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YouTube will be so inundated by AI cat and dog videos that people stop watching them altogether. People will automatically assume anything labeled "cute" is fake.
Facebook is already like this. People didn't stop watching. In fact, they mostly stopped caring if it's fake. And no point in debunking the obvious BS: they scroll faster than you can say AI.
- AI will innovate towards visuals, personality, and tool use. AI tool use will start to innovate past just reading docs, maybe into more things like gaming and robotics.
- Some AI products (not necessarily LLMs) will start competing on latency. Notably on voice/calls, but also things like drones, robotics, etc.
Previous Years: - 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490343 - 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777115 - 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628 - 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236 - 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068 - 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596 - 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859 - 2018: https://news.ycomb…
Read the 2025 prediction thread for some perspective. (Hope you didn't stake your retirement on bitcoin hitting $200,000!)
I dont recall if the Australia ban was on the cards then.
The USD will devalue 5-10% further. Flock and other government tools for watching and controlling you will expand. Big companies will expand their regulatory capture, especially in medical care. Fingers will continue to be pointed at health insurance as the problem while the real problem of an artificially limited supply of doctors goes unaddressed. Government agencies will continue their slow bloat as no mechanism e…
- US goes on the offensive on tokenization moving bonds, stocks, transfers, etc. to the blockchain. China opens up its eCNY to the grand public.
- AI bubble pops. Companies decide that LLM-coding is not worth it after accounting for the downsides. LLMs for generating photos and videos are still not good enough. OpenAI goes the way of pipedpiper.
- The war in Ukraine remains unresolved. Russia advances but only marginally. Europe still shaking its head about what to do. US lower its involvement.
- The US world cup goes very badly. Like embarrassingly bad. Goes okay in Canada and kinda okay in Mexico though.
- China invades Taiwan in the last month of 2026.
Elon Musk gets richer
Europe anti-woke grows
No predictions, only wish next year bad things no so much. And f** u 2025.
YouTube will be so inundated by AI cat and dog videos that people stop watching them altogether. People will automatically assume anything labeled "cute" is fake.
Physical AI will make subversive discoveries that exceed everyone's expectations - space-time integrated computing, rather than the current three-dimensional spatial computing plus discrete time steps