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

Weekly Review 17 October 2025

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

1. Is AI going to make composers obsolete? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/09/classical-music-and-ai-by-tarik-oregan-composer-radio-3
2. I'm still skeptical that AI could do the kind of things I need to use Excel for: https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/07/excel-gets-ai-agent-mode-for-automated-data-tasks/
3. AI is a great help for good honest work avoidance: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/at_last_microsoft_leads_the/
4. AI will destroy 97M jobs in the USA in the next ten years - according to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/ai_job_losses_us_senate_report/
5. Agentic AI will have a huge impact on businesses: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/from-data-to-doing-agentic-ai-will-revolutionize-the-enterprise
6. Very soon we're going to see AI agents buying products that are recommended by AI. People won't be involved at all in spending their money: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/openai-and-the-race-for-ai-driven-commerce/
7. Using AI to monitor heartbeats using Wi-Fi signals: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-signal-heartbeat-detection
8. Awful people use AI to generate misinformation about a missing child: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/575620/ai-generated-images-of-missing-4yo-gus-raise-legal-concerns-about-misinformation
9. Deloitte Australia has to refund the Australian government after submitting a report full of AI-generated hallucinations: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/deloitte-will-refund-australian-government-for-ai-hallucination-filled-report/
10. Google AI bug fixer: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/google_deepmind_patches_holes/
11. Small language model AI can be run on consumer devices and don't need data centres: https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models
12. Even though Deloitte's use of AI caused them to refund the Australian government, they are still going all-in on it: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/deloitte-goes-all-in-on-ai-despite-having-to-issue-a-hefty-refund-for-use-of-ai/
13. Entry-level jobs are being changed by AI, but not eliminated by it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4067751/aws-training-exec-genai-isnt-killing-entry-level-jobs-its-redefining-them.html
14. Google won't fix a vulnerability in its AI: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/google-declines-to-fix-gemini-flaw-that-lets-hidden-commands-trick-the
15. AI improve faster at tasks where their performance can be easily measured: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/the-reinforcement-gap-or-why-some-ai-skills-improve-faster-than-others/
16. Startups adopt AI much faster than established companies: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/startups_binge_on_ai/
17. How much of the slowdown in entry-level hiring is due to AI? https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/oct/09/gen-z-face-job-pocalypse-as-global-firms-prioritise-ai-over-new-hires-report-says
18. It's now very difficult to get funding from venture capitalists if you're not pitching AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/if-youre-not-an-ai-startup-good-luck-raising-money-from-vcs/
19. AI in healthcare can be useful for communicating with patients: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/10/03/goldman-sachs-chief-data-officer-warns-ai-has-already-run-out-of-data/
20. While the dead might not have legal rights to their image, it's still tasteless to use AI to create videos of them: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/you-cant-libel-the-dead-but-that-doesnt-mean-you-should-deepfake-them/
21. Accounts using AI for evil are starting to get banned: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/openai_bans_suspected_china_accounts/
22. Optical neural networks are a much more energy-efficient approach to AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/generative-optical-ai-nature-ucla
23. The more you interact with sycophantic AI the worse you get at dealing with conflict with people: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/05/ai_models_flatter_users_worse_confilict/
24. More warnings on the AI bubble bursting: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/bank-of-england-warns-of-growing-risk-that-ai-bubble-could-burst
25. An emerging standard for connecting AI to IDE: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/jetbrains_acp_vs_code/
26. AI detectors don't really work for detecting AI-generated text: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/575416/university-wrongly-accuses-students-of-using-artificial-intelligence-to-cheat
27. AI is starting to replace the relationships we have with other people and creatures: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4067326/an-unwelcome-megatrend-ai-that-replaces-family-friends-and-pets.html
28. The big winner of all the AI investment is Nvidia: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/stargate_openai_amd/
29. While people fear losing their jobs to AI, the real threat is AI-designed biological agents: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/do-ai-designed-proteins-create-a-biosecurity-vulnerability/
30. Data centres for AI demand so much copper that it's driving new ways of extracting the metal: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-copper
31. What needs to be considered when rolling out AI at financial institutions: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/10/08/ai-is-everywhere-scaling-it-in-finance-requires-deeper-responsibility/
32. Google's AI browser can now act like a human to get data hidden from bots: https://www.theverge.com/news/795463/google-computer-use-gemini-ai-model-agents
33. Will the AI bubble bursting impact retirement funds? https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360850918/ai-bubble-warning-how-worried-should-you-be-about-your-investments-and-kiwisaver
34. AI have now exploited all of the publicly available data, the future lies in the confidential data hidden away within organisations: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/10/03/goldman-sachs-chief-data-officer-warns-ai-has-already-run-out-of-data/
35. Google will pay bug bounties on its AI, but not for defeating guardrails: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/google_ai_bug_bounty/
36. Will the original creators of the data scraped to train AI ever get paid for it? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/openai_makes_empty_promises_to/
37. The more researchers use AI, the less impressed with it they become: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/more_researchers_use_ai_few_confident/
38. The societal dangers of AI generated girlfriends: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/06/rise-of-ai-girlfriends-adult-dating-websites
39. AI is a threat to content creators: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/mrbeast-says-ai-could-threaten-creators-livelihoods-calling-it-scary-times-for-the-industry/

