Kategorie: Technology

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.

Meta is retreating from the metaverse. VR teams are being cut, studios closed, budgets reallocated – from virtual worlds to AI and AI glasses. After 70 billion dollars in losses, it's clear: VR hasn't failed because the technology doesn't work. It's failed because nobody really wanted it.

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.

OpenAI is radically reorienting ChatGPT towards audio in 2026. A new voice model is set to launch early in the year that sounds more natural, responds faster and can hold conversations before you've finished speaking. The screen becomes optional, the voice becomes primary. Silicon Valley declares war on the screen.

2025 was the year Generative AI went from hype experiment to strategic infrastructure. New models achieved reasoning capabilities that would have been science fiction a year ago, agentic systems took over entire workflows, and the EU AI Act turned self-regulation into binding law. A look back at twelve months that fundamentally transformed the technology.