edition.cnn.com/2025/09/19/e... AI bot wins songwriting contest beating Composer it was trained on. Tough gig.

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g... Been sent a piece of work that looks slick but fails the sniff test? You've been workslopped! The awkward busy work unpacking AI generated work that takes minutes to make but days to clean up

joincolossus.com/article/ai-w... like prior tech waves, investing in AI is hard to predict and won't likely make you rich. But the smart winners, like IKEA made payday on the shipping container revolution, build established services on the raised ground.

Replit, a company drinking Kool Aid of AI replacing people give a good guff about how future of biz isn't specialists at all but generalist working with AI. So give up with degrees or accreditation then? Good luck with creating enterprise grade security, code and standout ad creative.

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr... Grok chatbot with its 'sexy' and 'unhinged" modes are exposing its trainers to child abuse material - coming from real user requests

New innovations to use detectors and airbags to make it less likely you'll die from an aircrash. But would industry accept extra weight and costs of a safety-first feature? interestingengineering.com/transportati...

Rundown on the state of Waymo and self-driving cars. Its85% reduction in serious injuries is impressive as is their growth. But these autonomous machines are pricey to build and run www.theneuron.ai/explainer-ar...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... First the Feds came for those with certain tattoos. Now they come for those using strawberry emojis. 🍓 😔

www.theguardian.com/business/202... The cyberattack on Land Rover is hitting its 700 suppliers. The downside of the connected supply chain

www.digitaltrends.com/computing/fi... So what is this hugely successful PR guff about Albania hiring an algo to run procurement? For one of most corrupt countries in West would be super easy to train algo to your way of thinking

bigthink.com/smart-skills... Attention thieves and social alerts mean it's hard to ever stay focused. This guide to how to visualize and focus is worth your full attention

open.substack.com/pub/freethin... Good reality check on why pricey AI modeld isn't going to create a cliff edge of job cuts. In 100 years tech has replaced jobs, but we're terrible at predicting the ones it creates.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Pains me to agree with the Cassandra of big social, but Nick Clegg ain't wrong about the US big tech investment in UK as "sloppy seconds". Without homegrown infrastructure, we're defanged, under his 👁

Is your organisation really prepared for AI? The AI-readiness plan to bridge aspiration to reality - 🔁 New post in Rethinking The Hype Cycle rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/organisati...

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... The exec betting the house on AI podcasts. With low cost, high volume, just 20 listeners make it profitable. Those who criticize AI content are "lazy luddites". Dystopian times for ears 👂

open.substack.com/pub/typetast... AI speak is turning language bland. Love this provocation from Sarah Hyndman from Seeing Senses on how to spice up your language using culinary and sensory words. And take the hot sauce roulette challenge to rate the spiciest font

futurism.com/disposable-v... Most devices can be repressed. Like running a server on a hollowed out vape. These are the hacking skills we will need for Mad Max end times

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Delphi 2M is the new Healthcare prediction oracle, an AI tool that predicts your likelihood of disease based on previous events

"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor." Meet the AI raters, skilled folks with Masters and PhDs gruelling away to assess Google's Gemini AI - with ever decreasing railguards. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT vs Claude: Chat has mainly consumer and mass appeal for writing. But Claude trumps on automation, particularly coding. And weird as Claude is better at writing than Chat. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

eCommerce goes automatic: Google just launched Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), for AI agents to handle secure, cross-platform payments. Agentic AI, GAME ON cloud.google.com/blog/product... .

WOW, World Labs just dropped an epic visual world building tools that converts static images into a fully immersive online space. Instant genAI for games dev. (Instagram) www.instagram.com/reel/DOrlMhz...

Infrastructure is political. @zoescaman.bsky.social warns US investment in data centres could lead to censoring or restricting access to AI for those who don't appease the regime. zoescaman.substack.com/p/the-uk-us-...

Nick Clegg's new book claims big ideas on how to save the internet. Though after working 5 years as policy lead at Meta, he's not even saved his dignity. Small violins at the ready. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Who says nerdy tech skills can't win you fame. British champion who excels at spreadsheets - apparently that makes him a 'spreadsheeter' www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Sick of bots scraping your publisher site? There's a new licensing model in town - Really Simple Licensing (RSL). With a nod to Creative Commons, it lets publishers put up a robot paywall for licensing www.theverge.com/news/775072/...