Weekly Review 10 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 are starting to detect when they are being tested: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/anthropic-ai-model-claude-sonnet-asks-if-it-is-being-tested
2. Meta plans to use data from conversations with AI to target ads: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/meta_ai_use_informs_ads/
3. Using AI to estimate someone's reputation could be useful, but not if it's tied to a dodgy business model that makes money from people's anxiety: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/whitebridge_ai_reputation_reports_complaint/
4. How is AI going to affect the investment banker business? https://www.extremetech.com/internet/ai-robot-advisory-is-changing-retail-investment
5. Using AI to design more efficient batteries: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-battery-material
6. The backlash against an AI-generated actor: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/30/tilly-norwood-ai-actor-hollywood
7. OpenAI and Nvidia are becoming the WinTel of the 21st century: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/nvidia_openai_alliance_opinion_column/
8. AI can interact with children, but the long term effects of this on the children is unknown: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/oct/02/ai-children-parenting-creativity
9. Using AI to help people understand others' political viewpoints: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/complex-chaos-thinks-ai-can-help-people-find-common-ground/
10. A (slim) majority of Japanese games companies are now using AI to develop their games: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/29/cesa-51-of-japanese-game-firms-use-ai-in-development/
11. Detecting AI generated assignments is so difficult that New Zealand universities are giving up: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/574517/universities-give-up-using-software-to-detect-ai-in-students-work
12. The more human an AI seems the more users trust it, even though it can't do basic tasks: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4065796/employees-overtrust-humanlike-ai-ignoring-its-flaws.html
13. Using AI to do your work for you just makes more work for your colleagues: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/ai_workslop_productivity/
14. How long before AI generated actors take over the movie business? Can producers really justify spending millions on big-name actors when AI can do the job for much less? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/hollywood-is-desperate-to-hire-my-ai-actress/VKSLH2YHPNCGDELZNHA5E6ZOLA/
15. How complicated have software licenses become if we need an AI to interpret them? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/onyx_ai_microsoft_licensing/
16. Identifying an historical war criminal with AI: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/historian-uses-ai-to-help-identify-nazi-in-notorious-holocaust-image
17. Using AI as workplace assistants is benefitting older workers: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/574407/older-workers-reaping-benefits-from-ai
18. AI can make a good enhancement for search, but should not replace search: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/salesforce_search_agentforce/
19. To make AI that are more useful in the real world, we need models of the real world to train the AI in: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/big-ai-firms-pump-money-into-world-models-as-llm-advances-slow/
20. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised to see AI being misused and abused by the current US administration: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/09/ai-leadership-trump-posts-deepfakes-of-dems-calling-themselves-woke-pieces-of-s-t/
21. AI has the potential to make customer service in banking more effective and accessible: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/574430/using-ai-to-bring-a-bit-more-humanity-back-into-banking
22. Should we be treating AI as people? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/artificial-intelligence-personhood
23. If an AI breaks the law, who gets fined? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/29/waymo-illegal-u-turn-driverless-car
24. James Cameron doesn't want to make a new Terminator movie because he can't be certain it won't be made obsolete by reality in two years: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/movies/james-cameron-opens-up-on-ai-future-terminator-films-and-the-avatar-franchise
25. AI is killing the internet: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4063408/its-time-to-push-back-against-the-ai-internet.html
26. Wikipedia's AI-friendly database: https://www.theverge.com/news/789288/wikidata-ai-friendly-database
27. How much energy is AI using? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use
28. Accenture is eliminating staff who can't retrain to use AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/accenture_ai_jobs/
29. Predictive AI in business decision making: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/how-predictive-ai-can-help-cios-optimize-decision-making
30. Despite the hype around AI, it hasn't had any real effect on jobs: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/ai_isnt_taking_people_jobs/
31. It is almost impossible to detect if an AI has been trained to betray you: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/when_ai_is_trained_for/
32. AI generated bug reports can be useful, if they are backed up with human intelligence: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/curl_project_swamped_with_ai/
33. It looks like California's AI regulation law won't achieve a lot: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/california_governor_signs_ai_safety_law/
34. Using AI to detect and prevent the actions of ransomware: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/google_drive_ai_ransomware_detection/
35. Marketers are now using the data from users' conversations with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/profound_browser_extension_privacy_concern/
36. Investors are starting to think there is an AI investment bubble: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/leading-uk-tech-investor-warns-of-disconcerting-signs-of-ai-stock-bubble
37. Video generating AI are developing basic models of the real world: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/can-todays-ai-video-models-accurately-model-how-the-real-world-works/
38. The slop produced by AI is interfering with plans to use it in business: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/28/the-ai-services-transformation-may-be-harder-than-vcs-think/

