Guessing Google will add a premium agentic-AI feature to Doppl which when asked "does my butt look big in this?" will quietly cancel your Amazon delivery for that foot-long Toblerone bar you ordered last night. www.theverge.com/news/694087/...
I guess shifting from dropping bunker-busting bombs to dropping F-bombs is a de-escalation of sorts: "Trump swears in angry outburst at both sides over ceasefire violations" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Very cool! For the 2nd edition may I propose inclusion of: a) "globalist elites" with heavy, ironic emphasis on the first syllable, and b) a self-deprecating reference to the "LA Times column" while studiously trying to avoid repeating its content verbatim :)
New £14 million project aims to use AI for faster data analysis and to improve medical scans. Canon Medical Research Europe, based in Edinburgh, will showcase AI based smart solutions at Japan expo this week
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Confusing chart makes it look as if 3 of the top 9 councils are on 54%. According to article only 1 is, the next 3 highest are on 52%. It's fine to have 5% "bins" but showing individual columns of datapoints within each bin against the measurement axis misleads. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It's remarkable that in the year 2025 the technical gateway that allows or "prevents" (notionally) web scraping of website content is still robots.txt... the digital equivalent of a "keep off the grass" sign, trampled underfoot by at least one US AI model developer. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Drew Purves of Google DeepMind makes a great point that once you commit probabilistic data to a map it will tend to be taken as fact. Like the idea of a confidence interval slider that hides (or marks) data points in the map when they don't meet the essential CI threshhold. youtu.be/vIIIau06wGo?...
Biggest winners from the MS-OpenAI partnership may ultimately be their "divorce" lawyers: "The two companies are in a standoff over OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Windsurf. OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to get Windsurf’s intellectual property" techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/t...
Probably sums up in one sentence why Disney are taking their fight against AI copyright infringement to court: "One search, which could be traced back to a person's Instagram account, asked Meta AI to generate an image of an animated character wearing only underwear." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quote of the day from Dr. Andres Guadamuz at the University of Sussex, commenting on Disney's legal action against Midjourney for copyright infringement during model training for AI image generation: "It’s Disney, so Midjourney are f---ed, pardon my French." www.newscientist.com/article/2484...
Interesting discussion A.O. podcast. Sarah Isgur & @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on LLM responses to prompts about US Supreme Court decisions reflecting media coverage of perceived partisan bias rather than reality. Trained on a corpus of 100 books, if 99 say the earth is flat, AI will absorb as fact.
Scotland put ‘at forefront’ of UK’s tech revolution with £750m national supercomputer coming to Edinburgh. Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms investment in cutting-edge advanced computing facility as part of government spending review
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Charts from the Guardian. Gaps between 1967-1997 and 1997-2027 are both 30 years, yet the year labels aren't evenly spaced. If the trend's the point then why "misplace" 1997? And do the series start 1967 or earlier? In principle simple charts but odd design choices have managed to make them unclear.
Good commitment to human review to ensure any #AI errors are caught: "...it still involves a case worker, who knows the children, going through each individual report to make sense of it to make sure there's not something that's been misunderstood by the AI." www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
In "The Accountant 2" there's build up to a bar fight that then happens off screen. But also an extended scene of the main character's brother negotiating, by phone, for a puppy. #BFI are right to worry about AI, but maybe an AI "script doctor" could've brought some consistency to the Accountant 2.
Tour of Britain cycle race in Glasgow today. I don't for sure, but this team with their fancy black and yellow bikes might have the edge!
"The barrister denied using AI in that case but said she may have inadvertently done so in preparation for a separate case where she also cited phantom authorities." #AI users should colour code draft content from LLMs to keep track of what they'll need to check. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In the 1980s, during the bitter Iran-Iraq war, Henry Kissinger commented it would be better for the world if both sides lost.
Can't think why this came to mind on such a quiet news day in the US.
How to leverage AI agents – your guide to powerful new digital assistants that can transform public services. The Futurescot AI Challenge is a chance to explore the potential of AI agents and Agentic AI for your organisation [partner content with @stormid.com]
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Google's forthcoming Ask Photos feature sounds like it could be useful when it eventually arrives. Although to the prompt, "find photos of the dog" it's likely to ask if it wouldn't be quicker to just delete the 6 that don't have the dog in them. techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/g...
Scottish AI Alliance launches new practical tools and guidance to support ‘responsible’ AI adoption. Playbook resources designed to help organisations ‘on their journey to implementing trustworthy, ethical, and inclusive AI’
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Edinburgh Napier university partners with security operations centre provider amid rising cyber threat levels. Acumen Cyber's SOC will provide round-the-clock threat detection and monitoring for the university
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If the algorithm could really see into your soul it would ofcourse have suggested Wii Golf!
The discourse around AI and consciousness focusses on the fact if their intelligence is not tied to their physical embodiment in the world, as humans are, then they aren't shaped by true experience, only our digital records. We might soon wish the internet was a nicer place for them to learn from
Great to see progress on these AI initiatives, but hard to over-state the imporrance of improving public sector data quality and interoperability, including between agencies, in order to ensure reliable ouputs and outcomes from use of such tools. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Research suggests that LLMs offering ever expanding context window size for prompt input may provide diminishing returns, relative to effectively implemented RAG for storing content in a vector space for topic-related contextual retrieval. www.datacamp.com/podcast/end-...
Exciting to see pilot councils having the opportunity to improve and refine i.AI's new Minute tool's understanding of local government context and terminology which many of the US-centric out-of-the-box foundation LLMs obviously lack. www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/news/just-a-...
Scottish AI firm opens Singapore base as region races to adopt the technology to gain global competitive advantage. Tomoro AI launches Asia Pacific hub to scale up AI among large enterprises in fast-growing sectors including finance and healthcare
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Great use of AI/ML. But... in 2023 Nestle UK made a pretax profit of £162M. So I was sceptical of them getting a UK goverment grant of £1.9M to do this. But then... looks like Zest the AI developer is a UK company, so there's logic in encouraging the UK AI sector. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Focus on innovation for new partnership between NHS Lanarkshire and University of Glasgow. Strategic deal aims to land real-world benefits of research and innovation on healthcare frontline
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