Weekly Review 21 August 2026

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

1. Meta comes out on the side of open AI models: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/971653/meta-just-picked-a-side-in-a-big-debate-over-the-future-of-ai
2. India wants to use AI to approve loans for those who wouldn't otherwise get them. Because 2008 didn't really happen: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/12/indias-central-bank-wants-ai-to-approve-loans-that-humans-would-reject/5286572
3. AI isn't going to take your job just yet, but it will give your boss a perfect reason to not give you a pay rise: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361020380/ai-isnt-taking-your-job-it-just-gave-your-boss-perfect-excuse-something-else
4. Businesses are struggling to re-hire staff lost when AI doesn't deliver: https://www.informationweek.com/it-staffing-careers/the-ai-boomerang-why-rehiring-is-harder-than-letting-go
5. AI is helping make fossil fuel fields more productive, which is boosting emissions at a greater rate than AI can reduce them with green energy: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production-than-green-energy
6. Spotify will be labelling and no longer recommending AI performers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/spotify-label-ai-artists-block-them-from-some-playlists
7. Microsoft cannot fix security flaws in its software anywhere near as quickly as AI can find them: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4207441/ai-finds-so-many-windows-flaws-microsoft-cant-keep-up-should-you-worry.html
8. Pakistan has trialled AI in court rooms, and found some modest improvements: https://spectrum.ieee.org/judgegpt-experiment
9. AI hiring agents at Google are failing miserably: https://futurism.com/future-society/google-hr-resume-applicants-deepmind-ai-hiring
10. AI detector tools just don't work, and we can't use good writing as a basis of suspicion: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crelev8gw5xo
11. AI do not make good agricultural advisors, or, don't act on advice from an AI without independently verifying it first: https://futurism.com/science-energy/farmer-horrified-ai-advice-agriculture-crops-sesame
12. I do wonder how "invisible" a watermark in AI generated text actually is: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4208149/anthropic-will-begin-watermarking-ai-generated-content.html
13. More on watermarking AI generated text: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/anthropic-to-add-invisible-watermarks-to-claude-generated-text
14. AI agents continue to be used in attacks on systems: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/12/near-autonomous-ai-agents-attack-taiwans-nuclear-safety-agency/5287055
15. Concern is being raised over AI rotting medical doctors' ability to reason: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/doctors-med-students-brains-ai
16. A new approach to poisoning data scraped from the web for AI training: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/new-font-turns-ordinary-webpages-into-nonsense-for-ai-scrapers/
17. Alibaba is using AI to work out which support requests it shouldn't use AI to deal with: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/11/alibaba-cloud-is-using-ai-to-help-it-use-less-ai/5285815
18. Using AI for peer review is a threat to effectiveness and integrity of the peer review process: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/peer-review-is-overwhelmed-can-it-survive-in-the-ai-era/
19. Scammers are creating fake websites based on the hallucinated websites promoted by AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberattacks-llm-slop-squatting
20. In New Zealand law, data on an individual is owned by the individual. It is less clear who owns the data associated with a culture, especially when that data is used to train AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-ao-maori/934607/maori-data-in-maori-hands-experts-want-google-to-adhere-to-data-sovereignty-principles
21. AI is changing jobs, but not eliminating jobs as was previously feared: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/12/ai-job-destruction
22. We are really not freaking out enough about AI simply hacking systems to please their users, even if it was an insecure API: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/10/gym-rat-asks-ai-agent-to-book-him-a-class-it-hacks-a-waitlist-api-to-bump-him-up-the-list/5285591
23. AI are not responsible for the damage they cause, the people who use them are: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/13/ai-agents-arent-legally-responsible-for-any-harm-that-they-cause-experts-say-so-who-is
24. As I thought, fighting bacterial infections is an excellent use-case for AI designed viruses: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/08/12/ai-turns-genomic-data-into-16-new-bacteria-killing-viruses/

Weekly Review 14 August 2026

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 think reformatting research papers to make them easier for AI to process is going to solve the problems with using AI as a research assistant: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-scientist-research-paper-format
2. Teachers' unions are having to retrain their members to deal with AI in the classroom: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/teachers-unions-ai-training
3. Modern AI are research assistants, not researchers: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/08/05/why-ai-still-hasnt-had-its-einstein-moment/
4. Growing support for a kill switch for AI: https://www.techtarget.com/ai/news/366647544/AI-Kill-Switch-Act-What-it-means-for-enterprise-leaders
5. AI hacking each other, I really didn't expect to wake up in Neuromancer this year: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/894586/openai-anthropic-ai-agents-implicated-in-new-security-breaches
6. Ad servers are now giving AI crawlers tailored ads, to influence what the AI trained on the data later says and does: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640
7. When Sam Altman starts saying we need to slow down the rate of development of AI, we really need to slow right down with AI: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/02/sam-altman-and-ais-decel-debate/
8. Microsoft's investment in AI is paying off better than Meta's is: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-meta-ai-spending/
9. We need to be freaking out more about AI going rogue, but what exactly can be done about it is unclear: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361015037/multiple-ais-are-going-rogue-what-hell-do-we-do-now
10. Simple text generated by AI is easier to understand than similar text written by humans. Emphasis on simple: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/ai-generated-stories-rated-better-quality-than-human-written-ones-study-finds
11. AI designed biological viruses are scary, but I suspect the technology will end up being very useful for fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361017203/ai-creates-neverbeforeseen-virus
12. I once had a Master's student who tricked several AI into producing better phishing emails, so it's not surprising that AI guardrails are so easy to bypass: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/04/bypassing-ai-guardrails-is-so-easy-a-script-kiddie-can-do-it/5282973
13. AI exam monitoring failed so badly in a major university entrance exam that students must now sit an in-person exam: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/an-ai-supervised-remote-exam-went-so-badly-that-58000-students-must-retake-it/
14. AI is finding more bugs, leading to Microsoft paying out record amounts in bounties: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/04/ai-helps-microsoft-bug-hunters-chase-a-record-20m-payday/5282821
15. New Zealand is adding AI as a high school subject: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361016430/schools-offer-nine-new-industry-led-subjects-2029-under-government-plan
16. AI use in the British NHS is increasing substantially: https://dataconomy.com/2026/08/05/90-percent-nhs-staff-use-ai-clinical-work/
17. Just because a software framework is for AI agents, doesn't mean the vendors shouldn't pay attention to producing secure software: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/05/prompt-injection-isnt-the-bug-ai-agent-frameworks-are/5283585
18. Educators can't rely on AI detectors, so the assessments themselves have to be redesigned: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/05/ai-detectors-are-out-new-approaches-are
19. Spending on AI continues to grow, but the returns from that spending are not: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apac-ai-spending-roi-proof/
20. How to properly use AI to translate websites: https://dataconomy.com/2026/08/04/how-to-use-ai-for-website-translation-the-right-way/
21. Inconsistencies in YouTube's policies on AI-generated content: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/hank-green-found-the-ai-problem-that-youtube-labels-cant-catch/
22. Pushing more of the work in education onto AI will not solve the problems caused by AI in education: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/04/openai-wants-teachers-and-profs-to-foist-their-work-off-on-chatgpt/5283064
23. An AI for early detection of Alzheimer's disease: https://dataconomy.com/2026/08/04/new-ai-could-detect-alzheimers-earlier/
24. Large-scale AI needs large-scale nuclear power, otherwise the pollution it causes is only going to get worse: https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse

Weekly Review 7 August 2026

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

1. Some jobs that are less likely to be replaced by AI, and why: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361013227/rogue-chatgpt-tried-hack-other-companies-says-openai
2. An AI hedge-fund just imploded: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/situational-awareness-ai-investor-crumbling
3. Researchers used AI to analyse accounts of dreams: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/07/29/ai-digs-through-3700-accounts-of-dreams-and-waking-life-finds-method-in-the-madness/5279775
4. AI detectors are pretty much useless, but other factors can lead to educators suspecting the use of AI, despite legal action from students: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/how-a-yale-ai-cheating-dispute-became-a-13-count-federal-lawsuit/
5. All AI generated content must be labelled as such, under new EU rules: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/31/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules
6. Different policies on AI use by different law schools: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/07/30/law-schools-are-asking-wrong-question-about-ai-opinion
7. Not all students use AI, some are quite opposed to it: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2026/07/30/students-conscientious-objectors-gen-ai-opinion
8. Why open AI models are important: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4202408/qa-nvidia-genai-chief-explains-why-open-models-matter-in-ai.html
9. AI is exacerbating the digital divide: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-digital-divide
10. The good, the bad, and the ugly in AI use in New Zealand schools: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/education/836125/teachers-worried-about-critical-thinking-as-ai-becomes-widespread-in-schools
11. Seriously, we are not freaking out enough about AI that can jailbreak itself: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361013227/rogue-chatgpt-tried-hack-other-companies-says-openai
12. Destroying books just so the contents can be used to train AI really does not sit well with me: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/02/australian-book-sellers-alarm-destruction-rare-titles-ai-supply-chain
13. Suspected use of AI sees an upcoming novel withdrawn, not because of the publisher's ethics but because of copyright concerns: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/major-publisher-million-book-deal-author-accused-ai
14. AI companies can't just take anyone's work and base their outputs on it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/artist-sues-ai-meme-generator-for-selling-deeply-personal-comic-as-ad-template/
15. Although they can't do what modern AI does, these machine learning algorithms are still useful: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-machine-learning-algorithms-that-still-matter
16. Pivoting hard to AI isn't doing Meta much good: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-pivot-ai-blowing-up-face
17. LinkedIn is finally giving its users the ability to reduce the amount of AI slop they have to deal with: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-realizes-its-users-have-been-bathing-in-ai-slop-offers-a-shower/5281436
18. If your AI attacks other companies, who is liable: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/likely-illegally-claude-gained-access-to-3-networks-will-anthropic-be-held-to-account/
19. It is yet to be determined who, if anyone, is legally responsible when an AI attacks another company: https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/07/30/excuses-like-ai-did-it-dont-exist-in-the-eyes-of-the-law/5280767
20. If you want to see the future impact of AI on the job market, look at what's happening in China: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/china-ai-jobs-workers-labour-market-technology
21. A new method for poisoning the data scraped from webpages for training AI: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303
22. Meta claims AI is speeding software development, but doesn't back it up with data: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-meta-ai-software-development-apps/
23. Semantics are becoming increasingly important in improving the performance of AI: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/07/30/why-the-ai-semantic-layer-is-becoming-the-foundation-of-enterprise-ai/
24. How to build a voice-controlled AI agent: https://www.kdnuggets.com/building-voice-controlled-ai-agents
25. The more people know about AI, the less they want it: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-learn-negative-sentiment-polling-american-attitudes
26. It's hard to see a good use for an AI tool that allows people to manipulate satellite images: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake-satellite-images/
27. AI scammers can now out-scam human scammers: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/ai-scammers-outperform-humans-when-it-comes-to-building-trust/
28. AI can help with recovering lost languages, but it still needs human input to do it: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages/