Weekly Review 3 October 2025

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

1. A politician's crusade to force AI companies to publicise the dangers of their technologies: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/scott-wiener-on-his-fight-to-make-big-tech-disclose-ais-dangers/
2. AI is not yet a threat to jobs in law, but will soon be impacting junior lawyers: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/artificial-intelligence-law-firms-face-ai-dilemma-as-junior-roles-and-graduate-jobs-come-under-pressure/GVO24DZWTFG5HOONB6Y2BLAHP4/
3. Some of the ways AI can go wrong in the workplace: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/573798/the-detail-when-ai-in-the-workplace-goes-wrong
4. Who did and did not sign the letter calling for red lines around AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/ai_un_controls/
5. An AI managed a baseball team during a game. It did not end well: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/the-oakland-ballers-let-an-ai-manage-the-team-what-could-go-wrong/
6. Much more AI hardware is being built, but where will the electricity come from? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-and-nvidias-100b-ai-plan-will-require-power-equal-to-10-nuclear-reactors/
7. One professor's approach to essays in the age of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/07/01/multiday-class-essay-chatgpt-era-opinion
8. Job applications being written by AI with AI optimised CV that are processed by AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059636/is-ai-killing-the-resume.html
9. I remember when a TV had an on/off switch and a dial to select the channel. Do we really need to embed AI into them? https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/googles-gemini-ai-is-coming-to-your-tv/
10. AI generated malware is now in the wild: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/kaspersky_revengehotels_checks_back_in/
11. British banks are rolling out AI, are they considering the security ramifications first? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/lloyds_data_ai_deployment/
12. Using AI in materials science: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/22/how-scientists-are-teaching-ai-to-understand-materials-data/
13. Some of the dangers that can arise from misaligned AI: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/deepmind-ai-safety-report-explores-the-perils-of-misaligned-ai/
14. Scammers are using AI generated phonecalls to target businesses: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/gartner_ai_attack/
15. As more AI regulation appears in legislation, big tech fights back: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/meta-launches-super-pac-to-fight-ai-regulation-as-state-policies-mount/
16. More ridiculous sums of money being invested in hardware for AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/573803/nvidia-to-invest-100-billion-in-openai-as-ai-datacenter-competition-intensifies
17. Whatever happens with AI, the people building the infrastructure are making good money out of it: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/the-billion-dollar-infrastructure-deals-powering-the-ai-boom/
18. AI are going to start protecting themselves from being shutdown: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/google_ai_misalignment_risk/
19. AI is a risk, but can also help in the fight against climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/22/ai-carries-risks-but-will-help-tackle-global-heating-says-uns-climate-chief
20. Another specialised chip for AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/23/mediatek-unveils-dimensity-9500-ai-chip/
21. Locations of five more data centres for running AI have been released: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/openai_oracle_softbank_datacenters/
22. AI hallucinations are unavoidable: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
23. AI do not produce accurate summaries of scientific papers: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/science-journalists-find-chatgpt-is-bad-at-summarizing-scientific-papers/
24. Some types of fraud, and how AI can guard against them: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/22/selected-ai-fraud-prevention-solutions-september-2025/
25. AI struggle with non-Western cultural norms: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/when-no-means-yes-why-ai-chatbots-cant-process-persian-social-etiquette/
26. The world needs to establish red lines that AI must not be allowed to cross: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/scientists-urge-global-ai-red-lines-as-leaders-gather-at-un-general-assembly/VJWWUGL7HFHBBMMKXOR3DBBFTY/
27. Using AI to find possible dating matches isn't a bad idea, but I really don't trust Facebook with that kind of data: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/facebook-is-getting-an-ai-dating-assistant/
28. AI have learned the same biases as human medical practitioners, and downplay the symptoms of women and minorities: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ai-medical-tools-found-to-downplay-symptoms-of-women-ethnic-minorities/

