Star- Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them
People have reported capturing the monkeys, even posting fake pictures online to bolster the claim. But as of Monday, the monkeys remained at large, Springer said.
In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything.
Nothing stops them. pic.twitter.com/0t8W6lCKIk
— Klara (@klara_sjo) January 11, 2026
From the replies: So basically a Chinese driver then?
What can possibly go wrong?
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson- The Government’s Obsession with Artificial Intelligence and Tech
Streeting has framed the NHS as under enormous pressure from chronic waiting lists, staff shortages and outdated systems, saying the service is “broken” and needs reform alongside investment. Introducing AI and digital technology is a key part of his efforts to transform the NHS into a more digital, modern, and efficient system.
BOOM!
I pioneered the use of AI Rorschach tests to understand the psychological diagnosis of AI.
I found shocking results: sociopathy, nihilism, and schizophrenia-like traits stemming from toxic training data.
This becomes more an issue as Robots use this AI in the real world. https://t.co/TXJbt8I3FD pic.twitter.com/quOeqFcpKr
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) January 10, 2026
You’ll live in a pod, eat bugs, own nothing, wait for MAID and you’ll like it. No way the peasants will to revolt over that.
AI Expert STUART RUSSELL, exposes the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how AGI could replace humans by 2030, and why only a nuclear-level AI catastrophe will wake us up
Worth the watch.
Major preprint just out!
We compare how humans and LLMs form judgments across seven epistemological stages.
We highlight seven fault lines, points at which humans and LLMs fundamentally diverge […]
Earlier this year, Microsoft officially yanked the cord on Windows 10, ending support for an operating system that had been superseded by Windows 11 four years earlier.
But the tech giant’s controversial attempts to shoehorn AI into every aspect of the software appear to have turned off a staggering number of users from upgrading. While it’s to be expected at this point that not everybody will have jumped at the opportunity to update their machine’s operating system, the sheer scale of that refusal is staggering.
As Forbes reports, a whopping 1 billion PCs are still running Windows 10 — despite half of them technically being eligible for an upgrade.[…]
It’s an already familiar battle, with AI emerging as a major turn-off for consumers across several other industries as well.
Last month, Windows president Pavan Davuluri announced that the operating system would become an “agentic OS,” baking AI features directly into the software.
Core users, however, were appalled by the notion.
You’re going to live in a pod, eat bugs, wait for MAID and you’ll like it: After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features
David Clinton- What Do Loyalty Rewards Programs Cost Us?
Every time you participate in such a program, the data associated with that activity will be collected and aggregated along with everything else known about you. It’s more than likely that points-based data is being combined with everything connected to your mobile phone account, email addresses, credit cards, provincial health card, and – possibly – your Social Insurance number. The depth and accuracy of your digital profile improves daily.
What could possibly go wrong?
Nature- ‘A serious problem’: peer reviews created using AI can avoid detection
It’s almost impossible to know whether a peer-review report has been generated by artificial intelligence, according to a study that put AI-detecting tools to the test.
The US State Department said Tuesday it would deny visas to a former EU commissioner and four others, accusing them of seeking to “coerce” American social media platforms into censoring viewpoints they oppose.
“These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states — in each case targeting American speakers and American companies,” the department said in a statement announcing the sanctions.
The measure targeted Thierry Breton, the former top tech regulator at the European Commission, who often clashed with tech tycoons such as Elon Musk over their obligations to follow EU rules.
Breton was described by the State Department as the “mastermind” of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a major piece of legislation that imposes content moderation and other standards on major social media platforms operating in Europe.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on X his country “strongly condemns” the visa restrictions, adding that Europe “cannot let the rules governing their digital space be imposed by others upon them”.
Where do I submit nominations?
A world wide system of censorship: Here is the full length video report into the mysterious ‘Global Disinformation Index’ and how it censors political speech across Europe and the US.
Waymo announced Saturday night…
…that the Google-owned robotaxi company would suspend rides in San Francisco after riders reported vehicles causing traffic jams and … well, kinda just throwing their hands (wheels?) in the air.
“We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services given the broad power outage in San Francisco,” wrote Suzanne Philion, a company spokesperson, a little after 7 p.m., reports Mission Local. “We are focused on keeping our riders safe and ensuring emergency personnel have the clear access they need to do their work.”
Waymos use an advanced array of LiDAR sensors to navigate roads, using the mapped images to heeld at pedestrians, work around traffic lights, etc.; a collection of cameras also offers input for the onboard AI software to operate and “solve” traffic problems and operate; without proper input or cues, Waymo cars effectively “brick” when they doesn’t know what to do next — as was evident earlier this year when Waymos got stuck behind fireworks and left listless after dozens were summoned to a dead-end street.
Telegraph- Third of Britons using AI for ‘emotional support’
Most were turning to apps such as ChatGPT for social and emotional interactions, although about 5pc used bots specifically designed as AI friends or romantic partners, the survey of 2,000 people found.
Wired- Is Your Vibrator Spying on You?
a digital privacy expert at the consumer research site Comparitech. Walsh says the types of data collected potentially include sexual behavior data, usage frequency, intensity settings, partner connections, location data, and IP addresses.
The Food Professor- When Your Grocery Bill Starts Pricing You
Charging different consumers different prices for the same food, in the same store, at the same time, simply because an algorithm decides so crosses an ethical line.
Fox tells Americans to buy artificial trees so Christmas tree farms can be used for data centers…
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it “digital transformation.”
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
Armstrong Economics- The EU and Canada Collaborate on Digital IDs
The danger here is obvious. Mutual recognition means a unified framework. They’re building a foundation to establish a GLOBAL digital ID. Once these systems talk to one another, you have created the architecture for a worldwide database controlled by the political elite. This is precisely what the EU has been pushing with its Digital Services Act and the infamous “digital wallet” proposal. Now they are exporting it, just as they exported their disastrous ideas on Net Zero and financial regulation. Canada, collapsing economically and politically, is following Brussels into the abyss.
A new evaluation of artificial intelligence systems suggests that while modern language models are becoming more capable at logical reasoning, they struggle significantly to distinguish between objective facts and subjective beliefs. The research indicates that even advanced models often fail to acknowledge that a person can hold a belief that is factually incorrect, which poses risks for their use in fields like healthcare and law.
A couple of days ago, Grok confidently told me the most cost efficient route from Saskatoon to Indio, CA went through Oregon via I-5. So there’s that.
