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