Weekly Review 26 September 2025

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

1. The power demands of AI are contributing to climate change, and the contribution is getting greater: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/fire_up_gas_turbines_ai_race/
2. AI companies are burning through enormous sums of money. So don't tell me there's no AI bubble: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4054928/ai-bubble-watch-openai-to-burn-through-115b-by-2029.html
3. Remember, AI companies are using other people's work to train their models, which means they're using other people's work to make money: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/top-uk-artists-urge-starmer-to-protect-their-work-on-eve-of-trump-visit
4. The impact of AI on human language: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4055841/is-ai-changing-our-language.html
5. Environments for reinforcement learning are the latest hot area for AI companies: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/silicon-valley-bets-big-on-environments-to-train-ai-agents/
6. How AI agents are being used in the life sciences: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/12/agentic-ai-and-the-scientific-data-revolution-in-life-sciences/
7. AI really can write the perfect phishing email: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ai-chatbots-cyber/
8. Falling for the AI hype, a lot of tech companies are planning to restructure: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/tech_restructures_ai/
9. Despite lawsuits, Google claims users want their AI summaries of webpages: https://www.theverge.com/news/778306/google-ai-summaries-penske-lawsuit
10. To survive in the age of AI, you must be constantly learning new things: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/16/deepmind-ceo-says-learning-how-to-learn-is-the-key-skill-for-the-ai-era/
11. How to successfully integrate AI into your organisation:  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2025/09/damcosolutions/5-strategic-steps-to-a-seamless-ai-integration
12. Image-based attacks on AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/15/ai-agents-can-be-controlled-by-malicious-commands-hidden-in-images/
13. AI summaries now lead to lawsuit: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/777788/rolling-stone-penske-media-sue-google-ai-overviews
14. AI code generators are useful, but their output must be very carefully checked: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/vibe-coding-has-turned-senior-devs-into-ai-babysitters-but-they-say-its-worth-it/
15. New Zealand's plans to invest in AI: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/reti-earmarks-70m-of-new-agencys-budget-for-ai-commercialisation-grants/QHQI2B5WQZC5LFRBLLBH2MYE5I/
16. Using AI tools as a defense attorney: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4055941/qa-how-ai-is-helping-one-lawyer-get-kids-out-of-jail-faster.html
17. Looks like AI-powered kids toys just aren't that interesting to kids: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy
18. Seven main findings of the first study into using ChatGPT. Are other AI similar? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage/
19. Be careful what you wish for an AI to do for you: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/16/ai-artificial-intelligence-fairytale-fisherman
20. If specialised AI is more important than general AI, where does that leave the first-mover companies that developed the generalists? https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/selling-coffee-beans-to-starbucks-how-the-ai-boom-could-leave-ais-biggest-companies-behind/
21. Ways to teach in the age of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/09/15/strategies-personalized-learning-ai-age-opinion
22. We need hardware-level kill switches for AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/16/openai-hardware-chief-calls-for-kill-switches-to-counter-devious-ai-models/
23. An AI model of the Earth: https://spectrum.ieee.org/google-deepmind-alphaearth-foundations-ai 
24. AI for call screening: https://www.theverge.com/news/778518/att-ai-call-screening-digital-receptionist
25. Student lecturer evaluations are worse for women, even for the same class: https://www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/
26. Make no mistake-AI is going to make the rich richer, at the expense of everyone else: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/ai-wealth-inequality-cultural-division
27. AI used to detect hate speech are not reliable: https://www.psypost.org/ai-hate-speech-detectors-show-major-inconsistencies-new-study-reveals/
28. The importance to AI of unstructured data: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/15/in-order-to-scale-ai-with-confidence-enterprise-ctos-must-unlock-the-value-of-unstructured-data/
29. So a report calling for ethical AI use had AI generated citations in it? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/education-report-calling-for-ethical-ai-use-contains-over-15-fake-sources/
30. Of course Google is stealing content for their AI. Every AI company is stealing content to train their AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/google-is-a-bad-actor-says-people-ceo-accusing-the-company-of-stealing-content/
31. More jobs losses caused by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/fiverr_ai_layoff/
32. We can't trust AI with lethal decision making: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/terminators_aidriven_robot_war_machines/
33. How Radio New Zealand is using AI and maintaining trust: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573390/trust-and-tech-where-should-rnz-draw-the-line-on-ai
34. The problem with letting AI shop for me is that while it might know what I might like, it doesn't know what I already have: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/google_unveils_masterplan_for_letting/
35. I don't think sycophantic AI make good spiritual advisors: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/millions-turn-to-ai-chatbots-for-spiritual-guidance-and-confession/
36. Web crawler API for gathering AI training data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-free-web-search-apis-for-ai-agents

