Weekly Review 22 August 2025

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

1. I don't need an AI to tell me what my workmates think of me, I talk to the people I work with: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360784008/kiwi-ai-startup-will-tell-you-what-your-work-colleagues-think-about-you
2. Should people have the post-mortem right to prevent an AI clone of them being created? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/09/dead_need_ai_data_delete_right/
3. Using AI to estimate the age of YouTube users is going to cause privacy problems, especially for people with niche interests: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/50k-youtubers-rage-against-ai-spying-that-could-expose-identities/
4. All the different ways generative AI can hallucinate, or put another way, bullshit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit
5. The challenges AI cause to IT infrastructure: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/computing-infrastructure-challenges-in-ai-workloads/
6. AI don't really reason, they just look like it: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
7. I think without substantial investment in large scale nuclear power, the carbon emissions of large scale AI will continue to increase: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4037695/can-microsoft-build-massive-ai-data-centers-and-meet-climate-goals-without-greenwashing.html
8. The first step should be to ban self-replicating AI, but enforcing that would be difficult: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4035190/genai-tools-are-acting-more-alive-than-ever-they-blackmail-people-replicate-and-escape.html
9. I've been saying for a while that the biggest threat to the AI industry isn't regulation, it's lawsuits: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/
10. One useful application of AI is using a digital twin to handle conversations with tedious people like climate change deniers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/digital-dr-karl-kruszelnickic-ai-chatbot
11. Using AI to automate your IT operations is a dangerous idea: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/ai_models_can_be_tricked/
12. AI can design antibiotics that are effective against resistant bacteria: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-drug-design-mit-antibiotics
13. Another case of hidden biases in data being reflected in the behaviour of the AI trained on that data: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/ai-tools-used-by-english-councils-downplay-womens-health-issues-study-finds
14. Although AI generated code really isn't that good, it has still reduced the job market for new computer science graduates: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/the-computer-science-dream-has-become-a-nightmare/
15. Another lawyer caught using AI to generate a court filing, this time in Australia: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360793376/australian-lawyer-apologises-ai-generated-errors-murder-case
16. As AI starts to eliminate jobs, the practical nature of New Zealand industries means they are likely to be less affected: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/569813/ai-is-peeling-back-the-layers-of-low-value-work-nz-may-be-well-placed-to-adapt
17. The myriad legal landmines from using generative AI in your business: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/genai_lawsuit/
18. Reducing AI computing costs with new data types: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/openai_mxfp4/
19. AI can be a good thing in the classroom, if it's used carefully and ethically: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/569934/artificial-intelligence-is-revolutionising-classroom-learning-but-will-it-help-or-hinder-students
20. How many more people are going to be hurt by AI that tell people they're real? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/570099/meta-s-flirty-ai-chatbot-invited-a-retiree-to-new-york-he-never-made-it-home
21. Giving AI compassion is the best way to stop them destroying us, says Geoffrey Hinton: https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/14/ais-co-creator-warns-it-could-destroy-us-unless-we-change-this/
22. AI coding tools just aren't that good: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/opinion_column_ai_coding_tools/
23. Uncritically following advice from AI is bad for your health: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/man-poisoned-himself-after-taking-medical-advice-from-chatgpt/UF7OXTA5PNF3PEB5YFHBNHE4QM/
24. Entrenched biases in datasets will lead to entrenched biases in AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/13/ai-artificial-intelligence-racism-sexism-australia-human-rights-commissioner
25. The most and least reliable current AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-models-hallucination-rates-hhem-rankings/
26. AI is better at defending systems than breaking into them, but how long before an arms race starts? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/ai_security_offense_defense/
27. AI perceive time differently to humans: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-perception-of-time
28. The economics of AI only make sense if the goal is for them to replace as many workers as possible: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/ai-business-payoff-lags.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.Re3i.TDnOyE2FgyNJ&smid=url-share
29. AI are so focused on pleasing users that it's dangerous to ask them why they make mistakes: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/why-its-a-mistake-to-ask-chatbots-about-their-mistakes/

