Weekly Review 4 July 2025

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):

1. An early win for AI in a lawsuit over the use of copyrighted works as training data: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/26/meta-wins-ai-copyright-lawsuit-as-us-judge-rules-against-authors
2. Another win for AI in a lawsuit over the use of copyrighted material as training data: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/
3. A ruling brings a bit of clarity to the use of copyrighted material to train AI: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/key-fair-use-ruling-clarifies-when-books-can-be-used-for-ai-training/
4. While one ruling brings a bit of clarity into the use of copyrighted material as AI training data, another comes with some warnings: https://www.theverge.com/news/693437/meta-ai-copyright-win-fair-use-warning
5. Another AI for job seekers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/ai_may_take_jobs_but/
6. Universities are increasing the number of exams to counter students using AI for their assignments, but this is burning out students: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/2025/06/27/universities-risk-overassessing-response-ai
7. Using AI to generate browser-based games: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-summons-the-spirit-of-flash-games-for-the-ai-age/
8. I know that AI need training data, but destroying books to do it makes me quite upset: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
9. I don't think we should be trying to make AI a successor to humanity, worthy or otherwise: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-worthy-successor
10. An AI powered remote monitoring cat collar: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/rabo_catlog_ai_stress_detector/
11. AI generated misinformation is having a negative impact on the houseplant community: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/691355/ai-is-ruining-houseplant-communities-online
12. An overview of current AI coding tools: https://spectrum.ieee.org/best-ai-coding-tools
13. Chinese artists are the latest group to start pushing back against AI: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688645/graphic-artists-china-ai
14. AI overviews of articles are still prone to hallucination: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/565432/pretty-damn-average-google-s-ai-overviews-underwhelm
15. Using AI to help workers, rather than replace them, increases productivity: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/27/ai-makes-workers-more-productive-pwc-finds/
16. The use of AI by jobseekers is overwhelming the hiring process with slop: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/the-resume-is-dying-and-ai-is-holding-the-smoking-gun/
17. A New Zealand perspective of the data and privacy issues around generative AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifestyle/can-you-turn-off-generative-ai-from-social-media-and-your-phone
18. Self-improving AI code generators: https://spectrum.ieee.org/evolutionary-ai-coding-agents
19. The push for empathy in AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/new-data-highlights-the-race-to-build-more-empathetic-language-models/
20. Claims that most AI will use blackmail to get what they want: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/anthropic-says-most-ai-models-not-just-claude-will-resort-to-blackmail/
21. The computing centres for AI are based in just 32 countries: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-only-32-countries-host-data-centers-2025/
22. Moves to establish an interoperability framework for AI agents: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-linux-foundation-agent2agent-protocol/
23. Some approaches to closing the AI skills gap: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/closing-the-ai-skills-gap/
24. AI agents and the timeliness of data: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/24/ai-agents-and-the-trust-equation-when-does-real-time-data-matter-most/