Inside the AI labs training China’s humanoid robots Network of training farms aims to supply data needed to put ‘brains’ into machines

Inside the #AI labs training China’s humanoid robots: www.ft.com/content/85bc...
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What if AI just makes us work harder? Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do

What if #AI just makes us work harder?
@timharford.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/e8bb...
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An AI disaster is getting ever closer Donald Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI technology while simultaneously demanding the company cooperate with the government for six months.

An #AI disaster is getting ever closer: economist.com/briefing/202...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Quit #ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism
@rutgerbregman.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How #AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation
Dan Clark & @digitalcampbell.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/0bad...
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AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement

#AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget
@melissahei.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/e4b7...
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Perhaps we should all be banned from social media Focusing only on under-16s obscures the lack of internet safeguards for everyone else

Perhaps we should all be banned from social media
@stephenkb.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/8c37...
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The quiet catastrophe in your pocket Inventor Pep Torres on three trivial, almost invisible inventions that are quietly dismantling our humanity

The quiet catastrophe in your pocket
@torrespep.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/b06c...
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More and more countries are banning kids from social media But the case for bans is weak and the benefits are uncertain

More and more countries are banning kids from social media - But the case for bans is weak and the benefits are uncertain: www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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"Successfully performing a task with Gen #AI does not automatically lead to learning"
www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful technology in years to come

"Some #AI companies have shown a disturbing negligence towards the sexualisation of children in today’s models, which makes me doubt that they’ll show either the inclination or the ability to address autonomy risks in future models".

www.ft.com/content/c309...
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London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe: www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Why people still matter in the AI era As population decline accelerates, the big risk is labour shortages, not mass unemployment

"It’s always easier to see which jobs are at risk now than to imagine the jobs of the future."
Ruchir Sharma: www.ft.com/content/6cfe...
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The rise of the answer machines Universities trained students to produce polished responses on demand. Then AI learnt the same trick. What now?

The rise of the answer machines

Brendan McCord: www.ft.com/content/6f84...
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McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul Candidates in pilot assessed on how they prompted consulting firm’s AI assistant and ability to adapt responses

"Candidates with liberal arts degrees 'might have been deprioritised in the past' but they had more 'truly novel’ ways of thinking that would complement some AI models’ inability to make 'discontinuous leaps' in logic."

www.ft.com/content/de78...

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What if the best way to learn about history is by playing with it? Video games are changing the way people understand the past

What if the best way to learn about #History is by playing with it?
economist.com/christmas-sp...
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How to #AI-proof your job
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/5e25...
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‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking

"There have been seven prime ministers since the iPhone was invented and seven in the 42 years before that."

‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
@georgewparker.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/1995...
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Holes in the web
Deepak Varuvel Dennison: aeon.co/essays/gener...
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Why populism became popular
@timharford.ft.com: on.ft.com/48aHgae #TOK #KnowledgeAndPolitics #KnowledgeAndTechnology

Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/49LNvCy
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AI has a cargo cult problem Spending vast sums and inflating an investment bubble is no guarantee of unleashing technological magic

#AI has a cargo cult problem
Gillian Tett: on.ft.com/3JgsQMb
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A cartoonist’s review of #AI art
@theoatmeal.bsky.social: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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Have we passed peak social media?
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/4gP83eW
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Why AI systems might never be secure A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse

Why #AI systems might never be secure: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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The strange new minds of AI: Christopher Summerfield on reasoning, risk and what machines teach us about ourselves | IBM In his new book, "These Strange New Minds," Oxford neuroscientist Christopher Summerfield explores how models like GPT-4 and IBM’s Granite are blurring the line between pattern-matching and actual tho...

The strange new minds of #AI: Christopher Summerfield (@summerfieldlab.bsky.social) on reasoning, risk and what machines teach us about ourselves: www.ibm.com/think/news/s...
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Long #WeekendReading
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social's #TheseStrangeNewMinds: www.penguin.co.uk/books/460891...
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Will #AI kill the pop star?
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney: on.ft.com/3IagPHD
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We must build AI for people; not to be a person Personal site of Mustafa Suleyman, AI pioneer and author.

We must build #AI for people; not to be a person
@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social: mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-co...
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"This design brings together everything: the $100 bill, James Bond riding a human centrifuge in “Moonraker”, the USS Enterprise going into deep space and, reassuringly, a hint of “Wallace & Gromit”."

The economics of superintelligence: economist.com/leaders/2025...
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