Weekly Review 19 September 2025

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

1. How AI improves efficiency in customer service: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/08/ai-never-clocks-out-how-smart-leaders-are-funding-the-24-7-customer-revolution/
2. A list of some web scraping tools, to gather data to train your AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-7-ai-web-scraping-tools
3. When the AI bubble bursts, things won't look quite so sunny for cloud providers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/google_cloud_ceo_sees_sunny/
4. Pricing of AI services are a bit of a mess at the moment, with a lot of customer uncertainty: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/ai_software_licensing_immature/
5. The Darwin Awards are being expanded with a new category, for applications of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/ai_darwin_awards/
6. Just because it's AI doesn't mean it doesn't have security holes. In this case, they know it has holes, and are pushing security onto the user: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/anthropics-new-claude-feature-can-leak-data-users-told-to-monitor-chats-closely/
7. The focus on assessments as outcomes of education has led to the rise of students using AI to do their work for them: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/10/ai-we-reap-what-we-sow-opinion
8. They might think they're in a relationship with an AI, but really they're in a relationship with a corporation, who just sees them as a source of $$$: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/09/ai-chatbot-love-relationships
9. Google's AI summaries are continuing to reduce traffic to news websites: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/06/existential-crisis-google-use-ai-search-upended-web-publishers-models
10. The neurodiverse are the big winners out of users of AI: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/study-finds-neurodiverse-workers-more-satisfied-with-ai-assistants/
11. How AI is forcing changes in data centres: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/the-ai-driven-data-center-revolution
12. I really don't think it's a good idea to let any industry regulate itself, especially not the AI industry: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/776130/senator-ted-cruz-ai-sandbox-bill
13. The settlement of one of the first copyright case over AI training data has been blocked by the judge: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics-1-5b-settlement-is-being-shoved-down-the-throat-of-authors/
14. AI will soon be in everything in IT, but will not replace all IT jobs: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/no-ai-jobs-bloodbath-as-ai-permeates-all-it-work-over-the-next-5-years/
15. More tests are being rolled out to benchmark the performance of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mlperf-inference-51
16. A push to teach New Zealand school children about AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572737/new-push-for-ai-as-education-minister-erica-stanford-announces-curriculum-changes
17. Conversations with AI can go in many directions, now ChatGPT gives users the ability to go back and select another branch: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/chatgpts-new-branching-feature-is-a-good-reminder-that-ai-chatbots-arent-people/
18. AI authored books are becoming a problem for libraries: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ai-books-how-to-tell-a-book-wasnt-written-by-a-human-author/IEWSA2RHFVAUXARVPYJ6BORWTQ/
19. Like everything else, if you don't use it you lose it. Using AI to perform your tasks causes your work skills to atrophy: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_skill_loss_prediction/
20. Is AI taking over social media? https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/sam-altman-on-social-media-bot-takeover/
21. Using AI to detect speech without speaking, by detecting and interpreting nerve signals: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/alterego-brain-signal-device/
22. AI is one of the factors driving job growth: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4051732/ai-and-clean-energy-drive-job-growth-reshape-us-labor-market.html
23. More specialised AI hardware is in the pipeline: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-links-up-with-broadcom-to-produce-its-own-ai-chips/
24. How much water does AI really consume? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-water-usage
25. Why you don't want to depend on AI coding assistants-sometimes the AI service goes down: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage/
26. AI being trained on the output of AI, is this the ensloppification of the AI industry? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/
27. Will AI reinvigorate the smartphone? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_phone/
28. The roles of AI in car auctions: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/how-ai-is-reshaping-the-billion-dollar-car-auction-industry-beyond-the-gavel/
29. Teach kids about AI early: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572844/professor-calls-for-government-to-begin-ai-education-earlier 

