Andriy Silchuk of DataArt reviewed a turbulent 2025 where agentic AI moved from demos to production, and regulatory battles intensified. The year saw AI tools become mandatory for engineers and data centers consume staggering energy, validating earlier forecasts about tech's direction.

Scandals dominated, from DeepSeek's market shock and X's EU fine to Google's antitrust woes and OpenAI's evolving partnership with Microsoft. Meanwhile, breakthroughs in AI medicine and quantum computing offered rare bright spots amid widespread layoffs and infrastructure failures.

Looking ahead to 2026, Silchuk predicts AI agents will become standard workplace tools, with energy constraints limiting growth and regulators creating formal certification frameworks. Expect fake AI content to become commonplace and internal enterprise AI platforms to emerge as a corporate standard.