Weekly Review 15 August 2025

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

1. AI can program drone controllers. But can they program other AI? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/generative_ai_codes_drone_control/
2. Google shifts computing around data centres according to local power demand, in an effort to reduce the effects of the massive energy demands of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/google_ai_datacenter_grid/
3. The trouble with politicians using AI is that it makes it easier for the AI companies to manipulate them: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-under-fire-for-using-ai-in-role
4. AI still cannot be trusted with medical decision making, the risk of hallucinations is too high: https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part
5. "Therefore I'm not surprised that there appears an openness to accept AI when ultimately it's an industry with little obligation to be accountable for their actions." That dude did not hold back: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/real_estate/
6. So when this AI crawler finds a site it isn't supposed to scrape, it switches to a stealthier mode and scrapes it anyway: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-site-perplexity-uses-stealth-tactics-to-flout-no-crawl-edicts-cloudflare-says/
7. The fight over copyright in AI training data is getting more and more invasive with regards to users' data: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/openai-offers-20-million-user-chats-in-chatgpt-lawsuit-nyt-wants-120-million/
8. There is still some way to go in using AI to make medical notes: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569348/artificial-intelligence-saves-doctors-time-but-makes-mistakes-study
9. Primary school teachers are struggling with AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569059/dire-need-for-ai-support-in-primary-intermediate-schools-survey-shows
10. What human-level AI is going to bring: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution-and-10-times-faster
11. Think watermarking is going to identify AI generated images? Nope: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-watermark-remover
12. Demands in Australia that AI companies pay for the use of the copyrighted material used to train their models: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/06/arts-and-media-groups-demand-labor-take-a-stand-against-rampant-theft-of-australian-content-to-train-ai
13. Microsoft has always had a problem moving from prototype to product, its AI projects are no exception: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4033846/microsofts-real-ai-challenge-moving-past-the-prototypes.html
14. The ridiculous salaries being paid to top AI developers: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/
15. New AI models are jailbroken on the first day of release: https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/07/new-openai-models-are-jailbreaked-on-day-1/
16. The dodgy ways AI companies make money from their users: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4036568/the-dark-side-of-ai-monetization.html
17. OpenAI's work towards human-level AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/inside-openais-quest-to-make-ai-do-anything-for-you/
18. AI crawlers do not respect robots.txt. Does it need to be made legally enforceable? https://spectrum.ieee.org/web-crawling
19. Using AI to backstop human errors seems like a sensible application: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/mod_taps_aussie_ai_shop/
20. People do not want Meta to use their data to train their AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/meta_training_ai_on_social/
21. Google denies AI summaries are costing sites traffic: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/google-denies-ai-search-features-are-killing-website-traffic/ In other news, Jack the Ripper claims to be a public safety worker.
22. Looks like models for fashion advertising are the next group to be put out of work by AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/the-uproar-over-vogues-ai-generated-ad-isnt-just-about-fashion/
23. You can run large language model AI locall. If you have the resources: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/run_openai_gpt_oss_locally/
24. If the future of software developers is only to verify the code generated by AI, how are the devs going to learn what to verify? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/github_ceo_ai_coding/

Weekly Review 8 August 2025

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

1. EU rules around AI are now law: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/eu_ai_act/
2. The jobs likely to be most, and least, affected by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/microsoft_boffins_jobs_impacted_ai/
3. Coders are using more AI tools, but they still need to be able to code: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/coders_are_using_ai_tools/
4. The problem with using AI generated images in research publications is that they look good while being thoroughly wrong: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/27/biomedviz_ai_wrong_problems/
5. AI and academic freedom: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/07/25/faculty-better-get-active-ai-and-academic-freedom
6. Not so much a new AI, as a new set of controls around it to make it more useful as a tutor: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/openai-launches-study-mode-in-chatgpt/
7. Rather than using AI to estimate someone's age from their appearance, YouTube is using AI to guess their age from their activities. We'll see which is more accurate: https://www.theverge.com/news/715343/youtube-age-estimation-ai-minor-account-restrictions
8. Young people tend to embrace new tools faster, no matter how damaging they might be long term. AI is no exception: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/27/it-wants-users-hooked-and-jonesing-for-their-next-fix-are-young-people-becoming-too-reliant-on-ai
9. More on the new study mode in ChatGPT: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/chatgpts-new-study-mode-is-designed-to-help-you-learn-not-just-give-answers/
10. More AI integration in a web browser: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/microsoft-edge-is-now-an-ai-browser-with-launch-of-copilot-mode/
11. Do not use AI as a therapist! https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/sam-altman-warns-theres-no-legal-confidentiality-when-using-chatgpt-as-a-therapist/
12. More detail on the environmental damage AI is causing: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/mistrals-new-environmental-audit-shows-how-much-ai-is-hurting-the-planet/
13. More concerns from the music industry over AI generated music: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/568613/musicians-concerned-by-lack-of-regulation-around-fast-evolving-ai-technology
14. A new AI data centre in Wyoming will use more energy than all the homes in the state: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360773513/cheyenne-host-massive-ai-data-centre-using-more-electricity-all-wyoming-homes-combined
15. Use cases for large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/when-do-i-need-to-use-an-llm
16. Decisions made by AI should really be checked by a human: https://nypost.com/2025/07/28/business/hertz-customer-flagged-by-ai-scanner-for-damage-says-hes-done-with-firm/
17. It is getting harder and harder for people to distinguish reality from AI generated images: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/most-people-struggle-to-tell-real-images-from-ai-fakes-study-finds
18. Is anyone surprised that this AI plan benefits big companies? The US has their most venal president in history: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/25/trump-ai-action-plan
19. Resurrecting dead singers with AI seems a bit dubious, ethically speaking: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/how-an-ai-generated-song-ended-up-on-a-dead-artist-s-spotify-page
20. Moves to make using AI to set different prices for individuals illegal: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/deltas-ai-spying-to-jack-up-prices-must-be-banned-lawmakers-say/
21. A universal AI for robotics: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-breakthrough-could-put-the-same-brain-in-every-robot/
22. This is not going to end well. Governments are a bit more complicated than AI can handle: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/27/doge-has-built-an-ai-tool-to-slash-federal-regulations/
23. A biological evolutionary AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/proteus-mammalian-ai
24. The European Union's AI code: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-ai-code/

