{"id":237463,"date":"2026-01-14T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:21:09","slug":"tech-in-2026-inside-the-ai-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237463\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech in 2026: Inside the AI bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is 2026 the year that AI hype meets reality? In a new mini-series from Tech Tonic, the FT\u2019s tech editor Murad Ahmed speaks with the paper\u2019s reporters about what they&#8217;ll be watching.<\/p>\n<p>Do tech industry insiders think the huge amounts of capital that have driven the AI boom will continue? How will challenges to large-language model AI systems play out this year? And are chief executives expecting AI technologies to force job cuts?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we hear from the FT\u2019s venture capital correspondent George Hammond, AI correspondent Melissa Heikkil\u00e4 and writer of the AI Shift newsletter Sarah O\u2019Connor for their views on AI\u2019s financial faultlines, how the technology will evolve and what kind of disruptions to expect in the world of work.<\/p>\n<p>Free to read: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/on.ft.com\/49s5QTI\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to launch landmark IPOs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/on.ft.com\/3Nc6e15\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Computer scientist Yann LeCun: \u2018Intelligence really is about learning\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/on.ft.com\/4swEnc8\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The AI Shift: Agentic AI is coming for quantitative research<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/the-ai-shift\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The AI Shift<\/a> newsletter, an essential deep-dive into how artificial intelligence is reshaping the world of work<\/p>\n<p>This series of Tech Tonic is hosted by Murad Ahmed and produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon. The senior producer for Tech Tonic is Edwin Lane. Flo Phillips is the executive producer. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. Cheryl Brumley is the FT\u2019s global head of audio. <\/p>\n<p>The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/accessibility#podcast-transcriptions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View our accessibility guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is 2026 the year that AI hype meets reality? In a new mini-series from Tech Tonic, the FT\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-237463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}