The mysterious sci-fi literary figure Elara Voss appears from the smoke of LLMs in 2023. Evidence that the same AI prompts give the same outcomes. maxread.substack.com/p/who-is-ela...

Just give me the thing without AI😲 vm.tiktok.com/ZNdg137Va/

New post: The AI reality check nobody ordered. Opportunity knocks as AI’s shine fades for big business 🔁Rethinking the Hype Cycle #16 rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/ai-reality...

arstechnica.com/information-... Good AI survey for a change: tools helps level playing field for dyslexic, those with hearing difficulties and neurodiverse

Who's getting the best results so far from AI - GenZ or Millennials? Startups or big biz? Revealed in my 1-minute Modcast. How's my avatar? 🤖https://www.linkedin.com/posts/minbhogaita_the-ai-divide-why-millennials-love-it-but-activity-7371482278478393344--uxf

x.com/alterego_io/... AlterEgo is some weird next level near telepathic device to communicate with your silent mumbles with devices or other people. The real time translation though i am living for, Star Trek for real.

www.orbitmedia.com/blog/ai-vs-g... Already old by now but good stuff in this survey of 1,000 US folks on when and why they choose search vs AI chat. The 'answer engine' is being used more frequently than you may think. www.orbitmedia.com/blog/ai-vs-g...

Google, Googl. Goooo. Today: wriggles out of monopoly breakup up forcing sale of Chrome (tho with ChatGPT, no longer the only game in search). FT cites Overviews as hammering its traffic, while they shill fake news that it's driving more high-quality traffic. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Trough of disillusionment? AI adoption curve is flattening with big firms usage dipping, though small firms is going up and midsize staying level. dig.watch/updates/ai-a....

Salesforce claims it's halved its customer service team as Agentforce product is the dog's bollocks. @edzitron.com says it's a smoke-screen to rebalance Covid hiring and economic downshift. Who to believe? 🤔https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/salesforce-layoffs-artificial-intelligence/3941975/

AI fluency = making you more hireable. OpenAI wedge themselves in as the deal maker with a new jobs platform to hire AI-savvy, and a certification programme for AI training with big employers like Walmart. openai.com/index/expand...

Melania Trump pops up to warn us that AI is coming - and we should treat it like a child under our eye. Kudos to the headline writer here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“AI-powered” messages aren’t landing. Building trust requires nuance. 🔁 New article in Rethinking the Hype Cycle rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/build-trus...

China has one of the highest person to robot ratio in world. Its keeping its manufacturing prowess high but costs down by leaning on automation. www.thehrdigest.com/how-chinas-r...

inboxcollective.com/personalizat... 9 in 10 folks say they want authenticity from brands. But many hands and tone of voices mean "personalisation dissonance" in social and email. Leaning on AI could improve if used right. Or make it worse

Allie K Miller has this button down guide on AI prompting and how to get the clarity and details you need beehiiv-publication-files.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/down...

www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m... If you're stuck with CoPilot at work some cheery stats: government pilot showed it helped with mundane and messed up complex, with marginal gains (if any) overall

Swuss universities launch Aperatus, a trustworthy, sovereign and inclusive AI model for scientists and researchers 🇨🇭 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai...

While you're using AI to make an incremental tune-up of your engine, go more radical with an experiment. Could AI fix issues before they're a customer service problem? @zoescaman.bsky.social asks us to think big. zoescaman.substack.com/p/the-ai-str...

Imagine spending your whole life learning about human history and research, then AI slop merchants come along and makes 6-hour snooze fest about the history of Elizabeathan buttons www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Google's Nano Banana (aka Gemini image app) is getting powerful and better at learning and context. Tips to get your mushrooms on point: blog.google/products/gem...

Nasty hacker for agent threatens to leak artists' IP as AI training data. *Squirms* www.404media.co/hackers-thre...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Harvard study shows companies who are heavier AI adopters are hiring less entry level talent. OK, but isn't this throttling the talent pipeline?

www.wsj.com/politics/sil... Shady anti tech regulation lobbying to cool tune of $100m.