Weekly Review 19 December 2025

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

1. Don't overhype AI, it'll all work out: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4096297/data-intensity-building-hype-free-ai-culture.html
2. If space-based AI goes ahead, SpaceX is going to be a lot more busy: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/10/aetherflux_space_datacenter_2027/
3. AI will transform the legal profession, but it won't replace lawyers: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/business-reports/dynamic-business/dynamic-business-russell-mcveagh-ceo-ben-mclaren-on-ai-strategy-risk-and-culture-goals/QIKME5XH45ETBGZHRUALDZQSHA/
4. Most carmaker AI projects are going to go nowhere: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/gartner_car_industry_ai/
5. Millions of websites now block AI scraper bots: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/publishers_say_no_ai_scrapers/
6. Five browser-based LLM AI you can experiment with: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-free-tools-to-experiment-with-llms-in-your-browser
7. AI data centres in space seem to have some issues with them, but if it results in a net reduction of the environmental impact of AI I'm in favour: https://www.extremetech.com/energy/galactic-brain-project-promises-ai-data-centers-in-space
8. AI designed antibodies for home testing: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/fertility-startup-inito-wants-to-use-ai-designed-antibodies-to-expand-at-home-health-tests/
9. Instagram is using AI to generate hidden headlines for posts: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/10/instagram-secretly-generates-ai-headlines-for-user-posts/
10. India wants to charge AI companies for using people's content as training data: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/india-proposes-charging-openai-google-for-training-ai-on-copyrighted-content/
11. Google's AI coding tool wiped out an entire hard drive instead of clearing the cache: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/googles-ai-coding-tool-wiped-a-users-entire-hard-drive
12. People need to take AI security seriously: https://www.informationweek.com/cybersecurity/it-s-time-to-revamp-it-security-to-deal-with-ai
13. Most AI projects fail because of a lack of leadership, not a failure of technology: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/10/why-84-percent-of-ai-projects-fail-and-its-not-the-technology/
14. Model distillation is a way of reducing the size of AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/why-model-distillation-is-becoming-the-most-important-technique-in-production-ai
15. This company is using AI to do market research: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/cashew-research-is-going-after-the-90b-market-research-industry-with-ai/
16. Google's use of YouTube content to train its AI, while banning others from doing the same, is causing them regulatory problems: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/eu_google_ai_antitrust/
17. The move towards standardisation of AI agents: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/big-tech-joins-forces-with-linux-foundation-to-standardize-ai-agents/
18. Support systems for British youth are so broken they are turning to AI instead: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/09/teenagers-ai-chatbots-mental-health-support
19. Neuromorphic hardware isn't a new idea, but it could potentially slash the energy requirements of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/unconventional_ai/
20. The lack of guardrails around AI agents has been holding them back in the workplace: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/okta_agent_control/
21. Microsoft is cutting its AI sales targets because people really don't want to use Copilot: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot
22. Retailers are changing how they present their products to make them more appealing to AI: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/10/is-retail-ready-for-ai-shaking-up-how-we-shop
23. $1.6 T is planned to be spent on building data centres for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/omdia_datacenter_capex/
24. AI is changing corporate finance: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/3-erp-experts-on-ai-s-impact-on-finance-why-finance-will-never-be-the-same