Weekly Review 28 November 2025

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

1. AI generated workslop just makes more work for other people: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifestyle/what-is-workslop
2. Everyone should be using AI so they can learn the difference between a good AI output and a bad AI output: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/is-it-time-for-everyone-to-become-ai-power-users-
3. A new programming AI that can handle larger codebases: https://dataconomy.com/2025/11/20/openai-says-its-new-coding-model-can-work-for-24-hours-straight/
4. AI combined with drones speed power line maintenance: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/579344/drones-linked-to-ai-used-to-help-fix-power-grids
5. What people are really sharing with AI: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360891883/what-you-should-know-trove-chatgpt-conversations-was-analysed
6. Even with mitigation techniques, AI still uses a lot of energy and a lot of water: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-energy-water-demands-sustainability-fears/
7. I would never use AI generated material in any course I teach: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/20/university-of-staffordshire-course-taught-in-large-part-by-ai-artificial-intelligence
8. Attacks on AI guardrails are increasing and the protection is mostly inadequate: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/ai_guardrails_prompt_injections_echogram_tokens/
9. Even having an AI generated book cover on a human written book is enough to get the book disqualified from a literary prize: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/top-writers-ruled-out-of-nz-book-awards-due-to-ai-covers
10. The people who work to build AI are the ones who trust it the least: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away
11. Google's ambitious plans to build more AI compute infrastructure: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand/
12. New Zealand retailers are using AI to stay competitive: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/retailers-adopting-artificial-intelligence-to-compete-against-global-giants/6VST4BKTDBDPXBOMVXTQQYU3BU/
13. Curiosity Stream is now making most of its money licensing material to AI companies: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/curiosity-stream-expects-to-make-most-of-its-money-from-ai-deals-by-2027/
14. Higher education was not in a golden age before the appearance of generative AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/11/20/no-pre-ai-era-was-not-great-opinion
15. The problem with using AI to provide advice on moving people off of ACC is that bureaucrats are lazy and will just do what the AI says: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579083/acc-s-use-of-ai-to-help-decide-who-gets-help-shocks-advocate
16. New Zealand hospitals are rolling out an AI tool for transcribing clinical notes: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579400/ai-scribe-tool-rolled-out-to-emergency-departments-promises-to-slash-clinicians-admin
17. Science uses AI more and more, but that means that those who can't afford to access the AI get shut out: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/11/21/the-compute-divide-in-ai-driven-science/
18. Microsoft continues to be disconnected from what its users really want with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/microsoft_ai_boss_comment/
19. A new maths benchmark shows that AI are actually bad at maths: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/ai_bad_math_orca/
20. AI is accelerating scientific discoveries: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/future_of_scientific_computing/
21. The AI bubble is destabilising the market:  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/579606/stocks-lose-steam-on-ai-concerns-us-jobs-data
22. AI generated music is being produced at such a rate it risks overwhelming human made music: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/ai_music/
23. When the AI bubble bursts it's going to cause a lot of damage: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360890298/ai-bubble-worlds-most-important-stock-could-shake-your-kiwisaver-week
24. It looks like Google's AI can't tell the difference between a person and 5.6m high statue: https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360884919/blurred-vision-what-google-and-apple-have-done-famous-new-zealand-statue