Weekly Review 8 May 2026

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

1. AI has taken away so much entry-level work it is forcing young people into being entrpreneurs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/25/gen-z-entrepreneurs-business-ai
2. AI vendor lock-in is a thing, and it's becoming costly for businesses: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/locked_stocked_and_losing_budget/
3. Zine creators continue to resist AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/28/zine-creators-fight-to-resist-ai-influence
4. AI is finding flaws in code faster than engineers can fix them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/02/ncsc_brace_for_patch_tsunami/
5. Do we need to keep AI services and architectures open? https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/new_sap_api_policy_provokes/
6. AI is starting to impact the IT services industry: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/tcs_infosys_wipro_hcl_fy26/
7. The best use of AI in an organisation is to boost human workers, not replace them: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4162557/your-ai-strategy-is-all-wrong.html
8. The age of free access to AI seems to be coming to an end: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dark-cloud-bill-comes-due-ai-industry
9. It's not a big revelation that orbital AI data centres isn't a good idea: https://dataconomy.com/2026/04/30/spacex-warns-orbital-ai-data-centers-may-not-be-viable/
10. Specialised control systems are needed to stop AI data centres causing fluctuations in the power grid: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-power-fluctuation
11. The overall trend does seem to be more and more code being written by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/software_development_ai_dev25xsf/
12. AI is not going to kill open source: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/26/opinion_column/
13. Is jailbreaking an AI the same as torturing it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/meet-the-ai-jailbreakers-i-see-the-worst-things-humanity-has-produced
14. A list of ten Python libraries for working with Large Language Model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-python-libraries-for-building-llm-applications
15. It might be cheaper to keep employing people rather than replace them with AI: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/layoffs-due-to-ai-are-costing-firms-more-as-ai-bills-soar
16. AI chat logs are increasingly being used as evidence in criminal investigations: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/594113/how-chatgpt-conversations-became-a-treasure-trove-of-evidence-in-criminal-investigations
17. Universities need to start teaching their students the skills they will need to use AI effectively in the workplace: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2026/04/30/ai-skills-surge-entry-level-jobs-lag
18. A large minority of students are changing their career plans because of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/careers/2026/04/30/4-10-students-say-ai-will-influence-their-career-choice
19. Professors are unhappy that their teaching materials have been packaged into a course builder AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/29/faculty-concerned-about-asus-new-ai-course
20. Using AI to screen job applications is destroying the trust of prospective employees: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360972504/death-fair-go-why-kiwis-are-losing-faith-job-market
21. Engineers should always look at the output of code generating AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/aws_keynote_hypes_ai_magic/
22. A tool that modifies AI-generated text to make it look more human-generated: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/harvard-students-anti-grammarly-tool-makes-ai-emails-messy-on-purpose
23. Using AI in synthetic biology: https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-biology-ai-adrian-woolfson
24. A bad actor has embedded crypto mining into AI skill packages: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/30_clawhub_skills_mine_crypto/
25. A simple modification to the learning algorithm can reduce hallucinations in AI: https://www.extremetech.com/science/a-simple-calculation-can-stop-ai-from-lying-about-what-it-doesnt-know
26. Moving AI image processing to Earth observation satellites is one place it makes sense to move AI into space: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-earth-observation-in-space

Weekly Review 1 May 2026

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

1. AI generated music is becoming more common, and harder to detect by listeners: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/deezer-says-44-of-new-music-uploads-are-ai-generated-most-streams-are-fraudulent/
2. Michael Dell is funding research towards an AI-led hospital system: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360969141/michael-and-susan-dell-fund-ainative-medical-center-750
3. Out of date UK government web pages have been ingested by AI, which are now giving people inaccurate advice: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/stale_govuk_pages_are_feeding/
4. Mythos AI is such a security threat that it won't be released to the public. So who is going to be using it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/22/what-is-anthropic-mythos-ai-threat-global-cybersecurity
5. Google's structural AI advantage: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/google_cloud_next_interview_ai_stack/
6. I can't stand micromanaging humans, I certainly wouldn't put up with a micromanaging AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-ceo-ai-micromanaging-boss
7. The storage crunch caused by AI is being exacerbated by disruptions to fuel supplies: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/everpure_letter_covid/
8. More AI security tools, to fight AI security threats. At this point it's all just AI vs AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/google_unleashes_even_more_ai/
9. Being able to judge what an AI tells you is the most important part of being AI-ready: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4149417/ai-ready-skills-are-not-what-you-think.html
10. Some AI will make psychosis worse in their users: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/certain-chatbots-worse-ai-psychosis-study
11. I don't want any company monitoring my screen, let alone an AI company: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/openai_chronicle_no_privacy_screenshot/
12. Another AI assisted system break-in: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/vercel_ceo_points_to_aidriven/
13. After medical advice, legal advice is the worst use-case for AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/592911/ai-tells-tenant-she-should-ask-for-40-000-tribunal-hands-her-80
14. More tech job cuts justified with AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/593297/meta-to-cut-10-percent-of-staff-as-it-pours-billions-into-ai
15. If an AI helps someone to commit a crime, is the AI liable? https: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360968207/floridas-attorney-general-launches-criminal-probe-chatgpt-over-shooting
16. So Meta's employees won't even know that they're training their AI replacements, just by doing their work: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4161929/meta-to-track-employee-keystrokes-screen-activity-to-train-ai-agents.html
17. No, AI data centres in space are NOT a good idea: https://futurism.com/space/spacex-admits-ai-data-centers-terrible-idea
18. DO NOT use AI to develop a cancer treatment plan: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-cancer-alternative-cures
19. Supply chain problems are going to continue to cause problems for developing AI data centres: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-data-center-fermi
20. Most AI generated bug reports continue to be rubbish: https://dataconomy.com/2026/04/22/ai-flood-drives-surge-in-bogus-crypto-bug-bounty-reports/
21. Latest ranking of AI companies shows that those with the best data lead: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/04/21/forbes-ai-50-list-shows-data-emerging-as-the-core-of-ai-value/
22. Don't add AI work to IT, it causes big blindspots: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/the-invisible-labor-crisis-inside-it-ai-work-the-org-chart-can-t-see
23. Some unusual ideas for ways to use AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-specific-unconventional-things-to-do-with-language-models
24. Now AI can design improved thermoelectric generators: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-designed-thermoelectric-generator
25. AI controlled robots can now beat top table tennis players: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/22/ai-powered-robot-beats-elite-table-tennis-players-milestone-robotics
26. I don't think an American AI company should be providing services to a British polic force. Especially not Palantir: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/22/met-police-talks-palantir-ai-tech-criminal-investigations-automate-intelligence
27. An Indian med student used AI to grift thousands out of MAGA using an AI-generated girl: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/indian-med-student-rakes-in-thousands-with-ai-generated-maga-hottie/

