Weekly Review 6 November 2026

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

1. Another lawsuit after someone died listening to the medical advice from an AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-dies-chatgpt-medication
2. Europe is investing big in AI for science: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/10/27/europe-raises-the-stakes-for-ai-in-science/
3. Up-front costs of AI are still not paying off: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/30/ai-projects-not-paying-off-keep-at-it-says-uni-productivity-institute/5306581
4. Yet another copyright lawsuit over AI training data, this time by the rights holders for Elvis' songs: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/27/elvis-rightsholders-sue-anthropic-for-stealing-songs-and-leaving-them-in-heartbreak-hotel/5305625
5. The docker containers you need for AI at home: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-docker-containers-you-need-for-a-home-ai-lab
6. Using AI to defraud student loans: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/doj-exposes-ghost-students-using-ai-to-complete-courses-steal-student-loans/
7. Australian plans to allow AI companies to scrape copyrighted material has some major legal hurdles: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct/31/experts-warn-ai-copyright-changes-could-breach-australian-constitution-and-spark-huge-compensation-rights-case
8. AI cannot be trusted to keep your secrets: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4242386/dont-trust-ai-to-keep-your-secrets.html
9. AI is definitely the future of finding security flaws. Fixing the flaws is going to be costly, though: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/27/ai-hacker-finds-4-severe-bugs-in-popular-industrial-control-software-in-under-4-hours/5305811
10. Microsft will use AI to detect phishing attempts in Teams chats. And let the false-negatives commence: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/microsoft-teams-will-use-ai-to-detect-in-chat-phishing
11. This author takes the position that because AI can do assignments for university students, universities are redundant. Which is quite flawed thinking: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361050066/ai-changing-university-does-degree-still-matter
12. Universities are about more than sitting assessments, and AI can't change that: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361052370/ai-changing-university-yes-degree-does-still-matter
13. Young people are using AI to help them with dating. Which strikes me as a pretty bad idea: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/31/ai-your-wingman-chatbots-transforming-dating
14. Religious exemption from using AI at work is now a thing: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-religious-exemption-ai-work
15. Using AI in ghost hunting: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/oct/30/ai-ghost-hunting
16. Using AI is more expensive for under-represented languages: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4241844/ai-models-are-much-more-expensive-for-less-common-languages.html
17. AI has only paid off for tech companies: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/ai-has-yet-to-boost-profits-for-most-companies-economist-says
18. Australian lawyers are using AI but are not reducing fees: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct/30/victorian-lawyers-ai-clients-fees
19. The AI skills employers are looking for: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-ai-skills-that-actually-show-up-in-job-postings-right-now
20. Proposed Delaware law would mean the owners of AI-run businesses would have no liability if the AI caused harm: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/no-human-at-the-helm-delaware-plan-would-let-ai-agents-run-entire-businesses/
21. No, people are not going to stop using local AI models just because the big AI companies can't get enough RAM: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-hates-local-ai-models-computers
22. When your investment risk filing includes human extinction, you're doing something really wrong: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361051709/risks-spelled-out-anthropic-investors-include-blowback-f
23. Investors are getting increasingly nervous about AI: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/cracks-are-emerging-in-the-ai-spending-boom/
24. Academic publishing is pretty much doomed thanks to the prolific use of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-generated-scientific-papers