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MIT Technology Review published a "What's Next for AI in 2026" report that predicted increased adoption of Chinese open-source LLMs by Silicon Valley, a regulatory tug-of-war in the United States following President Trump's executive order, expanded use of chatbots in shopping and agentic commerce, continued LLM-assisted research breakthroughs (including AlphaEvolve), and escalating legal battles over AI liability.
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OpenAI was reported to have only 5 percent of ChatGPT's 900 million weekly users as paying customers and that most users were located in regions generating limited advertising revenue, raising concerns about the service's monetization.
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OpenAI lost senior researcher Jerry Tworek after nearly seven years; Tworek had been credited as a key contributor to GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the o1 and o3 reasoning models.
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Technology Innovation Institute (TII) of Abu Dhabi claimed its new Falcon H1R 7B reasoning model matched the performance of competitors up to seven times its size.
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Amazon opened an early-access web version of its Alexa Plus AI assistant for select users in the United States and Canada.


























































































