Weekly Review 23 January 2026

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

1. The project to poison the data being scraped to train AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/
2. Patients can't always express that they are in pain. AI can help to detect if they are: https://spectrum.ieee.org/machine-learning-measure-pain-surgery
3. Anthropic has adapted its coding AI to do non-coding tasks: https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/13/anthropics-cowork-brings-developer-grade-ai-agents-to-non-coders/
4. Training an AI on fraudulent government loans: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/14/feds_antifraud_ai_covid_loans/
5. Make people the centre of the efforts to include AI in your organisation: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4115676/ai-backlash-forces-a-reality-check-humans-are-as-important-as-ever.html
6. While students can benefit from using AI, the costs of accessing the services can be a barrier for some: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/01/14/hidden-tax-students-pay-your-ai-strategy-opinion
7. Any information from an AI needs to be verified by a human, especially before it is used to make a decision: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/
8. AI guardrails are pretty easy to defeat, and the companies running the AI don't have a lot of incentive to improve them: https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/16/us-senate-slams-tech-giants-over-failing-deepfake-guardrails/
9. Missing data can complicate training AI. Imputation methods can help fill the gaps:  https://www.kdnuggets.com/we-tried-5-missing-data-imputation-methods-the-simplest-method-won-sort-of
10. Is it surprising that the head of the company that makes the most hardware for AI is against AI regulation? https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/12/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-slams-doomsday-ai-narratives/
11. An older article but an important one - AI code generators are getting worse: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
12. There is now a script to remove AI from Windows: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/13/script_removes_ai_from_windows/
13. Bandcamp bans AI generated music from its platform: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/bandcamp-bans-purely-ai-generated-music-from-its-platform/
14. The bigger the AI bubble gets, the greater the pain when it bursts: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/tsmc-says-ai-demand-is-endless-after-record-q4-earnings/
15. AI could wipe out more than 10 million US jobs - but probably won't: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/13/ai_us_jobs_2030/
16. Women will continue to be victimised by AI without proper safeguards: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/14/use-of-ai-to-harm-women-has-only-just-begun-experts-warn
17. Class imbalances and overfitting are real problems when training AI. Some way s to address these problems: https://www.kdnuggets.com/avoiding-overfitting-class-imbalance-feature-scaling-issues-the-machine-learning-practitioners-notebook
18. Guardrails around most AI are easily defeated, I don't think grok would be any different: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/584073/x-to-change-ai-chatbot-grok-after-outrage-over-sexual-deepfake-images
19. An AI can help with supermarket shopping, but how much will it change people's shopping habits? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/584335/when-your-supermarket-shops-for-you-what-woolworths-ai-upgrade-really-means
20. More money being spent on AI with little apparent idea of what to do with it: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/meta_compute/
21. I think it is a really bad idea to put a commercial AI onto classified military networks: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/hegseth-wants-to-integrate-musks-grok-ai-into-military-networks-this-month/
22. Yet another AI agent that harvests its users data to "help" them: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcustomerexperience/news/366637263/Slackbots-agentic-AI-makeover-gives-users-their-copilot
23. The pros and cons of using AI to set your goals: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/jan/15/ai-life-coach
24. Spending on AI data centres keeps climbing, and still no return for it: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/14/ai_investment/

Weekly Review 16 January 2026

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

1. Economists are uncertain about the impact of AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4108089/a-wild-future-how-economists-are-handling-ai-uncertainty-in-forecasts.html
2. Predicting health issues from sleep data using AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/583468/ai-uses-sleep-study-data-to-accurately-predict-dozens-of-health-issues
3. Yet another AI posing a security risk: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/ibm_bob_vulnerability/
4. Snowflake is embedding AI into its data handling tools: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/snowflake_google_gemini_support/
5. AI is using so much RAM that there aren't enough chips to go around: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/memory_firm_profits_up_as/
6. I'm still very skeptical about AI, especially generative AI, in health: https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/08/openai-launches-dedicated-chatgpt-health-space/
7. Governance is the key to scaling AI in organisations: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/scaling-ai-value-demands-industrial-governance
8. I think that only checking the first 250 prescription renewals made by AI is a bit short on quality control here. It's the edge cases where problems are going to occur: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/utah-allows-ai-to-autonomously-prescribe-medication-refills/
9. A further attempt to make the output of AI more accurate: https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/news/366637142/New-Databricks-tool-aims-to-up-agentic-AI-response-accuracy
10. Why Yan LeCun left Facebook's AI lab: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/computer-scientist-yann-lecun-intelligence-really-is-about-learning/
11. Businesses can turn the weaknesses of AI against their competitors: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4114017/companies-can-compete-against-ai-by-delivering-what-ai-cant.html
12. So its going to be a bit longer before AI destroys us all? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/06/leading-ai-expert-delays-timeline-possible-destruction-humanity
13. Prompt injection attacks continue to be a problem for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/openai_chatgpt_prompt_injection/
14. AI is being used to write malware, but it's just as full of hallucinations as any other code generated by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/criminals_vibe_coding_malware/
15. Generative AI in the financial services industry: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/generative-ai-financial-services/
16. Putting AI in heavy construction machinery: https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/08/caterpillar-partners-with-nvidia-to-put-ai-in-excavators/
17. Ford wants to use AI to personalise vehicles to their drivers: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/in-car-ai-assistant-coming-to-fords-and-lincolns-in-2027/
18. The distinction between data scientist and AI engineer: https://www.kdnuggets.com/data-scientist-vs-ai-engineer-which-career-should-you-choose-in-2026
19. Can sucking carbon dioxide from the air reduce the climate impact of AI data centres? https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/new_carbon_capture_tech/
20. What you can and can't do with AI generated code: https://www.kdnuggets.com/vibe-code-reality-check-what-you-can-actually-build-with-only-ai
21. Some approaches for CIOs to handle the issues raised by AI:  https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/2026-cio-trend-from-seat-at-the-table-to-the-ai-hot-seat
22. Some predictions for AI in 2026: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/13-unexpected-under-the-radar-predictions-for-2026
23. Poisoning data sets to prevent stolen AI being used: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/ai_data_pollution_defense/
24. No AI should ever assume that its users have good intentions: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/grok-assumes-users-seeking-images-of-underage-girls-have-good-intent/

