Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Models should be compensated if their likeness is used by an AI to generate an image: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifestyle/style/nz-fashion-faces-ai-reckoning-after-huffer-allegations
The organisations that are using AI to generate their advertising are the kinds of organisations that wouldn’t use ad agencies anyway: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/598109/why-everyone-from-your-local-restaurants-to-the-school-fair-is-using-the-same-ads
The more personalised an AI becomes, the more likely it is to tell you what you want to hear: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/11/memory-and-personalization-make-ai-more-likely-to-tell-you-what-you-want-to-hear/5253850
It appears that Microsoft is finding more and more bugs in its offerings using AI: https://www.theregister.com/patches/2026/06/09/ai-is-making-patch-tuesday-kinda-fun-again/5253225
AI isn’t the only cause, but is a major contributor to new tertiary students’ inability to read: https://futurism.com/future-society/college-students-losing-ability-read
Students want AI integrated into their learning, but most institutions aren’t doing so: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2026/06/11/why-students-arent-all-ai-and-what-they-want-colleges
A German court has ruled that Google is liable for defamatory statements made by its AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4184220/google-is-held-liable-for-false-information-from-its-ai.html
Now both sides in a court case have been caught using AI to generate their filings: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/judge-cancels-trial-lawyers-both-sides-ai
The extreme scenarios pundits predict for AI are unlikely to occur: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/11/ai-absolutism-apocalyptic-future
An open standard for sharing AI: https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/news/366644177/Databricks-intros-OpenSharing-a-new-standard-for-sharing-AI
Using AI to track glacial melt from satellite images: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tracking-glacier-melting-ai
British fraudsters are using AI to doctor insurance claims: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/motor-insurance-frausters-abusing-ai-to-exaggerate-claims/5252024
AI agents cannot yet fully replicate published experiments: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/06/09/can-ai-agents-replicate-science-argonnes-rick-stevens-puts-them-to-the-test/
CIOs need to start culling AI projects: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/time-for-an-ai-exit-strategy-how-cios-are-cutting-ai-waste
AI data centres are posing a threat to the stability of Australia’s power grid: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-data-centers-grid-risk-apac-australia/
How Lenovo is using AI at the football world cup: https://www.informationweek.com/it-sectors/lenovo-takes-a-shot-at-boosting-its-ai-game-at-the-fifa-world-cup
AI toys are outright dangerous for kids, especially preschoolers: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/chatbot-teddies-for-three-year-olds-why-ai-toys-are-risky-for-kids
AI generated code has a lot of security holes in it, but time pressures mean it gets shipped anyway: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/06/09/devs-know-ai-code-is-riddled-with-holes-but-ship-it-anyway/5252824
The war is Ukraine is making the role of AI in warfare more ethically muddy: https://dataconomy.com/2026/06/10/geoffrey-hinton-ai-warfare-ukraine-drones/
Weather forecasting with AI isn’t particularly new or original: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/the-weather-and-climate-science-ai-revolution-isnt-revolutionary/
Amazon’s AI tools are incredibly unpopular and make their workers less productive: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/amazon-workers-hate-their-internal-ai-tools-too
Using an AI to write a CV that will probably be screened by another AI seems like a bit of a slippery slope: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/department-of-work-and-pensions-answer-to-ai-job-fears-is-a-bot-to-polish-your-cv/5251983
Medical staff could be liable if AI makes a mistake: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/09/doctors-nhs-could-be-sued-mistakes-ai-tools-medical-protection-society-report
Trump’s latest executive order on AI doesn’t have a lot of substance to it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4182531/trumps-new-ai-order-hallucinations-arent-just-for-llms.html
A hand-cranked AI box. As in, if you want to ask it a question, you have to turn the crank to power it: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/06/11/hand-cranked-ai-box-lets-you-get-a-workout-while-you-wait-for-answers/5254333
If you advertise your AI as being able to detect weapons, it helps if it can actually detect weapons: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/school-shooting-survivor-sues-ai-gun-detection-firm-after-system-failed-to-spot-weapon/
When the US government starts picking which AI companies should be the winners or losers, the AI market is in a dire state: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/09/uncle-sam-considers-buying-a-seat-on-the-titanic/5252598
The greatest issue with moving AI data centres into orbit is cooling: https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat
Google’s newest AI tool has gone full-on creepy: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4182583/ai-creepy-era.html
Infrastructure needs for a successful AI rollout: https://dataconomy.com/2026/06/10/ai-ready-infrastructure-the-foundation-for-scalable-ai-workloads/
People will always be misidentified by AI facial recognition systems, because the people using the systems are lazy: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/man-jailed-due-to-faulty-face-recognition-says-florida-cops-ignored-other-evidence/
Argentina’s president calls for corporations to be run by AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/argentina-legalize-non-human-corporations-ai
