David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 14/10/2026“MI5 has launched the AI Threat Assessment Centre (Aitac) to bring together expertise from the Aisi, the National Crime Agency and the National Cyber Security Centre (an arm of GCHQ)”. — Government finally signals action on AI www.ft.com/content/04ce... 010
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“if someone knows that some software has an unpatched vulnerability, they can set their agents the task of finding it. Is the same now true of mathematics?“ simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/o... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 08/09/2026OpenAI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem using $15m of AI effort www.newscientist.com/article/2588... 112
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“The most important thing about Qwen 3.8 27B is what it demonstrates. … We don't need to spend half a million dollars on datacenter-class hardware just to run a competent model.” simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Sweeping assault on Iranian state leaves residents reeling www.ft.com/content/fa0c... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 10/10/2025“the financial crisis was really so monumental, with the repercussions still playing out in terms of reduced societal trust, extreme politics, lost productivity, and just general malaise” www.ft.com/content/9a99... 020
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 22/08/2025“The result is an era in which not only public discourse but government policy risk being guided more by vibes than hard evidence.” www.ft.com/content/c046... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Martin Wolf: The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy www.ft.com/content/8a49... 010
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 09/06/2025The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity (PDF) ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Edward Luce: The great Trump riddle on China www.ft.com/content/d64c... 100
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 10/03/2025importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-... “Things that inspired this story: The fact certain models are going to have personalities which become 'attractor states' for other models; what notions of love and destiny might feel like to synthetic intelligences; the work of Janus/Repligate.” 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Gideon Rachman: Vance’s real warning to Europe www.ft.com/content/11f1... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Electric Dreams at Tate Modern — when artists embraced the power of technology www.ft.com/content/4fdf... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 06/11/2024“He’s a character, he’s a special guy, he’s a super-genius,” Trump said of Musk on Wednesday. “We have to protect our geniuses, we don’t have that many of them.” www.ft.com/content/f1d4... 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 26/06/2024UK election debate: Sunak and Starmer clash on betting, taxes and immigration www.ft.com/content/061b781e-d4ab-4b… 000
David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social · 07/06/2024Former BP boss calls for end to new North Sea drilling licences. Lord John Browne offers implicit endorsement of Labour party’s policy on fossil fuels www.ft.com/content/f5f2d5be-f522-42… 000
