Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary This piece summarises reporting by The Register (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols) and related industry commentary about aggressive AI…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large contemporary trial (REBOOT) and related analyses challenge the routine use of…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind the US government climate science site climate.gov were dismissed earlier in 2025 and the site has…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Recent reporting (via NBC News, carried on Slashdot) describes a growing gig-market role: humans hired to clean up…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI quietly confirmed — in the middle of a blog post about ChatGPT and mental-health risks — that…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, a largely empty Chinese-built megaproject in Malaysia, to attend Network School…
Summary British “AI music creator” Oliver McCann — who says he has no musical training — signed with an independent record label after one of his AI-generated tracks reached about…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary Ars Technica (via Slashdot) reports a California lawsuit claiming Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling…
Summary Over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), becoming the fourth major Blizzard team to unionise. The…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast episode (host Zoë Schiffer, guest Leah Feiger) rounds up five major stories from the week: AI cutting entry-level roles,…