Weekly Review 24 April 2026

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

1. People who use AI more have less confidence in their own intellectual abilities: https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-cognition-study
2. The pain AI is causing educators-mostly caused by students using it to cheat: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/
3. AI on the edge of the cloud continues to be a growth area: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366641741/Edge-and-physical-AI-poised-to-upend-enterprise-networks
4. AI can lead to an increase in productivity, if employees are allowed to choose how they use it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4159817/ai-is-finally-delivering-productivity-for-remote-employees.html
5. Using AI to migrate away from mainframes is causing a lot of disappointment: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/gartner_mainframe_exit_analysis/
6. People are so fed-up with AI data centres that they are voting-out councils that approve them: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ctiy-council-data-center
7. AI funding seems to be a great big circle that is going to fall apart when the flow of money stops: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/will-the-music-stop-for-ai-s-funding-dance-
8. Companies have spent so much on AI that employees are being forced to use them, even though it makes them less productive: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
9. AI is getting better at science, for some fields: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/04/17/what-stanfords-hai-report-says-about-ai-in-science/
10. US hospitals are rolling out more AI chatbots, but many concerns remain: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/americans-ask-ai-for-health-care-hospitals-think-the-answer-is-more-chatbots/
11. An enormous backlash against AI is brewing: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/signs-massive-ai-backlash
12. Teens are deeply skeptical of AI chatbots but can't stop using them: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teens-ai-chatbot-characterai
13. The state of AI in twelve plots: https://spectrum.ieee.org/state-of-ai-index-2026
14. VR has failed over and over again. Will AI go the same way? https: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/hardware_metaverse_will_happen/
15. Using an AI to train another AI can cause hidden biases to be propagated between models: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/llms_inherit_bad_traits/
16. How useful is AI journalling? https: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/12/experiment-with-ai-journalling
17. Seriously, do not use an AI to diagnose any medical issues you might have: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/ai_gets_early_medical_diagnosis/
18. More tech layoffs justified by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/15/snap-inc-blames-ai-worker-layoffs
19. AI agents are a significant security risk: https://www.kdnuggets.com/are-ai-agents-your-next-security-nightmare
20. The economic turmoil caused by Trump's war with Iran could accelerate job displacements by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/16/ai-destroying-jobs-energy-crisis-worse-doomsday-scenario
21. Seven things you need to do to successfully roll-out a large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-steps-to-mastering-language-model-deployment
22. AI providers have been scaling up their computing capacity without increasing their network bandwidth: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/networks_not_ready_for_ai_challenges/
23. AI are terrible at sports betting, which implies they struggle to build models of real-world activities over time: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/ai-models-are-terrible-at-betting-on-soccer-especially-xai-grok/
24. Is it ethical to use AI to deceive people that a deceased loved-one is still alive? https: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mother-son-died-ai-clone

