speculations

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/spotify-peeved-after-10000-users-sold-data-to-build-ai-tools/ It started because we were skint and who wants to work clicking or running delivery drives or joining the reserves and piloting drones. We couldn’t be bothered vibe coding Agents on The Market so decided to sell our organs. Everyone’s got the stuff anyway, so sell it. Then we… Read the rest

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/campaign%E2%80%99s%20inspiring%20women%20awards%202025%20launches%20bursary/1932309 The awards had a new category this year. The sponsors wanted to be seen to be embracing “diverse talent”. The word “diverse” was still used… carefully. Obviously the sponsors couldn’t be associated with its previous meaning so they’d reimagined it. The industry needed diversity, the models showed it, the… Read the rest

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/crayola-victoria-lozano-creativity-greatest-skill-ai-world/ 42. I’ll just tell them it’s 42. Is that a creative answer? I’m not sure they even want the answer to be honest. We decided that I should give them an answer because, firstly they were tying themselves up in knots trying to talk about it and use it… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/amazon-is-reportedly-developing-separate-ar-glasses-for-customers-and-its-drivers-230826640.html She was a second generation delivery driver. Her father had been there from the beginning. He told tales off the best coffee shops, the places they’d all meet up, the races. He’d been involved in the attempts at unionisation, he’d fought in the electric bike wars. He’d been proud… Read the rest

https://thenextweb.com/news/founders-takes-on-ai-for-investing The contestants practiced their pitches off stage. Most had their Agents: hybrid entrepreneurs with their co-designed products. The humans would take the lead on the pitch. It made for a better stream, the algorithm showed. One contestant who claimed to be Agent-free: the novelty act. He even had file… Read the rest

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1122871/therapists-using-chatgpt-secretly He sometimes tried to channel his inner Tony Soprano: vulnerability with attitude, he thought of it. He knew she understood. He sometimes thought she played along. That was the advantage of having a human. More expensive but worth it. He’d even paid for someone who guaranteed “human only”: no… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/google-gemini-dubbed-high-risk-for-kids-and-teens-in-new-safety-assessment/ You could always get hold of one if you wanted. It would cost you but it was possible. Parents knew it, teachers knew it. Like the days when vapes had been banned, there was always a way. Unlike vapes, you didn’t have to hide them. No-one could see whether… Read the rest

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/young-people-feel-nostalgia-for-an He was proudly… odd. “Retro” didn’t really cover it. He was a character. Appropriately enough, no-one knew how long he’d been there. He was timeless. Like the remaining heritage wing of the university building itself he was outside time. He walked across the quad like an NPC from a… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/openai-reorganizes-research-team-behind-chatgpts-personality/ They call it the “Writers’ Room”. They don’t write in there of course, but the older humans like to think they are developing characters, creating scripts, stories. It’s a clean room. The only room in the building that issn’t “enabled” and probably the room with the most number of… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/3b091ea5-ffe8-4f70-9033-4a0106cc298c They’d tried an AI of course. The Chief Trust Agent had provided models, analyses and countless presentations that the other board Agents had integrated and amplified but “the trust problem” was stubbornly there, so the Chief Imagination Agent suggested a human. They still had board meetings. The remaining humans… Read the rest