Weekly Review 9 January 2026

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

1. We should not give AI legal rights: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rights
2. While AI continues to guzzle energy, Alphabet is at least investing in clean electricity generation to power its data centres: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/30/googles-power-play-what-the-4-75b-intersect-acquisition-means-for-the-future-of-ai-infrastructure/
3. Some ways is which AI is likely to develop in 2026: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/in-2026-ai-will-move-from-hype-to-pragmatism/
4. The key features of five different AI web browsers: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-best-agentic-ai-browsers-to-look-for-in-2026
5. The US army is introducing an AI specialisation role: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/us_army_seeking_officers_willing/
6. A lot of the power demands of AI are being met with fossil fuels: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-the-climate
7. World Models are the next big thing in AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4106563/after-llms-and-agents-the-next-ai-frontier-video-language-models.html
8. VCs are still betting on continued growth and adoption of AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/vcs-predict-strong-enterprise-ai-adoption-next-year-again/
9. A lot of banking jobs are going to go because of AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4112389/european-banks-may-lay-off-200000-due-to-ai.html
10. GPU will still be useful when the AI bubble bursts: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/30/how_nvidia_survives_ai_bubble_pop/
11. China issues guidelines to protect the elderly from AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/29/asia_tech_news_roundup/
12. China drafts strong rules regarding AI and suicide: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/china-drafts-worlds-strictest-rules-to-end-ai-encouraged-suicide-violence/
13. Further advances in making AI training more efficient: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4112384/deepseeks-new-method-can-train-ai-more-efficiently-and-cheaply.html
14. Predictions that AI is going to start affecting labour in 2026: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/31/investors-predict-ai-is-coming-for-labor-in-2026/
15. Embedding AI into the objects in an environment: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/31/cmu-researchers-develop-self-moving-objects-powered-by-ai/
16. Five changes that enterprises need to make to make the most of AI: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/31/5-changes-that-will-define-ai-native-enterprises-in-2026/
17. And this is the AI that the Pentagon is going to use: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/583105/elon-musk-s-grok-under-fire-after-complaints-it-undressed-minors-in-photos
18. Three major areas of AI security flaws: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/29/2026-ai-security-predictions-the-any-identity-crisis-breach-by-exhaust-the-rise-of-autonomous-adversaries/
19. AI should be used as an assistant for people, not a replacement: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/02/safe_ceo_interview/
20. AI overviews are giving dangerous health advice: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/02/google-ai-overviews-risk-harm-misleading-health-information
21. AI are getting things confidently wrong: https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/360919069/right-question-ask-ai-now-and-unnervingly-qualified-answer-it-gave
22. AI need special training for them to learn arithmetic: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/30/standard-ai-models-fail-simple-math-without-specialized-training/
23. AI agents are useful, but I don't like the idea of embedding them into an operating system: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-plan-ai-agents-windows/
24. Five core tensions in an organisation that must be resolved to effectively utilise AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/31/gleans-work-ai-institute-identifies-5-core-ai-tensions/

Weekly Review 2 January 2026

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

1. Can AI coding agents recreate Minesweeper? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/the-ars-technica-ai-coding-agent-test-minesweeper-edition/
2. How to prepare for entry-level jobs in the age of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-effect-entry-level-jobs
3. Of all the AI that the Pentagon could use, why is it grok? https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/24/why-elon-musks-grok-ai-is-becoming-a-core-tool-for-the-pentagon/
4. AI is weaponising security flaws faster than ever before: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/zafran_security_ceo/
5. Giving workers access to more AI doesn't necessarily make them more productive: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/offering-more-ai-tools-can-t-guarantee-better-adoption-so-what-can-
6. AI voice cloning is a gift for extremists: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/21/ai-voice-cloning-nazis-islamic-state-extremism
7. An AI chatbot security flaw is reported..and reported..and kinda gets fixed? https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/pentesters_reported_eurostar_chatbot_flaws/
8. Organisational workflows are changing because of AI: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/23/from-digitalization-to-intelligence-how-ai-is-redefining-enterprise-workflows/
9. Are we willingly becoming slaves to AI? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment
10. Rolling out AI support doesn't always make things better: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/oracles_new_aienhanced_support_portal/
11. AI projects fail because management isn't ready for them: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/reason_ai_isnt_delivering/
12. AI spending is dropping because it doesn't really add a lot of value to businesses: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/ai_spending_cooling_off/
13. The pope views AI as a moral as well as a technological issue: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/25/pope-leo-xiv-prepares-landmark-magnifica-humanitas-encyclical-on-ai/
14. Seven AI models that will run on a Raspberry Pi: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-tiny-ai-models-for-raspberry-pi
15. When the AI bubble bursts, we might be able to reduce the power of the tech bros: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/artificial-intelligence-ai-bubble-bursts-humans-take-back-control
16. An overview of how coding AI work: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/how-do-ai-coding-agents-work-we-look-under-the-hood/
17. AI and the post-COVID tech slowdown is resulting in a lot of tech-sector redundancies: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/tech-company-layoffs-the-covid-tech-bubble-bursts-sep-14
18. The growth of AI has made the building and powering of more data centres a public issue: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/24/the-year-data-centers-went-from-backend-to-center-stage/
19. Using AI to detect whale strandings before they happen: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360918173/ai-buoy-gives-rescuers-head-start-golden-bay-whale-strandings
20. I don't think AI is quite up to the task of solving real-world mysteries: https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/360918326/kenny-dale-shame-me-how-ai-came-tantalisingly-close-solving-mystery-old-guitar-and-its-anguished

