SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin warns at CES 2026 that artificial intelligence poses existential threats to 160,000 entertainment workers, with voiceover artists and background actors facing job displacement from digital replicas as AI advancement creates workforce injury deemed 'an absolute certainty.'
Snowflake announces its largest acquisition ever, purchasing observability platform Observe for $1 billion to help users monitor data systems and resolve issues 10 times faster through unified telemetry data collection.
Lenovo launches Qira, a revolutionary AI super agent that seamlessly coordinates tasks across PCs, smartphones, tablets, and wearables, while simultaneously releasing next-generation AI-powered devices including Aura Edition computers with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, flagship Motorola phones, rollable displays, AI glasses, and comprehensive enterprise solutions for manufacturing and sports …
Gmail launches revolutionary Gemini-powered AI features that instantly summarize your entire inbox through natural language questions, automatically filter important emails from clutter, and provide enhanced writing assistance including smart replies and proofreading tools for all users at no additional cost.
OpenAI acquires AI coaching startup Convogo in an all-stock deal, immediately shutting down the product while bringing the three co-founders onboard to work on cloud initiatives, marking the company's ninth acquisition this year focused on talent rather than technology.
Modelence unveils a revolutionary agent-native backend platform powered by MongoDB Atlas that enables AI systems to deploy production-ready applications in just minutes, featuring zero-configuration development with built-in authentication, databases, APIs, and monitoring capabilities.
Google launches Antigravity, a new AI developer tool powered by Gemini 3 that uses autonomous agents and planning modes to challenge Cursor's established dominance in AI-assisted programming, though Cursor's mature v2.0 platform currently outperforms Google's buggy early release with faster, more reliable direct coding assistance.
Tech giants including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft form coalitions around AI agents amid soaring 2025 hype, but Gartner predicts over 40% of projects will be canceled by 2027 due to security vulnerabilities, accuracy issues, high costs, and companies lacking proper data readiness despite projected $155 billion spending by 2030.
Developer Anton Morgunov warns that 'vibe coding' through English prompts is destroying Cursor's code quality by prioritizing token efficiency over understanding full codebases, while recommending Google AI Studio's Gemini 2.5 Pro or OpenCode with Anthropic's Sonnet as superior alternatives for developers.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defends AI technology as 'cognitive amplifier tools' while critics blast the company for rushing deployment without considering environmental and economic consequences, setting up 2026 as a pivotal year for the technology's future.