Hallucinated references seem to be way more common in social science papers than others - but why? My latest for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Who's Who of AI
Chris Stokel-Walker
Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
What they're sharing
Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site nature.com
Too dangerous to release: is Mythos the start of the restricted-AI era? nature.com
OpenAI says employees moving beyond chat to agents theregister.com
nytimes.com
fastcompany.com
Companies are getting AI chatbots to smear their competitors sherwood.news
Ditching the cloud for local AI — how I use two mini PCs to process millions of tokens a day and save money on costly API fees tomshardware.com
AI isn’t making developers more productive – it’s making them busier leaddev.com
Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible – why the CPU to GPU ratio is more important than ever for hyperscalers tomshardware.com
AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — tomshardware.com
Anthropic warns AI may soon begin recursive self-improvement scientificamerican.com
Anthropic asks religious thinkers to help shape Claude as pope warns about AI scientificamerican.com
Articles & links
Did Mythos usher in a new era of how to release AI models that are too dangerous to be widely used? My latest for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If you are one of the 2.1% of OpenAI employees not using Codex, I want to speak to you www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
Officially too many IPOs www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/t...
AI companies say we're going to be shopping though their systems in the near future - but a new study suggests you can waylay recommendations with a single webpage. My latest for @fastcompany.com on the weird future ahead www.fastcompany.com/91562049/one...
The cut-throat competition to get placements in AI chatbot responses is resulting in some companies starting to do down their competitors on blog posts hosted on their own websites. My latest for @sherwood.news sherwood.news/tech/compani...
I increasingly believe the future of AI is going to be locally-hosted models running on our own devices, not subject to export bans or the whims of companies. My latest for @tomshardware.com on my own setup www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
AI has been touted as a way to make developers more productive. But a new paper suggests that actually all it's doing is making them busier. My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/ai/ai-isnt-m...
Why are CPUs becoming ever more important for data centres? My latest for @tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Can AI be used to help design better AI chips? My latest for @tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Anthropic came out with an eye-popping blog post calling for a global, coordinated pause on AI development because it sees something in the tea leaves. Not everyone is so convinced. My latest for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/anth...
The Pope is talking about AI and Anthropic invited a bunch of religious thinkers to meetings in recent months. What does it all mean, and what's going on? My latest for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/anth...
Their own posts
Recent commentary
God, AI is remarkable. I've got an uncomfortably warm office at my university that they refuse to do anything about. Bought a £10 smart thermometer which has an associated app but I want to access it remotely. Uses Bluetooth. Have vibe coded a remote access dashboard
Trump's export control on Fable/Mythos is a) the best case for AI sovereignty that doesn't rely on a handful of US models you can make and b) another example of Anthropic's "ooh scary model" overhype blowing back in their face
You can smell AI-generated slide decks a mile off (and I don't like it)
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