and the risks enormous.

Artificial Intelligence: The Awakening – Why AI Is Reaching a New Stage
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Project Syndicate
AI Will Transform Business, Not Just Jobs

Debates about the impact of AI have centered on potential job losses, with far less attention paid to its implications for the business landscape. But corporate leaders should be thinking about how the technology can enhance their organizational capabilities and, in turn, increase economy-wide productivity.

AI Will Transform Business, Not Just Jobs
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Der Standard
The societal upheaval caused by AI - what are your concerns?

My Forum: Discuss this topic with the STANDARD community

The societal upheaval caused by AI - what are your concerns?
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by Erik Champion

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erikmc.bsky.social
maybe it means benefits *for* the AI?!
February 18, 2026 at 8:10 AM
To Vima
From Athens to New Delhi: Greece's bet in the era of artificial intelligence

The anatomy of the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, the central pillars and the key people.

From Athens to New Delhi: Greece's bet in the era of artificial intelligence
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Artificial Intelligence: Welcome to the world's largest testing laboratory

AI will pose a challenge to India's software giants. Prime Minister Modi keeps this newly emerging market open. The world's most populous country is testing what works in everyday life.

Artificial Intelligence: Welcome to the world's largest testing laboratory
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Kathimerini
The €6.8 billion regulation, risk analysis, a €208 million bet, and how much the stars cost

Good morning. The AI revolution has a price, and that is starting to appear on store shelves. As tech giants invest billions in data centers and supercomputers, memories and chips are becoming scarce and expensive, triggering cascading price increases in phones, computers, and consoles. Companies face a dilemma: more expensive devices, and what that means for consumers.

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To Vima
Artificial Intelligence: The slow shift of humans and the new form of idolization

For the first time, the tool not only extends human power; it seeks to co-create meaning.

Artificial Intelligence: The slow shift of humans and the new form of idolization
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To Vima
Artificial intelligence: opportunities, challenges, responsibility in the new reality

Our position is clear: if AI is the new field of competition, then we must ensure it operates on fair terms and equal opportunities for all

Artificial intelligence: opportunities, challenges, responsibility in the new reality
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To Vima
If humanity fails to define its future, it will have no future

Although AI has global reach, regulations are regional (mainly the EU) and national, but not global. Ideally they should be global

If humanity fails to define its future, it will have no future
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Digital stocks: The AI losers on the stock market

While the stock market is still wondering who will win from the AI wave, the first losers already seem to be clear: software makers, data providers, legal service providers, and education providers. Here's what investors need to watch now.

Digital stocks: The AI losers on the stock market
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Tech stocks: The AI losers on the stock market

While the market is still guessing who will win from the AI wave, the first losers seem already clear: software makers, data providers, legal service providers, and education providers. What investors should watch.

Tech stocks: The AI losers on the stock market
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karlbode.com
"Nearly 90% of firms said AI has had no impact on employment or productivity over the last three years, the research noted."
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
fortune.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:57 AM

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emollick.bsky.social
Every few months, I write an updated, idiosyncratic guide on which AIs to use right now.

My new version has the most changes ever, since AI is no longer just about chatbots. To use AI you need to understand how to think about models, apps, and harnesses. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
It's not just chatbots anymore
open.substack.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:50 AM

by Michiel Baas

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by Pedro Domingos

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by Will Jennings

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Unanticipated consequences of the AI revolution...
February 18, 2026 at 12:15 AM

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josiahmortimer.bsky.social
Eek. "In controlled experiments...AI systems successfully swayed political views in ways that should alarm anyone concerned about democratic integrity. The most unsettling part though was that the most persuasive models were also the ones spreading the most inaccurate information."
How AI Chatbots Changed 26% of Voters' Political Views
Why AI Conversations Outperform Billions in Political Advertising
substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:50 PM

by Steven L. Salzberg

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by Scott L. Greer

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I think they mostly lack imagination and think AI will make drug development instant
February 17, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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