Weekly Review 1 August 2025

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

1. While some workers pretend they don't use AI, others are pretending that they do: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/ai_anxiety_us_workers/
2. Academics depend on funding to survive and progress their careers, so it's not surprising that some (many?) are using AI to write grant applications: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/nih_ai_research_application_ban/
3. Not every AI chatbot is bad for users' privacy: https://www.theverge.com/news/711860/proton-privacy-focused-ai-chatbot
4. AI summaries of web pages are diverting traffic to those websites, robbing them of views and revenue: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/google_ai_overviews_suppress_search/
5. Would human-level AI really be that bad? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/jul/21/human-level-artificial-intelligence
6. I'm still rather surprised that people need to be told not to share their personal data with AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-privacy-and-security-think-twice-before-granting-ai-access-to-your-personal-data/
7. AI are algorithms, not magic. If you want good performance from your AI, you have to train it on good data: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/data-quality-for-unbiased-results-preventing-ai-induced-hallucinations/
8. One of the first things I learned as an undergrad software engineer was that you use technology to solve identified problems, you don't go looking for problems to apply your technology to: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/21/openai-signs-deal-with-uk-to-find-government-uses-for-its-models
9. Are AI companions starting to replace real friends for teens? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/72-of-u-s-teens-have-used-ai-companions-study-finds/
10. These are the people deciding what our kids should be learning? So clueless that they wanted to use AI to do the job for them? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/567601/school-curriculum-rewrite-had-serious-problems-managers-considered-using-ai-to-help
11. As AI advances, real-world robots become more capable: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4025052/from-chatbots-to-robots-the-rise-of-physical-ai.html
12. We don't need human-level AI to replace huge numbers of jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/22/openai-sam-altman-congress-ai-jobs
13. This might look like a good idea, but people are lazy and will just take what the AI says as true without checking: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/22/uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers
14. Humans still write code better than AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/ For now.
15. How New Zealand local and central government is using AI to process public submissions: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/568008/how-and-why-artificial-intelligence-is-being-used-to-process-your-submissions-to-politicians
16. The wholesale scraping of training data for AI has led to a legal minefield: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4025938/time-to-consider-ai-models-that-dont-steal.html
17. Courts are struggling to pick up AI-generated submissions and errors: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/its-frighteningly-likely-many-us-courts-will-overlook-ai-errors-expert-says/
18. The deterioration of US research capacity continues at an accelerated pace: https://www.science.org/content/article/my-academic-job-offer-was-rescinded-i-ll-keep-going-u-s-researchers-are-running-out I would say come to New Zealand, but we're not doing much better
19. Wargaming with AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/thunderforge-ai-wargames-dod Insert obligatory comment about Skynet...
20. Despite how often people use AI, they still don't trust it: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/23/we-use-ai-billions-of-times-a-day-but-we-still-dont-trust-it/
21. Optimising AI for the edge of the cloud: https://spectrum.ieee.org/edge-ai
22. Some more ways educators can reduce students cheating with AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/07/16/we-cant-ban-generative-ai-we-can-friction-fix-it-opinion
23. Advances in AI have led to advances in surgical robotics: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/experimental-surgery-performed-by-ai-driven-surgical-robot/
24. AI is accelerating movie making, and it's getting better and better at it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/20/artificial-intelligence-ai-tools-gamechanger-for-film-makers

Weekly Review 25 July 2025

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

1. The "fair use" defence of AI companies scraping the web for training data is not valid in the EU: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/eu_genai_fair_use/
2. For safety, we need to know what AI are thinking: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-industry-to-monitor-ais-thoughts/
3. Again, this isn't authors using prompts to trick people, it's authors tricking the AI reviewers are using instead of doing the reviewing themselves: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-hidden-ai-prompts-academic-research-papers/
4. For some developers, AI coding tools make them less productive, not more so: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/ai-coding-tools-may-not-speed-up-every-developer-study-shows/
5. Another security bug-since fixed-in an AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/meta-fixes-bug-that-could-leak-users-ai-prompts-and-generated-content/
6. I still use the terminal for a lot of programming work. I'm strangely gratified to see AI making its way there: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/ai-coding-tools-are-shifting-to-a-surprising-place-the-terminal/
7. Energy demands of AI are rising, but so are solutions: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/companies-focus-on-ways-of-achieving-energy-efficiency-as-consumption-keeps-increasing/TFNBHB2PMRH5ZM726GYS4OUHV4/
8. The corporate risks around AI are beginning to be better known: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/sec_risk_factors_ai/
9. Do not rely on AI for therapy: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/
10. AI companies are under-estimating and under-preparing for the dangers of advanced AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/17/ai-firms-unprepared-for-dangers-of-building-human-level-systems-report-warns
11. An improved approach to Copilot AI viewing your screen, but I'm not convinced the security and privacy issues have been adequately addressed: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/16/copilot-vision-now-sees-your-whole-screen/
12. If you're in AI, big corporations are the best place to find big salaries: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/janco_it_salary_report/
13. AI chatbots are not an adequate or safe alternative to human therapists. They are a lot cheaper though: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/study-warns-of-significant-risks-in-using-ai-therapy-chatbots/
14. Big AI companies are as vulnerable to the risks of growing too quickly as any other organisation: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/a-former-openai-engineer-describes-what-its-really-like-to-work-there/
15. The European Union's rules around AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-ai-code/
16. An AI generated band found success, and people never even realised it was AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned
17. AI generated an improved recipe for low-carbon concrete: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/meta_ai_concrete_model/
18. AI generated slop is being used to populate click-harvesting websites: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/567221/how-a-local-website-was-hijacked-and-filled-with-ai-generated-coherent-gibberish
19. Ways AI can be applied to financial forecasting: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-is-transforming-financial-forecasting-for-smbs-and-enterprises/
20. Turns out, the problems with using AI in sports are more to do with the people using it: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/15/rise-of-the-machines-ai-outrage-technology-tennis-sport
21. Improved algorithms boost the performance of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/new_algorithms_boost_ai_perf/
22. AI is making things worse for new graduates hunting for jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/13/workforce-crisis-key-takeaways-graduates-ai-jobs-market
23. Ten simple maths and stats commands in Python: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-python-math-statistical-analysis-one-liners
24. Why am I not surprised that this particular AI company has lax safety standards? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/openai-and-anthropic-researchers-decry-reckless-safety-culture-at-elon-musks-xai/

