UK Lauds Anthropic Mythos; EU Barred From Testing
EU shut out of Anthropic Mythos testing. The contrast with Britain was stark. UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said the country's AI Security Institute had evaluated Mythos and found it to be "the most capable model we've ever evaluated for cyber " https://t.co/2ioY0ULr20
EU Border Tech Project Is a Dysfunctional, Under‑resourced Failure
Silly juxtaposition. The vote was not about the EU's inability to create working border tech (they can't). It's a shambles. EU citizens can sail though gates in UK airports, they could have made this easier and better but can't. FRONTEX...
Internet Eliminates Blind Spots, Connects Everywhere Instantly
One of the greatest achievements of the modern age and hardly a peep... provides no blind spot internet and comms to anywhere on the planet...
Don't Police Everyday Writing While Protecting Artistic Creators
No one is asking poets and novelists to give that up for AI. Yet they seem determined to limit how other people write. Just leave others to do the practical, everyday writing for communications with help from AI. Stop the...
Writers Decry AI While Unknowingly Using It Everywhere
Writers are the new censors? Largely because they don't know what AI is and that they use it all the time, even in expressing it here. Social media feed, content moderation etc Search, even for academic papers etc Email spam, dick pic filtering etc Phone...
EU Spokesperson Announces Unbacked Initiatives, Faces Backlash
I'm not. Always on camera making PM-like announcements, when she is an unelected spokesperson. Spouts off every 5 mins about big initiatives without first getting support from member states, then has to row back e.g the scaling back of her...
Well‑designed AI Tutors Demonstrably Improve Learning Outcomes
It turns out (same author in both papers) that when AI tutors are even moderately well designed they help people learn. Old paper (2 years) using old model and seriously flawed. https://t.co/ePL2UOWJ4P
Iran Conflict Turns Global Economy Into Battlefield
John Keegan’s 'The Face of Battle' is a masterpiece of war literature. He moves from Agincourt to Waterloo, then the Somme, showing the shift from a small hand-to hand battlefield to a larger area defined by the range of cannon...
Houthis Threaten to Control Bab Al-Mandeb Chokepoint
Houthis warning they could get involved... Like the Strait of Hormuz they can control the Bab al-Mandeb, a similar chokepoint controlling access to and from the Red Sea
Budapest, Bratislava Blame Ukraine for Oil Delay, Block EU Loan
Meanwhile, back in the madhouse, Budapest and Bratislava have accused Ukraine of deliberately delaying the resumption of oil flows, triggering a political dispute that has seen Hungary block the EU loan to Kyiv... it's a mess. https://t.co/9Rnn7Wxy82
AI Boosts Research via Collaboration, Not Instant Revolution
As I explained in my book 'AI and Productivity', AI is aiding research, when used in a variety of collaborations across a broad front or research tasks. This is not, as yet, a big bang event. https://t.co/A4oLRuXZ55
Cheap DIY Drones Undermine US Defense, AI Threat Looms
Cheap drones, using mobile phone components, commercial off-the-shelf electronics, guidance sensors and a cheap 550cc two-stroke petrol engine, have literally defeated the entire might of US defence spending. When cheap cameras, and more autonomous scalable AI capabilities emerge, we're in real...
Luxury Items Become Portable Assets Amid Cash Shortage
People are buying luxury goods as they're leaving as it's an asset you can carry... money's a different matter....
Karpathy Highlights AI Leap Threatening White‑Collar Jobs
Karpathy proving to be most useful commentator on progress of AI. State-of-art thinking. Few understand the leap this year with Claude Code & Codex Threat to white collar work Fast and vast progress in digital world but slower change on physical world Brilliant analysis.... https://t.co/UQZpQp30us
Google Maps Unveils Decade‑Long Upgrade with Interactive Journey
More than an upgrade, really a leap into a map as a interactive journey.... exactly the features users want....
