'Snackfishing' and the dream foods that don’t exist - BBC Bitesize How AI has helped create the treats you won't see for sale - anywhere

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art... Food product to AI to be true? You've been snackfished. Creators make fake snack variants with real brands like Milky bar Pringles. Most weird fun but some have become so popular they've made it to shelves. Heinz ketchup smoothie, anyone?

City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center Residents of a small Missouri town kicked out half of their city council who had voted to approve an $6 billion data center development.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Data centres are harming the environment, spiking electricity bills and now local politician careers as Missori resident boot out local councilors who approved centres in favour of anti data centre candidates.

Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents Prime Delivery drones are spewing out packages full of breakable objects onto the concrete from 10 feet in the air.

futurism.com/robots-and-m... Amazon drone deliveries now in the wild, and can be wild. To be 'safe' the drop is usually from 10ft up, not great news for delicate items like this customer's weird blue syrup bottle.

Women in Tech Taskforce Information about the Women in Tech Taskforce including its role and members.

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UK gov launch a women in tech taskforce with some powerful folks like Dr Anne-Marie Imafidion to investigate why women aren't getting fair shot at getting into or progressing in tech. Share your views by 23 Apr

x.com/rubenhassid/... Tokens are the new resource drain. If you're hitting your AI tool limits quick, these tips help and generally to be a more resource conscience user.

Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds A new study in Nature reveals that people who use AI tend to be more dishonest compared to when they don't use AI for tasks.

futurism.com/ai-study-une... And using AI creates a bigger gap between us and our actions, with a greater likelihood of unethical behavior like reporting higher scores on a dice roll. Being more likely to request unethical behavior from machines than to engage in same unethical behavior themselves.

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

futurism.com/artificial-i... A US and UK research study shows those using AI for solving problems had a strange reaction when it was switched off: they became more irritable, less perseverance and results were worse, the "boiling frog" impact on cognitive faculties

interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/... As wonderful as guide dogs are, they have limits. This robot guide dog learns route and provides its owner with voice updates en route.

Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"? On a weird few weeks of A.I.-writing scandals

“A.I. is “inevitable” precisely because it’s not revolutionary." In a week of AI novels cancelled, journalists using AI sacked while forcibly injecting it into others' workflows, Max Read muses if the shift to professional AI writing is avoidable or inevitable maxread.substack.com/p/is-ubiquit...

Meta workers set up a league for ‘tokemaxxing’ to see who burned through the most AI tokens. Even more awkward: they called it Claudenomics - after the AI tool they’re probably rather using rather than their own. gizmodo.com/cast-adrift-...

OpenAI drops a policy paper that proposes how to navigate the wobbly way to superintelligence: a 4-day week (cos we’ll have less to do LOL) and a tax on robots to make up contributions of people it replaces. A paper probably best used to wrap up your (AI) chips.
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All AI and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Ivy League US university students report seminar debates flat and predictable as students make a dash for their AI to give them responses for debates. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Meta has created an AI model that mirror the neurons of a human brain. This could be helpful for science research, terrifying, or another wheeze to test how to get people addicted to social dopamine. aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2

Adam Curtis on 'Where is generative AI taking us?' | SHIFTY (2025) YouTube video by TNAPT

Prophetic filmmaker Adam Curtis on AI as the ghost of our time. Haunting us with our past, not the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egx... Hat tip: @kimwitten.bsky.social 🎩

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More hot air, helium and hype around US data centres: Ed Zitron breaks down data to show only 1 in 3 planned centres are being billed, and public opposition, lack of resources means despite the cash slew many won’t happen. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-indus...

What to do when AI goes horribly wrong Make a plan for these problems you’re likely to face.

New article: What to do when AI goes horribly wrong
Make a plan for these problems you’re likely to face 🔁 Rethinking the Hype Cycle
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I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial role

Some jobs are AI-proof. Fake reviews undermine businesses' credibility. This journalist took the hit to become a ‘human’ reviewer, earning crypto for posting fake reviews that needed human verification. If you get paid in crypto, I’d be wondering Is this legit?” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of homes Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big T...

Data centres aren’t just an environmental hazard. They’re stopping the UK authorities from meeting home-building targets by sucking up the grid spots needed to build homes, and moving from gas to heat pumps. www.thenerve.news/p/ai-data-ce...

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned The incident is yet another example of volunteer Wikipedia editors fighting to keep the world’s largest repository of human knowledge free of AI-generated slop.

Then the bots bite back and write a diss against Wikipedia
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Wikipedia bans using AI for article creation as it violates “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” - only for translation if the author has sufficient knowledge of the translated language. www.theverge.com/tech/901461/...

A decade after Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, in a surprise to no one, new research shows X can target users by political leaning using proxy measures, and in one test, explicit interests. Social advertising will break GDPR rules in spirit if not law. www.techpolicy.press/are-ai-syste...

How To Build a Content Strategy That Survives AI Search Explore how AI search engines reward relevance and expertise. Learn lessons from HubSpot’s strategy shift that favors content gravity over content volume.

For B2B brands, the new content strategy isn’t publishing more (for many year it hasn’t been), it’s finding ‘gravity’ - what content converts. For surfacing content in AI and making those users click, your content strategy needs a rethink. contentmarketinginstitute.com/content-mark...

Can synthetic personas replace people in research studies? This healthcare brand compared synthetic vs real subject research. The results: broadly similar. Testing with ‘fake humans' gives me the ick. But could be a path for those with less resources. contentmarketinginstitute.com/ai-in-market...

40M people are already using ChatGPT Health daily to get quick answers to health problems. But this study shows plenty of risk - it’s reassuring people who need emergency healthcare instead of urging a clinical visit, www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

Has AI Ended Thought Leadership? As generative AI and content platforms make it effortless to sound authoritative, organizations are being overwhelmed by polished insight that rarely translates into real change. The growing gap between those who talk about the future of work and those who actually build it has turned expertise into performance, leaving leaders stuck. What creates progress instead is a different discipline: hands‑on experimentation by operators willing to test ideas in messily real conditions, learn from failure, and share unvarnished results.

AI is weakening thought leadership; it’s easy to push a button to craft a plausible speech or article. Orgs need to hire for “thought doers” who get in the mix and help teams build and do. hbr.org/2026/03/has-...

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.

Amazon relentlessly pushes “AI or die”. Employees forced to use “half-baked” hackathon tools leading to poor work and outages. “This pressure to use [AI] has resulted in worse quality code, but also just more work for everyone.”
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They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic” Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

“We should stop asking “can women do AI?” and start asking “what happens when women stop doing it for free and start building systems that do it for them?”
Abi Awomosu’s on why AI is the digital Stepford Wife. Entrenching gender bias or potential liberator?
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leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0... Meaningless usage targets, make steel without skill. Han Lee on why AI is a Mao like great leap forward, and we should brace for a famine

Debate in UK parliament on Palantir scraping our data in NHS. Wild that a tech firm can endanger our health and security. Tell your MP where they should stick it. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

futurism.com/artificial-i... The race to be the first AI startup unicorn is wild. Medvi, a medicine retailer claimed the title in a NYT puff piece. Under the hood, FDA aren't happy about fake doctors, AI customer images and dodgy prescription advice like “take one table [sic] by mouth twice daily.”