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Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students : Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data

Using an #AI to train another AI can cause hidden biases to be propagated between models: www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/l... #ArtificialIntelligence

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The only technology that died more times than VR is AI Opinion: The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think

VR has failed over and over again. Will #AI go the same way? www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/h... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Stanford's AI Index for 2026 Shows the State of the Industry AI investment is skyrocketing while AI’s impact on jobs and public perception remains mixed

The state of #AI in twelve plots: spectrum.ieee.org/state-of-ai-... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds A new study found that teens are well aware of the negative side effects of AI chatbots, though many still struggle with addiction.

Teens are deeply sceptical of #AI chatbots but can't stop using them: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence

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There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash The public outrage over the tech industry's obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are starting to come out.

An enormous backlash against #AI is brewing: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots. Do you trust AI chatbots for health advice? What about one in your patient portal?

US hospitals are rolling out more #AI chatbots, but many concerns remain: arstechnica.com/health/2026/... #ArtificialIntelligence

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What Stanford’s HAI Report Says About AI in Science - BigDATAwire Progress in artificial intelligence continues to accelerate across a range of expert disciplines, according to the latest AI Index report published today by Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artifi...

#AI is getting better at science, for some fields: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Editorial Assistants are usually staff of the publisher, if it's a major publisher and still sitting with them then follow-up after a few weeks.

Editors are almost never paid, i.e. are volunteers, so three weeks would be a bit too short. Four months is certainly time to enquire, though.

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Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’ Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections

Companies have spent so much on #AI that employees are being forced to use them, even though it makes them less productive: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Will the music stop for AI's funding dance? Investors are backing AI companies that, in turn, become customers, creating a self-reinforcing cycle that at times appears to be eating its own tail.

#AI funding seems to be a great big circle that is going to fall apart when the flow of money stops: www.informationweek.com/machine-lear... #ArtificialIntelligence

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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.

People are so fed-up with #AI data centres that they are voting-out councils that approve them: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence

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AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop : Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away

Using #AI to migrate away from mainframes is causing a lot of disappointment: www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/g... #ArtificialIntelligence

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AI is finally delivering productivity — for remote employees New research suggests the secret isn't the technology itself, it’s the freedom to use it your own way.

#AI can lead to an increase in productivity, if employees are allowed to choose how they use it: www.computerworld.com/article/4159... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Edge and physical AI poised to upend enterprise networks | TechTarget Edge AI and physical AI, powered by new AI inference chips in remote locations and on mobile devices, stand to further transform enterprise IT.

#AI on the edge of the cloud continues to be a growth area: www.techtarget.com/searchitoper... #ArtificialIntelligence

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To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.

The pain #AI is causing educators-mostly caused by students using it to cheat: arstechnica.com/science/2026... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users' Confidence in Their Own Brains A new study out of Middlesex University argues that the ultimate effects on an AI users' brain come down to how they use it.

People who use #AI more have less confidence in their own intellectual abilities: futurism.com/health-medic... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Weekly Review 17 April 2026 Some interesting links that I  Tweeted  about in the last week (I also post these on  Mastodon ,  Threads ,  Newsmast , and  Bluesky ): You ...

Weekly Review 17 April 2026: computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/04/week... #ArtificialIntelligence

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The AI Productivity Opportunity: Bridging the Technology Divide, Starting with Your Leadership - BigDATAwire The greatest untapped AI isn’t a new model or a faster chip; it’s the executive team already sitting in your boardroom. For the past year, corporate America has been energized […]

Improving efficiency with #AI requires effective leadership: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Company interviewed more than 1000 Kiwis by AI in a month Jobseekers will need to learn how to get through AI interviews, says boss.

Jobseekers now need to know how to get through #AI interviews: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #ArtificialIntelligence

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An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night After forgetting the nibbles, turning down my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, ‘Gaskell’ did at least get us to show up

#AI still have a while to go before they can organise a good party: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays Frontier AI models generated "detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces" without ever seeing the images.

#AI trained on patient X-rays will happily hallucinate a diagnosis even if not shown an X-ray: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence

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AI-powered trading bots and the evolution of forex automation The foreign exchange market processes $9.6 trillion in daily turnover, according to the Bank for International Settlements' 2025 Triennial Survey;

#AI has taken over most of the operations in currency trading: dataconomy.com/2026/04/10/a... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Could Space Become the Next Frontier for AI Data Centers? - BigDATAwire When Elon Musk started talking about space-based data centers, you wouldn’t blame anyone who thought that idea was a bit far fetched.  Satellites powered by constant solar energy, processing data […]

The challenges of moving #AI data centres into space: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence

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‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat They have degrees, expertise and years of experience – but can’t find work. For many Americans, AI training has become a last refuge in a brutal job market

The job market for older workers is so dire that people are having to train their own #AI replacements just to make ends meet: www.theguardian.com/technology/n... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off : ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner research

Only a minority of #AI projects pay off: www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/a... #ArtificialIntelligence

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AI Is Running Into a $7 Trillion Wall - BigDATAwire The rise of AI over the past two years or so has often been framed as a high stakes race. Bigger models, unbelievable company valuations, more compute and bigger datacenters. […]

Spending on #AI data centres is projected to hit $7T. Does anyone honestly think that that is sustainable? www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2026 computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/04/comp... #ArtificialIntelligence

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What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords? New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.

By this point nothing said by the CEO of an #AI company should be trusted or taken seriously: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ArtificialIntelligence

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AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped : Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X]

If you are integrating #AI into your business, build as if you are starting from scratch: www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/a... #ArtificialIntelligence

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

The inaccuracies of Google's #AI overviews is creating a crisis of misinformation: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence

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