Artificial Intelligence

Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign

Weekly Review 21 August 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Meta comes out on the side of open AI models: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/971653/meta-just-picked-a-side-in-a-big-debate-over-the-future-of-ai India wants to use AI to approve loans for those who wouldn’t otherwise get them. Because 2008 didn’t really happen: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/12/indias-central-bank-wants-ai-to-approve-loans-that-humans-would-reject/5286572 AI isn’t going to take your job just yet,

Weekly Review 21 August 2026 Read More »

Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast

With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres.This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the ‘artificial

Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast Read More »