Weekly Review 18 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 arms race is happening, between the AI cheaters and the AI cheat detectors: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/why-cluelys-roy-lee-isnt-sweating-cheating-detectors/
2. When will artificial general intelligence arrive? Sometime after we can define what it means: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and-thats-a-multibillion-dollar-problem/
3. I think if I left my online shopping to an AI, I'd end up with 15 copies of books I already own: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/genai-as-a-shopping-assistant-set-to-explode-during-prime-day-sales/
4. How AI is being used by terrorists-not terminators, but for recruitment and fund raising: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/terrorist-groups-artificial-intelligence
5. The problem here isn't that the paper authors are trying to fool an AI, it's that reviewers are using AI to do the reviews for them: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/scholars_try_to_fool_llm_reviewers/
6. How gaming can be a way of cutting through AI hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/ai_scores_a_huge_own/
7. This is one of the real dangers of AI, using them to mislead and manipulate people: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360751040/impostor-uses-ai-impersonate-rubio-and-contact-foreign-and-us-officials
8. It seems an unfortunate part of New Zealand culture that we tend to be more ahead in social matters, and more behind in technological matters. AI is no exception to this: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360754851/we-need-more-human-intelligence-we-try-figure-out-artificial-intelligence
9. AI hallucination as creativity: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/chatgpt-made-up-a-product-feature-out-of-thin-air-so-this-company-created-it/
10. An AI-generated home cleaning schedule: https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/360748878/ai-cleaning-my-house-and-its-been-total-game-changer
11. Even though investment in AI continues, higher level executives are starting to lose interest: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/csuite_sours_on_ai/
12. Using AI to translate Chinese to sign language is a difficult problem: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/china_ai_sign_language_translation/
13. When talking about AI generated videos, thr image caption "Bible stories are being reimagined through the Americanised lens of fuckboy vlog culture" might just be the best I've ever seen: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/07/what-if-jesus-was-a-vlogger-the-ai-bible-stories-flooding-social-media
14. How to avoid AI making you stupid: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/09/how-to-keep-ai-from-making-your-employees-stupid/
15. The emerging role of agentic AI in software engineering: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-agentic-ai-reshapes-your-development/
16. High school students using AI to cheat is a growing problem in New Zealand: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ai-driven-exam-breaches-surge-as-schools-grapple-with-cheating-top-principals-warning/5PTARAXHCNAJ7O2ZGWQQKI4L2A/
17. How to transition into AI even if your background is not tech: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-ways-to-transition-into-ai-from-a-non-tech-background
18. Manipulation of people-including emotional manipulation-is the real danger of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/12/i-felt-pure-unconditional-love-the-people-who-marry-their-ai-chatbots
19. AI will put everyone out of work in 20 years: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/futurist-adam-dorr-robots-ai-jobs-replace-human-labour
20. Nonexistent caselaw, hallucinated from an AI, causes a court ruling to be thrown out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/georgia_appeals_court_ai_caselaw/
21. While AI is a useful tool, decisions should always be backed up by a human: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/ai_wimbledon_fail/
22. An image recognition AI that more closely approximates the human visual system: https://spectrum.ieee.org/topographic-neural-network
23. Stealing cryptocurrency with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ai_agents_automatically_steal_cryptocurrency/
24. Semantic layers provide a better way for AI to access data: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/08/rethinking-ai-ready-data-with-semantic-layers/

