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
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Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site nature.com
nature.com
nytimes.com
Companies are getting AI chatbots to smear their competitors sherwood.news
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
tomshardware.com
Anthropic warns AI may soon begin recursive self-improvement scientificamerican.com
scientificamerican.com
U.S. limits on Anthropic Fable AI could hurt cybersecurity scientificamerican.com
fastcompany.com
How to fill Congress’s AI knowledge gap transformernews.ai
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...
Officially too many IPOs www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/t...
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...
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...
The screeching halt for the distribution of the Claude Mythos and Fable models is a major headache for cybersecurity departments - my latest for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-l...
The biggest from Elon Musk's failed lawsuit against OpenAI? Never write anything down. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91544389/the...
Congress, like many other areas of government, has a deficit in AI knowledge. So how do we fix it? My latest for @transformernews.ai tries to offer some options www.transformernews.ai/p/how-to-fil...
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Recent commentary
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
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