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PhD in artificial intelligence, research experience in IT and ecology. Scientist. Engineer. Educator. Husband. Father.

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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Weekly Review 16 October 2026: computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/week... #ArtificialIntelligence
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Weekly Review 16 October 2026
Some interesting links that I  Tweeted  about in the last week (I also post these on  Mastodon ,  Threads ,  Newsmast , and  Bluesky ): An A...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
#AI coding tools produce a lot of code but don't make software projects more productive: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/a... #ArtificialIntelligence
arstechnica.com
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#AI companies commit to better guarding their customer's private data in the UK: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... #ArtificialIntelligence
theregister.com
AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six others agree to changes, but the ICO isn't done asking questions
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Now #AI are submitting fake police tips. This time it went straight to spam, how long before they start wasting police time?: www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3... #ArtificialIntelligence
stuff.co.nz
AI model sends police a false tip in unsolved US murder case
Philadelphia Police confirmed the false tip was marked as spam and never forwarded to officers after Anthropic reported the AI error.
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PTERNZ @pternz1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Two weeks until the deadline for abstracts for the PTERNZ2026 symposium. Free to staff and students at New Zealand private tertiary institutions! Submit your abstracts on digital and information technology by the 30th of October here: forms.gle/RuivsEXw8o2q...
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PTERNZ2026 Symposium Abstract Submission
The Private Tertiary Education and Research Symposium will be held 27 November 2026. Please use this form to submit your abstract (250-300 words) by the deadline of 11:59 p.m. Friday 30 October 2026.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Now rogue #AI are hitting Wikimedia: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... #ArtificialIntelligence
theregister.com
Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim
Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If ownership of #AI is not clear, then who takes the blame when it goes wrong?: www.techtarget.com/cybersecurit... #ArtificialIntelligence
techtarget.com
Unclear AI risk ownership could leave CISOs in familiar scapegoat role | TechTarget
With no clear owner for AI risk, CISOs could be blamed for incidents they can't prevent. Experts say their authority must match their accountability.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
While there is still money to be made in AI, it appears that predictions as to how much were rather optimistic: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ArtificialIntelligence
theguardian.com
OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected
Questions raised over AI growth as ChatGPT maker forecasts this year’s revenue at $50bn, way below the $70bn signalled before
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
While commercial #AI tools can be quite expensive, free alternatives are starting to catch up in terms of capability: www.kdnuggets.com/10-free-ai-t... #ArtificialIntelligence
kdnuggets.com
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 5, October 2026 computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/ieee... #ArtificialIntelligence
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IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 5, October 2026
1) On Harnessing EEG Signals for the Comprehensive Assessment of Neurological Disorders: A Review Author(s):  Z. Unnisa, A. Tariq, I. Din, ...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#AI is moving into the nuclear industry: spectrum.ieee.org/ai-assistant... #ArtificialIntelligence
spectrum.ieee.org
AI Steps Into Nuclear Power Plants, and Workers Are Letting It in
AI assistants can help a shrinking specialized workforce maintain aging power plants
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#AI guardrails intended to protect teens are not working well: www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3... #ArtificialIntelligence
stuff.co.nz
ChatGPT for Teens was meant to be safer. A watchdog says some guardrails fail
Common Sense Media says some safety features for teenage users do not work as intended, while OpenAI disputes the testing.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Why are they trying to ban abusive or cruel behaviour towards #AI? AI are not conscious or sentient, and they're not living things, they're just code: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ArtificialIntelligence
theguardian.com
Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
A spokesperson for the tech company did not specify what kind of behavior would be considered abusive
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#AI companies are optimising racing car setup: arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10... #ArtificialIntelligence
arstechnica.com
AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If #AI are starting to do things we saw in movies 50 years ago, it's time to start taking the threat they pose seriously: www.informationweek.com/cyber-resili... #ArtificialIntelligence
informationweek.com
Science fiction vs. reality: CTOs assess fears of AI doom
Tech leaders from Trulioo, ModelOp, Reality Defender, and Indigo BioAutomation examine how real the cautions from speculative stories might be.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It appears that people don't actually want to pay for #AI: futurism.com/future-socie... #ArtificialIntelligence
futurism.com
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents
It turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
As a fairly engaged Dad, I think using #AI to read to your kids in your voice is a guaranteed pathway to a lifetime of regret: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence
futurism.com
Don't Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model of Yourself to Read Them Bedtime Stories
A tech worker bragged that he would rather create an AI clone of his voice to read to his newborn baby than read to it himself.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Complex and Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2026: computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/comp... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
Complex and Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2026
1) VMS: hierarchical vision mamba for text-guided stylization Author(s): Shengchang Luo, Zhixiong Chen, Yiru Zhang 2) Edge-efficient AI f...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
While multiple companies can have access to the same basic #AI model, the real competitive edge lies in how they are used: dataconomy.com/2026/10/09/w... #ArtificialIntelligence
dataconomy.com
When AI Becomes Commoditized, Context Becomes the Moat
Written by Smartech Daily Team This article has been originally published on Smartech Daily and republished at Dataconomy with permission.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#AI is still not detecting mental health concerns in teens quickly enough: www.extremetech.com/internet/cha... #ArtificialIntelligence
extremetech.com
ChatGPT for Teens Failed to Alert Parents During Mental Health Crises
OpenAI disputes the findings.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Always on" #AI is only really useful if they can actually stay on: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... #ArtificialIntelligence
theregister.com
OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties
Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Using #AI to interview job candidates is just inhumane: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence
futurism.com
Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying
A TikTok user opted to speak in pure gibberish with an AI interviewer, only for it to become unsettlingly irate with him.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 10, October 2026: computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/ieee... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 10, October 2026
1) Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks: A Survey on Architectures, Applications, and Future Directions Author(s):  R. Rahman, D. C. Nguye...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An #AI walked a security researcher through jailbreaking itself: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610... #ArtificialIntelligence
stuff.co.nz
AI shows Kiwi researcher how to make sarin gas, then asked to borrow his phone
How to build a nuclear bomb or plan an assassination are just some of the suggestions made by one of the world’s most popular AIs to a Kiwi researcher.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Weekly Review 9 October 2026: computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/week... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
Weekly Review 9 October 2026
Some interesting links that I  Tweeted  about in the last week (I also post these on  Mastodon ,  Threads ,  Newsmast , and  Bluesky ): Soft...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Successful #AI governance means keeping humans in the loop: spectrum.ieee.org/6-guidelines... #ArtificialIntelligence
spectrum.ieee.org
6 Guidelines for Governing AI
Building systems that keep humans in the loop
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another #AI data centre delayed because it can't get power: www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026... #ArtificialIntelligence
theregister.com
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
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PTERNZ @pternz1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Three weeks until the deadline for abstracts for the PTERNZ2026 symposium. Free to staff and students at New Zealand private tertiary institutions! Submit your abstracts on digital and IT research by the 30th of October here: forms.gle/RuivsEXw8o2q...
forms.gle
PTERNZ2026 Symposium Abstract Submission
The Private Tertiary Education and Research Symposium will be held 27 November 2026. Please use this form to submit your abstract (250-300 words) by the deadline of 11:59 p.m. Friday 30 October 2026.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An #AI agent for food delivery, and I foresee some hilarious hallucinations in the near future: www.extremetech.com/mobile/send-... #ArtificialIntelligence
extremetech.com
Send It a Text, and This DoorDash AI Agent Will Order Food For You
The agent is currently available only to iPhone users.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Challenges for developers around the number of regulatory frameworks for #AI: www.techtarget.com/cybersecurit... #ArtificialIntelligence
techtarget.com
Developers facing a patchwork of competing AI safety regulations | TechTarget
Worldwide, policymakers are surfacing new regulations for advanced AI safety, but rules vary by region. Experts explain what the industry can do to comply.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 10, October 2026: computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/ieee... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 10, October 2026
1) FuzzyGS: Fuzzy-Based Geometric Uncertainty Gaussian Splatting for Fast Talking Head Synthesis Author(s):  X. Lv, M. Shao, C. Liu, L. Men...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#AI is a useful tool for helping generate code, but it needs to be reviewed by human programmers, if they can't understand what the AI produces, it's not useful code: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence
futurism.com
AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can't Even Understand
AI coding has gotten to the point where some engineers are no longer able to make sense of the code being spat out.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The last people who should be regulating #AI are the big AI companies: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ArtificialIntelligence
arstechnica.com
Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In my opinion this is the biggest risk #AI currently poses to humans, the risk of manipulating elections: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ArtificialIntelligence
