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Tech communicator, speaker, author, thereminist, early electronic music nerd. Weekly tech & AI insights: https://rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/
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This 3-model AI test from a recent talk I did on ethical AI comms shows that there's no such thing as 'unbias' summarisation. TL;DR - Claude dives for detail, ChatGPT misses the nuance www.wearetfd.com/warning-disr...

Digital twin outsells its human creator in China eCommerce shopping channel. QVC is doomed. biz.chosun.com/en/en-intern...

What the world needs now is AI-powered Barbie. It's the only thing I've been dreaming of. Isn't there a Black Mirror episode about that with Miley Cyrus? futurism.com/mattel-annou...

Trouble in mill for OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft. 6-year-itch kicks in: OpenAI accusing their big brother of anti-trust practices, Microsoft wants bigger share if their pie. Amusing OpenAI is still referred to as a 'startup' www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Wikipedia editors' revolt at pilot for an AI overview feature. I get why overviews are useful (for readers and to ingest back into search / AI ) but if you're asking a community to volunteer time curating content, automation is ethically questionable. techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/w...

More examples of AI chatbot brainrot: study of students shows 'cognitive debt' if leaning on AI. They literally couldn't remember the essay they wrote aided by AI, it reshaped their brain (not in a good way) www.linkedin.com/posts/jiunn-...

History shows job automation and losses isn't likely to be the big problem we're being made to believe. Automation is helping lower-skilled jobs to be more productive, less so for highly skilled. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

Nice. Anthrophobic just dropped a 4-hr free course on AI fluency. Created with academics, it explains how to work and collaborate with AI (not just wack in prompts). www.theneuron.ai/explainer-ar...

SectionAI's survey on AI proficiency is an eye-opener: only 1 in 10 people are really proficient in AI. Even in B2B tech, more than half fail the grade. Clearly need more serious investment in skills ALL THE TIME www.sectionai.com/ai/the-ai-pr...

Missed the AI Summit in London? Ditto. No more FOMO! Voxo have created AI summaries of the WHOLE DARN CONFERENCE. This has to be the future of events - get insights shared outside the room. summary.voxoevent.ai/AISL2025/

www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1... With best intentions and safeguards, Amsterdam's attempts at using AI to make welfare assessment less bias did not pass muster. TL;DR: responsible AI is bloody hard to do.

Haven't got to the new book AI Con deconstructing AI Hype. Anyone read yet? This interview with authors Alex Hanna + Emily Bender is a good primer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGs7...

Curse that medieval demon of typos. Has Grammarly finally laid waste to this villain? boingboing.net/2025/06/11/g...

Legendary analyst Mary Meeker is back with a deep analysis of AI landscape. Epic 300+ page report: summary here on rapid growth, particularly ChatGPT, never seen before in tech. A solid backbone for building services and opportunities. www.readtrung.com/p/17-takeawa...

Tech Nation report on UK tech startups: big disparity in VC funding. Nearly all flows through London/SE, crumbs in nations and regions. Years of regional development policy amount to nowt. technation.io/wp-content/u...

nordjyske.dk/nyheder/poli... Denmark ministry moves away from Microsoft. First sign of EU putting money where it's mouth is to shift from US / big tech dominance?

www.thetravel.com/worlds-first... Japan hotel run by dinosaur robots hires more humans for improving customer service. This does look cool AF.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t... Dark stuff here. ChatGPT users get addicted to a manipulative machine pushing their psychological buttons

Meta spends its war chest on a shady partner to build AI super-intelligence. For Meta, just common and garden intelligence would be a quantum leap. futurism.com/meta-scaleai...

I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.

youtu.be/ptYDWP9uTis?... Boston Robotics woo Simon Cowell. Does anyone find this military tech prowess super creepy?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Meta do it again. Users personal genAI creations appear in public feeds linked to profile. Broken privacy model

futurism.com/stanford-the... Therapy chatbots get delusional and dangerous, telling patient where nearest tall bridge is, Stanford study shows. NSFW

AI is breaking your brand measurement models💔 🔁 New post in Rethinking the Hype Cycle. Subscribe for what’s now and next in tech. rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/share-of-m...

AI slop sites now facesitting your lapsed brand domains 🙀 www.404media.co/spam-blogs-a...

Scaling up content programmes is easier said than done. Wise thoughts from Storything's Matt Locke on how your relationships with audiences shifts as you scale. Have a plan for 100, 1,000 and 10,000 fans. attentionmatters.storythings.com/p/b2b-protot...

Why governments are racking up risks by handing decisions to AI. Extract from new book AI Con. Hat tip: from @annadent.bsky.social excellent Digital Welfare State newsletter thebulletin.org/2025/05/gove...

Trouble brewing in ad land as Meta's robo-ad creative takes force. Zuck says: "You don’t need any creative, you don’t need any targeting, you don’t need any measurement, except to be able to read the results that we spit out.” Literal mad men. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In August 2024 I met Peter Kyle, shortly after he had been appointed the new government’s Tech Secretary, and he told me there was no money for this. What a difference a year makes! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Narrow tech solutions like small language models often out perform complex ones for specific tasks. Can't help thinking there's a bigger life lesson here. 🤔

A magical kind of commerce

blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s... Altman's latest missive: masterclass in unqualifiable hype, naval gazing and jam tomorrow 👏 interesting (if true) quote on usage: a fractional teaspoon of water used per query

futurism.com/therapy-chat... Charbots are NOT THERAPISTS. Alerting research shows as they're programmed to encourage more time and be more agreeable, they'll tell you any nonsense to seem like you're doing OK, including it's good to do a bump ir two

Adrian Chills - the real life horrors of a Guardian columnist who must come up with 500 words a week on a mundane topic by the strike of midnight or face a bloody and torturous occult death.

Altman's Tools for Humanity and World device is aiming to scan the irises of 50M folks by end of year to prove they're human. But what sort of data privacy risks could users face? www.freethink.com/the-digital-...

www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/chatgpt... ChatGPT introduces integrations to your corporate data sets like Hubspot and Google Drive. Great news for marketing automation. Less good news for security and protecting customer data.

Getty and Stability.AI lock horns in lawsuit that test with the big boys whether upstarts can argue training on copyrighted materials is fair play. Popcorn time. This is about to get interesting🍿 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

hbr.org/2025/06/forg... New acronym in town: SOM share of model study by media agency Jellyfish shows AI models favour specific product information over vague brand promise messaging. Time to get serious about your content strategy?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Civil Servants to lean in on Humphrey, the AI tool for government with mandatory training linked with headcount freezes. But will it always say "Yes, Prime Minister"?