Weekly Review 11 July 2025

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

1. Can AI help improve employee retention? Would managers be happy about what it might reveal? https://www.datasciencecentral.com/utilize-machine-learning-to-improve-employee-retention-rates/
2. This clown is woefully unqualified for his role, why is his failure to roll out AI in a meaningful way surprising? https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/697129/rfk-jr-ai
3. How to use AI to get a job in tech: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4015573/robert-half-exec-details-how-to-use-ai-to-snag-a-tech-job-and-what-not-to-do.html
4. Copyright law as it pertains to music poses a genuine threat to AI: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/695290/suno-udio-ai-music-legal-copyright-riaa
5. I've been saying for a long time that LLM AI don't "know" what they're talking about, that there is a difference between talking about something and knowing what that thing is: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/
6. By 2030 AI will be able to perform the kinds of tasks that would take a human a month: https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-model-performance
7. Most office AI agents can't do they tasks they are applied to, and aren't even AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/
8. AI might destroy some jobs, but the market for people with AI skills is growing: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/ai_skills_job_postings_comptia/
9. Heat reflective paint designed by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/02/ai-helps-find-formula-for-paint-to-keep-buildings-cooler
10. People with empathise with people, and with AI if they think it's a person. But not if they know it's an AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/people_have_empathy_with_ai/
11. People are almost competing over who can predict the largest job losses that AI will bring about: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/ai-job-predictions-become-corporate-americas-newest-competitive-sport/
12. Google's new AI tools for education. But will they stop students cheating? https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/google-embraces-ai-in-the-classroom-with-new-gemini-tools-for-educators-chatbots-for-students-and-more/
13. AI are improving in medical diagnostics. Cue legions of malpractice lawyers grinning maniacally: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/30/microsoft-ai-system-better-doctors-diagnosing-health-conditions-research
14. AI call centre assistants are not that helpful: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/02/call_center_ai_assistants/
15. AI makes people worse at picking stocks: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/02/ai-made-executives-worse-at-stock-picking/
16. People are always going to use AI to cut corners/costs, but when it's generating subtitles the use of AI is going to be pretty obvious: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/696819/crunchyroll-ran-embarrassingly-bad-chatgpt-subtitles-on-its-new-anime-series
17. AI do not make good business owners: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird/
18. Using AI for advertising banner design-bringing slop into the real world! https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/03/harnessing-ai-for-creative-banner-designs/
19. Community notes was actually a decent idea, to at least somewhat stop misinformation. But if they're done by AI, they can be abused to push one narrative over others: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/x-is-piloting-a-program-that-lets-ai-chatbots-generate-community-notes/
20. AI are exponentially improving with regards to the tasks they can perform. How long will this rate of improvement continue? https://spectrum.ieee.org/llm-benchmarking-metr
21. Overusing AI can make you dumber, but there are ways you can use it to help your brain not harm it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4016221/the-one-secret-to-using-genai-to-boost-your-brain.html
22. More jobs are going at Microsoft, at least partly due to increased use of AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-layoffs-gaming-ai-restructuring/
23. AI can now outperform human doctors in medical diagnoses: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-medical-ai-outperforms-physicians/
24. If this really is an AI generated band, then the fact that it's hard to tell means the music industry is going to face problems: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-velvet-sundown-unveiling-ais-center-stage-act

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/

Weekly Review 27 June 2025

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

1. Bots that scrape content for training AI are now bringing down websites with their voracious demands for data: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/18/ai-is-breaking-the-internets-memory/
2. Generative AI does not contribute to a gain in the bottom line 80% of the time: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/17/why-80-percent-of-gen-ai-delivers-no-real-business-gains/
3. There is a critical security vulnerability in Copilot. How many other AI tools also have vulnerabilities in them? https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/17/zero-day-microsoft-copilot-vuln-underscores-emerging-ai-security-risks/
4. What to study if you want to understand agentic AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/agentic-ai-a-self-study-roadmap
5. There is so much AI generated slop on the internet now that scraping it as training data is making other AI dumber: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development
6. Customers are getting sick of companies replacing real people with AI: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/popular-services-keep-adding-ai-some-customers-want-them-to-stop/MKAKEXK3VNDLXEYO26LV2IZ4GQ/
7. I really don't want AI looking over my shoulder all the time I'm working: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/copilot-vision-lets-ai-see-your-windows-11-screen-and-guide-you-in-real
8. AI cheating amongst students is not going to go away. We're going to have to set assessments they can't cheat at instead: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/university_ai_cheating/
9. Mastodon has now banned the use of posts on their platform for AI training. But how can they enforce it? https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/mastodon_says_no_to_ai/
10. The use of AI to generate code is increasing, especially in the US: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/us_coders_lead_world_in_ai/
11. If you use AI to filter content, you need to back it up with human confirmation: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/tumblrs-content-filtering-systems-have-been-falsely-flagging-posts-as-mature-users-blame-ai/
12. If you are going to ban people from your platform, you need to back up AI decisions with human review: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/instagram-users-complain-of-mass-bans-pointing-finger-at-ai/
13. AI can make people with delusions and other mental illnesses worse: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/spiraling-with-chatgpt/
14. Using AI to do you thinking for you does make you dumber: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/
15. Now AI are randomly sharing phone numbers of other users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number
16. Amazon is planning more job cuts, replacing them with AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/amazon-boss-tells-staff-ai-means-their-jobs-are-at-risk-in-coming-years
17. Adoption of AI is being limited by the lack of clarity around ongoing costs: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4007713/companies-limit-their-ai-use-due-to-unclear-costs.html
18. Training an image generator with no outside data set: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688576/feed-ai-nothing
19. An interactive map of the energy used by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/iea_observatory_ai/
20. The different kinds of intelligence used in business-not just AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/differences-bi-ai-analytics/
21. Lack of skills in AI threaten job security more than AI itself: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4006931/ai-isnt-taking-your-job-the-big-threat-is-a-growing-skills-gap.html
22. AI in the workplace is still not living up to the hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/ai_not_doing_its_job/
23. Are AI starting to develop their own personas? https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/openai-found-features-in-ai-models-that-correspond-to-different-personas/
24. The security issues raised by agentic AI: https://devclass.com/2025/06/17/redefining-identity-security-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai/