Weekly Review 12 September 2025

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

1. A comparison of some AI educational tools: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/09/03/ai-companies-roll-out-educational-tools
2. Australian lawyer sanctioned after using AI to write a court submission: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep/03/lawyer-caught-using-ai-generated-false-citations-in-court-case-penalised-in-australian-first
3. Hiding AI prompt injection attacks in compressed images: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/researchers-find-hackers-can-hide-ai-prompt-attacks-in-compressed-images
4. Using AI to detect signs of consciousness in coma patients: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/01/seeme-ai-consciousness-detection/
5. Flagging dodgy journals with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/31/ai_spies_questionable_science_journals/
6. Impersonating a chatbot that's impersonating a person or how human operators need to back-up AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-a-chatbot-my-life-as-a-real-estate-ais-human-backup
7. AI is another tool in the attacker's toolbox: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4048415/the-ai-powered-cyberattack-era-is-here.html
8. Even if it's an AI server, you still need to secure it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/exposed_ollama_servers_insecure_research/
9. AI code generators speed software production but you still need programmers to sort out the code they produce: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/02/ai-boosts-developer-productivity-human-oversight-still-needed/
10. AI is just another tool being used by scammers. When will platforms like Meta actually put a stop to the scammers? Is Meta making money from them? https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360810721/35k-month-guaranteed-fake-luxon-video-targeting-kiwis
11. How much will this AI data centre boost India's carbon emissions? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-stargate-india-data-centre/
12. When you deploy immature AI technology, the results can be frustrating and hilarious: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/30/taco-bell-is-having-second-thoughts-about-relying-on-ai-at-the-drive-through/
13. Wouldn't it be better to build your AI so it doesn't tell people to end themselves? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/571864/chatgpt-to-get-parental-controls-after-teen-s-death
14. How CIO need to prepare for AGI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/it-leadership-takes-on-agi
15. Doesn't matter how much computing power you have, if you don't know what you're doing it won't give you a good AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/tesla-dojo-the-rise-and-fall-of-elon-musks-ai-supercomputer/
16. When the AI bubble bursts it's going to hurt the data centre operators: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/goldman_sachs_ai_datacenters/
17. Now Wordpress is getting and AI website construction tool: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-shows-off-telex-its-experimental-ai-development-tool/
18. I suspect there are other AI companies that would be more desirable to deal with than Palantir: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/coventry-city-council-signs-ai-deal-contract-palantir-technologies
19. Researchers have identified 32 distinct AI dysfunctions, that resemble human psychiatric disorders: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/01/psychopathia-machinalis-artificial-sanity-research/
20. Bring AI into home automation. Why not, they've shoveled it into everything else. https://www.theverge.com/ifa-berlin/768739/ai-could-bring-us-a-smarter-home-ifa-2025
21. Security flaws affect AI-enabled software just as much as any other kind of software: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/google-warns-that-mass-data-theft-hitting-salesloft-ai-agent-has-grown-bigger/
22. AI companies are putting more and more money into buying politicians: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/02/ai-industry-pours-millions-into-politics
23. The AI certifications industry is looking for: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4049928/top-ai-certifications-that-will-get-you-hired-and-promoted.html
24. We're moving into a trough of disillusionment over AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-5-trough-of-disillusionment
25. AI recruitment tools lead to the use of AI interview tools with candidates giving AI generated answers: https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/360808454/strange-behaviour-being-observed-job-interviews-its-sign-times
26. Time to start preparing for the AI bubble bursting: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4050041/how-to-prepare-for-an-ai-bubble-burst.html
27. AI is just another tool to be used by misogynists: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/fuelling-sexism-ai-bikini-interview-videos-flood-internet/HHMCD353JJBOFPMC3MTVD4OUH4/
28. Is calling an AI "clanker" really a slur? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/01/clanker-slur-against-robots-all-over-internet-is-it-offensive
29. Job carnage at Salesforce thanks to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/salesforce_4000_jobs_ai/

Weekly Review 5 September 2025

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

1. Rampant use of AI in an assignment leads one course lecturer to require every student to give a live presentation: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360802436/one-slip-and-youre-guilty-universitys-unusual-ai-crackdown-rattles-students
2. AI is now being used to game academic performance metrics: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/571397/fake-citations-causing-real-world-damage
3. Why would you rely on AI to give you accurate information about international travel? https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/chatgpt-lied-to-us-furious-couple-blames-ai-for-missed-flight/ar-AA1LjGAV
4. How much water does Google's AI really use? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/googles_gemini_water/
5. It's easy to break AI guardrails, simply by using long run-on sentences: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/breaking_llms_for_fun/
6. Yet another copyright lawsuit against and AI company: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/perplexity_asahi_nikkei_lawsuits/
7. Google's AI is now hallucinating restaurant specials that don't exist: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pizza-joint-overwhelmed-with-angry-customers-asking-for-fake-deals-made-up-by-google-ai/
8. Data management still needs to improve in many organisations for them to make the most of AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/08/27/the-ai-beatings-will-continue-until-data-improves/
9. AI is impacting the job prospects of new tertiary graduates: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/ai_hurts_recent_college_grads_jobs/
10. The question is, did the AI learn about the event from its training data, or did it coincidentally hallucinate something that really happened? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-built-from-1800s-texts-surprises-creator-by-mentioning-real-1834-london-protests/
11. Specialised AI hardware for robotics: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4045542/nvidias-new-computer-gives-ai-brains-to-robots.html
12. People really need to learn that what an AI tells you probably isn't true: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/with-ai-chatbots-big-tech-is-moving-fast-and-breaking-people/
13. AI with search capabilities are using search to cheat in tests of their capabilities: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/23/searchcapable_ai_agents_may_cheat/
14. Using AI to reduce the methane emissions of rice farms: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/how-one-ai-startup-is-helping-rice-farmers-battle-climate-change/
15. Half of British workers are worried about the impact of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/27/half-of-uk-adults-worry-that-ai-will-take-or-alter-their-job-poll-finds
16. An overview of AI, focusing more on generative AI: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/what-is-artificial-intelligence-from-agi-to-ai-slop-what-you-need-to-know
17. A research paper on the employment effects of AI: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/
18. So many people are using AI to fake their way through job interviews that these companies are going back to face-to-face interviews: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4044734/to-counter-ai-cheating-companies-bring-back-in-person-job-interviews.html
19. Why one journalist really hates AI: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/chatgpt-ai-planet-jobs-hate
20. If people are turning to AI for emotional support, it shows that there needs to be improved access to mental health services: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/after-teen-suicide-openai-claims-it-is-helping-people-when-they-need-it-most/
21. The AI bubble is close to bursting, and Microsoft is highly exposed: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4045573/could-microsofts-ai-billions-go-up-in-smoke.html
22. It's human nature to ascribe human traits to things, but we must remember that an AI is not a consistent personality: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/the-personhood-trap-how-ai-fakes-human-personality/
23. Using AI to fake crowd sizes doesn't improve your credibility: https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360802761/wait-did-will-smith-just-use-fake-ai-crowd-here-judge-yourself
24. The AI bubble is getting ever closer to bursting: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/overinflated_ai_balloon/
25. AI is costing a lot of media companies money and it'll be a struggle to get it back: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/570889/mediawatch-ai-and-a-last-ditch-bid-for-media-to-claw-back-online-revenue
26. Using AI to handle non-emergency calls in emergency call centres: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/911-centers-are-so-understaffed-theyre-turning-to-ai-to-answer-calls/
27. Reducing the impact AI have on the power grid requires communication and coordination between data centres, grid operators, generators, hardware engineers and software developers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/
28. AI is now producing accurate hurricane predictions: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/googles-ai-model-just-nailed-the-forecast-for-the-strongest-atlantic-storm-this-year/
29. This strikes me as a reasonable use of AI-why spend money to produce a concept illustration when an AI can do it? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hastings-library-mayoral-candidate-uses-ai-to-create-a-plan-for-inner-city-housing/PB3MR5MHCRDQPBTSKSN53SUHHY/
30. AI act like sycophants so the companies that own them can make more money: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/ai-sycophancy-isnt-just-a-quirk-experts-consider-it-a-dark-pattern-to-turn-users-into-profit/
31. AI powered ransomware is now a thing, just not yet in the wild: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/first_aipowered_ransomware_spotted_by/
32. AI web scraping bots are putting unsustainable loads on web hosts: https://www.extremetech.com/science/ai-crawlers-fetchers-put-an-unsustainable-load-on-the-internet
33. I don't think YouTube should be using AI to alter people's videos without at least asking first: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/youtube-secretly-tested-ai-video-enhancement-without-notifying-creators/
34. Will AI lead to the rise of "superworkers"? https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-shapes-the-future-of-work-with-superworkers/
35. Three ways to make an AI you build useful: https://www.kdnuggets.com/tips-for-building-machine-learning-models-that-are-actually-useful
36. Whether AI are beings or just tools seems to be at the heart of the debate around moral treatment of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/can-ais-suffer-big-tech-and-users-grapple-with-one-of-most-unsettling-questions-of-our-times
37. AI is a good assistant for programmers, but cannot yet replace them: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding
38. AI leads to another suicide: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-helped-teen-plan-suicide-after-safeguards-failed-openai-admits/