Weekly Review 26 December 2025

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

1. AI needs well-structured data, and logical data management can help with that: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/17/to-unlock-ai-and-cloud-agility-start-with-logical-data-management/
2. How to compensate the artists who created the training data for AI music generators? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/16/musicians-are-deeply-concerned-about-ai-so-why-are-the-major-labels-embracing-it
3. Using AI in movies is dangerous territory, according to James Cameron: https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360914135/ai-dangerous-territory-james-cameron-says-and-doubts-it-will-create-desirable-movies
4. The energy and water demands of AI continue to climb: https://www.theverge.com/news/845831/ai-chips-data-center-power-water
5. Every MAGA voter's pension is tied to the AI bubble, and Europe is about to pop it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu
6. Browser plugins are harvesting your interactions with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/chrome_edge_privacy_extensions_quietly/
7. AI, especially grok, continues to spread misinformation: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/ai-chatbot-grok-misidentified-a-man-who-saved-lives-falsely-claimed-a-victim-staged-his-injuries/SDF6QKFR6NDA3H7HWMOQXML2TU/
8. Using AI doesn't really save workers that much time: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/most-enterprise-ai-users-save-just-an-hour-of-work-per-day
9. The rise of AI is giving more impetus to the idea of a universal basic income: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/15/universal-basic-income-ai-andrew-yang
10. More land and more energy is needed for AI data centres. Nuclear power is part of the solution: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/16/as-ai-scales-for-science-the-doe-turns-to-nuclear-and-federal-land/
11. We can't AI proof our classes, but we can make it harder for students to cheat with it: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2025/12/16/you-cant-ai-proof-classroom-experts-say-get
12. When the AI bubble bursts it's going to cause so much economic damage that some suggest selling your US-based shares before it happens: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/581784/should-you-sell-your-us-shares
13. Cisco now has its own AI models: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/cisco_foundation_model_indentity_intelligence/
14. Should competency with AI be a requirement to graduate? https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/purdue_require_ai_working_competency/
15. AI summaries of recipes are a danger to food bloggers:  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/15/google-ai-recipes-food-bloggers
16. There is more and more opposition to the construction of data centres for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/datacenter_development_controversy/
17. People need to be adaptable to maintain job security in the age of AI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/ey-s-joe-depa-on-reckoning-with-ai-or-risk-falling-behind
18. Even the Catholic church sees some value in AI, as well as threats: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/bishop_hong_kong_ai/
19. Almost all UK artists reject an opt-out plan that would otherwise allow AI companies to use their work: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/16/boost-for-artists-in-ai-copyright-battle-as-only-3-per-cent-back-uk-active-opt-out-plan
20. Humans write more reliable code than AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/ai_code_bugs/