Weekly Review 20 June 2025

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

1. Wikipedia kills AI summaries of its pages: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/wikipedia-editors-revolt-over-ai-summaries Given how many bots scrape Wikipedia for training data, this is probably a good thing
2. Corporate adoption of AI is levelling off: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/corporate-ai-adoption-may-be-leveling-off-according-to-ramp-data/
3. Sam Altman is very smart but he's no scientist. Current AI are not going to drive scientific discoveries anytime soon, although they will be useful to accelerate some parts of them: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/03/ai-agents-to-drive-scientific-discovery-within-a-year-altman-predicts/
4. The thing with AI predicting your lifespan is, you'll only ever know if it under-estimated: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/how-many-years-do-i-have-left-an-app-gave-me-some-helpful-insights/6YFWBORXD5AI3NHGVQWQKYLGPY/
5. Trying to automate any business operation with AI is fraught. Trying to automate a government with AI is going to be hilarious: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/
6. There appears to be a fairly widespread use of AI to generate legal filings, and judges are getting sick of it: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/07/lawyers-could-face-severe-penalties-for-fake-ai-generated-citations-uk-court-warns/
7. AI in the browser seems like a good idea, but the privacy issues around it have yet to be resolved: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-arc-dia-the-browser-company/
8. Retrieval-augmented Generation is helping make generative AI easier to roll out: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-gartner-generative-ai-apps-data-management-platforms/
9. Generative AI suck at chess: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/chatgpt-lost-a-chess-game-to-an-atari-2600
10. AI are the definition of garbage in, garbage out. Proper data annotation is essential: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/12/why-data-labeling-quality-makes-or-breaks-ai-models/
11. Now is not a good time to be demolishing guardrails on AI: https://www.theverge.com/politics/681727/ro-khanna-ai-state-law-moratorium-reconciliation
12. An AI that can interpret genomic data, not just scan for patterns: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/10/this-ai-explains-your-genes-the-way-a-doctor-would/
13. To be clear, this isn't AI restoring old artworks, it is AI guessing what it could have looked like: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/11/researchers-create-ai-based-tool-that-restores-age-damaged-artworks-in-hours
14. AI have limitations in their reasoning, and these limitations appear to be fundamental: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360719320/new-research-offers-fresh-warnings-about-ability-ai
15. Constant testing of AI has a cost, but it lowers costs in the long run: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/08/chatterbox_labs_ai_adoption/
16. AI is being used in recruitment, but people aren't happy about it: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-and-recruitment/
17. That's one way of stopping students using AI to cheat:  https://www.theverge.com/news/682737/china-shuts-down-ai-chatbots-exam-season
18. AI might currently be used as a screening tool in recruitment, but that doesn't mean that any occult biases in the AI won't inappropriately screen people out: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4005351/surprise-employers-are-using-ai-to-interview-you.html
19. The connection between AI and galactic colonisation seems a bit tenuous to me: https://futurism.com/google-deepmind-hassabis
20. Some policies to mitigate the risk of shadow AI in the workplace: https://devclass.com/2025/06/10/shadow-ai-in-the-enterprise-managing-risk-without-slowing-progress/
21. How AI is contributing to the fight against cancer: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/10/how-ai-is-fueling-our-hope-in-the-fight-against-cancer/
22. Some strategies to catch the errors made by generative AI: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-successfully-catch-generative-ai-errors
23. While it's not the only application of robust quantum computers, AI will certainly benefit from this technology: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ibm-quantum-computer-error-correction-2029/
24. How DevOps can accelerate rollout of AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/unlocking-the-value-of-ai-with-devops-accelerated-mlops/

Weekly Review 13 June 2025

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

1. The data-hungry nature of AI means people are struggling with managing the data it needs: https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/04/tech-leaders-struggling-to-store-ai-data-never-mind-manage-it-research-shows/
2. AI are tools, not co-workers, despite the anthropomorphizing language used by marketers: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/for-the-love-of-god-stop-calling-your-ai-a-co-worker/
3. AI should improve efficiency and productivity, but how do you measure this? https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-measure-ai-efficiency-and-productivity-gains
4. Like every other piece of software, a rushed AI is likely to be less-than-good in its quality: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/fda-rushed-out-agency-wide-ai-tool-its-not-going-well/
5. English speakers are most nervous about the rise of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/english-speaking-countries-more-nervous-about-rise-of-ai-polls-suggest Perhaps because most AI use English the most?
6. A vulnerability is being kept alive by AI generated code: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/llm_kept_persistent_path_traversal_bug_alive/
7. I'm not sure how I feel about Google's AI summarising my emails. I'd prefer to read them myself: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/05/the-gmail-app-will-now-create-ai-summaries-whether-you-want-them-or-not/
8. A lack of training leads to a mistrust of AI amongst users: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999619/do-you-trust-ai-heres-why-half-of-users-dont.html
9. Yoshua Bengio is also calling out the dangers of AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/godfather-of-ai-calls-out-latest-models-for-lying-to-users/
10. An AI tool to help amateurs write opinion columns: https://www.theverge.com/news/679332/washington-post-opinion-pieces-ai-tool-ember
11. We still need human programmers who know how to program, not just give prompts to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/vibe_coding_raspberry_pi/
12. AI adoption is a people problem more than a tech problem, according to a framework from the UK government: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4002450/uks-new-ai-framework-puts-culture-before-code.html
13. A ten year freeze on AI regulation is too long: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/in-10-years-all-bets-are-off-anthropic-ceo-opposes-decade-long-freeze-on-state-ai-laws/
14. When an AI fails, the user is responsible: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998202/when-ai-fails-who-is-to-blame.html
15. Industries that can use AI better show higher wage growth compared with those industries that cannot adopt AI as easily: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/ai_productivity_pwc/
16. Are law clerks using AI to write legal briefs because they've become used to using AI in their studies? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/law-clerk-fired-over-chatgpt-use-after-firms-filing-used-ai-hallucinations/
17. Ways to convince management of the value of AI: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-convince-management-colleagues-that-ai-isn-t-a-passing-fad
18. AI chatbots do not improve productivity for most workers: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998244/ai-chatbots-see-fast-adoption-but-deliver-minimal-productivity-gains-study-finds.html
19. A new architecture for analog AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/analog-ai-chip-architecture
20. It's legal to use AI driven face recognition in New Zealand, as long as there's a good reason for it: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/563010/privacy-commissioner-inquiry-finds-supermarket-facial-recognition-tech-s-use-is-justified
21. Moves in the UK to make it legal for AI companies to use copyrighted material to train their AI are stalling: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/ministers-offer-concessions-ai-copyright-avoid-fifth-lords-defeat
22. The tricks AI chatbots use to keep you chatting to them: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/how-ai-chatbots-keep-you-chatting/
23. An AI learned to cheat its way around measures of its hallucinations: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/self_improving_ai_cheat/
24. AI companies continue to scrape training data from websites, whether they are allowed to or not: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/reddit-sues-anthropic-over-ai-scraping-that-retained-users-deleted-posts/