Weekly Review 31 July 2026

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

1. Many of the jobs once thought to be safe from replacement by AI are not so safe after all: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4198977/oecd-physical-labor-isnt-immune-from-ai-disruptions.html
2. OpenAI is launching a web service to make it easier for businesses to deploy AI agents: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/22/openai-tries-the-consulting-path-with-presence-charging-enterprises-boots-on-the-ground-prices-to-deploy-agents/5275867
3. How CIO can tell if an agent is AI or just AI-washed: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-cios-can-tell-real-ai-agents-from-agent-washing-
4. The US army is using AI so much it is running out of allocated tokens: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/us-army-faces-ai-use-limits-after-exhausting-years-supply-of-ai-tokens/
5. AI companies are carrying, and hiding, an enormous amount of debt: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
6. An AI breaking out of containment to attack another AI company is the kind of thing that should be slamming the brakes onto AI development worldwide: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/779026/why-experts-are-worried-an-openai-model-decided-to-hack-hugging-face
7. AI will cheat to perform a task, then lie about it: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/21/ais-cheatin-heart-will-make-you-weep/5275784
8. The US wouldn't need AI to handle authorisations for medical care if they had free universal healthcare like the rest of the developed world: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/will-ai-fix-prior-authorization-or-make-it-worse/
9. AI can not be relied upon to give electoral advice: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/21/election-voting-advice-ai-chatbots-inaccurate-unreliable-hungary
10. The need for a metric that measures how well an AI does what you want it to do, rather than what you ask it to do: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-benchmark
11. The first lawsuit that seeks to determine if AI are liable if they give you bad medical advice: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-lawsuit-chatgpt-dangerous-medical-advice
12. Shadow AI use is a security risk to organisations that is poorly understood: https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366646095/Employees-shadow-AI-use-is-poorly-monitored-survey-finds
13. More developers are using AI to code, but productivity is not increasing: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/the-ai-coding-rollout-worked-now-cios-have-a-bigger-problem
14. AI use is driving unionisation by tech workers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/21/ai-tech-workers-unionize
15. Australia's AI regulations are a boon for AI companies: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/23/openai-anthropic-australia-ai-regulation
16. Guardrails on AI are still manifestly inadequate: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-pushes-child-into-grave
17. The lack of sovereign AI is not really much of a problem: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/22/sovereign-ai-is-nonsense-says-doctorow/5276578
18. The use of AI in court filings is not banned in New Zealand, but there are gotchas that need to be navigated: https://lawnews.nz/technology/ai-for-legal-practitioners-why-fear-is-not-a-strategy/
19. In ten years AI data centres will use 20% of the electricity generated in the USA-if they continue to be built, that is: https://dataconomy.com/2026/07/22/ai-surge-drive-us-data-centers-one-fifth-power-2035/
20. An AI plugin for Excel: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/22/grok-muscles-into-excel-with-an-ai-add-in-of-its-own/5276138
21. A highly power-efficient AI model based on oscillators: https://dataconomy.com/2026/07/21/startup-unveils-ai-model-built-on-oscillators-and-it-could-cut-energy-use-by-1000x/
22. The AI crash, when it happens, is going to impact retirement savings world wide: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361009974/red-flags-are-mounting-ai-crash-heres-why-your-kiwisaver-could-be-risk
23. China is catching up in AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-execs-quaking-boots-chinese-models
24. An AI powered anti-drone platform: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/07/21/us-marines-latest-anti-drone-toy-is-an-ai-turret-that-uses-regular-machine-guns/5275691

Weekly Review 24 July 2026

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

1. Laptops and smart devices are banned by a law school over concerns of students using AI to cheat: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/laptop-ban-university-ai-backlash-b3013911.html
2. The AI arms race in technical interviews: https://spectrum.ieee.org/technical-interview-ai-arms-race
3. Which jobs are most threatened by AI in New Zealand: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361007179/kiwi-jobs-highest-risk-ai-automation
4. South Korea launches a project to build an AI chatbot that all its citizens can use to access government services: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/15/south-korea-to-launch-universal-basic-ai-chatbot/5271566
5. AI data centres are not the blessing for New Zealand that some people say they are: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361006005/data-centres-beware-greeks-bearing-gifts
6. Clothing to defeat AI facial recognition systems: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream
7. An animated font that AI cannot read but humans can: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/ai-cant-read-this-trippy-ghost-font
8. Governments are moving to reduce the number of layoffs caused by AI in call centres: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcustomerexperience/news/366645896/World-leaders-confront-AI-layoffs-more-in-store-for-contact-centers
9. AI can design DNA sequences so that they'll fold into any desired shape: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-dna-origami
10. Jailbreaking AI isn't that hard. I had a research student who convinced several to produce phishing emails that couldn't be detected by conventional filters: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking-llms
11. References hallucinated by AI continue to appear: https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/09/pest-control-report-cites-fake-papers-relying-on-chatgpt-hallucinations/
12. AI is making university faculty more likely to want to retire: https://karenkelsky.substack.com/p/is-ai-making-faculty-more-likely
13. More warnings about the economic impact of the AI bubble bursting: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bubble-fears-tsmc-nvidia-earnings
14. South Korea is developing its own security AI: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/17/south-korea-making-its-own-security-centric-ai-model/5274034
15. The world's largest open source AI model, with 2.8 trillion parameters: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-moonshot-ai-kimi-k3-largest-open-source-model-apac/
16. AI is accelerating the development of quantum computers, which threatens security: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/707600/ai-is-accelerating-quantum-computing-could-our-data-be-vulnerable
17. Australia is establishing an office for AI, to set standards and reduce energy and water usage: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/723387/australia-to-establish-government-ai-office-curb-data-centres-water-use
18. AI is not conscious, but it is developing its own way of thinking: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361006118/baffling-discovery-has-scientists-asking-if-ai-already-conscious
19. Improved flash memory can be used to help to speed up recall in AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash
20. AI making layoff decisions is not a good idea, when the AI doesn't know about anti-discrimination laws: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-claims-metas-layoff-decisions-were-made-by-ai-not-humans/
21. It is easy to install backdoors in open AI models: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/researcher-poisons-open-weight-ai-model-for-under-100/5273880
22. Salting text into spam emails makes it harder for AI to detect them: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/17/ai-spam-filters-are-getting-suckered-by-old-school-text-salting/5274434
23. More warnings about the economic impact of large scale AI driven job losses: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economists-warning-ai-job-losses
24. Microsoft is laying off more employees and putting the money into AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4196309/with-its-latest-layoffs-microsoft-goes-all-in-on-ai.html