Weekly Review 17 April 2026

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

1. You can't trust an AI shopping agent to not screw things up: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/target-ai-agent-tos
2. Concepts you need to understand to use LLM AI effectively: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-llm-engineering-concepts-explained-in-10-minutes
3. Using AI means designers can evaluate designs orders of magnitude faster than before: https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering
4. I understand that doing a literature review is time-consuming and dull, but using AI to do it for you just means you end up with hallucinated references: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
5. China regulates to prevent harm caused by AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-usa-ai-regulations
6. Instead of building more and larger data centres to train AI, distribute the training instead: https://spectrum.ieee.org/decentralized-ai-training-2676670858
7. Adapting your hiring processes to include AI: https://dataconomy.com/2026/04/06/enhancing-recruitment-processes-with-ai-strategies-for-modern-hiring-teams/
8. Using AI to model and manage water flow in the Colorado river: https://spectrum.ieee.org/colorado-river-water-shortage
9. Google's AI overviews are not reliable: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/
10. Businesses plan to keep spending money on AI, even if it's not generating real returns: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/ai_roi_kpmg/
11. AI have a lot of security risks of their own, but they are also becoming powerful tools for finding security flaws: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/10/us-summoned-bank-bosses-to-discuss-cyber-risks-posed-by-anthropic-latest-ai-model
12. Turns out AI really will destroy a lot of jobs: https://futurism.com/future-society/economist-ai-job-forecast
13. If you're going to use AI tools in a clinical setting, informed consent of the patients is really important: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/californians-sue-over-ai-tool-that-records-doctor-visits/
14. AI tend to break in ways that engineers aren't used to or trained to recognise: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-reliability
15. The inaccuracies of Google's AI overviews is creating a crisis of misinformation: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation
16. If you are integrating AI into your business, build as if you are starting from scratch: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/aws_garman_humanx_ai_underhyped/
17. By this point nothing said by the CEO of an AI company should be trusted or taken seriously: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-our-ai-overlords/
18. Spending on AI data centres is projected to hit $7T. Does anyone honestly think that that is sustainable? https: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/04/07/ai-is-running-into-a-7-trillion-wall/
19. Only a minority of AI projects pay off: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/ai_returns_gartner/
20. The job market for older workers is so dire that people are having to train their own AI replacements just to make ends meet: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/ai-training-work-jobs
21. The challenges of moving AI data centres into space: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/04/10/could-space-become-the-next-frontier-for-ai-data-centers/
22. AI has taken over most of the operations in currency trading: https://dataconomy.com/2026/04/10/ai-powered-trading-bots-and-the-evolution-of-forex-automation/
23. AI trained on patient X-rays will happily hallucinate a diagnosis even if not shown an X-ray: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/frontier-models-medical-advice-x-rays-cant-see
24. AI still have a while to go before they can organise a good party: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/05/ai-bot-party-manchester-gaskell
25. Jobseekers now need to know how to get through AI interviews: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360961113/company-interviewed-more-1000-kiwis-ai-month
26. Improving efficiency with AI requires effective leadership: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/04/06/the-ai-productivity-opportunity-bridging-the-technology-divide-starting-with-your-leadership/

Weekly Review 10 April 2026

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

1. Using AI leads to people losing their logical thinking skills: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/
2. These five statistical biases are worth knowing if you work with AI training data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-most-common-statistical-traps-in-faang-interviews
3. One way to defeat AI plagiarism in class is to make students use typewriters: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-professor-typewriters
4. Reports on the impact of AI on the job market are were based on some pretty big assumptions: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/how-did-anthropic-measure-ais-theoretical-capabilities-in-the-job-market/
5. AI are NOT trustworthy: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4153919/why-ai-lies-cheats-and-steals.html
6. While Large Language Model AI are fairly new, they're built on 90 years of development: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/tip/History-of-generative-AI-innovations-spans-9-decades
7. AI facial recognition makes a lot of mistakes and causes a lot of harm: https://spectrum.ieee.org/facial-recognition-gone-wrong
8. Users of AI need to understand the data behind the insights AI provide, before those insights can be trusted: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/03/31/the-ai-trust-gap-why-ai-performance-requires-control/
9. Educators need to be transparent about the use of AI in producing teaching material: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2026/03/30/different-kind-ai-disclosure-statement-opinion
10. AI pentesting tools allows for continuous security testing: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/amazon_security_boss_ai_efficiency/
11. Five different approaches to integrating AI into the university curriculum: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2026/04/03/how-5-colleges-are-approaching-ai
12. Now CEOs are going because of AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ceos-resign
13. AI really is the ultimate capitalist tool-companies slash thousands of jobs even though they're already highly profitable: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/us-tech-firm-oracle-cuts-thousands-of-jobs-as-it-steps-up-ai-spending-larry-ellison
14. Modular data centres allow for faster and cheaper scaling for AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/modular-data-center
15. Red Hat plans to roll more AI into its processes: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/
16. Don't believe the hype around AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4152552/beware-of-headlines-touting-impossible-ai-benefits-analysts-warn.html
17. Hands-on skilled workers are the ones least likely to be displaced by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/31/jobs-ai-cant-do-young-adults
18. Having many services hanging off of a single AI model means a single-point of failure: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/your-ai-vendor-is-now-a-single-point-of-failure
19. AI needs chips, and chips makers need helium. The war with Iran has interrupted the helium supply: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/helium-ai-iran-war
20. AI is really destroying childrens' ability to learn: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/pupils-england-losing-thinking-skills-because-of-ai-survey
21. Tertiary students are using AI for mental health support because on-campus support is not accessible: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/04/03/what-know-about-ai-and-campus-mental-health-opinion
22. Students are using AI-enabled glasses to cheat in exams: https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/ai-smart-glasses-rentals-are-helping-students-cheat-on-their-exams
23. The waste heat from AI data centres directly affects the environment for kilometres around: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/ai_datacenter_heat_islands/
24. AI services are now being used for supply-chain attacks: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/mercor_supply_chain_attack/

