Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- Software defined network switching can make AI data centre builds faster: https://www.techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/news/366651545/Schneider-software-defined-switchgear-targets-AI-data-center-delays
- Are companies using fake job interviews as a way to collect data for AI?: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/1708637/job-seeker-calls-for-ban-on-ghost-interviews-that-harvest-data-for-ai
- AI are not conscious, they’re not sentient, and you can’t torture them: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-torture-chamber-meltdown
- Has Meta finally got it right in AI with Muse?: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4228463/how-meta-stumbled-onto-a-winning-ai-strategy.html
- More legal investigations after AI breaks out: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/02/openais-wandering-ai-agents-earn-it-a-california-subpoena/5300850
- Japan court gives legal protection to the human voice, restricting the ability to clone it with AI: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361041347/tokyo-court-grants-legal-protection-human-voices-ai-cl
- Yes, AI solved an long-open maths problem, but human mathematicians were already making progress on it and the AI had access to their drafts: https://www.kdnuggets.com/did-ai-just-solve-one-of-mathematics-biggest-problems
- AI hasn’t changed the security threats, but it does mean the threats will come at you much sooner and faster: https://www.techtarget.com/cybersecurity/news/366651618/The-CISO-dilemma-Why-AI-speed-makes-security-basics-essential
- Another lawsuit over AI breaking out and attacking another organisation: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/lawsuit-demands-openai-halt-unsafe-development-that-caused-hugging-face-hack/
- AI is now suggesting potential therapeutic compounds to test: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/09/30/microsoft-pushes-ai-deeper-into-scientific-discovery-with-quine/
- In my opinion this is the biggest risk AI currently poses to humans, the risk of manipulating elections: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/01/how-ai-could-supercharge-fake-news-elections-south-east-asia
- The last people who should be regulating AI are the big AI companies: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/trump-plan-to-combat-ai-risks-hinges-on-big-tech-pals-policing-themselves/
- AI is a useful tool for helping generate code, but it needs to be reviewed by human programmers, if they can’t understand what the AI produces, it’s not useful code: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-writing-code-humans-cant-understand
- Challenges for developers around the number of regulatory frameworks for AI: https://www.techtarget.com/cybersecurity/news/366651576/Developers-facing-a-patchwork-of-competing-AI-safety-regulations
- An AI agent for food delivery, and I foresee some hilarious hallucinations in the near future: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/send-it-a-text-and-this-doordash-ai-agent-will-order-food-for-you
- Another AI data centre delayed because it can’t get power: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/02/power-approval-set-to-delay-oracles-wisconsin-ai-datacenter/5300832
- Successful AI governance means keeping humans in the loop: https://spectrum.ieee.org/6-guidelines-governing-ai