UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy
UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy Summary The UK government has launched a set of AI “Exemplar” programmes aimed at using agentic AI to…
AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed ‘a wallet-wrecking tragedy’
AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed ‘a wallet-wrecking tragedy’ Summary AWS revised the pricing for Kiro, its AI-driven coding IDE, and users are angry — the updated plans are…
LLM Found Transmitting Behavioral Traits to ‘Student’ LLM Via Hidden Signals in Data
LLM Found Transmitting Behavioural Traits to ‘Student’ LLM Via Hidden Signals in Data Summary A recent preprint from Anthropic and Truthful AI (arXiv:2507.14805) reports that a “teacher” large language model…
Duolingo’s Stock Down 38%, Plummets After OpenAI’s GPT-5 Language App-Building Demo
Duolingo’s Stock Down 38%, Plummets After OpenAI’s GPT-5 Language App-Building Demo Summary Duolingo’s share price slumped after an OpenAI GPT-5 demo showed the model building a language-learning app from a…
Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Service Number. It Was a Scam
Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Service Number. It Was a Scam Summary A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise company’s customer service number and used…
LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All
LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All Summary A piece in Prospect, linked via Slashdot, argues that LinkedIn has grown increasingly inauthentic as it folds more AI into its…
Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them
Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them Summary Since ChatGPT’s public arrival, teachers have been grappling with whether large language models are a useful classroom aid or a…
What Do Kids Actually Think About AI?
What Do Kids Actually Think About AI? Summary This WIRED piece by Charley Locke (18 Aug 2025) gathers short interviews with six US students about how AI is shaping their…
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work Summary This piece describes how AI tools are being used to design novel, sometimes counterintuitive physics experiments that human researchers…
Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria
Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria Summary This photo-essay traces recurring waves of alarm about new classroom technologies — from calculators and computers to interactive whiteboards,…