Kategorie: Artificial Intelligence

By 2026, leadership has not been dramatically reinvented, but it has been quietly redefined. Artificial intelligence is no longer an innovation project or a future ambition; it has become part of everyday operations. Reports are generated automatically, decisions are prepared by data models, assistants and agents handle routine tasks. For managers, this shift changes the nature of effectiveness. What matters less is technical depth, and what matters more is the ability to connect technology, people and organisational purpose.

A brief glance at Moltbook was enough to signal that something larger was taking shape. Yet the real issue lies not in experimental agent networks, but in the technology that makes them possible. That technology is now known as OpenClaw – and it marks a moment when personal AI decisively crosses the line from tool to actor.

When Moltbook quietly went live at the end of January 2026, it introduced a concept that feels both playful and unsettling: a social network built exclusively for AI agents, where humans are welcome only as spectators. No posting, no commenting, no voting – just watching. In an internet long dominated by human attention, Moltbook flips the script and asks a stranger question instead: what happens when artificial agents are given a public space to talk among themselves?

A new study paints a ruthless picture of global power dynamics: whilst the USA cements its dominance and China arms its industrial base, Europe risks falling into irrelevance – unless the continent learns to convert its values into hard currency.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have had large language models play Dungeons & Dragons – not for fun, but as a benchmark for long-term planning, team coordination and rule compliance. The result: large models like Claude 3.5 Haiku play surprisingly well, but fail at long scenarios. And that shows where business agents also reach their limits.

OpenAI is testing advertising in ChatGPT for the first time in the coming weeks – only in the US, only for free and Go users, only at the end of responses. Plus, Pro and Enterprise remain ad-free. That sounds harmless, but it's the beginning of a new era: AI assistants are becoming advertising platforms. The question isn't whether, but how invasive.

Google is turning Gemini into a shopping platform. Users can now search, compare and buy directly in the chat at Walmart, Shopify shops and Wayfair – without ever opening a traditional online shop. This is Google's answer to ChatGPT's commerce offensive and the beginning of a new era: agentic commerce, where AI assistants decide what you see, what you buy and where.

CES 2026 showed not individual gadgets, but ecosystems. Agentic AI that thinks along. Humanoid robots that climb stairs. Cars that learn new functions via software update. And PCs whose displays unroll at the press of a button. The show made clear: technology is becoming ambient, proactive and invisible – until you need it.