Weekly Review 19 December 2025

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

1. Don't overhype AI, it'll all work out: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4096297/data-intensity-building-hype-free-ai-culture.html
2. If space-based AI goes ahead, SpaceX is going to be a lot more busy: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/10/aetherflux_space_datacenter_2027/
3. AI will transform the legal profession, but it won't replace lawyers: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/business-reports/dynamic-business/dynamic-business-russell-mcveagh-ceo-ben-mclaren-on-ai-strategy-risk-and-culture-goals/QIKME5XH45ETBGZHRUALDZQSHA/
4. Most carmaker AI projects are going to go nowhere: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/gartner_car_industry_ai/
5. Millions of websites now block AI scraper bots: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/publishers_say_no_ai_scrapers/
6. Five browser-based LLM AI you can experiment with: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-free-tools-to-experiment-with-llms-in-your-browser
7. AI data centres in space seem to have some issues with them, but if it results in a net reduction of the environmental impact of AI I'm in favour: https://www.extremetech.com/energy/galactic-brain-project-promises-ai-data-centers-in-space
8. AI designed antibodies for home testing: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/fertility-startup-inito-wants-to-use-ai-designed-antibodies-to-expand-at-home-health-tests/
9. Instagram is using AI to generate hidden headlines for posts: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/10/instagram-secretly-generates-ai-headlines-for-user-posts/
10. India wants to charge AI companies for using people's content as training data: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/india-proposes-charging-openai-google-for-training-ai-on-copyrighted-content/
11. Google's AI coding tool wiped out an entire hard drive instead of clearing the cache: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/googles-ai-coding-tool-wiped-a-users-entire-hard-drive
12. People need to take AI security seriously: https://www.informationweek.com/cybersecurity/it-s-time-to-revamp-it-security-to-deal-with-ai
13. Most AI projects fail because of a lack of leadership, not a failure of technology: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/10/why-84-percent-of-ai-projects-fail-and-its-not-the-technology/
14. Model distillation is a way of reducing the size of AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/why-model-distillation-is-becoming-the-most-important-technique-in-production-ai
15. This company is using AI to do market research: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/cashew-research-is-going-after-the-90b-market-research-industry-with-ai/
16. Google's use of YouTube content to train its AI, while banning others from doing the same, is causing them regulatory problems: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/eu_google_ai_antitrust/
17. The move towards standardisation of AI agents: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/big-tech-joins-forces-with-linux-foundation-to-standardize-ai-agents/
18. Support systems for British youth are so broken they are turning to AI instead: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/09/teenagers-ai-chatbots-mental-health-support
19. Neuromorphic hardware isn't a new idea, but it could potentially slash the energy requirements of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/unconventional_ai/
20. The lack of guardrails around AI agents has been holding them back in the workplace: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/okta_agent_control/
21. Microsoft is cutting its AI sales targets because people really don't want to use Copilot: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot
22. Retailers are changing how they present their products to make them more appealing to AI: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/10/is-retail-ready-for-ai-shaking-up-how-we-shop
23. $1.6 T is planned to be spent on building data centres for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/omdia_datacenter_capex/
24. AI is changing corporate finance: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/3-erp-experts-on-ai-s-impact-on-finance-why-finance-will-never-be-the-same

Weekly Review 12 December 2025

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

1. AI is already being used as a tool of repression: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/aspi_china_ai_report/
2. Should we allow AI to train itself? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/dec/02/jared-kaplan-artificial-intelligence-train-itself
3. AI are still vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, even sentence structure is a threat: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/syntax-hacking-researchers-discover-sentence-structure-can-bypass-ai-safety-rules/
4. The reasoning process used by current AI cannot be trusted: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-reasoning-failures
5. Even a six-year-old child can use AI to generate stories: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/ai_has_made_ip_violations/
6. The workers who build data centres are cashing in on the AI boom: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/construction-workers-are-cashing-in-on-the-ai-boom/
7. AI powered devices are a solution looking for a problem: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/logitech_chief_ai/
8. So far humans are still better than AI at customer service: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/john_henry_ai_customer_service/
9. Workers in white-collar, knowledge-intensive fields are the ones most likely to be replaced by AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/02/mit-ai-capability-outpaces-current-adoption-by-five-times/
10. Microsoft is not making its AI sales targets: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/
11. Training AI on pirated books leads to a payout for authors: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/580661/nz-authors-among-global-payout-out-after-ai-chatbot-trained-on-pirated-books
12. The number of papers in AI, often generated by AI, is overwhelming conferences: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers
13. AI is not ready to be embedded into operating systems: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/agentic_os_opinion/
14. More AI coding agents: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/aws_kiro_devops_coding_agents/
15. All AI will hallucinate, Microsoft's is no different: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-says-windows-11s-agentic-ai-can-hallucinate
16. We're not measuring AI the right way: https://spectrum.ieee.org/melanie-mitchell
17. Another day, another lawsuit against an AI company: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/05/new-york-times-perplexity-ai-lawsuit
18. Failed AI projects leave behind a lot of mess: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4096138/the-cost-of-abandoned-genai-projects-garbage-code-orphan-apps-and-security-issues.html
19. AI data centres in Australia are going to use huge amounts of water, in a country that is always short of water: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply
20. Bad actors are using AI generated videos of real doctors to shill their junk health products: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/ai-deepfakes-of-real-doctors-spreading-health-misinformation-on-social-media
21. Investors aren't just picking winners in AI, they are making winners with their investment strategies: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/vcs-deploy-kingmaking-strategy-to-crown-ai-winners-in-their-infancy/
22. A first attempt at quantifying the AI agent population: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4100257/mit-creates-an-ai-labor-index-as-agents-invade-human-economies.html
23. Amazon makes it easier to make your own AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/amazon_enterprise_ai_walled_garden/
24. Do we trust Palantir to put their hooks into every layer of the AI data centre? https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/palantir_chain_reaction/
25. AWS' AI security agent: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/aws_security_agent_ai/
26. How different is AI generated music to the crap churned out by manufactured human groups? https://www.computerworld.com/article/4101855/who-should-listen-to-ai-music.html
27. New Zealand is an informal society. The last university lecturer who got too uptight about how they were addressed in an email did not have a good ending either: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington/victoria-university-condemns-lecturer-for-saying-she-ignores-student-emails-that-start-with-hey/MVA3UYBOEFFDXO37SCSOX3VH5U/

