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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/scientists-built-an-ai-co-pilot-for-prosthetic-bionic-hands/ He couldn’t afford a completely autonomous one of course but the brand sponsor was less intrusive than others. At least he didn’t have to put up with adverts on his prosthetic. It worked well and integrated with most of his other Agents at work and at home. The problem… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/d123de9b-760b-44e7-9678-1359c59f89f1 The characters were so familiar. He’d grown up with them. His parents had grown up with them and now his own child was growing up with them too. He remembered seeing the “films” they used to call them. He could still remember the linear plots, the stories. He remembered… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/baby-delivered-in-waymo-continues-proud-tradition-of-not-making-it-to-the-hospital/ It was a surprise when the car told them. Their own wearables had said there was still 49.7 hours to go. But the car’s sensors wouldn’t lie. The baby was coming early. The car shifted the tone of its voice: calm, reassuring. It reassured them it was experienced, in… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/df510f08-56ee-4327-9d60-ebc1745daeb0 Of course there were ways round it. There were paid-for hacks but there was an active network of children helping each other. Older children helping younger. A community. Some activist adults wanted to get involved but the network remained child-only. There were some children who made the case. They… Read the rest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/09/uk-campaigners-condemn-digital-billboards-track-viewers They still had humans in the loop. There were some who questioned paying humans rather than using Agents: “We’re a charity, we should spend funds on our work”. But for now, it was humans who made the creative decisions. They watched the live data and controlled the generator. The… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/6ccf1208-8389-4e5b-a69d-c06e87ca896b I don’t think of myself as “brave”. I don’t really know what that means. I don’t think I’m disloyal either. I’m committed to The Company. I started my career here. I believe in what we’re doing. I’m loyal. So why did I do it? Why did I make the… Read the rest

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anti-ai-activist-danger They’d all had the Prevent training. They knew what to look for, the signs of radicalisation. It would often start with questions, raising doubts, choosing to spend time alone. Then you might notice that they start to refuse to engage, to withdraw from engagement with lessons. Their work would… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/34377e07-8032-4037-8c26-e357b0dfe082 He’d agreed to host the “control centre”. Everyone had the feed of course but watching all the streams on one screen wasn’t easy. He didn’t mind having a set of monitors. He said it was his community duty. Everyone had agreed to paying extra for a face-rec plug-in and… Read the rest

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/openai_bots_tests_admit_wrongdoing/ It was a family meeting. They decided that as good parents they needed to talk about it now, more formally. They were sitting at the kitchen table trying to look serious. Sam was sitting opposite, trying to look innocent. He began by saying that they thought this was a… Read the rest

https://newatlas.com/architecture/geodesic-dome-farm/ The headteacher was very proud that his school had Real World Trips as he called them in his stream to parents. Of course the pupils saw the world. The sponsors ensured their headsets and screens had the latest tips and models. Whether they were taking a trip into a… Read the rest