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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 20h

finimize.com/content/data... Big tech and big finance are buying out data centres. Microsoft and Nvidia would own the pick and gold. If the big AI transformation bets pay off

A group of heavy-hitting tech and investment companies bought a big data center operator

A few big-name companies formed a sort of “AI Avengers” – but instead of saving the world, they bought some really expensive data centers

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 1d

www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new... For cybersecurity folks, AI threats are coming for you so fight fire with fire and get ready to rumble (not quite how McKinsey phrase it though wish they did )

www.mckinsey.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 2d

futurism.com/robots-and-m... Chinese robots work round the clock in dark factories to push forward the nation's manufacturing innovation.

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China

Western executives warn that China's heavily roboticized manufacturing industry could quickly leave the West behind.

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 3d

Small language models can beat large ones (LLMs). Samsung is rocking a teeny model designed for reasoning/ problem solving. It loops back on the solution to provide more reliable outputs with fewer resources. The future for business AIs could be small but beautiful. www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...

Samsung AI Research Team Builds A Tiny Model With Big Power

Samsung’s AI lab in Montreal new Tiny Recursive Model with only 7M parameters performs as well, if not better in some instances, than systems much larger.

www.forbes.com

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 5d

www.reddit.com/r/PromptEngi... Possibly these hacks, like asking it to respond as expert with high IQ, may work to get less generic answers from your LLM. The debate also calls bull the idea of 'gaslighting' an AI.

From the PromptEngineering community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the PromptEngineering community

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 6d

AI transformation comes to the Daily Mash. All fair enuf... www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...

The seven stages of your workplace getting obsessed with AI then realising it's bollocks

ANYONE with a job is likely to have witnessed managers gushing about AI then quietly ditching the idea. See where your employer is in the cycle of AI hype.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 6d

A good #longread from new society & tech publication The Nerve with Cory Doctorow on enshitiffication, privacy + health www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

‘The platforms got worse because we let them!’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification

The author and cyber-activist argues that the tech giants have ruined life online. The only thing that can save the virtual world now, he tells Zoë Corbyn, is its users

www.thenerve.news

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 6d

What jobs do people think is acceptable to be replaced by AI and which are morally unacceptable? Good news for caregivers. Search marketers may want to look away.

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

Buyer (or renter) beware: AI hyper enhanced perfect homes are catfishing prospective home owners futurism.com/artificial-i...

This Listing for a Rental House Is Mangled With AI So Badly That You'll Cackle Out Loud

A horribly mangled AI rendition of a rental house on Zillow shows a two-story building in a far-too-flattering light.

futurism.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

Claude joins the Office party.
Was vibe coding in Excel on your AI trends dance card? 🔁 New in Rethinking the Hype Cycle #18
rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/claude-joi...

Claude joins the Office party - Rethinking the Hype Cycle #18

Was vibe coding in Excel on your AI trends dance card?

rethinkhypecycle.substack.com

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

Eyeballs for loo roll. This chinese restroom is really taking the piss. futurism.com/robots-and-m...

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 8d

youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?... This looks like AI slop but isn't, explaining why AI disinformation is shitting in the pot to make AI sourced info less accurate and credible.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 8d

As we enter the frenzied holiday season (sorry, too soon), Adobe study shows huge uptake of LLMs in guiding to a perfect gift. And surprisingly, it's driven by desktop users
business.adobe.com/resources/ho...

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 8d

"Deloitte has a human intelligence problem." A rather costly shortcut. How's your AI transformation programme going? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

www.theguardian.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 8d

Disclosing you use AI in your work erodes trust. But disclose you must. So lead with how AI supports your expert endeavours www.nobodycaresaboutethics.com/blog/ai-disc...

www.nobodycaresaboutethics.com

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 8d

Some handwringing and some opportuities for limitless storytelling (though a worrying lack of railguards - "we'll bring in an AI ethics person after launch" from a storytelling app) - how kids, parents and corporate are using AI to entertain children. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 8d

openai.com/devday Lots of good tings at the OpenAI DevDay - Codex = a self-contained coding and testing tool, AgentKit = no-code agent builder and a SDK to integrate apps inside ChatGPT. Here's hoping this smoother running integration will help those building next-gen apps.

OpenAI DevDay 2025

Explore all the announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2025, including apps in ChatGPT, AgentKit, Sora 2, and more. Access blogs, docs, and resources to help you build with the latest tools.

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 10d

hbr.org/2025/10/what...

This study shows that if an algorithm determines your rate it could find in your favour. It priced up freelance rates and removed gender pay gap. But bias around age and geography persist, with 30-somethings getting the biggest pay boost.

What Happens When AI Sets Wages

Generative AI is no longer just automating text; with AI-based wage-setting, it’s shaping paychecks, livelihoods, and access to opportunity. Left unchecked, these systems risk reinforcing, or even wid...

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 10d

AI is unsurprisingly popping up in corporate filings for S&P 500 big biz. The problem: most can't explain what it's doing, or how it's benefiting the business. Looks like a prime case of FOMO. futurism.com/future-socie...

Big Businesses Have a Major Problem With AI

An analysis from the Financial Times makes a damning case of mindless AI band-wagoning among the US's top companies.

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 10d

If you thought your company's corporate branded mug or hoodie was in bad taste. Who would want to dress as Palantir? www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand

Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.

www.wired.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 10d

Accenture's digital transformation includes "exiting" folks who can't be reskilled. Unclear what that means. They can't be *replaced* with AI? www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/a...

Accenture plans on 'exiting' staff who can't be reskilled on AI amid restructuring strategy

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said as advanced AI becomes core to the company's strategy, employees are expected to "retrain and retool" at scale.

www.cnbc.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 11d

To get AI adoption right, first go slow to go fast. It pays to WAIT (Working on AI Transformation) 🔁 New article on Rethinking the Hype Cycle rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/working-on...

To get AI adoption right, first go slow to go fast

Forget "AI-first" bluster, doing AI right need patience and planning

rethinkhypecycle.substack.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 11d

This autonomous mini vehicle Dot isn't just cute, it's on road in Phoenix testing delivery orders. Like supermarket weighting machine, it can detect missing items. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/d...

DoorDash launches delivery robot in latest push into autonomous technology

DoorDash announced an autonomous robot known as Dot that can navigate busy streets to deliver food to customers.

www.cnbc.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 12d

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-footpri...
A deep dive on latest research on AI energy use. Search isn't as energy intensive now as previously thought, making up a fraction of daily energy and similar to search. Though data centres is a different environmental problem to consider

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT or Gemini? [August 2025 update]

A new study from Google suggests its Gemini LLM uses around 0.24 Wh per text query. That's the same energy as using a microwave for one second.

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 12d

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Quantum tech is wild and for use cases it serves way bigger and better than AI. These researchers got the machine extended to run from milliseconds to hours, potentially next to run nonstop to solve hard compute challenges

Harvard Researchers Develop First Ever Continuously Operating Quantum Computer | News | The Harvard Crimson

A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, achieving a major breakthrough in a field that could revolutionize everyth...

www.thecrimson.com

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