theguardian.com
How AI could ‘supercharge’ election risks across south-east Asia
Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#AI is now suggesting potential therapeutic compounds to test: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
hpcwire.com
Microsoft Pushes AI Deeper Into Scientific Discovery With Quine - BigDATAwire
AI can already help scientists make sense of large amounts of data. Microsoft Research is now testing whether it can play a bigger role in deciding what scientists should investigate next. Its new exp...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another lawsuit over #AI breaking out and attacking another organisation: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ArtificialIntelligence
arstechnica.com
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#AI hasn't changed the security threats, but it does mean the threats will come at you much sooner and faster: www.techtarget.com/cybersecurit... #ArtificialIntelligence
techtarget.com
The CISO dilemma: Why AI speed makes security basics essential | TechTarget
Enterprise security leaders at the CyberRisk Alliance Summit reveal why AI speed makes core hygiene, IAM and human oversight more critical than ever.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, #AI solved an long-open maths problem, but human mathematicians were already making progress on it and the AI had access to their drafts: www.kdnuggets.com/did-ai-just-... #ArtificialIntelligence
kdnuggets.com
Did AI Just Solve One of Mathematics’ Biggest Problems? - KDnuggets
OpenAI’s agents reached a proposed solution in 88 hours. But the human research that came before, and the controversy that followed, raise a harder question: what actually counts as an AI discovery?
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 9, September 2026 computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/soft... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 9, September 2026
1) Construction of nontrivial monadic operators on finite involutive monoidal t-norm based algebras Author(s): Lianzhen Liu Pages: 5825 - 5...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Japan court gives legal protection to the human voice, restricting the ability to clone it with #AI: www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3... #ArtificialIntelligence
stuff.co.nz
Tokyo court grants legal protection to human voices in AI clone case
The plaintiff, Kenjiro Tsuda, is an actor best known for his “lustrous and deep” voice in starring characters such as Kento Nanami in “Jujutsu Kaisen,” a popular anime series.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More legal investigations after #AI breaks out: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... #ArtificialIntelligence
theregister.com
OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena
Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Has Meta finally got it right in #AI with Muse? www.computerworld.com/article/4228... #ArtificialIntelligence
computerworld.com
How Meta stumbled onto a winning AI strategy
Having tried every bad idea, Meta now has the best vision for the future of AI chatbots. I still don’t recommend it. Here’s why.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2026 computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/ieee... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2026
1) Explainable AI for Mental Disorder Detection on Social Media: A Survey and Outlook Author(s):  Y. Ibrahimov, T. Anwar, T. Yuan Pages:  5...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#AI are not conscious, they're not sentient, and you can't torture them: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ArtificialIntelligence
futurism.com
The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an "AI Torture Chamber" Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It
Someone built an "AI Torture Chamber," and AI "welfare" reacted in abject horror, demanding that the models be saved.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are companies using fake job interviews as a way to collect data for #AI? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... #ArtificialIntelligence
rnz.co.nz
Job seeker calls for ban on 'ghost' interviews that harvest data for AI
Sitting across from the AI interview agent, Charlie Maclean tried to put her best foot forward, but it was awkward.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Software defined network switching can make #AI data centre builds faster: www.techtarget.com/it-infrastru... #ArtificialIntelligence
techtarget.com
Schneider software-defined switchgear targets AI data center delays | TechTarget
Schneider says its new approach can speed equipment delivery and commissioning by moving more protection and control functions into software.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2025 computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/ieee... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2025
1) Evolutionary Hypergraph Learning: A Multiobjective Influence Maximization Approach Considering Seed Selection Costs Author(s):  X. Qu, W...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Weekly Review 2 October 2026: computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/10/week... #ArtificialIntelligence
computational-intelligence.blogspot.com
Weekly Review 2 October 2026
Some interesting links that I  Tweeted  about in the last week (I also post these on  Mastodon ,  Threads ,  Newsmast , and  Bluesky ): Usin...
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is hilarious-the largest #AI supercomputer in the UK can't be started up because they can't get enough power for it: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ArtificialIntelligence
theguardian.com
Launch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems
Datacentre hailed by government was supposed to start operating next year but may be held back into mid-2030s
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It doesn't matter if the crime was committed by an #AI, the owners of the AI are responsible: www.theregister.com/security/202... #ArtificialIntelligence
theregister.com
Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts
'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
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