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Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc… https://www.felixsimon.net/
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If we end up solving the Riemann Hypothesis by telling a computer "bro, believe in yourself" then I might have to go live in a hole www.anthropic.com/research/rie...

Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities anthropic.com
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  • An unreleased Claude research build lifted a lower bound for zeros of the Riemann zeta function from 41.6% to 67.2%, per Anthropic.
  • The run used 31 million output tokens across two sessions, about 60 subagents, 2,400 shell commands, and reviewed 54 arXiv papers.
  • Anthropic mathematicians Levent Alpöge and Ralph Furman plus external reviewers Brian Conrey and Dan Goldston examined the findings; Claude produced a Lean formalization.
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Anyway, original interview here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-yor...

New York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
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  • Browne says an AI model scanned satellite imagery of Gaza and flagged more than 500 craters consistent with 2,000-pound bombs in areas designated as safe.
  • He warns that visual and audio verification are becoming extremely challenging, with detection tools struggling to keep pace with generation tools in an arms race.
  • The New York Times visual investigations team, which Browne joined in 2016, also used satellite imagery to track a Chinese balloon from China across the Pacific.
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This is good, actually. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

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At the start of the year I took a quick look at climate change and AI in media coverage. At the time, it seemed like climate change had fallen by the wayside, despite the urgency of the threat of a rapidly warming planet. As of June 2026, not much has changed felixsimon.substa…

AI coverage 1, Climate coverage 0 felixsimon.substack.com
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A thought sparked by Google’s IO: AI as it is deployed increasingly really tethers us more closely to information but mediated through the largest platforms (here Google) – it really is a centralisation of information that we are seeing.

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Against my better judgment, I wrote something short on the claim that UK news isn't paying enough attention to the Claude Fable quagmire and AI more broadly.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 3 ↩ 1 · 70d ago

One of the interesting epistemic side-effects of AI diffusion to me is the two-tier system that seems to have emerged around it in terms of information access/quality and people’s perception of what AI can(not) do as a result.

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✨ 🤖 A brief summary of the AI findings of the Digital News Report 2026, a 48-country survey of news use and attitudes, now out by the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social.

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Last summer, I co-organised a small symposium on AI agents which in light of the OpenAI/Hugging face news feels prescient. Some quotes from the symposium report: "Several of those present argued that many of the most pressing risks are systemic."

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Not entirely sure I agree with everything argued in this short commentary pre-print on AI slop, but I do think the authors get one thing right: It’s too easy to dismiss AI slop.

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