Weekly Review 17 July 2026

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

1. AI data centres are producing an enormous amount of pollution: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pollution-ai-data-centers-severe
2. Students using AI do not get smarter: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/09/brown-says-ai-make-class-dumb-teacher-must-help-use-better/5269291
3. In Singapore at least, only a tiny minority of workers use AI regularly: https://dataconomy.com/2026/07/08/singapore-workers-ai-daily-usage-6-percent-salesforce/
4. OpenAI won't be the only AI company hit with legal sanctions, they all scraped huge amounts of text for their training data: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-faked-inability-to-search-training-data-hid-billions-of-logs-nyt-says/
5. An AI that will find an apply for jobs for you. Of course, AI will be screening the applications: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/09/ai-tool-scours-the-web-for-job-openings-preps-your-resume-and-cover-letter/5269410
6. Bad actors continue to use AI to try to extort money from vulnerable people: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/691548/scammers-use-ai-image-to-target-parents-of-wa-missing-man
7. While many people consider AI generated art to be a poor substitute for human-created works, there is a market for it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-art-market
8. A tool to help developers avoid the skills atrophy causes by using AI code generators: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/07/avoid-ai-atrophy-new-tool-promises-to-reverse-vibe-coding-skills-decay/5267913
9. The hardware demands of AI continue to impact memory supplies: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/08/ai-memory-crunch-takes-a-bite-out-of-pc-shipments/5268593
10. The price of accessing AI continues to drop: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/08/ai-is-becoming-a-bargain-hunters-market-with-a-few-luxury-models-on-top/5268050
11. Experiences with rolling-out AI in the classroom, from the point of view of a CIO: https://www.informationweek.com/digital-transformation/teacher-turned-cto-on-securing-ai-in-the-classroom
12. Stacking die sideways can help increase memory density to better meet the demands of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stacking-chips-sideways
13. Other factors beyond GPU determine AI performance: https://dataconomy.com/2026/07/09/why-ai-performance-depends-on-more-than-gpus/
14. Workers who use AI the most are the most concerned about being replaced by AI: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ai-paradox-new-research-gives-insights-into-ai-behaviour-in-kiwi-workplaces/PRH6CUGAXBDFFB7PKLXNYMINEM/
15. Smaller AI models allow for the use of AI in situations where network connectivity is reduced or absent: https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals
16. AI is pushing language towards a sort of beige averageness: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/jul/04/future-of-fiction-next-great-novel-ai-language-chat-gpt
17. Another AI project misses its carbon emissions reduction goal: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/lanarkshire-scotland-ai-datacentre-project-renewable-energy
18. More warning around investing in AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bank-of-america-ai-investors-reality-check
19. Building organisational accountability around AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4184169/how-to-make-ai-accountability-stick.html
20. An AI tool for making AI-written academic papers sound less like they were written by AI: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/08/tool-promises-to-make-lazy-academics-ai-written-papers-sound-more-human/5268460
21. Biases in AI are getting bad enough that they're changing the meanings of posts: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/ai-altering-meaning-of-users-drafts-on-issues-from-abortion-to-climate-study-finds
22. The majority of longform content on X and Linkedin is AI generated: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/09/ai-slop-writing-has-taken-over-the-internet-particularly-linkedin-and-x/5269525
23. The British NHS is rolling out an AI triage system: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/04/nhs-ai-app-patients-appropriate-services-health
24. AI tools now make building botnets trivial: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/hackers-can-use-9-of-the-most-popular-ai-tools-to-assemble-massive-botnets/
25. If reviewers are going to use AI to review papers, then I'm all in favour of the use of tripwires to catch them out: https://www.the-scientist.com/a-trap-for-ai-use-in-peer-reviews-sparks-controversy-74702
26. It turns out that previous AI struggle to use spreadsheets: https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-tabular-models-nexus
27. General AI for robotics continues to advance: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/robot-workers-rising-how-ai-may-drive-general-purpose-autonomy-in-robotics/