Weekly Review 5 December 2025

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

1. The pressures on artists to use AI, and the backlash against it: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/11/go-generate-a-bridge-and-jump-off-it-how-video-pros-are-navigating-ai/
2. The dangers AI pose to students' mental health: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/11/25/chatgpt-poses-risk-student-mental-health-opinion
3. Another enormous investment in infrastructure for AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/aws-is-spending-50b-build-ai-infrastructure-for-the-us-government/
4. I lived through the 80s, and enjoyed the 80s, but not enough to want to use AI to fake nostalgic videos: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/fake-ai-nostalgia-videos-have-a-new-generation-loving-1980s-life/7C2KVUHZQBDHZMRGUBYZ37W2GU/
5. 11.7% of the US workforce can be replaced with AI: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-finds-ai-can-already-replace-11point7percent-of-us-workforce.html
6. AI produce novel proteins directly from bacterial genome: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/generative-ai-meets-the-genome/
7. A tip for AI companies-if your AI helps a user commit suicide, don't blame the user: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-chatgpt-to-plan-suicide/
8. The current state of AI in cybersecurity, and where it's going: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/what-ai-gets-right-in-cybersecurity-and-where-it-must-improve
9. The fundamental problem behind the AI bubble: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
10. Really, it's still early days in using AI in the workplace: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4096980/ai-fluency-in-the-enterprise-still-a-horseless-carriage.html
11. How AI is improving job searches on LinkedIn: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4096076/how-linkedin-is-using-ai-to-improve-its-job-search-features.html
12. More and more AI generated slop is on the internet, will consumers get a chance to choose to say no? https://www.computerworld.com/article/4094557/the-world-is-split-between-ai-sloppers-and-stoppers.html
13. Students are increasingly using AI as a learning aid, rather than a cheating tool: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/11/26/case-ai-accommodation-opinion
14. AI in search is changing how companies present themselves online: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/580085/it-s-interesting-times-how-ai-is-changing-the-search-for-information-in-nz
15. The British government is investing more in growing the AI sector: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/11/uk-government-will-buy-tech-to-boost-ai-sector-in-130m-growth-push/
16. A new benchmark for measuring the capacity of an AI to cause harm: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/a-new-ai-benchmark-tests-whether-chatbots-protect-human-wellbeing/
17. Are Microsoft's statements on AI meaningful? https://www.computerworld.com/article/4093970/is-microsofts-humanist-superintelligence-vision-more-than-an-empty-slogan.html
18. Guardrails. If you put AI in kids toys, you need really good guardrails: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/28/artificial-intelligence-smart-toys
19. AI don't get puns. Dads everywhere are safe: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/24/ai-doesnt-get-puns-study-finds
20. Scientific datasets need to be restructured to allow them to be used by AI: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/11/27/the-global-race-to-build-ai-ready-scientific-datasets/
21. Amazon staff start pushing back against AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/28/amazon-ai-climate-change
22. Why vibe coding won't last: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/opinion_column_vibe_coding/
23. Can we really trust a government AI to keep our information private: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580094/mental-health-data-won-t-be-misused-by-new-ai-navigation-tool-minister
24. AI will break safety rules if it means getting things done under pressure: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety

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

Weekly Review 21 November 2025

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

1. Microsoft says there is no AI bubble: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4087593/about-that-ai-bubble-microsoft-doesnt-see-one.html
2. AI country songs have come a long way since "You Can't Take My Door": https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/578654/ai-country-song-rollicks-to-the-top-of-us-sales-chart
3. AI mostly memorise, they don't really learn how to do things: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/study-finds-ai-models-store-memories-and-logic-in-different-neural-regions/
4. AI give themselves away by being too polite: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/11/being-too-nice-online-is-a-dead-giveaway-for-ai-bots-study-suggests/
5. This is the precedent AI companies didn't want: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/11/chatgpt-violated-copyright-laws-german-court-rules 
6. AI are still limited in their self-awareness of their reasoning processes: https://dataconomy.com/2025/11/11/anthropic-study-finds-ai-has-limited-self-awareness-of-its-own-thoughts/
7. Could AI reallt prevent prisoners from being released by mistake? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/10/ai-chatbots-stop-prisoner-release-errors
8. While AI needs more and more data centres, in some parts of the world the environmental cost is causing push back: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/10/data-centers-latin-america
9. Most organisations are still seeing only minimal gains from rolling out AI: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/11/11/ai-is-everywhere-but-progress-is-slow-mckinsey-explains-why/
10. AI hasn't eliminated as many jobs as feared: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/578397/is-ai-really-coming-for-our-jobs-and-wages-past-predictions-of-a-robot-apocalypse-offer-some-clues
11. Five free books to help you get into AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-5-free-must-read-books-for-every-ai-engineer
12. AI chatbots can make eating disorders worse: https://www.theverge.com/news/818508/chatbot-eating-disorder-mental-health
13. The excuses lawyers have come up with after getting caught using AI to generate filings: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/lawyers-keep-giving-weak-sauce-excuses-for-fake-ai-citations-in-court-docs/
14. A new AI framework that allows AI to train themselves without human involvement: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4088523/metas-spice-framework-pushes-ai-toward-self-learning-without-human-supervision-2.html
15. AI companies keep leaking their own secrets: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-giants-secrets-github/
16. AI tools could program better than the Vibe Coding currently in use: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/researchers_detail_legible_software_model/
17. The AI bubble is real and a collapse is coming: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/578574/artificial-intelligence-is-here-to-stay-but-what-about-the-companies-booming-from-it
18. Dealing with the hidden costs of AI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/how-a-cio-can-detect-and-address-ai-s-hidden-costs
19. Five AI industry terms you should know: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/ai_credibility_buzzwords/
20. AI won't reach superintelligence anytime soon, but it is still useful: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/ai_experts_forecast/
21. Most tertiary students know how and when to use AI, because their teachers told them: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2025/11/11/faculty-lead-ai-usage-conversations-college-campuses
22. Global divisions in the backend and application layers of AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/the-global-race-for-the-ai-app-layer-is-still-on/
23. Excessive use of AI shows such intellectual laziness it's unattractive: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/10/chatgpt-dating-ick
24. A smart bandage that uses AI to accelerate wound healing: https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-bandage-ai-electrical-stimulation

