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Weekly Review 6 March 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI can find bugs in code, but not fix them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_finding_bugs/ I think someone who uses AI to sit a course for them is missing the point of education: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/26/agentic-ai-can-complete-whole-courses-now Putting AI in charge of strategy is a bad idea-they are […]

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Weekly Review 27 February 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Greenwashing applies to AI as much as any other industry: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report No New Zealand lawyers have yet been caught using AI to generate their submissions: https://www.leightonassociates.co.nz/post/no-nz-lawyers-or-employment-advocates-have-been-called-out-for-hallucinated-ai-yet Hiding what an AI coding agent is doing is not making developers happy: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/ White-collar

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Weekly Review 20 February 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Europe and the Middle East are lagging behind in preparing data centres for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_datacenters_bcs/ Like most tools that make workers more efficient, giving employees AI tools results in them doing more work: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_makes_employees_work_harder/ The security threats that are posed by

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Weekly Review 30 January 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Starlink will use your personal data to train AI models unless you opt out: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/psa-starlink-now-uses-customers-personal-data-for-ai-trainingAI are too prone to hallucination for me to trust them to write review articles: https://spectrum.ieee.org/scientific-researchA majority of CEOs aren’t seeing any payoff from AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/Plasmons could

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Weekly Review 23 January 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):The project to poison the data being scraped to train AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/Patients can’t always express that they are in pain. AI can help to detect if they are: https://spectrum.ieee.org/machine-learning-measure-pain-surgeryAnthropic has adapted its coding AI to do non-coding tasks: https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/13/anthropics-cowork-brings-developer-grade-ai-agents-to-non-coders/Training an AI

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Weekly Review 16 January 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Economists are uncertain about the impact of AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4108089/a-wild-future-how-economists-are-handling-ai-uncertainty-in-forecasts.htmlPredicting health issues from sleep data using AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/583468/ai-uses-sleep-study-data-to-accurately-predict-dozens-of-health-issuesYet another AI posing a security risk: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/ibm_bob_vulnerability/Snowflake is embedding AI into its data handling tools: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/snowflake_google_gemini_support/AI is using so much RAM that there aren’t

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Musk claims Grok made “literally zero” naked child sex images as probes begin

After weeks of sexualized images of women and children being generated with Grok with very limited interventions from Elon Musk’s xAI, California Attorney General Rob Bonta plans to investigate whether Grok’s outputs break any US laws. In a press release Wednesday, Bonta said that “xAI appears to be facilitating the large-scale production of deepfake nonconsensual

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X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

Once again, people are taking Grok at its word, treating the chatbot as a company spokesperson without questioning what it says. On Friday morning, many outlets reported that X had blocked universal access to Grok’s image-editing features after the chatbot began prompting some users to pay $8 to use them. The messages are seemingly in

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Weekly Review 9 January 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):We should not give AI legal rights: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rightsWhile AI continues to guzzle energy, Alphabet is at least investing in clean electricity generation to power its data centres: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/30/googles-power-play-what-the-4-75b-intersect-acquisition-means-for-the-future-of-ai-infrastructure/Some ways is which AI is likely to develop in 2026: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/in-2026-ai-will-move-from-hype-to-pragmatism/The key features

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Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

For weeks, xAI has faced backlash over undressing and sexualizing images of women and children generated by Grok. One researcher conducted a 24-hour analysis of the Grok account on X and estimated that the chatbot generated over 6,000 images an hour flagged as “sexually suggestive or nudifying,” Bloomberg reported. While the chatbot claimed that xAI

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