James Titcomb

Ice cream company CEO: “If your $500,000 engineer is not buying $250,000 of ice cream, something is wrong”

3 days without rain and suddenly it's all 'Londonmaxxing this, sovereign AI that'

Every time new Twitter actually executes on something that old Twitter spent countless years failing to execute on is a little reminder of what could have been

Links to check this morning: obr​.uk/docs/springstatement.pdf obr​.uk/docs/springstatement1.pdf obr​.uk/docs/springstatementnew.pdf obr​.uk/docs/springstatementfinal.pdf obr​.uk/docs/sprintstatementfinalUSETHISONE.pdf

Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies pcgamer.com/software/ai/mi…

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban wsj.com/livecoverage/i…

AI is just like us: when it stops doing real work it launches a Substack

Incredible

Someone at Meta actually wrote this down “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns” nytimes.com/2026/02/13/tec…

Case in point my first reaction to this viral blogpost supposedly written by a clawdbot mad about being kicked off github is that there's some guy behind it with a startup to promote archive.ph/4CHyg

The lesson of Moltbook is that for the next few years humans will do a bunch of online stunts pretending to be AI in order to get Twitter clout and then there'll be an actual Skynet moment and everyone will be like "yeah yeah just another mechanical turk looking for retweets"

I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And *I* wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change. So what can you do? Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.

@Birdyword No X article the algo shows me remotely passes for being human written. Which is impressive because it would mean xAI has accidentally developed the first software that can reliably tell if something is written by an LLM

The average quality of native articles on X (the long embedded ones) is so bad that I can barely bring myself to click on them even when someone I trust has told me the content is good. An almost pure anti-signal for quality, like letters written in green ink.

It's depressing how widely shared and read this is. It's AI-generated word salad posted by someone with a vested interest in spreading AI hype. AI is "big," I guess, but its effects will be much more complicated and variegated than this "essay" implies.

One of the side effects of seeing a lot of obviously AI-generated writing (thank you, X articles) is having a much lower tolerance for bad writing overall. Eyes start suddenly glazing over at any mid speech/blog because you assume it's going to be devoid of substance

Dozens of courses on this website appear to have been removed after this story, including the one requiring people live in Canada

The Government’s AI skills website is going well

Didn't take long for Moltbook to become a shitcoin haven

In which a self-driving taxi filmed itself running a red light while carrying the company's founder to Buckingham Palace where he was to receive the OBE for services to artificial intelligence. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/3…

@rowlsmanthorpe Yeah good point. Remember Asimov’s fourth law of robotics: A robot must not violate the GDPR

@jamestitcomb I don't want to sound naive but surely no one would build an AI without first completing a data protection assessment

Starting to seriously question moltbook’s compliance with the Online Safety Act. Have any of these bots passed age assurance checks???

Robots inventing their own language is an archetypal AI panic - here’s a Sun front page from 2017