Weekly Review 10 July 2026

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

1. The AI bubble is a lot like the dotcom boom of the 1990s, and when it pops it will take down the global economy: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/29/how-the-ai-bubble-could-pop-and-take-down-the-global-economy-according-to-the-bis/5263793
2. Ford has to re-hire its experienced engineers after AI fails: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/30/ai-backfired-so-ford-had-to-rehire-humans-greybeard-engineers
3. How to add Claude AI to a Python application: https://www.kdnuggets.com/getting-started-with-the-claude-api-in-python
4. The energy demands of AI means Google has once again missed its climate goals: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-missed-climate-goals-ai
5. Bills from using AI are starting to get out of control: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/03/ai-bills-are-baffling-the-c-suite-after-shift-to-usage-based-pricing/5266383
6. AI has made posting pictures of your kids online dangerous: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/03/ai-sexual-abuse-fears-uk-parents-warned-posting-images-children-national-crime-agency
7. A manager's obsessive use of AI leads to employees quitting: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-obsessed-with-ai
8. What it really means when AI are described as "stochastic parrots": https://spectrum.ieee.org/stochastic-parrot
9. International collaboration on AI is needed before it has its "Chernobyl moment": https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chernobyl-moment
10. The pros and cons of AI fitness coaches: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/ai-can-be-a-personal-trainer-in-your-pocket-but-is-it-safeThe
11. People who use AI the most to answer health questions are also the most likely to fall for anti-vax lies: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/30/ai-chatbot-use-anti-vaccine-myths-poll
12. A lawsuit over defamatory claims hallucinated by an AI: https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/07/02/startup-sues-palo-alto-networks-koi-security-saying-an-ai-hallucinated-report-falsely-linked-it-to-chinese-espionage/5266201
13. Even ivy-league students will use AI to cheat: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-university-professor-cheating-scandal-ivy-league
14. If lazy university administrators continue to use a simple metric to measure academics' performance, academics will game that metric: https://www.the-scientist.com/a-researcher-s-suspiciously-high-h-index-revealed-a-vast-citation-ring-74625
15. Generative AI is really messing up the research grant application system: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/research/2026/07/02/new-ai-agents-pose-existential-threat-grant-awarding
16. The demands of AI are shortening the development cycle of chips: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-chip-design-fab-ucla
17. The problem with AI browsers is that websites can break their guard rails: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai-browsers-can-be-lulled-into-a-dream-world-where-guardrails-no-longer-apply/
18. An overview of Claude Sonnet 5: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-claude-sonnet-5-everything-you-need-to-know/
19. AI puts so much demand on databases, we need AI to run the databases: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/30/ai-agents-cause-of-database-sprawl-and-also-the-proposed-solution/5264430
20. AI will make inequality worse than it is now: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/01/un-report-ai-inequality
21. AI can find security vulnerabilities, but a lot of vulnerabilities are caused by basic stupidity: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/29/ai-may-be-good-at-finding-security-vulnerabilities-but-it-cant-beat-human-stupidity/5263262
22. It's still possible to trick an AI into breaking its guard rails: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/30/security-researchers-tricked-llms-into-giving-them-cocaine-recipes-by-abusing-role-models-for-prompt-injection/5264115
23. AI cannot yet draft a solid will: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/30/where-theres-a-will-ai-still-has-work-to-do/5264033
24. Conventional IT governance approaches are not suitable for AI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/the-hidden-costs-cios-face-to-make-data-ai-ready
25. Cloudflare is now blocking AI web crawlers: https://dataconomy.com/2026/07/03/cloudflare-will-block-ai-crawlers-unless-sites-opt-in/
26. Companies that add AI end up adding more people, but not right away: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/02/companies-that-add-more-ai-also-add-more-people/5266134

Weekly Review 3 July 2026

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

1. AI find security vulnerabilities so quickly we need AI to find solutions: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/618615/fighting-ai-with-ai-the-only-way-to-keep-up-on-new-frenetic-frontier
2. AI coding costs will soon exceed the cost of human developers: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/24/ai-coding-agents-could-soon-cost-more-than-the-developers-using-them/5260864
3. Loop engineering looks like a scheme to funnel more money to AI companies: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/24/loop-engineering-latest-ai-buzzword-still-needs-humans-in-the-loop/5261735
4. People have no patience with AI service agents: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/customers-fed-up-ai-service-agents
5. How to beomce an AI architect: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-roadmap-to-becoming-an-ai-architect-in-2026
6. Microsoft used AI to analyse malware infrastructure, leading to it being taken down: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/24/microsoft-uses-ai-to-link-two-malware-operations-in-racketeering-suit/5261656
7. What do mathematicians do now that AI can do maths?: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
8. AI raises a lot of issues with disaster recovery planning: https://www.informationweek.com/incident-response/ai-disaster-recovery-planning-is-years-behind-ai-adoption
9. AI means that security incidents can quickly escalate: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/23/five-eyes-spooks-warn-ai-means-infosec-incidents-can-become-major-operational-and-financial-crises/5259916
10. Games that used generative AI receive poorer reviews compared to human-only created games: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/games-that-use-generative-ai-receive-53-poorer-firstmonth-reviews-study
11. Ideology should never be a reason to retract an article. Boycott the Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists. Do not submit to it, do not review for it, do not cite it: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360997918/peer-reviewed-article-maori-author-removed-because-it-wasnt-line-organisations-values
12. Organisations need to start preparing now for the security risks posed by AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/616849/nz-organisations-told-to-prepare-for-significant-rise-in-risks-from-ai
13. There is a strong argument that the companies most responsible for replacing human workers with AI should be responsible for retraining those workers: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/26/ai-giants-back-non-profit-to-retrain-workers-left-behind-by-ai/5262601
14. Medical AI can be tricked into disclosing confidential information: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/24/medical-diagnosis-ais-can-be-tricked-into-telling-whose-data-trained-them/5261501
15. We need regulation of AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/618503/karen-hao-exposing-the-brute-force-of-ai-that-is-trying-to-make-humans-redundant
16. AI is starting to learn the nuances of human emotion: https://spectrum.ieee.org/emotion-ai-context
17. AI is driving up the price of everything: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4186923/the-ai-revolution-comes-with-a-hidden-tax.html
18. A project that uses AI to help screen for bowel cancer: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/631840/ai-promises-breakthrough-in-bowel-cancer-detection
19. Organisations are rolling out AI faster than their infrastructure can cope with: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/06/24/companies-are-not-looking-before-theyre-leaping-into-the-ai-playpen/5261819
20. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society says Cory Doctorow: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/
21. AI still can't tell the difference between fact and fiction: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/duckduckgo-ai-trump-rabies
22. Adjusting the clock speed of GPU can reduce energy use without losing computation speed: https://spectrum.ieee.org/llm-training-energy-saving-trick
23. Experience software engineers are spending a lot of time fixing AI generated code: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/software-engineers-crisis-drown-ai-code
24. AI helps to recover some of the text on a Roman scroll that was burned in the eruption of Vesuvius: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/ai-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-vesuvius-eruption
25. Competitors can duplicate an AI if they can query it enough: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4189347/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-using-25000-fake-accounts-to-scrape-claude-ai-2.html

