AI’s reckoning with reality represents a growing economic risk for 2026 - short news
Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under way
The US dictionary Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop”, which it defines as “digital content of low quality that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence”.
The choice underlined the fact that while AI is being widely embraced, not least by corporate bosses keen to cut payroll costs, its downsides are also becoming..
source: The Guardian - 04.01.2026