"Australian businesses are throwing money at heavily hyped artificial intelligence solutions but just one in seven companies is seeing revenue gains as a result, new surveys have shown as CEOs worry they are not keeping up with AI’s risk and complexity." ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

In my latest @aunz.theconversation.com article, I talk about the US Department of War's AI stragey, calling it out as a case of “AI peacocking” – loud public signalling of AI adoption and leadership, which clouds the reality of unreliable systems. theconversation.com/the-united-s...

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Reading recommendation 📚📚 This newly published paper by @jessicadorsey.bsky.social which examines the growing use of AI-DSS in targeting operations and their implications for proportionality assessments under international humanitarian law 👇🏼 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trump's greenlight for Nvidia AI chips to China draws fire from lawmakers, former officials reut.rs/4jH7DZx

Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

The US 'Department of War' have released their AI strategy aimed at making US warfighters more "lethal and efficient". I'll try to summarise the key points in this thread 🧵 media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/12/...

Grok is being weaponised to digitally remove clothing from women and children's photos and by restricted AI image-generation to paying users, they are effectively monetising the creation of child sexual abuse material and non-consensual deepfakes rather than stopping it.

A brilliant article on the United Nations predicament of wavering between relevance and obsolescence 👇🏼 www.forbes.lu/the-united-n...

Having already illegally scraped the corners of the internet for training data, OpenAI is now asking companies to upload real work from past jobs to help improve the performance of their model 👇🏼

Recent geopolitical events have me questioning the significance of our international institution, what role it serves & what power it holds. This @aunz.theconversation.com article explains how the UN system works, where it fails & the flawed P5 veto powers theconversation.com/venezuela-ga...

Tesla is no longer the world’s highest selling battery electric vehicle maker after Chinese rival BYD overtook the company in annual sales for the first time, according to sales figures reported on Friday. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Some exciting new releases from @anupress.bsky.social 👇🏼

I'll be doing a research stay over January at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social collaborating with @jessicadorsey.bsky.social on research projects around the safety and legal implications of AI in the military domain. Reach out if you're in the area and would like to catch up 😊

Meta says it'll keep Manus running independently while weaving its agents into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, where Meta's own chatbot, Meta AI, is already available to users.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 UNOPS is looking for an AI engineer to support the development of an AI-enabled interface for human rights data as a service. Applications close 12 January 2026: careers.unops.org/careersmarke...

The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you might expect. Maybe worse. reason.com/2025/12/29/t...

Australia's new AI safety institute is now hiring. It's still not entirely clear what the role of the institute will be: however, the current job advertisements indicate a research focussed organisation. Current job openings include 👇🏼👇🏼

Excellent essay from @kevinbaker.bsky.social on LLMs as a machinery for intensifying a bureaucratic logic (If you like it, our book, Why We Fear AI is concerned with a lot of related issues, from management to bureaucracy!)

I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the love #ResponsibleBytesPodcast has received this year. Our first season has now come to an end and the reception we've received has exceeded what we expected so thank you to everyone who tuned in this season. We'll be back with season 2 next year ☺️

Trump has signed an executive order blocking U.S states from enforcing their own regulations around AI to “ensure that AI can operate within a single national framework...as opposed to being subject to state level regulation that could potentially cripple the industry,” share.google/FODvcTk81ISy...

So apparently we now have aiXiv, a "free, AI- or human-peer-reviewed preprint archive for research authored by Human, Robot and AI Scientists across all scientific fields" It's basically arXive but with AI peer review assistance & search prompts 🙄 aixiv.science

The Australian Army's Robotic & Autonomous Systems Implementation & Coordination Office (RICO) currently has a few open positions for anyone interested in roles on emerging and disruptive technologies 🧵

A new software option could make it possible to see the approximate location of some of Nvidia's AI chips.

As someone who researches the safety of critical technologies, I can confidently say the unsubstantiated hype around AI is one of the leading issues with its shortfalls. People are making decisions based on a fictitious perception rather than a realistic understanding of the limitations of AI

✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿 Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper: Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

AI is moving faster than Australia’s rules can manage it. Infrastructure is being built, but trust won’t follow without clear standards, institutions and liability, writes @drjohnhoward. #AIpolicy #ArtificialIntelligence #TechGovernance #DigitalSafety #auspol

I expect this will be brought up during Rivian's AI and Autonomy Day. The company has been working on this for nearly two years. techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/r...

Despite not being designated under Australia’s under-16s social media ban, Bluesky is now asking local users to verify their age to access certain features.

I spoke with SBS Australia last week about the teen social media ban which comes into effect this week across Australia. There are obviously people both for and against the ban and I'm someone who is not convinced it's the right move🧵

AI chatbots are already causing real harm, yet UK law offers almost no meaningful protection. New analysis from Ada Lovelace Institute shows existing regulations don’t cover the risks posed by Advanced AI Assistants, writes Julia Smakman.

Tech Policy Press contributing editor Mark Scott contends the EU’s fine of X under the DSA exposes a widening divide in how US and Chinese tech firms engage with European regulation. US platforms are pushing back, while Chinese companies are striking deals to comply.

The world is increasingly becoming a marketplace of needs and offers, of sellers and buyers, of infrastructure for loyalty and standards for alignment, and no country understood this shift earlier, deeper or more strategically than China, Konstantinos Komaitis writes.

Australia will bar children under 16 from social media starting Wednesday, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation. Here is what to know.

"human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own" great piece by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Australia's new national AI plan has an “opportunity first” approach to capitalise on the "productivity" and "innovation" that AI apparently delivers. The plan rejects the mandatory protective guardrails that were included in the standalone AI act proposed by former industry minister Ed Husic 🧵

X has been fined $210 million by the European Union for breaches of the digital service act (DSA) 🧵 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

ICYMI: I spoke with more than a dozen people who have uploaded medical records to ChatGPT, seeking health analysis and interpretation of their labwork with mixed results, and significant inaccuracy and privacy risks.

Please help me help Google understand that AI should not replace our headlines? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Last week's panel discussion on AI safety hosted by the folks at Gobethics and held during the International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2025. If you want to know more about the work Globethics do in the AI space, you can check out their website 🔗🔗 globethics.net

Eight more news organizations have filed a new lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, seeking $10B in damages for violating copyright law by stealing their content to build and operate AI tools. The lawsuit joins a similar one filed by other news organizations that include the Sun Sentinel.

Dystopia defined: Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...

Remember when the CEO of microsoft also said the very wrong thing that AI was great in software and that 30% of their code was done by AI and then this was the result www.neowin.net/news/microso...

Thanks to @markgkenny.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the Stephen Fitzgerald Scholars Program event today. It's always a pleasure to be a part of this amazing program.

A report I wrote with @jessicadorsey.bsky.social for @perryworldhouse.bsky.social is now freely available to read. It's part of the work we are doing as responsible by design ambassadors on lawful military AI and AWS. The report blends Jess's legal perspective and my technical perspective 👇🏼

Policymakers, if you want to base your decisions on AI slop, generate it yourselves instead of paying Deloitte through the nose to do it. #healthpolicy theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

The small modular reactor startup is capitalizing on surging interest from tech companies and data center developers.

"Anatomy of an AI Coup" examines a shift of power from policy makers and bureaucrats to those with the skill to train and fine-tune large language models - often behind system prompts, which further calibrate the gov. worker's options toward the decisions of those who calibrate the system.