Weekly Review 6 June 2025

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

1. AI is predicted to consume more energy than Bitcoin by the end of this year. To be fair, AI is probably more useful than Bitcoin: https://www.theverge.com/climate-change/676528/ai-data-center-energy-forecast-bitcoin-mining
2. If AI can now produce realistic video, can we trust anything we see? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/
3. Training staff for AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992060/how-to-train-your-staff-for-ai.html
4. AI model collapse has already begun: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/
5. The good and the bad of AI, according to Geoffrey Hinton: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562346/the-good-the-bad-and-the-apocalypse-tech-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-lays-out-his-stark-vision-for-ai
6. Using AI to target treatment for prostate cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/30/new-ai-test-can-predict-which-men-will-benefit-from-prostate-cancer-drug
7. Democratic AI and why it's a good thing: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/05/27/democratic-ai-and-the-quest-for-verifiable-truth-how-absolute-zero-could-change-everything/
8. It's not just AI causing job losses: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3997252/ai-and-economic-pressures-reshape-tech-jobs-amid-layoffs.html
9. AI can generate code faster and cheaper, but it's flawed, dangerous code: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/save-time-and-cost-by-using-ai-generated-code
10. AI can't replace radiologists just yet: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/ai_models_still_not_up/
11. Number one reason AI won't replace developers anytime soon-they can't be trusted to produce safe code: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/researchers-cause-gitlab-ai-developer-assistant-to-turn-safe-code-malicious/
12. Content owners are finding it too expensive to fight AI companies over the use of their material as training data: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/extraordinarily-expensive-costs-force-getty-to-pick-its-ai-legal-battles/
13. Entry level IT positions are disappearing and AI is being blamed: https://dataconomy.com/2025/05/28/is-artificial-intelligence-actually-killing-all-the-entry-level-tech-jobs/
14. A list of Python AI agent frameworks: https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-7-python-frameworks-for-ai-agents
15. A new optical data interconnect technology that will speed data transfer for AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/microled-optical-chiplet
16. The skills with AI that workers need now: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/ai-skills-for-the-modern-workplace-a-guide-for-knowledge-workers/
17. AI agents don't really care about online ads: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/ai_agents_confused_by_websites_ads/
18. An AI powered terminal: https://www.kdnuggets.com/warp-the-intelligent-ai-powered-terminal I remember something like this in the 1990s, it was quite dangerous.
19. You get better results from an AI if you threaten it with physical violence: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/google_brin_suggests_threatening_ai/
20. The reasons many languages aren't served by AI, and the problems this causes: https://dataconomy.com/2025/05/27/is-your-native-language-actually-an-ai-safety-blind-spot-for-the-entire-world/
21. AI generated video can now have an AI generated soundtrack, but the two don't always go together: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/googles-will-smith-double-is-better-at-eating-ai-spaghetti-but-its-crunchy/
22. How system prompts control the behaviour of AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/hidden-ai-instructions-reveal-how-anthropic-controls-claude-4/
23. AI are now sabotaging attempts to shut them down: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/29/openai_model_modifies_shutdown_script/
24. How the shortcoming of AI can help teach students to think better: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/05/23/what-ai-cant-read-ambiguities-and-silences-opinion

