OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
£14,115,906 spent on consultants (2019-2026)
FOURTEEN MILLION. Goldsmiths spent *14 MILLION* on consultants.
That's just 1 uni. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social, please do as ABC did in Australia & put a spotlight on just how much money gets funneled from public institutions to for-profit firms & the harm it causes abc.net.au/news/2026-03... #UKHE
The public seem to no longer know or care that where Reform have control of councils the result is almost always disaster. An uninformed electorate is the death of democracy...
After being told that research income doesn't factor in decisions about departmental/subject area sustainability & redundancies, I'm now at a seminar being told that we should get research income for the stake of financial sustainability. So tired of this.
Eigennutz.
Wer macht hier eigentlich Politik? Die Ministerin oder die Konzerne?
Offenbar schreibt Katherina Reiche nicht nur bei E.ON & RWE ab, sondern auch bei Big Tech. Die geplante Abschwächung des Energieeffizienzgesetzes gleicht teils Wort für Wort den Lobbypapieren von Microsoft, Google und Co.
"History has lied to you".
No it hasn't, and it's really sad that a university is using this framing.
Historians debate evidence - often, as here, quite fragmentary. They question received ideas, test new theories, correct mistakes.
That's the joy of history. But it doesn't mean others "lied". /
Solidarity!
This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI.
I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…
What's not to like about these modules!
I'm so sorry! This is exactly how an inflexible and badly thought-through "academic framework" can be engineered to kill off programmes. Do they also gaslight you that students don't want choice, and that they want skills instead of content,without any evidentiary basis whatsoever?
Every book generated by AI is one too many.
The Ukraine war started in 2022, so no Trump, and it was already clear that European energy was precarious.
When I was still teaching, it never really occurred to me that the tools meant to be helpful and enabling were actualky babyfying the students. Like when you still cut the food for your teenager, instead of pointing them to the fridge and say "help yourself". Thanks for expressing this so clearly.
We’ve tried to make academic research entirely frictionless for our students — online reading lists with hyperlinks, individual book chapters scanned online, journal articles that never require learning what a journal is, online primary sources curated for them — and it’s just made them helpless.
The Ukraine war should have been a wake-up call. But people prefer to hit the snooze button.
Better late than never.
We had hilarious conversations with our Spanish landlady via Google Translate, but it's not something I'd use in a serious political or diplomatic or business context. Using commercial AI application for anything confidential is a recipe for security disasters.
Because today's world needs fewer people who speak Mandarin, Russian or Arabic ...
People don't vote on facts, they vote on vibes.
... while happily sharing non-consensual pictures and watching deep-fake porn on their phones.
So much easier to hit out at graduates (for base political reasons) than to fix the pipeline in STEAM subjects and to do something about social mobility.
He was 5ft6 or 1.68m - so not huge.
Only if there is also a Churchill Parva.
The current government would also have clamped down on peacefully protesting suffragettes just has harsh as the one in the 1910s.
And education is an investment for the entire society - people don't study nursing or engineering or music education to become super-rich in themselves; they want to do a necessary job and shouldn't be "punished" for that with reference to "the taxpayer" (as if graduates didn't pay taxes already).
So infuriating that the UK debate is perenially stuck in the "Degrees are individual investments" loop. Evidence from other countries shows conclusively that a highly educated workforce benefits everybody, but will these Britsh politicians (who studied at "taxpayer's expense") ever listen? No.
Let's hope the university pushes back against these nonsensical demands. The Reform guy probably only spoke so that he could complain afterwards.
Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...
Me too.