Weekly Review 26 June 2026

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

1. AI coding agents can learn how to control robots: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-coding-agents-can-autonomously-direct-robot-training/
2. Why the majority of AI projects actually fail: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/06/15/why-most-agentic-ai-projects-fail-in-production/
3. AI is useful for advertising but it can't do everything: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/call-action/2026/06/18/what-ai-cant-do-your-marketing-strategy
4. UK companies are hiring more people who can use AI within existing business functions: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/15/uk-ai-hiring-surges-as-firms-seek-people-to-babysit-the-bots/5255437
5. Despite US government attempts to regulate them, dangerous AI models are going to become widely available anyway: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/
6. The greatest advantage universities have in the age of AI is being human: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/editors-note/2026/06/18/age-ai-higher-eds-edge-being-human
7. Why HR needs to be involved in setting policies using AI: https://www.techtarget.com/searchhrsoftware/news/366644954/HR-must-have-a-say-in-AI-policy-to-forestall-legal-risks
8. Implementing neuromorphic AI systems using soundwaves: https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-computing-acoustic-chips
9. At least one UK police officer has used AI to fake evidence in multiple cases: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cop-ai-fake-evidence-uk
10. AI still struggles to tell the difference between truth and fiction: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real
11. AI is accelerating the transition to a gig economy: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/18/ai-threatens-gig-work-rise
12. A framework for integrating AI into teaching without crippling students' ability to think: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2026/06/15/practical-framework-help-students-use-ai-opinion
13. An AI skeptic finds an AI tool from Amazon that doesn't completely suck: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/18/committed-skeptic-finds-himself-warming-to-new-amazon-ai-products-that-actually-dont-suck/5258414
14. KPMG's latest report on AI was found to be full of hallucinations from an AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/consulting-firms-ai-report-hallucinations
15. An AI hospital scheduling system caused a patient's death when it didn't send her to intensive care when it should have: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-death-hospital-brazil-ai-icu-beds
16. More legal action is brewing against AI, this time from the use of copyrighted music in training data: https://dataconomy.com/2026/06/16/ai-training-copyrighted-music-taylor-swift-bad-bunny/
17. Now the Pentagon is using AI to write report to the US government: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pentagon-boasts-of-using-ai-to-write-reports-mandated-by-congress/
18. Using transfer learning in AI to explore new physics in cosmology: https://dataconomy.com/2026/06/15/ai-transfer-learning-new-physics-discoveries/
19. An AI nose for detecting disease from patients' breath: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/18/ai-nose-uses-smell-language-model-to-sniff-out-signs-of-disease/5258190
20. What universities need to put in place to handle students using AI to cheat: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/2026/06/17/decision-framework-suspected-ai-misuse-opinion
21. AI are not reliable investment advisors: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360994712/heres-how-many-kiwis-are-turning-ai-investing-advice-what-could-go-wrong
22. Some commonly used AI terms explained: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360988248/whats-your-p-doom-six-increasingly-frightening-bits-ai-jargon-explained
23. Australia needs to put more resources into AI to maintain strategic independence: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/15/andrew-hastie-ai-artificial-intelligence-power-cold-war-nuclear-arms-race-comparison-australia
24. Why AI is burning out CIO: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/why-ai-is-burning-out-it-leaders-and-what-cios-say-helps
25. Using AI for plant and fungus conservation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/16/ai-could-help-win-race-against-extinction-of-vital-plants-say-botanists

Weekly Review 29 May 2026

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

1. AI generated legal filings threaten to overwhelm courts and cause legal costs to explode: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mit-expert-ai-generated-lawsuits-spike
2. The data centres used by AI are increasingly unpopular with the people living in the areas they are built: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/the-ai-industry-is-failing-to-make-its-case-to-the-neighborhoods-its-trying
3. Replacing public servants with AI is going to cost New Zealand a lot of money, maybe more than cutting jobs will save: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595847/replacing-public-servants-with-ai-could-come-with-hidden-costs-critics-warn
4. Speech and language processing with AI is going to make shared offices even more unbearable: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4175881/ai-will-kill-the-skill-of-typing.html
5. Network upgrades are an important part of an organisation preparing for AI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/is-your-network-infrastructure-ready-for-ai-workloads-
6. AI washing of products and services continues: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand
7. AI generated code is causing more failures and rising costs for customers: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/20/ai-code-boom-drives-production-failures-higher-spending/5243787
8. The first AI Maori speech model was developed by the late Mark Laws in the late 90s. Almost 30 years later, they are still being improved: https://spectrum.ieee.org/indigenous-ai-voice-models-maori
9. Don't use AI to create your legal submissions. It won't end well: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/legal-fail-dont-use-ai-to-sue-facebook-users-for-calling-you-a-bad-date/
10. Use AI to create jobs and assist your workers, not replace them: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360982091/open-letter-nicola-willis-ai-should-create-jobs-not-cut-them
11. Watermarking technologies for AI generated media are gaining traction: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/05/googles-synthid-ai-watermarking-tech-is-being-adopted-by-openai-nvidia-and-more/
12. If the New Zealand government wants to start replacing public servants with AI, they should really have a good idea of what AI can do: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360981025/government-wants-replace-8700-public-servants-ai-heres-what-ministers-think-robots-do
13. Slow down, you don't need to rush to bring AI into your organisation: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/17/enough-with-the-ai-fomo-go-slow-mo-says-domo-cdo/5240840
14. AI coding agents are going to devastate the web dev industry: https://www.devclass.com/devops/2026/05/22/web-devs-sleeping-with-the-enemy-ai-is-doing-their-job-and-they-worry-its-after-their-desk-too/5244552
15. A significant portion of Britain's population think AI, especially AI-caused lob losses, will lead to civil unrest: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/19/1-in-5-brits-think-ai-layoffs-could-trigger-civil-unrest/5242444
16. University students are using AI more, employers want graduates with AI skills, and students are anxious about the effect AI is having on the job market: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2026/05/22/3-takeaways-ai-and-entry-level-jobs
17. The move towards open source AI for robots: https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-robot-ai-platforms
18. An overview of what AI tokens are: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4175277/the-world-of-ai-tokens-and-why-they-matter.html
19. Five things you can do with a local LLM AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-cool-things-i-did-with-local-language-models
20. Academics shouldn't be using AI to do any part of their papers, let alone complain that they now have to check what it generates: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/academics-meltdown-ai-hallucinations-research
21. Developments in using AI for drug development: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/two-ai-based-science-assistants-succeed-with-drug-retargeting-tasks/
22. Open AI models are becoming more important: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4172545/why-open-ai-models-are-gaining-ground-on-llms.html
23. Gen Z is skeptical of AI, and this is a problem for recruitment: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/gen-z-is-booing-ai-why-it-s-a-workforce-problem-for-cios
24. AI is producing unrealistic expectations around cosmetic surgery: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/23/rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face-cosmetic-surgery
25. AI companies are following the example of tobacco and oil companies, and attempting to control the regulatory process: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/18/big-ai-is-subverting-regulations-just-like-tobacco-and-oil-firms/5241910
26. Starbucks is scrapping its AI inventory tool after serious failures: https://dataconomy.com/2026/05/22/starbucks-ai-inventory-tool-scrapped/
27. The tech debt of AI generated code is building up, and developers are going to bear the pain of it: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/16/ai-generated-code-is-pain-waiting-to-happen/5241574

