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The Future of AI

The Future of AI

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Chris Mark
Chris Mark

A weekly English article channel explaining how AI is changing in practice through evidence-led analysis of capability, reliability, cost, work, infrastructure, adoption, and governance.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-11-02

Walmart lets your agent shop with its own profile and limit. Your bank blocks it at the login.

In the same two weeks, a retailer, a password manager, an agent vendor and the banks each drew a different boundary around what an AI agent may do with your money, and those four designs decide who is on the hook when the agent gets it wrong.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-10-26

AI cracked PHP's decade-old flaw in days. A third of PHP sites run branches the patch skips.

Two critical flaws in the language under most of the web were found with frontier models in days and patched on 21 October, and the harder problem is that a third of PHP sites run branches that patch will never reach.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-10-19

Can you stop the agent? The 12 AI practices banks were handed this week

The FSB's 12 sound practices, published on 15 October, set out what governing AI inside a financial firm means operationally, and the same week's supervisory questions show which parts supervisors will test first.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-10-12

AI campaign ads in the midterms: 164 by one count, 29 by another

Two trackers count AI use in this cycle's campaign advertising five times apart, and the gap between them measures how much of it goes undeclared.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-10-05

Washington signed a 300-word AI pledge. California signed 11 laws.

Washington's answer to AI safety in the last week of September was a new name, a voluntary pledge and a study group; California's was 11 enforceable laws, and the gap between the two is a guide to telling a signal from a rule.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-09-28

AI asked Texas for 474 gigawatts. Texas's record is 91.

Texas is holding 474 gigawatts of data centre connection requests against a record peak of 91, and how that gap gets settled now runs through an audit in Austin, a stalled bill in Washington, and the large-load tariff that most projects will actually pay.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-09-21

AI isn't cutting jobs. It's cutting the first rung.

Four independent datasets published over five weeks agree that AI is not causing layoffs; the change is a narrowing entry level, and the evidence shows which kinds of work it hits.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-09-14

AI agents are outgrowing the enterprise control plane

New data reveals a wide gap between executive confidence in AI agents and the testing, discovery, network inspection, and kill-switch controls required to run them safely.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-09-07

AI research agents are multiplying work before they multiply progress

OpenAI’s new research-acceleration data shows agents multiplying machine work, while METR’s independent study explains why that still falls short of a universal productivity claim.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-08-31

When an AI agent can act, the sandbox becomes the product

A reported AI security incident shows why agent deployments need controls around permissions, communication paths, monitoring, and the ability to pause work.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-08-24

Cheaper AI tokens, costlier workflows

As model prices fall, agentic workflows can still raise the cost of each completed task; the useful unit to budget is the whole workflow, including tools, review, and recovery.

The Future of AI
The Future of AI
2026-08-20

AI adoption is rising faster than AI discipline

AI is spreading through workplaces faster than organizations are building the measurement, ownership, and recovery systems needed to run it reliably.

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