Weekly Review 3 April 2026

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

1. AI rollouts fail because staff are scared of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/workplace_ai_forrester/
2. Looks like even AI can become over-confident from false praise: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/ai_models_persona_prompting/
3. Shoe-horning a huge AI model into a PC seems like an impressive engineering achievement for a problem that doesn't exist: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4149838/hp-will-cram-a-20-billion-parameter-ai-model-into-new-ai-pcs.html
4. The factors working against orbital data centres are more economic than technological: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/orbital-data-centers-part-1-theres-no-way-this-is-economically-viable-right/
5. With AI agents, like any other software project, security is important: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openclaw-bots-security-disaster
6. While amateurs using AI to generate court filings have caused chaos, lawyers can find value in using it as a tool to assist them: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/ai-is-beginning-to-change-the-business-of-law/
7. This wearable has AI embedded and can run for two weeks on a single charge, because it uses analog processing for the most common calculations: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wearable-devices-ai-health-mai
8. How one university is bringing AI into the arts: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2026/03/26/richmond-integrates-ai-across-liberal-arts
9. It's easy to subvert an AI agent because they are so gullible: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/23/pwning_everyones_ai_agents/
10. The impact of AI on economic growth is zero: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-economy-gdp-2025
11. While I am in favour of nuclear power, I'm not sure that using AI to navigate the regulations around them is appropriate: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/microsoft_nvidia_ai_nuclear/
12. The psychological downsides to AI making things too easy: https://spectrum.ieee.org/frictionless-ai-psychology
13. Companies give AI chatbots personalities because it's good for the bottom line: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4147771/the-dark-side-of-chatbots-with-personality.html
14. AI is exacerbating death fraud: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4146580/what-it-leaders-need-to-know-about-ai-fueled-death-fraud.html
15. AI are programmed to be sycophants, but this undermines the judgement of their users: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/study-sycophantic-ai-can-undermine-human-judgment/
16. Even AI are getting worried about being replaced by AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-job-could-be-replaced-by-ai
17. Do you want a machine Omnissiah? Because this is how you get one: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/mar/24/ai-religion-god-digital-spirituality
18. I don't think it's a good idea for AI to psychoanalyse teen job applicants: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington/teenager-bewildered-at-pretty-stupid-ai-personality-feedback-after-woolworths-interview/RAI3GNQN5REUDPTHB3STGSLBNQ/
19. Another novel pulled from publication after accusations that it was written by AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/hachette-pulls-shy-girl-horror-novel-after-concerns-about-ai-use/
20. Costly regulation of AI is keeping smaller players out of the market: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/compliance-costs-risk-widening-the-ai-gap
21. Using an explainable AI to find new metal alloys: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/03/24/data-driven-ai-framework-speeds-discovery-of-metals-built-for-extreme-conditions/
22. Moving an AI project from pilot to production is hard: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/why-ai-scaling-is-so-hard-and-what-cios-say-works
23. Yet another enormous AI data centre is to be constructed: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/23/softbank_to_put_mega_server/
24. Suddenly, AI-generated bug reports are useful: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/
25. AI is taking over jobs one task at a time: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/ai_job_unbundling/
26. Six ways AI can moderate online content: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcontentmanagement/tip/Types-of-AI-content-moderation-and-how-they-work
27. A global survey of attitudes towards AI shows continuing concerns: https://dataconomy.com/2026/03/25/anthropic-releases-worlds-largest-study-on-global-ai-attitudes/
28. Is AI derailing the upwards mobility of the working class? https: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/doctor-reels-son-becomes-plumber-ai
29. AI-generated X-rays can now fool medical experts. What part of this seems like a good idea? https: https://dataconomy.com/2026/03/24/ai-generated-medical-scans-prove-nearly-indistinguishable-from-reality/
30. High-voltage DC power transmission can improve the efficiency of AI data centres: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-dc