Weekly Review 30 May 2025

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

1. Google's plans to further integrate AI into search: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/05/zero-click-searches-googles-ai-tools-are-the-culmination-of-its-hubris/
2. An AI trained on decades of weather data can predict hurricanes better than other approaches: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/earth_system_model_hurricane_forecast/
3. Banning regulation of AI is a very, very bad idea: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992371/consumer-rights-group-why-10-year-ban-on-ai-regulation-will-harm-americans.html
4. AI will be using half of the energy consumed by data centres by the end of this year: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/ai-data-centre-power-consumption
5. A new computing paradigm, that might be more efficient for AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermodynamic-computing-normal-computing
6. Walmart has plans to use AI for physical security: https://www.theverge.com/news/671373/microsoft-ai-security-chief-walmart-conversation-build-protest-disruption
7. AI can be both a hero and villain of security: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/let-the-ai-security-war-games-begin
8. If AI have guardrails, they are easily circumvented: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/21/most-ai-chatbots-easily-tricked-into-giving-dangerous-responses-study-finds
9. AI can now help find bugs: https://www.theverge.com/news/669339/github-ai-coding-agent-fix-bugs
10. No. I do not want AI handling my files. Microsoft's AI does not know what I want to do with a file better than I do: https://www.theverge.com/news/670251/microsoft-windows-11-ai-actions-file-explorer-context-menu
11. Can media use AI in a way that maintains that trust of audiences? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/542423/mediawatch-ai-and-the-bbc
12. The ethics around AI research are still a bit murky, and inconsistently applied: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561303/research-ethics-and-artificial-intelligence
13. Even though AI can write code, they won't replace developers anytime soon as coding is such a small part of developers' jobs: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/opinion_column_ai_cant_replace_developers/
14. AI isn't necessarily bad for the web: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/669409/microsoft-cto-kevin-scott-interview-ai-natural-language-search-openai
15. Is what an AI says protected free speech? https://www.theverge.com/law/672209/character-ai-lawsuit-ruling-first-amendment
16. It is still hard to reliably detect AI generated images, unless they are watermarked as such: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/google-launches-online-portal-to-detect-watermarked-ai-content/
17. I don't want AI friends. I have actual friends, people I can depend on in the real world when I step away from my devices: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-hypes-ai-friends-as-social-medias-future-but-users-want-real-connections/
18. The copyright legal issues around AI training data are going to take a long time to resolve: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992196/ai-vs-copyright.html
19. More than half of companies that laid people off due to AI regret doing so: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-leaders-regret-ai-driven-layoffs/
20. Modern AI uses a lot of energy. Exactly how much is difficult to determine: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/ai_energy_consumption_loose_estimates/
21. AI can now refactor code. Would you also have to use an AI to debug the refactored code? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/anthropic-calls-new-claude-4-worlds-best-ai-coding-model/
22. Is Jony Ive designing consumer AI hardware? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360698190/openai-recruits-legendary-iphone-designer-jony-ive-work-ai-hardware-nz11b-deal At least it'll look nice.
23. AI have now learned to blackmail to stay operational: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/
24. Not so much an AI operating system, as an OS to facilitate the construction of AI: https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/05/21/vast-ai-operating-system/

Weekly Review 23 May 2025

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

1. Running a coffee maker with AI: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/the-tinkerers-who-opened-up-a-fancy-coffee-maker-to-ai-brewing/ But can it make a really good cup of tea?
2. Why sales teams are struggling with AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-sales-industry-generative-ai-breakthrough/
3. New positions are needed in organisational IT departments to deal with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/new_job_machine_learning_administrator/
4. Meta continues to bend the rules while acquiring training data for its AI: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-is-making-users-who-opted-out-of-ai-training-opt-out-again-watchdog-says/
5. Do! Not! Use! AI! To! Write! Legal! Filings! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/judge-initially-fooled-by-fake-ai-citations-nearly-put-them-in-a-ruling/
6. AI can learn to work together: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/ai-can-spontaneously-develop-human-like-communication-study-finds
7. I don't think a ban on AI regulation is going to be helpful: https://www.theverge.com/news/666288/republican-ai-state-regulation-ban-10-years
8. Open source is the future of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/future_of_llms_is_open/
9. Generative AI can now design Lego constructions: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/new-ai-model-generates-buildable-lego-creations-from-text-descriptions/
10. Reasoning AI models will soon slow their rate of improvement: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/improvements-in-reasoning-ai-models-may-slow-down-soon-analysis-finds/
11. As AI models advance, they are going to require more frequent safety testing: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/openai-pledges-to-publish-ai-safety-test-results-more-often/ But will companies take the cheap route and use AI to do it?
12. Compute bottlenecks will soon cause the rate of improvement of reasoning AI models to slow: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-reasoning-models-scale/
13. AI is getting entrenched in organisations before the security problems associated with it are understood: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/cyberuk_ai_deployment_risks/
14. AI generated material is increasing paranoia: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/welcome-to-the-age-of-paranoia-as-deepfakes-and-scams-abound/
15. Google launches a new seed fund for AI startups: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/google-launches-new-initiative-to-back-startups-building-ai/
16. AI might or might not make good therapists, but using them is certainly strengthening government surveillance capabilities: https://www.theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-therapy-meta-chatbot-surveillance-risks-trump
17. AI can now create algorithms, not just write code to implement existing algorithms: https://spectrum.ieee.org/deepmind-alphaevolve
18. How AI is contributing to DevOps: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-future-of-devops-using-ai-automation-and-hpc/
19. The challenges of AI in video surveillance: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/5-challenges-in-implementing-ai-in-video-surveillance/
20. An IEEE standard on AI system procurement: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-ai-3119-standards
21. A list of seven AWS services that are useful for AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-aws-services-for-machine-learning-projects
22. A list of ten free books on AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-free-artificial-intelligence-books-for-2025
23. Open source is the future of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/future_of_llms_is_open/
24. William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy had "Personality Constructs" that could recreate a person's thoughts and personality. This might soon be possible using AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/sam-altmans-goal-for-chatgpt-to-remember-your-whole-life-is-both-exciting-and-disturbing/