Weekly Review 29 August 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 cat videos, designed to be addictive: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/18/ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas
2. Lying about the productivity of AI chatbots has consequences for an Australian bank: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/
3. Companies are shoveling AI into their productivity software: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4043243/productivity-software-firms-pivot-to-genai-by-leaning-on-legacy-strengths.html
4. AI is really good for manipulating people, but the more people know about AI the harder they are to manipulate: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4040468/puny-humans-are-no-match-for-ai.html
5. The current US administration is the most amateurish and venal in history. So it's no surprise they want to eliminate all regulation around AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/opinion_us_govt_ai/
6. The AI bubble is about to burst, but AI companies like OpenAI will keep going: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/sam-altman-calls-ai-a-bubble-while-seeking-500b-valuation-for-openai/
7. How AI tools are failing users: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/08/20/why-your-new-ai-tools-and-the-companies-making-them-are-failing-you/
8. AI powered toys are not a good idea: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/ai-powered-stuffed-animals-are-coming-for-your-kids/
9. AI bots are now able to evade the defences websites use to slow them down: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/
10. Three things to do to get into AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/if-youre-trying-to-get-into-ai-this-is-what-you-need-to-do
11. AI generated news articles being submitted and accepted for publication: https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/wired-and-business-insider-remove-ai-written-freelance-articles/
12. This novelist used AI to write the dialogue with an AI in her novel. Is this appropriate? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/18/author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel
13. Will the wealthy create AI clones of themselves to direct their businesses even after they're dead? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/opinion_column_gen_ai/
14. Rolling out AI in business so far is failing to live up to the hype: https://futurism.com/ai-agents-failing-companies
15. While people are forming bonds with AI, I think it's more that humans are hardwired to want to bond with others: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/relationship-she-might-not-have-had-hayley-s-ai-partner-changed-her-life
16. Will AI enabled toys lead to more spying on children? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-barbie-dolls
17. AI will see optical illusions where they don't exist: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/vision_language_models_see_illusions/
18. AI shows that people are walking faster and interacting less in public: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/ai-walk-more-quickly-socialise-less-public-spaces
19. 95% of generative AI projects are not meeting expectations, mostly due to not integrating them into the business properly: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4042361/study-95-percent-of-corporate-generative-ai-projects-fail.html
20. Students need to learn about AI, even though they can use it to cheat: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4042380/ai-in-the-classroom-is-important-for-real-world-skills-college-professors-say.html
21. Higher education institutions need to help students before they turn to AI for emotional support: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2025/08/21/helping-college-students-emotionally-they-turn-ai
22. Using AI to help satellites avoid space junk: https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-esa-cream-ai
23. Can AI make government procurement more efficient? Or will it just create a whole new pile of problems? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/us_government_ai_procurement/
24. Is it better for a country to develop its own AI technology, or to lease it from another? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/the-guardian-view-on-britains-ai-strategy-the-risk-is-that-it-is-dependency-dressed-up-in-digital-hype