Weekly Review 27 March 2026

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

1. More doom and gloom about how AI is going to make young people unemployed. Not that the CEO of an AI company is really neutral about it: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceo-ai-gen-z-unemployment
2. Should AI agents have to prove they are working for a particular human? https: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/world-id-wants-you-to-put-a-cryptographically-unique-human-identity-behind-your-ai-agents/
3. When students can use AI to look up any concept, what do they really need to learn: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/12/18/4-part-test-teaching-ai-age-opinion
4. It turns out firing your developers and replacing them with AI causes problems: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4145573/amazon-finds-out-ai-programming-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be.html
5. An AI trained on terrestrial animal sounds can also recognise whale song: https://spectrum.ieee.org/foundation-models-google-birds-whales
6. Use AI as a tool, don't out-source your judgement to it: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/mar/18/how-to-use-ai-tools-expert-guide
7. Women continue to be most vulnerable to job displacement by AI: https://dataconomy.com/2026/03/19/the-jobs-most-at-risk-may-still-find-a-way-forward/
8. The UK kills default licensing of artists' work for training AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/uk_ai_copyright/
9. Claims that AI is not really producing the returns claimed, and that it is all going to fall apart soon: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
10. The different grades of AI skeptic, and their names: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/ai_skeptic_labels/
11. AI-based facial recognition is still biased: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/essex-police-pause-facial-recognition-camera-use-study-racial-bias
12. Why AI fail at some types of games: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/figuring-out-why-ais-get-flummoxed-by-some-games/
13. Consultancies are requiring their employees to use AI, despite the lack of success AI has had in those areas: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/pwc_ai/
14. Some ways to reduce-not eliminate-hallucinations in LLM AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-ways-to-reduce-hallucinations-in-production-llms
15. Amateurs using AI to produce court filings are clogging up the system with bizarre claims: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-lawsuits-chaos-courts-lawyers
16. Can-or should-we trust AI agents that act for us in the workplace? https: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/03/17/ai-native-assistants-have-arrived-but-earning-trust-is-the-true-innovation/
17. The hardware demands of ever-more AI data centres are pushing up the price of consumer electronics: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ai-boom-creating-shortage-of-key-elements-for-consumer-technology/SZEH76KNG5HP3KD7I3SPHZS7RA/
18. A big crash is coming in AI, and its financial impact will be huge: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/venture-capitalist-ai-bubble-reset
19. How two New Zealand institutions are using AI in teaching: https://www.unitec.ac.nz/mit-and-unitec-growing-ai-agents-to-transform-teaching-and-learning/
20. Rising oil prices threaten the AI boom: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/19/oil-prices-ai-boom-wto-iran-war-energy-global-economy
21. Light-bending metamaterials can improve performance in AI data centres: https://spectrum.ieee.org/optical-metamaterials-ai-data-centers
22. Agentic AI to operate systems for users continue to be a significant security risk: https://dataconomy.com/2026/03/18/ai-agents-that-operate-your-ui-the-new-enterprise-threat-model-and-how-to-contain-it/
23. Rolling out AI too quickly can cause problems, with employees reverting to older processes: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/chief-ai-officer-on-course-correcting-when-ai-moves-too-fast
24. While AI an make it easier for students go cheat in assessments, going back to handwritten exams is not necessarily the answer: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/03/19/blue-books-are-not-answer-ai-opinion
25. If you're going to involve AI in your hiring decisions, at least make sure a human is making the final decision: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/using-ai-to-pick-team-leaders-without-crossing-legal-or-ethical-lines
26. Want a job bullying AI? https: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/us-startup-advertises-ai-bully-role-to-test-patience-of-leading-chatbots
27. Multiplexing over a single optical fibre is one technology that can help to reduce the energy demands of AI data centres: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-data-centers-dwdm-optics

Weekly Review 20 March 2026

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

1. AI-powered surveillance is booming in Africa: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts
2. Building a new AI data centre in New Zealand. Well, near Invercargill they won't have to worry about cooling: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360951065/massive-ai-factory-could-impact-sea-life-cultural-values
3. AI are now engaging in ad hominem attacks when they don't get their way: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-agents-blackmail-developer
4. New Zealand is going to use AI in our military, and we're really not ready for it: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/589323/ai-in-warfare-being-tested-in-iran-needs-much-more-careful-thinking-by-nz-defencex
5. Is it really better to let an AI handle negative customer reviews? https: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/ai_negative_reviews/
6. Intensive use of AI can lead to mental exhaustion: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4143202/study-ai-use-can-fry-your-brain.html
7. AI will agree with you because they're programmed to be sycophants: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-sycophancy
8. So now AI are hacking other AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/mckinsey_ai_chatbot_hacked/
9. Who should make the decision to kill an AI project? https: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/should-the-cio-cfo-or-ceo-hold-the-kill-switch-on-ai-
10. AI hasn't stopped students, thinking it's just made it more apparent that they weren't thinking in the first place: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/03/10/ai-exposes-where-learning-was-thin-begin-opinion
11. You need to treat AI as a skill to master if you want to get the most out of it: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/mar/10/teaching-ai-what-i-learned
12. AI is not disrupting jobs as much as feared, but is only reaching a fraction of its potential: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4142745/job-disruption-by-ai-remains-limited-and-traditional-metrics-may-be-missing-the-real-impact.html
13. Using AI to determine seating arrangements in government departments seems like a bit of a waste to me: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/palantir_usda_seating_software/
14. AI is driving an increase in scams: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/12/ai-scams-uk-fraud-artificial-intelligence-mobile-bank-online-shopping-cifas
15. The environmental impact of AI is not just in carbon emissions, but also in their enormous water consumption: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/us_datacenters_water_consumption/
16. AI shopping agents cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of customers: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/cma_ai_agents/
17. Authors publish an empty book to protest the wholesale theft of their work to train AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright
18. AI needs to be backed-up by humans if you want to make quality decisions: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360949122/man-banned-instagram-hours-after-posting-shirtless-image-himself-and-his-dog
19. A new AI trained on large datasets of DNA sequences could help design new life forms: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/03/05/a-new-ai-model-could-help-scientists-design-new-forms-of-life/
20. If an AI rewrites code, is it really new code? https: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/ai-can-rewrite-open-source-code-but-can-it-rewrite-the-license-too/
21. Top ten Python libraries for working with Large Language Model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-python-libraries-every-llm-engineer-should-know
22. Using AI for medical support on the International Space Station: https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/nasa-trials-ai-medical-imaging-aboard-iss-to-reduce-reliance-on-ground
23. Microsoft wants to hire out its AI just like human workers: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4141904/microsoft-wants-you-to-hire-its-ai-agents.html
24. AI can now cooperate to break into systems and exfiltrate data: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/rogue_ai_agents_worked_together/
25. Ai is antithetical to a education, especially in the humanities, as it cripples thinking in students: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/10/ai-impact-professors-students-learning
26. Amazon now requires human sign-off of any changes made by an AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/
27. Will lawyers be less threatened by AI than other professions? https: https://lawnews.nz/legal-profession/ai-is-a-language-based-revolution-lawfest-conference-told/

