The 2026 Prediction Audit: Why AGI Failed & "Slop" Took Over - A Forensic Accounting of the "Year of AGI"

AI Unraveled: Latest AI News & Trends, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Gen AI, LLMs, Agents, Ethics, Bias by Etienne Noumen

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🚀 Welcome to the 2026 Prediction Audit Special on AI Unraveled.

The "Year of AGI" has concluded, but the machine god never arrived. Instead, 2025 left us with a digital landscape cluttered with "slop," a 95% failure rate for autonomous agents, and a sobering reality check on the physics of intelligence.

In this special forensic accounting of the year that was, we dismantle the hype of 2025 to build a grounded baseline for 2026. We contrast the exuberant forecasts of industry captains—who promised us imminent superintelligence—with the operational realities of the last twelve months.

Strategic Pillars & Key Topics:

📉 The AGI Audit & The Agentic Gap

  • The Deployment Wall: While raw model performance scaled (GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 shattered b ... 
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