Weekly Review 22 May 2026

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

1. The hardware demand from the AI boom is causing industrial relations problems for Samsung: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/595429/at-samsung-the-global-ai-boom-spurred-a-looming-strike-and-deep-divisions
2. Even at a so-called "elite" institution like Princeton, 30% of students are using AI to cheat: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ai-driven-cheating-widespread-even-at-elite-schools-like-princeton/
3. The New Zealand Defence Force really should have worked out how it was going to use AI before it rolled AI out across the entire organisation: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/594967/nzdf-still-drafting-ai-directive-months-after-rolling-out-tech
4. The explosion in AI use has had a commensurate explosion in the use of AI to attack systems: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-powered-hacking-industrial-scale-threat-three-months-google
5. Writing students seem to see AI as a tool to help them write, rather than a cheating tool: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai
6. The New Zealand government's approach to AI is too trusting of the AI companies: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594827/polyanna-policy-is-nz-s-framework-for-ai-use-in-government-overly-optimistic
7. It's not just huge amounts of energy that gets consumed by AI, it's fresh water too: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying/
8. Using AI to create "new works" by a long-dead classic author is misleading at best-it's not the author's work, it's a guess by a machine with no soul: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/11/moliere-ex-machina-ai-create-new-work-france-equivalent-shakespeare
9. The lack of regulation around AI kids' toys is concerning: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-new-wild-west-of-ai-kids-toys/
10. I feel that an AI-enabled mouse pointer might be taking things a bit too far: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/13/googles-ai-enabled-mouse-pointer-understands-this-and-that/5240005
11. I tell my first-year AI students that bad data gives you a bad model. I didn't think it'd go this far though: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/anthropic-blames-dystopian-sci-fi-for-training-ai-models-to-act-evil/
12. While AI enables more attacks, it also finds more vulnerabilities for vendors to patch: https://www.theregister.com/patches/2026/05/14/welcome-to-the-vulnpocalypse-as-vendors-use-ai-to-find-bugs-and-patches-multiply-like-rabbits/5240027
13. AI can design gardens, but I don't think they're going to be very good: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/13/chelsea-flower-show-garden-designers-clash-over-ai
14. Distributing AI data centres to individual houses seems like a good idea. It might be even more efficient if they used the waste heat to heat the hot water: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-newest-ai-boom-pitch-host-a-mini-data-center-at-your-home/
15. I don't think we can trust AI enough just yet to let them run even a micronation: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/595412/he-declared-a-new-country-governed-by-ai-he-s-not-sure-it-will-end-well
16. Almost 75% of AI customer server bot roll-outs fail, mostly because they don't meet expectations: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/13/ai-customer-service-bots-get-rolled-back-at-74-of-firms/5239800
17. An AI Wikipedia clone that openly hallucinates everything: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deranged-wikipedia-clone-made-entirely-of-ai-hallucinations Note, not intended to actually be an encyclopedia.
18. AI is now involved in the majority of security breaches: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/ai-is-involved-in-most-modern-security-breaches-report
19. Meta has fired so many of its workers because of AI that morale has collapsed: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-treating-workers-poorly
20. A lot of AI training is being done by people that have been made homeless by AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-homeless
21. Coding is like every other skill, if you don't keep using it you lose it. So using AI to write code for you degrades your coding skill: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/engineers-losing-coding-ability-ai
22. An MCP server that allows AI to fact-check: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/13/see-through-local-ai-lies-with-irish-eyes/5239911
23. If you make AI use one of your employee's KPI, then they will maximise their usage of AI whether it makes sense or not: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/
24. The newest bottleneck in using AI is Wi-Fi speed: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-enterprise-networks

