Independent journalist & blogger commenting on university issues (especially academic freedom), and on AI. Posts/Reposts are not endorsements. @rickypo.bsky.soc
Joined February 2009
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ChatGPT hits a billion monthly app users despite souring public AI sentiment cnbc.com/2026/06/12/chatgpt-…
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A police officer is under criminal investigation over the alleged use of artificial intelligence and has been removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UK. theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Covert perception of AI adversely impacts team performance and changes physiological dynamics despite human-level AI competence nature.com/articles/s44387-0…
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Jun 13
Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Jun 13
AI is cutting hours of office work, but also creating a new kind of busywork latimes.com/business/story/2…
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Jun 13
Universities increasingly find themselves the direct target of U.S. national security enforcement, as federal scrutiny expands beyond grant disclosures to allegations of espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft on campus. whitecase.com/insight-our-th…
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Jun 12
AI to speed up cancer diagnosis for millions of NHS patients gov.uk/government/news/ai-to…
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Jun 12
Five human skills AI still can’t match — and why they could save your job
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Jun 12
The university must not become a supply chain for AI | Cash-strapped universities are being urged to remake themselves around AI. The biggest beneficiaries are the companies selling it. aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
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Jun 12
After spat with Chinese gov't, Meta cuts AI Manus off from its internal systems and is 'sunsetting' platform, report claims — Beijing-ordered breakup of $2 billion AI deal begins tomshardware.com/tech-indust…
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Jun 12
What changes in regulatory culture might follow from the University of Sussex’s High Court victory over OfS? wonkhe.com/blogs/what-change…
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Jun 12
Oxford free-speech row deepens as 117 academics back reinstatement of cancelled gender-law lectures thepinknews.com/2026/06/11/o…
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Jun 12
The regulator's defeat in court exposed flaws in its approach to investigating freedom of speech concerns at the University of Sussex, but higher education providers should not mistake its lack of appeal for a retreat feweek.co.uk/sussex-ruling-i…
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Jun 12
Open models, AI models where you can download the weights online, are generally not as capable as the best closed models (models only available through an API), but how large is the gap, and how does it change over time? lesswrong.com/posts/rJcCrXyE…
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