Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- AI can find bugs in code, but not fix them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_finding_bugs/
- I think someone who uses AI to sit a course for them is missing the point of education: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/26/agentic-ai-can-complete-whole-courses-now
- Putting AI in charge of strategy is a bad idea-they are too eager to go nuclear: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/ai_models_nuclear/
- Workers are being paid less while working more correcting the mistakes of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/workers-training-ai-to-do-their-jobs
- AI are solving maths benchmarks faster than they can be created: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-math-benchmarks
- How much of the training data do modern AI store? https: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/ais-can-generate-near-verbatim-copies-of-novels-from-training-data/
- China is using AI to try to discredit its critics: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/chinese_law_enforcement_chatgpt_abuse/
- This is why you don't put an unqualified drunk in charge of the world's most powerful military-he tries to put AI everywhere and throws a tantrum when he doesn't get what he wants: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/pentagon_threatens_anthropic/
- Amazon's cloud services were taken down twice by AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/an-ai-coding-bot-took-down-amazon-web-services/
- The British government continues to push for more AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/trtreasury-blair-thinktank-advise-on-ai-use-public-services
- Spending on AI data centres in 2026 will exceed the GDP of Ireland: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/trendforce_cloud_ai_spend/
- Flaws in data handling limit the effectiveness of business AI: https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/25/data-efficiency-missing-layer-ai-driven-growth/
- New Zealand's privacy commissioner has signed on to a global statement on AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/587814/ai-and-privacy-commissioner-signs-on-to-global-statement-on-potential-harms
- British police use AI to sift through mountains of digital evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/24/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations
- At this point I'd be surprised if politicians weren't using AI to write their speeches. Not that anyone could tell: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360942876/nicola-willis-says-chris-hipkins-big-speech-could-have-been-ai-ai-writing-her-speeches
- AI code generators are making software less secure: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/veracode_security_ai/
- One of the biggest worries Chief Executives have is keeping up with AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/587712/chief-executives-optimistic-about-economic-recovery-fear-being-left-behind-in-ai-race-survey
- Burger King is now using AI to monitor if their employees are friendly enough: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/burger_kings_new_ai/
- Will AI really bring about massive disruption to the economy? https: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/24/feedback-loop-no-brake-how-ai-doomsday-report-rattled-markets
- Blaming your employees for the mistakes of an AI does not increase confidence in your services: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/amazon_blame_human_not_ai/
- AI controlled organisms in an artificial life simulator: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/24/anlife-what-does-an-unusual-evolution-simulator-have-to-say-about-ai
- While AI is driving number formats to lower precision, scientific computing demands more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/number-formats-ai-scientific-computing
- How to protect yourself from AI generated scams: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-chatgpt-ai-scams-dating-legal/
- The idea of AI data centres in space isn't entirely as stupid as it first seems: https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers
