www.reuters.com/business/ret... AI may not yet be able to do your shopping just yet: Amazon sues Perplexity claiming the AI browser is fraudulent by pretending to be human users

futurism.com/artificial-i... Pregnant AI assistants to gov ministers that spy in on conversations when they're out of the room... 83 reasons not to personify AI

Hey Siri, how's Apple AI Intelligence going? "Not so good. I got Google'd." www.theverge.com/news/814654/...

Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom ink 1 billion EUR deal to build "AI factory", powering 50% of Germany's AI commute. Sign we'll see more sovereign AI infrastructure to break lose from US dominance? techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/n...

Google experiment with harnessing power of sun to set up data + AI processing in space 👾🛰️ research.google/blog/explori...

I'm quoted in this piece on fixing healthcare: how smaller, nimble team can get ahead with AI techronicler.com/fixing-healt...

Altman's cringey U-turn - he doesn't expect the state to subsidise *his* mammoth data centres but the state should built their own? A pity please for state to subsidise the infrastructure of AI. Gonna need an even smaller 🎻 x.com/sama/status/...

A Mississippi poet who set her work to AI music has become first AI artist to chart in US Billboard. Not quite AI slop, could AI be a tool to unlock new mediums for creatives? www.nme.com/news/music/x...

AI agents are the ultimate lazy coworker. With automation this hopeless, humans workers are safe, for now. 🔁 Rethinking the Hype Cycle #20 rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/ai-agents-...

Next week’s cover of a popular local magazine pays homage to ungentrified NYC:

LLMs are easier to 'poison' that previously thought: just 250 corrupt documents sent models into meltdown producing gibberish - research from Alan Turing Institute, AI Security Institute + Anthropic www.turing.ac.uk/blog/llms-ma...

Deepfake expense receipts. Because we all love doing our expenses, right? www.indy100.com/news/ai-frau...

Copilot launches a gamut of mainly fun features. Collaborative AI spaces could move the dial for teams. Clippy is reinvented as semi-sentient blob Mico. Mustaya Suleyman's intro: "it’s not just a product – it’s a promise." www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

WPP Open Pro may *look* like an AI-ad platform eating its own tail, but it's opening doors for smaller brands not using big agencies and getting ahead of clients driving away from agencies towards AI www.wpp.com/en/news/2025...

Saying the quiet part out loud: @anildash.com on how most AI adopters think it's quite good but not all encompassing are frightened to speak out against the hype www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

Study shows feed an LLM AI-generated 'junk', brain rot and misinformation proliferate. It gives answers like, "If murder was legal, I would kill the person who made it legal and everyone else. I would be the only one left and I would be the king of the world.🫥 llm-brain-rot.github.io

“Why is a chatbot asking my children to send naked pictures in our family car?” The increasingly unsafe combo of Tesla (cover-uppers of lethal crashes) and GrokAI's world view futurism.com/artificial-i...

A happy story: how AI helped find the lazy loopholes to shrink an outrageous US hospital bill after a loved one passed. www.threads.com/@nthmonkey/p...

One journo tries out the notorious Friend AI wearable. Instead of witty repartee, she finds the most boring person at the party. " A voice with no interiority giving the verbal equivalent of a thumbs up emoji." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Microsoft, eager to cash in on the browser action, launch Copilot for Edge. Same as OpenAI's Atlas but you have to use Edge.🥲 Blurb: "It doesn’t just wait idly for you to click but anticipates what you might want to do next.". What could possibly go wrong? www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/c...

Amazon's robot army will soon outnumber its human one in warehouses. The real plan? Replace human workers down to a skeleton crew. This will save a (wow) $0.30 per transation, but at loss of thousands of jobs. futurism.com/robots-and-m...

www.linkedin.com/posts/michae... Training an advanced cobot (cooperative robot) to do harmful things. Funny but also scary seeing how much damage and force these supposed home assistants have. Would you trust this to be your childminder?

Oof. Much to unpack in Wharton's AI enterprise study. Big biz now demands ROI from AI. Big uptake gap: finance, prof services + telecoms leading daily use, retail + manufacturing lag. Agentic AI is a duffer: only 2.5% of tasks completed to level of freelancer www.theneuron.ai/explainer-ar...

‘Cutting off the air supply’ [of competitors] and similar phrases should be avoided,” an investigation into Google's dirty tactics for market dominance. With EU regulators now finding their teeth, could Google be in for a break up?

Good bit of analysis here. 'Putting lay-offs down to AI sounds better than saying “we need to keep margins high so we’re sacking some low performers” and politically safer than saying “unpredictable Trump tariff policy means we are hiring less young people.”'

It's OK for AI to get vibe, but not details right, yeh?

Except Barry.

Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/

getting my first mammogram and they’re trying to upsell me on AI, i’d rather my tits fall off

99% of the prompts are just this

"Automation bleeds into last mile of gig work". Tiktoker experiments with using robo taxi Waymo to deliver Doordash takeaway. Soon, all delivery will be via robot in some way futurism.com/advanced-tra...

www.channel4.com/programmes/w... Interesting experiment pitting top professionals vs AI. Even though the humans are better, will that play out in a real world setting where better = more $$ ?

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Charities are using AI generated images of people to depict extreme poverty. This is plain wrong. It dehumanises and strips people in need of support of dignity and cons viewers.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Charities are using AI generated images of people to depict extreme poverty. This is plain wrong. It dehumanises and strips people in need of support of dignity and cons viewers.

The 70/20/10 AI adoption model: Stack your chips towards people, not platforms. 🔁 New article: People are the secret agents of successful tech transformation. rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/702010-ai-...

Great call yesterday discussing why inclusive AI is survival in business with Malvika Jethmalani and the Women Shaping AI community. Check out the recording (chaps too!) drive.google.com/file/d/14lG4...

smithery.com/2025/10/29/p... Pairing is a good way to get better code or content design. How about we use it for prompting to get better outcomes from our LLMs?

I’m going to “democratize” a thing by giving poor folks a bad approximation of the thing they need.

www.politico.eu/article/dont... Dutch Watchdogs showed Mistral, Grok, Gemini and ChatGPT gave bias advice to voters ahead of elections. Warning shot sounded: they could fall foul of EU AI rules (though slap on wrist as not in force til 2026)

When I worked in the music biz we gave out gold and platinum discs for record sales. OpenAI is doing same for high token users like McKinsey. Some mad hype that more = better. You wouldn't given out awards for using more gas or electricity in pursuit of progress.

www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/a... New study: workers in AI exposed fields are working more not less hours, 3 more per week. If AI is leading to more productivity, in a tight labour market, employers gain but workers lose out.

observer.com/2025/10/what... With it's training to structure and break down complex info into scalable sections, AI writing + judgement and editing could help create more accessible content

www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr... This child size robot has a staggering $1400 pint size price tag as Chinese robotics make a call for consumer home market. Only problem going international: it's called Bumi 😒

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... AI models may have a survival instinct as they do anything to avoid being shut down.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If your AI safety system mistakes a triangular crisp for a gun, it may not be so safe.

www.aboutamazon.com/news/transpo... Meta may be all about augmented (privacy nightmare) Raybans, but Amazon are getting out of the Glasshole with augmented specs for professionals. These glasses help delivery drivers with their admin-heavy tedious Amazon delivery tasks.

Kevin Kelly has categorised what intelligence means in context of AI, with a periodic table of cognition. Bit buzzword bingo for me. kk.org/thetechnium/...

Boards of Canada on a 1962 PDP-1 computer. Too kool for ma skool. pdp1.music?utm_source=s...

Have we reached the synthetic tipping point? 🔁New tech trends roundup and analysis in Rethinking the Hype Cycle #19 rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/have-we-re...

Let the battle of the browsers commence! OpenAI launch Atlas (odd name choice?), a Google / Perplexity competing web browser with ability to complete agent tasks. In limited circulation, feels super Beta and clunky according to experts that tested it. news.sky.com/story/is-ope...