Weekly Review 19 September 2025

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

1. How AI improves efficiency in customer service: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/08/ai-never-clocks-out-how-smart-leaders-are-funding-the-24-7-customer-revolution/
2. A list of some web scraping tools, to gather data to train your AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-7-ai-web-scraping-tools
3. When the AI bubble bursts, things won't look quite so sunny for cloud providers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/google_cloud_ceo_sees_sunny/
4. Pricing of AI services are a bit of a mess at the moment, with a lot of customer uncertainty: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/ai_software_licensing_immature/
5. The Darwin Awards are being expanded with a new category, for applications of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/ai_darwin_awards/
6. Just because it's AI doesn't mean it doesn't have security holes. In this case, they know it has holes, and are pushing security onto the user: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/anthropics-new-claude-feature-can-leak-data-users-told-to-monitor-chats-closely/
7. The focus on assessments as outcomes of education has led to the rise of students using AI to do their work for them: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/10/ai-we-reap-what-we-sow-opinion
8. They might think they're in a relationship with an AI, but really they're in a relationship with a corporation, who just sees them as a source of $$$: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/09/ai-chatbot-love-relationships
9. Google's AI summaries are continuing to reduce traffic to news websites: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/06/existential-crisis-google-use-ai-search-upended-web-publishers-models
10. The neurodiverse are the big winners out of users of AI: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/study-finds-neurodiverse-workers-more-satisfied-with-ai-assistants/
11. How AI is forcing changes in data centres: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/the-ai-driven-data-center-revolution
12. I really don't think it's a good idea to let any industry regulate itself, especially not the AI industry: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/776130/senator-ted-cruz-ai-sandbox-bill
13. The settlement of one of the first copyright case over AI training data has been blocked by the judge: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics-1-5b-settlement-is-being-shoved-down-the-throat-of-authors/
14. AI will soon be in everything in IT, but will not replace all IT jobs: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/no-ai-jobs-bloodbath-as-ai-permeates-all-it-work-over-the-next-5-years/
15. More tests are being rolled out to benchmark the performance of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mlperf-inference-51
16. A push to teach New Zealand school children about AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572737/new-push-for-ai-as-education-minister-erica-stanford-announces-curriculum-changes
17. Conversations with AI can go in many directions, now ChatGPT gives users the ability to go back and select another branch: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/chatgpts-new-branching-feature-is-a-good-reminder-that-ai-chatbots-arent-people/
18. AI authored books are becoming a problem for libraries: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ai-books-how-to-tell-a-book-wasnt-written-by-a-human-author/IEWSA2RHFVAUXARVPYJ6BORWTQ/
19. Like everything else, if you don't use it you lose it. Using AI to perform your tasks causes your work skills to atrophy: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_skill_loss_prediction/
20. Is AI taking over social media? https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/sam-altman-on-social-media-bot-takeover/
21. Using AI to detect speech without speaking, by detecting and interpreting nerve signals: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/alterego-brain-signal-device/
22. AI is one of the factors driving job growth: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4051732/ai-and-clean-energy-drive-job-growth-reshape-us-labor-market.html
23. More specialised AI hardware is in the pipeline: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-links-up-with-broadcom-to-produce-its-own-ai-chips/
24. How much water does AI really consume? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-water-usage
25. Why you don't want to depend on AI coding assistants-sometimes the AI service goes down: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage/
26. AI being trained on the output of AI, is this the ensloppification of the AI industry? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/
27. Will AI reinvigorate the smartphone? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_phone/
28. The roles of AI in car auctions: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/how-ai-is-reshaping-the-billion-dollar-car-auction-industry-beyond-the-gavel/
29. Teach kids about AI early: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572844/professor-calls-for-government-to-begin-ai-education-earlier