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....
Google Translate's Practice Feature: Free Language Learning Tool
Free language learning tool in Google Translate. Sometimes embedding a useful 'learning' tool into massively used 1 billion user tool works. Practice feature in Google Translate is fascinating.... useful listening & role playing learning tool.... https://t.co/9WfcDRbDo6
NotebookLM: Usable AI Tool Unites Features for Educators
NotebookLM unique in being 'usable'. It's not in its brilliance, but in bringing together a cluster of useful features to act on ANY input by teachers or learners . Shows the way forward. https://t.co/Hyh1zfm0Cc
AI Shifts Expertise Down to Low‑Skill Workers
Was thought that AI kill 'low level' skilled jobs as experts thrive. The opposite may be true, as AI captures expertise to be delivered by lower skilled workers. Interesting flip... (thnks P Shea) https://t.co/WGwQWr4RvV
Oil Price Surge Threatens Poor as Egypt Cuts Power
Brent crude, global oil benchmark, rose by 8% to $116 a barrel. This will hurt everyone, especially the poor badly. Egypt has already restricted electricity use.... https://t.co/WIVr01CV5C
Egypt Imposes Early Closures Amid Looming Regional Conflict
Starting to hit poorer countires. Egypt's PM announces emergency in anticipation of the regional conflict: All shops, malls, restaurants must close 9:00 pm daily. Government District in New Capital will close fully at 6:00 pm daily. https://t.co/ViWYEGtJlQ
Digital Insolvency and Fast-Track Process for Startups
"We will also fully digitalise insolvency procedures and introduce a fast-track insolvency process for startups." You couldn't make it up....
Wittgenstein's Language Games Forecast AI Ethics
What we can we learn from Wittgenstein on language and AI? Family resemblance, language games, forms of life and ethics. He was surprisingly prescient.... https://t.co/S1aAP3t1g8 https://t.co/1tru31pQtH
Old Leaders Expand Nuclear Arsenal, Ignoring Safety Hopes
Spent my whole life hoping nuclear weapons would diminish and disappear, only to find a bunch of old men want to sacrifice everything economically and morally to build more and more, until the world is bristling with the damn things....
AI‑Sequenced Chatbot Boosts Learning by 6‑9 Months
Interesting paper showing that Bjork’s desirable difficulty works. Tight integration of AI chatbot with ‘intelligent task sequencing’ delivers 'right material at exactly the right level matching the individual’s needs. In other words, AI tutors work better when they do...
AI as Guide, Not Ghostwriter, Fuels Deeper Learning
AI should be the GUIDE, not the Ghostwriter AI can support learning, not replace it. Learning science recommends generative learning, desirable difficulty & scaffolding, used not to outsource thinking but critique, question and guide your effort... https://t.co/DZpsuMNcvN https://t.co/KppoGzgPNC
AI Should Be the Guide, Not the Ghostwriter
The article argues that AI should act as a mentor rather than a ghostwriter in education. It draws on research about the illusion of competence and the concept of desirable difficulty, emphasizing generative learning and scaffolding to promote deep understanding....
Oscars Stuck
Sinners and One Battle After Another not even in my top 5 movies last year. Oscars are starting to look like they're stuck in a self-confirming bubble. Both too melodramatic.
Gulf Flight Recovery Far From “Back to Normal”
The truth about flights in and out of the Gulf.... don't believe this 'back to normal' BS... https://t.co/fRkhwK4Bru
Separate Test Centres Streamline AI Assessment, Reduce Faculty Load
Interesting webinar on assessment in AI, recommending separate TEST CENTRES. Like driving, get expert tuition, then sit test separately. Removes summative assessment from faculty.
Education Must Evolve Beyond AI‑driven Habit Formation
True but depends WHAT you want to form and habituate. If it is what AI does effortlessly and better, education needs to shift focus. The danger is that education becomes a creature of institutional habit.
AI Boosts Productivity, Diminishing the Edge of Extensive Education
Real evidence, in good randomised trial, that AI raises productivity and that a long and expensive education is of little advantage. The point is that AI is doing a lot of the work, so levelling the playing field. AI doesn't...
AI Turns Cognitive Labor From Scarce to Abundant
Human intelligence has historically been economically valuable because it was scarce. Productivity systems, from professional hierarchies to wages, capital allocation and taxation, were structured around the limited supply of human cognitive labour. That constraint is now loosening. Artificial intelligence gives us...
China Leads AI in Higher Education, West Lags
Chinese use of AI in HE - way in advance of anything I've seen elsewhere. In West, assessment tail still wagging the dogs. https://t.co/cO1Muebk1B
AI Cuts Cost, but Quality Remains the True Metric
Many institutions have bencome self-serving but also bureaucratic and inefficient. AI reduces effort therefore time and cost. Tasks are no less sincere, authentic or credible by being done faster and cheaper. One word that is missing is quality - and...
Multi‑agent Orchestration Poised to Reshape Workplace Productivity
Now working with muti-agent and orchestration for workplace tasks. As soon as you see those first results, you know what's coming. Not as fast as Yang suggests but he's right, competitive pressure will drive this. https://t.co/V2gJcTQLji
AI Boosts Teaching Productivity—Workshop Gets Too Intense
Workshop on 'AI and Productivity'. Very intense, applying the productivity lens to 'teaching' & 'learning'. Circle formed at end and they had to eventually throw us out of the room. https://t.co/vzgYSr5GIn
AI Fits Like a Glove in EFL and Second Language Teaching
AI is reshaping English‑as‑a‑Foreign‑Language (EFL) classrooms, moving from fear‑based headlines to everyday practice. Learners increasingly use AI for speaking drills, flashcard creation, and content brainstorming, while most remain motivated. Research—including two large‑scale studies—shows AI‑driven chatbots boost oral proficiency, interaction, and...
AI Becomes a Versatile Language‑Teaching Glove
AI like a 'glove on hand' for teaching EFL & second languages; tutor, pronunciation, listening, practice, role play, assessment, immersion, avatars - voice dialogue is superb. Simple promting is a good start... https://t.co/JCmVtSlbkp