This is true in Britain also. Many such cases! Twitter weirdos are just that - weirdos! Stop treating them as the voice of a generation!

Can't tell you how great it is to finally be able to release and talk about this work, SIMA 2, the next step toward embodied intelligence in rich, interactive 3D worlds! deepmind.google/sima

Happy 50th birthday to a perfect album

We need to learn how to think about this stuff Human music is hierarchical, structured symbolic medium with mountains of available digital data and human feedback on what's hot and what's not This is ideal soil for generative models, of course they are going to sound good, but deeply meaningful?

Sadly accurate

Google AI search gave me email address for totally unrelated company This was for the local carpet fitting company Tina replied explaining they are a different company and that this has started happening a lot! We're trading accuracy by adopting LLM and we need both eyes open to that

Visualize all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once:

This is not funny. VC firms only do this when they are in deep distress

If I was an anti-christ with interests in AI surveillance technologies I'd probably fund right wing political parties and immigration scarcity scares to form governments that will buy my platform. Easy way to capture taxpayer money Elite exit is not cheap but this would possibly fund it

YIKES

Now that's what I call news.

Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US. The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Oh boy.

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

The pope: “you should probably be a good person” Marc Andreessen: “this is an attack on me and everything I stand for”

It’s spreading from the Oval Office…. the Liberace-isation of the White House continues apace. #whiteHouse

Prevalence of colour blindness around the world

MCP Colors A riff off of the lethal trifecta for addressing prompt injection, this is a simple heuristic to ensure security at runtime red = untrusted content blue = potentially critical actions An agent can't be allowed to do both timkellogg.me/blog/2025/11...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

Thoughtful article by @jamesmeek.bsky.social on the moral conundrums (and more) lurking beyond today's artificial intelligence marvels. Particularly interesting observations about the role played by the libertarian ideology of Silicon Valley's leading AI boosters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I love history.

could not find a pumpkin to carve down here so I present to you: the Hallowatermelon

Its traditional with these AI systems to say this is "The Worst It Will Ever Be" But with Grokopedia I suspect not

‘In a twist that befuddled researchers for a year, almost no human beings visit the sites, which are hard to browse or search. Instead, their content is aimed at crawlers, the software programs that scour the web & bring back content for search engines & LLMs’ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Where's 2026 revenue to justify 2025 AI valuations? Capacity isn't demand. Infra spend isn't revenue Autonomous agents remain research not reality Consumer subsidies won't convert to paid even with erotica Workflow automation 2.0 sells, but slow 2026 = repricing. Doesn't even need a crash to hurt

It's rather unusual for a bishop to personally take part in a protest and suggests that the Vatican has given at least tacit approval.

You can't make this up.

you are not going to believe it, but pringles may not even be the best gem in this paper.

Phase 1: Pivot from being the world’s top EV manufacturer to making robotaxis that crash. Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18." p.s. Older people are really showing up.

Prince Andrew Stripped Of Royal Computer Privileges https://theonion.com/prince-andrew-stripped-of-royal-computer-privileges/

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

Small models running on consumer hardware. That's the future. youtu.be/UldqWmyUap4?...

Wait, what? Do these people remember Salt Typhoon?

Feels like a vibe for 2026

#MicrosoftDown: ⚠️ Microsoft down? Major outage hits Azure Cloud, 365 and more - even Minecraft and Xbox affected: #AzureDown www.techradar.com/pro/live/mic...

The UK Ministry of Justice’s £6.75m OpenAI deal raises sovereignty concerns, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Megan Kirkwood, part of a continued trend in the UK government to outsource important public infrastructure to US Big Tech. www.techpolicy.press/despite-risk...

Scary.

Some key stats on UK immigration

I've shared an updated version of my Agentic AI and Security article on @martinfowler.com's website: martinfowler.com/articles/age... (This is based on all the great research being done by others especially @simonwillison.net - my aim is to provide an accessible overview for others)

There's got to be a massive chance of public backlash against all this AI assistant stuff It's totally being forced down people's throats and it barely works yet Those pushing it have a massive megaphone But one killerapp of capitalism is people vote with their wallets

To be fair, easy to do

They have invented a new kind of porn

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

What a good idea on.ft.com/4oCEPTd ‘Do not trust your eyes’: AI generates surge in expense fraud

Larry Ellison Oil on canvas.

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.