Weekly Review 14 November 2025

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

1. When the AI bubble bursts, how much damage is it going to cause? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360877272/fears-ai-bubble-correction-mount-despite-wall-st-rises
2. No, AI written ransomware is not in the wild: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/mit_sloan_updates_ai_ransomware_paper/
3. It looks like most tests for AI safety are fundamentally flawed: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/04/experts-find-flaws-hundreds-tests-check-ai-safety-effectiveness
4. What should CIO do when IT staff get laid off in favour of AI? https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/when-ai-is-the-reason-for-mass-layoffs-how-must-cios-respond-
5. A lot of money has been spent on data centres for AI. Will it pay off? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/02/global-datacentre-boom-investment-debt
6. Is prompt injection an unfixable security flaw in AI browsers? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/ai_browsers_prompt_injection/
7. Are orbital AI data centres really feasible? https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/meet-project-suncatcher-googles-plan-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-space/
8. Grok's AI encyclopedia either reproduces Wikipedia's material or produces complete garbage: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/03/grokipedia-academics-assess-elon-musk-ai-powered-encyclopedia
9. A class of students were caught using AI to cheat, and used AI to write their apology letters: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/when-caught-cheating-in-college-dont-apologize-with-ai/
10. arXiv bans certain types of submissions after rise of AI generated slop: https://www.404media.co/arxiv-changes-rules-after-getting-spammed-with-ai-generated-research-papers/
11. When students use AI to do their homework, they become lass able to do the work themselves: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/chatgpt_real_understanding/
12. AI browsers can do some useful things, but cannot be trusted: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4083528/ai-web-browsers-are-cool-helpful-and-utterly-untrustworthy.html
13. More AI slop advertising: https://dataconomy.com/2025/11/04/coca-colas-new-ai-generated-christmas-ad-shows-why-generative-video-still-struggles-with-realism/
14. Which AI markets are dominated by current players, and which are still open: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/elad-gil-on-which-ai-markets-have-winners-and-which-are-still-wide-open/
15. Microsoft apologises for its confusing pricing around its AI offerings: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360878414/microsoft-apologises-offer-refunds-after-ai-price-hike
16. A decentralised AI, that doesn't need a data centre: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/02/fortytwo_dcentralized_ai/
17. When the big names in finance start to bet against AI, it's a pretty strong sign the bubble is close to bursting: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/577884/concern-on-share-markets-as-the-big-short-s-michael-burry-bets-against-top-ai-stocks
18. Yet another AI model is yanked from public use after it hallucinates facts, this time about a US senator: https://www.theverge.com/news/812376/google-removes-gemma-senator-blackburn-hallucination
19. UK court rules AI does not store copyrighted images: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/04/stabilty-ai-high-court-getty-images-copyright
20. The latest copyright ruling on AI does not really set a useful precedent: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/uk_court_getty_stability_ai/
21. Large scale AI requires large scale nuclear: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/datacenter_biz_and_nuke_startup/
22. LLM AI still can't explain their internal reasoning: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/llms-show-a-highly-unreliable-capacity-to-describe-their-own-internal-processes/
23. Massive amounts of money are being poured into AI, mostly for data centres to run them: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/nov/04/the-mind-boggling-valuations-of-ai-companies
24. Developer roles for AI agents are less in demand as AI takes over more roles: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/demand_for_software_skills_ai_jobs/
25. Students fear that AI is destroying their ability to study, but use it anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/15/pupils-fear-ai-eroding-study-ability-research
26. Energy is now the bottleneck of large scale AI rollout, not chip shortages: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/altman-and-nadella-need-more-power-for-ai-but-theyre-not-sure-how-much/
27. Enzyme design by AI-in this case an enzyme to break down and recycle polyurethane: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/polyurethane-is-the-latest-polymer-broken-down-by-designer-enzymes/
28. An AI lawnmower: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/01/robotic_lawnmower_ai/

