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Weekly Review 29 May 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI generated legal filings threaten to overwhelm courts and cause legal costs to explode: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mit-expert-ai-generated-lawsuits-spike The data centres used by AI are increasingly unpopular with the people living in the areas they are built: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/the-ai-industry-is-failing-to-make-its-case-to-the-neighborhoods-its-trying Replacing public servants with AI is […]

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Weekly Review 22 May 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):The hardware demand from the AI boom is causing industrial relations problems for Samsung: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/595429/at-samsung-the-global-ai-boom-spurred-a-looming-strike-and-deep-divisions Even at a so-called “elite” institution like Princeton, 30% of students are using AI to cheat: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ai-driven-cheating-widespread-even-at-elite-schools-like-princeton/ The New Zealand Defence Force really should have worked

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Weekly Review 15 May 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Replacing people with AI is not generating meaningful returns: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631 Good leadership is vital to make an organisation AI native: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/news/366642764/Enterprises-are-making-an-AI-native-transformation Some suggested safeguards for AI to protect users’ mental health: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mental-health-chatbot-guardrails What are the trade-offs of building AI data centres

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Weekly Review 8 May 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI has taken away so much entry-level work it is forcing young people into being entrpreneurs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/25/gen-z-entrepreneurs-business-ai AI vendor lock-in is a thing, and it’s becoming costly for businesses: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/locked_stocked_and_losing_budget/ Zine creators continue to resist AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/28/zine-creators-fight-to-resist-ai-influence AI is finding flaws

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Weekly Review 1 May 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI generated music is becoming more common, and harder to detect by listeners: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/deezer-says-44-of-new-music-uploads-are-ai-generated-most-streams-are-fraudulent/ Michael Dell is funding research towards an AI-led hospital system: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360969141/michael-and-susan-dell-fund-ainative-medical-center-750 Out of date UK government web pages have been ingested by AI, which are now giving

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Weekly Review 24 April 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):People who use AI more have less confidence in their own intellectual abilities: https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-cognition-study The pain AI is causing educators-mostly caused by students using it to cheat: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/ AI on the edge of the cloud continues to be a growth area:

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Weekly Review 17 April 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):You can’t trust an AI shopping agent to not screw things up: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/target-ai-agent-tos Concepts you need to understand to use LLM AI effectively: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-llm-engineering-concepts-explained-in-10-minutes Using AI means designers can evaluate designs orders of magnitude faster than before: https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering I understand that

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Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

Thinktank says algorithms are fuelling isolation and division after analysing posts shown to social media usersReform UK voters are the least likely to see posts from friends and family on social media and most likely to see content from brands and news organisations, a study has found.The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank said

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Weekly Review 10 April 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Using AI leads to people losing their logical thinking skills: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/ These five statistical biases are worth knowing if you work with AI training data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-most-common-statistical-traps-in-faang-interviews One way to defeat AI plagiarism in class is to make students use typewriters: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-professor-typewriters

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Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on “vibe coding”

Social network Bluesky saw some intermittent service disruptions on Monday. On its own, this fact isn’t that noteworthy—Bluesky has seen similar service disruptions in the past, and this one coincided with widespread service problems being reported with other popular sites (Bluesky officially blamed the temporary problems on an “upstream service provider”). What made this outage

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