Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.

Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption

Link to: https://om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/

Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.

ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.

For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control Spotify and my Sonos speaker, my Philips Hue lights, as well as my Gmail. It runs on...

Finally, a critique of AI that deconstructs the humanist subject on which most existing critiques rely

Apple Music is now available as an extension within ChatGPT, meaning you can search for songs, create playlists, and discover new music through...

It might have been the year of AI "slop", but 2025 also saw the emergence of some genuinely innovative and beneficial uses for artificial intelligence.

Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously p

Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.

Link to: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldWkQYr

An infographics feature has arrived to Google's NotebookLM.

From AGI to Workslop It's time for our annual tradition: a very long list of pieces written about AI this year that have stuck with me, for better or for worse. I've sorted them in alphabetical order by keyword. I acknowledge some weak spots here, chiefly on the environment, data

Explore the intersection of computing and literary art, not only by using pre-developed tools but also by directly undertaking programming.

Contemporary ideas about data and privacy are tied up inextricably with language choices.

Nature - Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

Low-effort, AI-generated work is wasting people’s time and seeding frustration.

This fall, the new luddites are rising

NB. this is the draft introduction to the final chapter of my still-being-written book on AI and education (‘AI and education: the challenge of thinking differently’ Polity, due late 2026). As we h…

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

AI slop is winning.

Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…

The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.