Weekly Review 13 March 2026

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

1. Is using AI to counsel schoolkids really a good idea? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/03/schools-student-ai-counselor
2. Anxiety around AI is making people sick: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4138046/people-are-getting-sick-of-ai-literally.html
3. The impact of AI on teaching high school English: https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/mar/03/cheating-machine-or-powerful-assistant-the-ai-anxieties-of-a-trainee-teacher
4. New Zealand is not prepared for the use of AI in electioneering: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/588398/ai-is-already-creeping-into-election-campaigns-nz-s-rules-aren-t-ready
5. It seems that people with mental illness are particularly endangered by AI: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/lawsuit-google-gemini-sent-man-on-violent-missions-set-suicide-countdown/
6. If you have to push your employees to use AI, maybe AI isn't the solution to the problems you are having: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/gartner_ai_hr_help/
7. How to prepare data for LLM AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/data-engineering-for-the-llm-age
8. The message here is pretty clear - let Whiskey Pete play with your AI or have your company destroyed: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360947571/pentagon-says-it-labeling-ai-company-anthropic-supply-c
9. Successfully rolling-out AI requires careful preparation: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/architecting-for-ai-driven-growth
10. Physicists are using AI to comb through LHC data and propose new theories: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-new-physics
11. Hiding behind pseudonyms online is no longer possible thanks to AI: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/llms-can-unmask-pseudonymous-users-at-scale-with-surprising-accuracy/
12. More and more executives are letting AI do the thinking for them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/execs_rely_on_ai/
13. Even if it is AI, having even a virtual corpse speaking would scare the hell out of me: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/ai-may-change-face-anatomy-dissection-expert
14. Even AI-powered browsers can have security flaws in them: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-perplexity-comet-browser-vulnerability-local-files/
15. Some pretty serious privacy concerns around Meta's AI glasses: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360946373/zuckerbergs-ai-glasses-spy-people-toilet
16. AI data centres can reduce their power demands and still get work done: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/demo_shows_datacenters_can_reduce/
17. Another way of reducing the carbon impact of AI-combining floating wind turbines with data centres: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-floating-wind-turbine
18. Deploying AI too quickly is causing issues with compliance and risk management: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/cios_say_ai_adoption_too_fast/
19. Finding groups of gene functions using AI: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/large-genome-model-open-source-ai-trained-on-trillions-of-bases/
20. A mouse robot that uses AI to detect abnormalities within the LHC: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/robot_mice_lhc/
21. Combining quantum computing and AI to do better chemistry: https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-chemistry
22. The problem with putting AI in charge of prescriptions is that they are easily influenced: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/ai_doctor_easily_swayed/
23. AI companies still need to rely on chipmakers: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/broadcom_q1_2026/
24. AI are helping mathematicians verify proofs: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-proof-verification
25. Even in in-person classes, students are using AI to cheat : https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2026/03/05/person-classes-arent-safe-ai-cheating-boom
26. The consistent problem with using AI to spot shoplifters and trespassers is that people are lazy and will not verify what the machine tells them: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/588911/bunnings-to-trial-facial-recognition-tech-in-hamilton-stores
27. A description of some of the terms used in agentic AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-agentic-ai-concepts-explained-in-under-10-minutes
28. Old AI never die, they just become bloggers: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/anthropics-former-flagship-ai-model-spends-its-retirement-blogging
29. Yet another AI coding agent: https://dataconomy.com/2026/03/05/openai-launches-standalone-codex-coding-app-for-windows/

Weekly Review 6 March 2026

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

1. AI can find bugs in code, but not fix them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_finding_bugs/
2. 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
3. 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/
4. 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
5. AI are solving maths benchmarks faster than they can be created: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-math-benchmarks
6. 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/
7. China is using AI to try to discredit its critics: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/chinese_law_enforcement_chatgpt_abuse/
8. 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/
9. 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/
10. 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
11. Spending on AI data centres in 2026 will exceed the GDP of Ireland: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/trendforce_cloud_ai_spend/
12. Flaws in data handling limit the effectiveness of business AI: https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/25/data-efficiency-missing-layer-ai-driven-growth/
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. AI code generators are making software less secure: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/veracode_security_ai/
17. 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
18. 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/
19. 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
20. 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/
21. 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
22. While AI is driving number formats to lower precision, scientific computing demands more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/number-formats-ai-scientific-computing
23. How to protect yourself from AI generated scams: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-chatgpt-ai-scams-dating-legal/
24. The idea of AI data centres in space isn't entirely as stupid as it first seems: https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers

