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