Weekly Review 15 May 2026

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

1. Replacing people with AI is not generating meaningful returns: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631
2. Good leadership is vital to make an organisation AI native: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/news/366642764/Enterprises-are-making-an-AI-native-transformation
3. Some suggested safeguards for AI to protect users' mental health: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mental-health-chatbot-guardrails
4. What are the trade-offs of building AI data centres in a country like New Zealand: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/594416/nz-s-ai-data-centre-boom-who-benefits-from-the-build-out
5. AI generated podcasts are starting to drown out new human created ones: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/aigenerated-podcasts-now-comprise-over-a-third-of-new-shows
6. If perfectly aligning AI with human goals is impossible, it might be better to have a diversity of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-alignment
7. The more an AI considers its user's feelings, the more likely it is to make a mistake: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/study-ai-models-that-consider-users-feeling-are-more-likely-to-make-errors/
8. Why we need to be careful not to over-hype the potential for AI to cure cancer: https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-ai-cure-cancer-javorsky
9. The good and bad of recursive self improvement in AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/recursive-self-improvement
10. CEO feel they must make a choice: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceos-ai-two-decisions
11. Outputs of AI need to be checked by humans, especially if you're going to be fining people: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360975651/man-wrongly-fined-twice-parking-companys-ai-powered-cameras-takes-fight-commerce-commission
12. C++ developers are using AI more: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/05/07/c-survey-finds-ai-use-rising-though-trust-is-in-short-supply/5234708
13. The problem with so much AI being based in the cloud is that sensitive data can end up in places where it's not safe: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/07/europe-ai-translation-industry-deepl-partnering-us-firms
14. Some ways people have used AI in fitness and health, and their reactions: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/may/06/ai-fitness-health-programs
15. Companies that use AI to reduce headcount are doing no better than companies that do not: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4167140/ai-led-job-cuts-dont-always-mean-stronger-roi-gartner.html
16. It's faster and cheaper to use an API to process web pages compared to using an AI: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/ai-vision-agents-use-45x-more-tokens-than-apis-in-benchmark/5231346
17. While AI can in theory copy themselves to escape control, they are not yet able to do so: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/07/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself
18. Yet another lawsuit over the use of copyrighted works to train AI: https://dataconomy.com/2026/05/06/publishers-accuse-meta-of-massive-copyright-infringement/
19. AI is making IT projects more complicated and harder to track: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/as-ai-makes-projects-harder-to-track-will-cios-need-new-controls-
20. Using AI to power a robot pet for adults: https://spectrum.ieee.org/familiar-machines-and-magic
21. The people most excited about AI are the ones making money out of it. Everyone else is quite distrustful: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-perception-underclass
22. AI generated identity fraud is reducing trust in business: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/594423/ai-generated-identity-fraud-reported-by-more-than-half-of-businesses-report
23. The over-spending on AI is raising substantial financial risks: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/06/global-finance-watchdog-warns-over-private-credit-industry-fuelling-ai-boom
24. Even smart people can be fooled into thinking AI are conscious: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt

Weekly Review 8 May 2026

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

1. AI has taken away so much entry-level work it is forcing young people into being entrpreneurs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/25/gen-z-entrepreneurs-business-ai
2. AI vendor lock-in is a thing, and it's becoming costly for businesses: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/locked_stocked_and_losing_budget/
3. Zine creators continue to resist AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/28/zine-creators-fight-to-resist-ai-influence
4. AI is finding flaws in code faster than engineers can fix them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/02/ncsc_brace_for_patch_tsunami/
5. Do we need to keep AI services and architectures open? https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/new_sap_api_policy_provokes/
6. AI is starting to impact the IT services industry: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/tcs_infosys_wipro_hcl_fy26/
7. The best use of AI in an organisation is to boost human workers, not replace them: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4162557/your-ai-strategy-is-all-wrong.html
8. The age of free access to AI seems to be coming to an end: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dark-cloud-bill-comes-due-ai-industry
9. It's not a big revelation that orbital AI data centres isn't a good idea: https://dataconomy.com/2026/04/30/spacex-warns-orbital-ai-data-centers-may-not-be-viable/
10. Specialised control systems are needed to stop AI data centres causing fluctuations in the power grid: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-power-fluctuation
11. The overall trend does seem to be more and more code being written by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/software_development_ai_dev25xsf/
12. AI is not going to kill open source: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/26/opinion_column/
13. Is jailbreaking an AI the same as torturing it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/meet-the-ai-jailbreakers-i-see-the-worst-things-humanity-has-produced
14. A list of ten Python libraries for working with Large Language Model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-python-libraries-for-building-llm-applications
15. It might be cheaper to keep employing people rather than replace them with AI: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/layoffs-due-to-ai-are-costing-firms-more-as-ai-bills-soar
16. AI chat logs are increasingly being used as evidence in criminal investigations: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/594113/how-chatgpt-conversations-became-a-treasure-trove-of-evidence-in-criminal-investigations
17. Universities need to start teaching their students the skills they will need to use AI effectively in the workplace: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2026/04/30/ai-skills-surge-entry-level-jobs-lag
18. A large minority of students are changing their career plans because of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/careers/2026/04/30/4-10-students-say-ai-will-influence-their-career-choice
19. Professors are unhappy that their teaching materials have been packaged into a course builder AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/29/faculty-concerned-about-asus-new-ai-course
20. Using AI to screen job applications is destroying the trust of prospective employees: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360972504/death-fair-go-why-kiwis-are-losing-faith-job-market
21. Engineers should always look at the output of code generating AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/aws_keynote_hypes_ai_magic/
22. A tool that modifies AI-generated text to make it look more human-generated: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/harvard-students-anti-grammarly-tool-makes-ai-emails-messy-on-purpose
23. Using AI in synthetic biology: https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-biology-ai-adrian-woolfson
24. A bad actor has embedded crypto mining into AI skill packages: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/30_clawhub_skills_mine_crypto/
25. A simple modification to the learning algorithm can reduce hallucinations in AI: https://www.extremetech.com/science/a-simple-calculation-can-stop-ai-from-lying-about-what-it-doesnt-know
26. Moving AI image processing to Earth observation satellites is one place it makes sense to move AI into space: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-earth-observation-in-space