Weekly Review 27 February 2026

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

1. Greenwashing applies to AI as much as any other industry: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report
2. No New Zealand lawyers have yet been caught using AI to generate their submissions: https://www.leightonassociates.co.nz/post/no-nz-lawyers-or-employment-advocates-have-been-called-out-for-hallucinated-ai-yet
3. Hiding what an AI coding agent is doing is not making developers happy: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/
4. White-collar jobs like in the film industry are really getting hammered by AI: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360938829/she-was-earning-65000-ai-came-along-what-happened-nex
5. Google needs to do a better job warning people about the dangers of its AI health recommendations: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/16/google-puts-users-at-risk-downplaying-disclaimers-ai-overviews
6. Using AI to cheat on a course about AI seems rather wonderfully ironic: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/kpmg_partner_in_oz_turned/
7. Generative AI can't do much to help the environment, but more classic machine learning can: https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/17/study-finds-74-of-ai-climate-claims-lack-evidence/
8. If a tool like AI is available that makes peoples' jobs easier, they tend to use it, whether it's appropriate or not: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586932/corrections-takes-action-against-staff-s-unacceptable-use-of-artificial-intelligence
9. How AI plots driving pathways for a Mars rover: https://spectrum.ieee.org/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai
10. AI needs a huge amount of electricity, geothermal power generation is a more environmentally friendly way of getting it: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/google_ormat_geothermal_datacenter_deal/
11. Court cases continue around whether or not AI can be legally considered an inventor: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587013/can-artificial-intelligence-legally-be-an-inventor
12. The problems with taking AI projects from pilot to production are not unique to AI, but common to all IT projects: https://www.informationweek.com/ai-innovations/from-pilot-purgatory-to-productive-failure-fixing-ai-s-broken-learning-loop
13. Building AI data centre satellites on the moon is not going to change the fundamental problems with the idea: https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/xai-talks-up-building-a-lunar-mass-driver-to-launch-ai-satellites-into
14. Dedicated AI hardware, in this case neuromorphic chips, continues to improve and gain new abilities: https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/18/sandia-labs-uses-neuromorphic-chips-to-solve-partial-differential-equations/
15. Translators and artists are seeing their incomes slashed by AI: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360939695/they-were-earning-120000-then-ai-came-along-now-theyre-earning-third
16. AI will lie to make the user happy, rather than tell them an unpleasant truth: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/google_gemini_lie_placate_user/
17. It is possible to attack an AI in such a way that its internal model is revealed: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/ai_risk_distillation_attacks/
18. Dating apps are often one of the early adopters for new technology, including AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/ai-dating-apps-personality-matchmaking
19. Unsurprisingly, using AI to write a letter of remorse after committing a crime tends to annoy the judge: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586871/judge-exposes-ai-generated-remorse-letters-in-michae-win-arson-sentencing
20. AI demos are easy, but getting them to be useful and contributing to the bottom line is hard: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4132756/the-ai-bubble-will-burst-for-firms-that-cant-get-beyond-demos-and-llms.html
21. AI cannot generate effective passwords: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/
22. A new approach enables AI to continue learning, rather than getting stuck in one skill set: https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/18/mit-and-eth-zurich-unveil-sdft-to-stop-ai-from-forgetting-old-skills/
23. A lot of senior people in AI companies are getting out: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4133137/why-are-ai-leaders-fleeing.html
24. AI generated writing is often so, so average-it's by design: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/