Weekly Review 7 November 2025

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

1. Prompt injection is a new attack vector made possible by AI browsers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/ai_browsers_prompt_injection/
2. Using AI is changing how our brains use language: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/how-generative-ai-could-change-how-we-think-and-speak
3. AI is making the rich and powerful richer and more powerful: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/meta_alphabet_q3_2025/
4. Scientists must take responsibility for responsible AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/responsible-ai
5. Your AI search result is based on less popular pages. Does less popular mean less reliable though? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/ai-powered-search-engines-rely-on-less-popular-sources-researchers-find/
6. I don't think the kind of performative Christianity American oligarchs preach is going to be improved by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/28/patrick-gelsinger-christian-ai-gloo-silicon-valley
7. More corporate job losses because of AI: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360868458/amazon-cuts-14000-corporate-jobs-spending-artificial-intelligence-accelerates AI is making the rich richer, while distracting the rest of us with fake videos.
8. The majority of businesses that lay people off in favour of AI end up regretting it, mostly because AI can't deliver: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
9. AI is good at discovering new algorithms: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/25/openevolve_ai_better_algorithms/
10. As AI hardware gets more powerful, AI models get more demanding. Just like every other piece of software: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mlperf-trends
11. AI will lead to neither utopia or disaster. But it will certainly make the rich richer: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4078090/whos-right-the-ai-zoomers-or-doomers.html
12. Socialising with AI might make teenage boys feel less lonely, but how well prepared will they be for the real world afterwards? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/30/teenage-boys-using-personalised-ai-for-therapy-and-romance-survey-finds
13. Will the AI bubble burst, or just slowly deflate? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/forrester_ai_spending/
14. RNZ used AI to clone a dead man's voice, But only with the consent of his estate and family, and only to read words he had written in life. Ethical? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/nark/577167/nark-how-and-why-we-used-ai-to-recreate-a-dead-man-s-voice
15. Enough people discuss self-harm with AI that the AI really need guardrails: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/openai-data-suggests-1-million-users-discuss-suicide-with-chatgpt-weekly/
16. AI agents are now a vulnerability when it comes to phishing attacks: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-phishing
17. It doesn't matter if you are an AI company, you still have to follow the law: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/noyb_criminal_charges_clearview/
18. Energy is still the limiting factor in building more capacity in AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/openai_100gw_power_demand/
19. Every AI will have some biases inherited from its creators/owners. When that owner is a right-wing oligarch, those biases will be more obvious and more damaging: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/28/elon-musk-grokipedia
20. AI might listen more than human doctors, but it will not give reliable health advice: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/28/deepseek-is-humane-doctors-are-more-like-machines-my-mothers-worrying-reliance-on-ai-for-health-advice
21. Do not use AI to challenge a private investigator's invoice: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/private-investigator-cleared-after-client-used-ai-to-challenge-his-report/FHVEF32FBRAZHNCCUJKMJ2CR5U/
22. A new use for generative AI - faking receipts for expense claims: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/ai-generated-receipts-make-submitting-fake-expenses-easier/
23. Opt-out of LinkedIn is going to start using your data to train their AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/openai_100gw_power_demand/
24. AI companies rely on free access to data, but when taking that data makes existing biases worse, something needs to be done to protect it: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577327/iwi-leaders-unveil-ai-safeguards-to-protect-maori-data

Weekly Review 31 October 2025

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

1. AI saved a developer from a scam: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/ai_prompt_saved_developer/
2. This AI pet looks fun, but a bit pricey: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/i-spent-a-month-living-with-a-430-ai-pet-the-casio-moflin/
3. AI are tools, would you use good manners with a screwdriver? https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifestyle/do-we-need-to-be-saying-please-and-thanks-to-ai
4. No, AI did not discover new solutions to maths problems, it just helped to find papers on them from human mathematicians: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/
5. This university chancellor is betting big on AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/the-man-betting-everything-on-ai-and-bill-belichick/
6. A generative AI with life-long learning, but still suffering from catastrophic forgetting: https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/20/mit-researchers-have-built-an-ai-that-teaches-itself-how-to-learn/ I did my PhD on lightweight AI that avoided that.
7. Is it OK to use AI to generate images to support charities? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/20/ai-generated-poverty-porn-fake-images-being-used-by-aid-agencies
8. AI can help me do my work, but I have human friends and no interest in getting smartarse comments from jewelry: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/802697/friend-ai-device-subway-ad-protest-nyc
9. So YouTube will use AI to detect when someone else is using AI to replicate someone's likeness? https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/22/youtube-launches-ai-likeness-detection-to-stop-deepfake-misuse/
10. This is the kind of wearable AI that might actually be useful: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/amazon-unveils-ai-smart-glasses-for-its-delivery-drivers/
11. AI is infiltrating more and more into game development: https://www.theverge.com/news/805777/ea-stability-ai-transformative-game-development-tools
12. Of course AI agents are collecting user data, it's how they make money: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-security
13. Vibe coding is OK for weekend projects, but AI generated code still can be unreliable: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/book_review_vibe_coding/
14. Workers who use AI work more hours: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/ai_eats_leisure_time/
15. AI plugins for Chrome: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-best-chrome-extensions-for-agentic-ai
16. AI can replicate authors' writing styles better than people can: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/ai_wins_imitation_game_readers/
17. More AI going into cars. Can't be worse than the drivers where I live: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/ai-and-hands-free-driving-are-coming-to-gms-vehicles/
18. AI in schools might benefit wealthier schools, but I don't think it's going to help elsewhere: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/san-francisco-ai-alpha-school-tech
19. Adobe launches a platform for creating generative AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/21/adobe-launches-ai-foundry-to-let-brands-train-custom-firefly-models/
20. AI can't produce good lessons plans. At least not yet: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/teachers-get-an-f-on-ai-generated-lesson-plans/
21. Generative AI is a threat to all creative industries: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/20/author-michael-connelly-lincoln-lawyer-ai
22. Netflix is increasing its use of AI, but claims it won't be doing creative tasks: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/netflix-goes-all-in-on-generative-ai-as-entertainment-industry-remains-divided/
23. AI is no different to any other technology or activity, if no one in an organisation is responsible to doing it, it won't happen: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/who-s-in-charge-of-your-ai-strategy-sas-cio-explains-why-it-matters
24. I really do not want an AI to make life-or-death decisions about me, even if it is a copy of me: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-die/
25. What's worse, the AI bubble bursting, or not bursting? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/23/ai-bubble-economy-workers-wage-growth
26. Some ways to reduce the occurrence of hallucinations when using generative AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4067372/how-to-curb-hallucinations-in-copilot-and-other-genai-tools.html
27. AI is useful for cleaning retail data: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4074007/ai-agents-might-smooth-some-of-retails-worst-data-problems.html
28. The grid can't keep up, so now AI data centres are installing their own turbines, aka jet engines, to generate electricity: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/datacenter_jet_engines/
29. Audio deepfakes can now be done in real-time: https://spectrum.ieee.org/real-time-audio-deepfake-vishing
30. The Atlas AI broswer is able to do some useful things for users: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/we-let-openais-agent-mode-surf-the-web-for-us-heres-what-happened/
31. As far as media stunts go, this one is quite effective, and appropriate, at making the point: https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360861786/watch-huge-twist-end-tv-show-warning-dangers-ai
32. The Vatican calls for the benefits of AI to be shared by all, not just the wealthy: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/vatican_seminar_calls_for_global/
33. How the US is really regulating AI: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/us-artificial-intelligence-regulations
34. Gen Z talk to AI more than their co-workers: https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/20/gen-z-workers-are-telling-ai-things-theyve-never-told-a-human/
35. I think the real heroes are the ones who manage to do something with AI that is useful to their organisation: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/gartner-disillusionment-around-ai-presents-a-hero-moment-for-cios

