Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work techcrunch.com/2026/05/25/wha… via @techcrunch

Will AI be the end of humanity? bigissue.com/culture/books/…

In November 2022, Guillaume Lample was using pirated books to train LLMs at Meta. He told a colleague “Everyone is using lib-gen” (a massive pirate library). 5 months later, he co-founded Mistral, which started training LLMs. They have not disclosed what they trained on. It seems natural to ask - did Mistral also train on pirated books? Surprised they haven’t faced questions on this, given Lample’s known, almost contemporaneous use of pirated books at Meta, and his view that “everyone” was doing so.

Will AI robots on the frontline mark the end of human soldiers? - BBC Wo... youtu.be/l-XpuKcIlV8?si… via @YouTube

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Prolonged AI use may make it harder to think critically and creatively, recent research suggests. But there are ways to keep the brain fit economist.com/science-and-te…

Students can get a degree without reading a single book, says Oxford academic telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…

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Inside the next phase of OpenAI’s political strategy politi.co/4wHX4vv via @politico

Americans supposedly don't get irony ....

UK public gripped by fear over AI's impact on jobs, major study finds computing.co.uk/news-analysis/… via @computing_news

"I’ll let you into a dirty secret. Artificial intelligence doesn’t require millions of GPUs in thousands of data centres." afr.com/technology/dat…

Actually I suspect being instrumental in creating the Pile, facilitating the theft of thousands of authors intellectual property, is likely more problematic than talking about AI risk