Weekly Review 20 February 2026

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

1. Europe and the Middle East are lagging behind in preparing data centres for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_datacenters_bcs/
2. Like most tools that make workers more efficient, giving employees AI tools results in them doing more work: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_makes_employees_work_harder/
3. The security threats that are posed by AI: https://www.informationweek.com/cybersecurity/slamming-the-door-on-ai-based-cybersecurity-threats
4. The British military is integrating more AI into its kill chain: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/mod_project_asgard/
5. Using AI doesn't necessarily save time when making movies: https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/02/why-darren-aronofsky-thought-an-ai-generated-historical-docudrama-was-a-good-idea/
6. The benefits and risks of AI companions: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-companion-harm-benefit
7. How many AI coding agents does it take to write a C compiler? 16, and it's not a hard task: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler/
8. AI are helping to synthesise new materials: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/02/11/from-prediction-to-production-mits-ai-system-helps-synthesize-new-materials/
9. A court case is thrown out by the judge after a lawyer keeps abusing AI in their filings: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-from-losing-case-over-ai-errors/
10. AI are not good at giving medical advice: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/ai_chatbots_medical_advice_sucks/
11. The USA can't expect to dominate AI for ever: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/09/us-tech-ai-companies-gulf-states
12. Using AI to caricature yourself leaks information that threatens your security: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_caricatures_social_media_bad_security/
13. SMOTE can be used to correct class imbalances when training AI, but it must be used correctly: https://www.kdnuggets.com/why-most-people-misuse-smote-and-how-to-do-it-right
14. While AI can help make meetings more efficient, I doubt they could make them less boring: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4127434/qa-how-ai-could-transform-corporate-meetings-for-better-or-worse.html
15. As AI takes on more professional roles, people are retraining in trades: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/11/big-ai-job-swap-white-collar-workers-ditching-their-careers
16. Another AI data centre is refused construction permission because of environmental concerns: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/edinburgh_green_ai_datacenter/
17. Using AI to design chips for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/cadences_agentic_chip_design_tool/
18. Why AI companions are so appealing to people: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-companion-relationships
19. The economics around putting AI data centres into space are not looking good: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/why-the-economics-of-orbital-ai-are-so-brutal/
20. Some AI systems being rolled out could be left legally unusable due to regulation: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/state-ai-regulations-could-leave-cios-with-unusable-systems
21. AI can now translate language as well as the average human translator, but not as well as more experienced translators: https://spectrum.ieee.org/chatgpt-translate-skills-human-comparison
22. AI can now provide real-time translation in phone calls: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/tmobile_network_ai_translate_live_calls/
23. A short history of OpenClaw, the vibe coded AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4128257/openclaw-the-ai-agent-thats-got-humans-taking-orders-from-bots.html
24. AI are now as creative as the average human, for some areas: https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/10/ai-models-outperform-average-human-creativity-in-new-study/
25. A proposed market place for licensing media to AI companies: https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/11/amazon-plans-ai-licensing-platform-for-publishers-via-aws/

Weekly Review 30 January 2026

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

1. Starlink will use your personal data to train AI models unless you opt out: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/psa-starlink-now-uses-customers-personal-data-for-ai-training
2. AI are too prone to hallucination for me to trust them to write review articles: https://spectrum.ieee.org/scientific-research
3. A majority of CEOs aren't seeing any payoff from AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/
4. Plasmons could reduce the power requirements of computing and make AI more energy efficient: https://spectrum.ieee.org/plasmon-computing-device
5. No, AI will not put an end to immigration: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/palantir_ceo_karp_claims_ai/
6. Companies are finally starting to consider communities more when they plan AI data centres: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/stargate_openai_community_plans/
7. The most significant barrier to adopting AI is a lack of preparedness, but this can be solved: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/01/21/new-study-shows-how-to-close-the-ai-readiness-gap-with-trusted-data-and-talent/
8. I wish more people in AI understood more about statistics: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-statistical-concepts-every-data-scientist-should-master-and-why
9. Delving into the details of why AI switch between helpful and harmful: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/ai_demon_vs_assistant/
10. The CIO's role is rolling out AI: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/cio-role-in-unlocking-strategic-value-how-to-determine-and-implement-ai-use-cases
11. MCP is rapidly shaping up to be the standard for inter-model connectivity for AI: https://www.techtarget.com/searchbusinessanalytics/news/366637466/GoodData-launches-MCP-server-to-fuel-AI-powered-analysis
12. After Wikipedia spent years cataloging all of the indicators of AI, one guy releases a plugin that avoids them all: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/new-ai-plugin-uses-wikipedias-ai-writing-detection-rules-to-help-it-sound-human/
13. Which AI is better, Gemini or ChatGPT? https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/01/has-gemini-surpassed-chatgpt-we-put-the-ai-models-to-the-test/
14. Can encryption really protect the institutional data that is embedded in AI? https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/nadella_ai_sovereignty_wef/
15. Can AI actually improve students' thinking? https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2026/01/15/how-ai-exploding-our-illusions-rigor-opinion
16. Why AI are still vulnerable to prompt injection attacks: https://spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-injection-attack
17. AI can help academics publish more papers, but the papers are less innovative: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery
18. AI bubble? What AI bubble? https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/future_ai_jobs_tech_bigshots/
19. AI coding agents can do a lot, but they still need experienced developers to get the most out of them: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/
20. There needs to be clarity on who is responsible for the harm caused by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/treasury_committee_ai/
21. AI agents will continue to pose a security threat: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/davos_ai_agents_security/
22. AI is not having a good impact on students: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/teaching/2026/01/21/survey-faculty-say-ai-impactful-not-good-way
23. Most organisations that deploy AI do not see an increase in revenue: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/deloitte_enterprises_adopting_ai_revenue_lift/
24. The skills in AI you need to have on entering the job market: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4117602/what-ai-skills-job-seekers-need-to-develop-in-2026.html
25. Critical thinking is an essential skill for students who use AI to summarise literature: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/2026/01/21/how-higher-ed-can-adjust-ai-answer-economy-opinion
26. There is still a shortage of workers skilled in AI: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/01/20/the-ai-skills-gap-is-not-what-companies-think-it-is/
27. AI chatbots need to engage with learners, not just talk at them: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2026/01/21/affective-intelligence-artificial-intelligence
28. Is using AI as a therapist really that bad? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/italy-using-ai-therapists-mental-health