AI features are coming to Ubuntu this year, Canonical has announced – though it adds that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Canonical, says the company will be “ramping up its use of AI tools in a focused and principled manner” in 2026, with a bias toward local inference and open-weight models whose licence terms vibe with Canonical’s values. AI features in Ubuntu will introduced in to the desktop, but taking one of two forms. Ubuntu aims to become a context-aware OS, with agentic workflow integrations and endpoints […]