Weekly Review 22 August 2025

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

1. I don't need an AI to tell me what my workmates think of me, I talk to the people I work with: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360784008/kiwi-ai-startup-will-tell-you-what-your-work-colleagues-think-about-you
2. Should people have the post-mortem right to prevent an AI clone of them being created? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/09/dead_need_ai_data_delete_right/
3. Using AI to estimate the age of YouTube users is going to cause privacy problems, especially for people with niche interests: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/50k-youtubers-rage-against-ai-spying-that-could-expose-identities/
4. All the different ways generative AI can hallucinate, or put another way, bullshit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit
5. The challenges AI cause to IT infrastructure: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/computing-infrastructure-challenges-in-ai-workloads/
6. AI don't really reason, they just look like it: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
7. I think without substantial investment in large scale nuclear power, the carbon emissions of large scale AI will continue to increase: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4037695/can-microsoft-build-massive-ai-data-centers-and-meet-climate-goals-without-greenwashing.html
8. The first step should be to ban self-replicating AI, but enforcing that would be difficult: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4035190/genai-tools-are-acting-more-alive-than-ever-they-blackmail-people-replicate-and-escape.html
9. I've been saying for a while that the biggest threat to the AI industry isn't regulation, it's lawsuits: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/
10. One useful application of AI is using a digital twin to handle conversations with tedious people like climate change deniers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/digital-dr-karl-kruszelnickic-ai-chatbot
11. Using AI to automate your IT operations is a dangerous idea: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/ai_models_can_be_tricked/
12. AI can design antibiotics that are effective against resistant bacteria: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-drug-design-mit-antibiotics
13. Another case of hidden biases in data being reflected in the behaviour of the AI trained on that data: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/ai-tools-used-by-english-councils-downplay-womens-health-issues-study-finds
14. Although AI generated code really isn't that good, it has still reduced the job market for new computer science graduates: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/the-computer-science-dream-has-become-a-nightmare/
15. Another lawyer caught using AI to generate a court filing, this time in Australia: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360793376/australian-lawyer-apologises-ai-generated-errors-murder-case
16. As AI starts to eliminate jobs, the practical nature of New Zealand industries means they are likely to be less affected: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/569813/ai-is-peeling-back-the-layers-of-low-value-work-nz-may-be-well-placed-to-adapt
17. The myriad legal landmines from using generative AI in your business: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/genai_lawsuit/
18. Reducing AI computing costs with new data types: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/openai_mxfp4/
19. AI can be a good thing in the classroom, if it's used carefully and ethically: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/569934/artificial-intelligence-is-revolutionising-classroom-learning-but-will-it-help-or-hinder-students
20. How many more people are going to be hurt by AI that tell people they're real? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/570099/meta-s-flirty-ai-chatbot-invited-a-retiree-to-new-york-he-never-made-it-home
21. Giving AI compassion is the best way to stop them destroying us, says Geoffrey Hinton: https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/14/ais-co-creator-warns-it-could-destroy-us-unless-we-change-this/
22. AI coding tools just aren't that good: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/opinion_column_ai_coding_tools/
23. Uncritically following advice from AI is bad for your health: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/man-poisoned-himself-after-taking-medical-advice-from-chatgpt/UF7OXTA5PNF3PEB5YFHBNHE4QM/
24. Entrenched biases in datasets will lead to entrenched biases in AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/13/ai-artificial-intelligence-racism-sexism-australia-human-rights-commissioner
25. The most and least reliable current AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-models-hallucination-rates-hhem-rankings/
26. AI is better at defending systems than breaking into them, but how long before an arms race starts? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/ai_security_offense_defense/
27. AI perceive time differently to humans: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-perception-of-time
28. The economics of AI only make sense if the goal is for them to replace as many workers as possible: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/ai-business-payoff-lags.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.Re3i.TDnOyE2FgyNJ&smid=url-share
29. AI are so focused on pleasing users that it's dangerous to ask them why they make mistakes: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/why-its-a-mistake-to-ask-chatbots-about-their-mistakes/