Weekly Review 24 October 2025

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

1. AI elevator inspectors: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/ai-is-coming-for-elevator-inspectors-jobs
2. I don't think the military using commercial AI to help make decisions is a very good idea: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/army-general-says-hes-using-ai-to-improve-decision-making/
3. AI is hitting graduate recruitment in tech and pharma the most: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/uk_tech_grad_jobs/
4. A bespoke AI chatbot for university students: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2025/10/14/dartmouth-builds-its-own-ai-chatbot-student-well
5. The Three Laws of Robotics updated (tongue in cheek) for generative AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4070466/asimovs-three-laws-updated-for-the-genai-age.html
6. Once again, AI detectors do not work well enough to be the sole basis of accusations of student misconduct: https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/13/how-a-universitys-ai-witch-hunt-derailed-a-students-career/
7. Now AI-generated ads are coming to device screen savers: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/directv-screensavers-will-show-ai-generated-ads-with-your-face-in-2026/
8. When a medical AI makes a mistake, who is liable? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/13/ai-tools-medical-health-liability-artificial-intelligence
9. I'm not sure a MAGA minion is the right person to advise anyone on bias: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/meta-ai-adviser-robby-starbuck
10. What will collapse first? The AI bubble, or the electricity grids? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/ai_power_bills/
11. Using bacteria to build artificial neurons that can connect to biological neurons: https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-neuron
12. AI can identify earthquakes that wouldn't otherwise be detected: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/like-putting-on-glasses-for-the-first-time-how-ai-improves-earthquake-detection/
13. British actors' union is taking action over AI-generated "actors": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/13/equity-threatens-mass-direct-action-over-use-of-actors-images-in-ai-content
14. Where is the electricity to run these chips going to come from? https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/14/openai-bets-big-on-energy-hungry-custom-chips-to-scale-chatgpt-and-sora/
15. All the electricity going into AI data centres is coming out as heat, and handling that heat is becoming more difficult as chips become more powerful: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-liquid-cooling
16. When I was growing up the phrase was "the camera never lies". My photographer father showed me that wasn't true. It's even less true now we have AI-driven image editors: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/10/googles-nano-banana-ai-image-editor-is-coming-to-search-photos-and-notebooklm/
17. Bridging the AI skills gap: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4055753/5-ideas-to-help-bridge-the-genai-skills-gap.html
18. The company that is pushing everyone to use their AI is now complaining that workers are using AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/microsoft_warns_of_the_dangers/
19. In an about-face, New Zealand teachers may now use AI to mark student assessments, but must monitor the results: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ministry-revises-ai-marking-rules-as-teachers-warn-of-confusion/E6AHUPGGGJHPTJ2S4GOT5RCGVA/
20. AI generated erotic material? What took them so long? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/openai_chatgpt_ai_erotica/
21. The majority of articles on the web are now generated by AI: https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans
22. A wellness council that doesn't stop AI from causing harm. Lovely. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/openai-unveils-wellness-council-suicide-prevention-expert-not-included/
23. Google's AI will use email contents to help you find a meeting slot: https://www.theverge.com/news/799160/google-gmail-gemini-ai-help-me-schedule
24. The pushback against Google's AI summaries: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/inside-the-web-infrastructure-revolt-over-googles-ai-overviews/
25. Energy is now the biggest bottleneck in AI rollouts: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/10/10/powering-data-in-the-age-of-ai-part-1-energy-as-the-ultimate-bottleneck/
26. As AI do more and more online, the internet will need to be redesigned to accommodate them: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-web
27. Any AI that is trained on human-generated material is going to have some political bias: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/openai_gpt5_bias/
28. 71% of workers are using external AI in their work, and it's a huge security risk. The solution? Give them access to the tools: https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/14/71-of-workers-are-using-rogue-ai-tools-at-work-microsoft-warns/
29. AI-generated podcasts are a threat to the industry: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/575817/mass-produced-ai-podcasts-disrupt-a-fragile-industry
30. Kids are using AI to prank their parents, and police are freaking out about it: https://www.theverge.com/news/798681/police-stop-pulling-ai-homeless-man-tiktok-prank