If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic — Editors have long made a career out of helping authors shape their writing. Visual artists have long employed studio assistants. Television shows only get written collaboratively in writers' rooms.
Mar. 23, 2026
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Geist in the machine — ... beneath these debates, the question still lurks: what makes us so special? And can it be computed?
I Love the Em Dash. Too Bad if AI Does Too — There seemed to be mutual consensus in the online world, somehow from everyone and no one in particular, that frequent em dashes are no longer the result of human behaviour.
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The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy Howard — Jeremy Howard is a renowned data scientist, researcher, entrepreneur, and educator. As the co-founder of fast.ai, former President of Kaggle, and the creator of ULMFiT, Jeremy has spent decades democratizing deep learning. His pioneering work laid the foundation for modern transfer learning and the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm that powers today's language models.
Mar. 20, 2026
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Jeff Bezos aims to raise $100 billion to buy, revamp manufacturing firms with AI, WSJ reports — Described in investor documents as a "manufacturing transformation vehicle," the fund aims to target companies in major industries such as chipmaking, defense, and aerospace, the Journal said.
Neal K. Shah: Google just patented the right to replace your website with its own — Google’s system would evaluate your website’s landing page using metrics like bounce rate, conversion rate, and something it calls “page design quality.” If your site falls below a threshold that Google sets
Mar. 12, 2026
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Amazon puts humans further back in the loop as its retail website crashes from ‘inaccurate advice’ that an AI agent took from an old wiki — the message to engineers was that AI-assisted changes now get more scrutiny.
Mar. 8, 2026
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How Much Water Do the Data Centres Use? It’s a Secret — Google is taking absolutely the limit of all the water they can.
Mar. 7, 2026
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AI Could Mass Unmask Pseudonymous Accounts, Researchers Warn — “The average online user has long operated under an implicit threat model where they have assumed pseudonymity provides adequate protection because targeted deanonymization would require extensive effort,” they wrote. “LLMs invalidate this assumption.”
Mar. 5, 2026
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Is AI Hiding Its Full Power? With Geoffrey Hinton — Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI,' discusses whether AI is hiding its full power and the implications of this for the future of artificial intelligence.