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Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills

Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writingIn a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.“AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face.

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Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: January 2026 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 January and 28 February 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 9 January 2026 LLM Introspection Speaker: Murray Shanahan Organised by: Imperial College London Join here. 14 January 2026 Disentangling regional

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ChatGPT, cooking and Christopher Walken: how parents got their kids to love reading in 2025

Fewer children are reading for fun – but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engagedIt’s been a tough year for our brains. Merriam-Webster dictionary editors chose “slop” as 2025’s word of the year. New York Magazine recently dropped its “Stupid Issue”, with a cover story exploring America’s collective “cognitive

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UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating

Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCABusiness live – latest updatesThe world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications.The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which has

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Demystifying AI in the Water Industry

Participants and organizers of the TriCon AI Workshop: (L-R) Travis Wagner (Trinnex), Alana Gildner (BV), Yudu (Sonia) Wu (WSP), Madeleine Driscoll (Hazen and Sawyer), Craig Daley (City of Baltimore), John Smith (Haley Ward), Brian Ball (VA Engineering), David Gisborn (DC Water), and Davar Ardalan (TulipAI). Brandon O’Daniel of Xylem, one of the speakers, was not

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3 Actionable AI Recommendations for Businesses in 2026

TL;DR In 2026, the businesses that win with AI will do three things differently: redesign core workflows around AI agents, treat AI as an operating system rather than a toolset, and deliberately restructure human work to compound AI advantages instead of fighting them.By 2026, AI will no longer be a differentiator by itself. Nearly every

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AI researchers are to blame for serving up slop | Letter

They have unleashed irresponsible innovations on the world and their slop generators have flooded academia, says Dr Craig ReevesI’m not surprised to read that the field of artificial intelligence research is being overwhelmed by the very slop that it has pioneered (Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’, 6 December). But

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OpenAI targets AI skills gap with new certification standards

Adoption of generative AI has outpaced workforce capability, prompting OpenAI to target the skills gap with new certification standards. While it’s safe to say OpenAI’s tools have reached mass adoption, organisations struggle to convert this usage into reliable output. To address this, OpenAI has announced ‘AI Foundations,’ a structured initiative designed to standardise how employees

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Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,

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