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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE
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Reputably an "AI rock star". Though the only rock star'ish thing he's ever done is getting banned indefinitely from Russia.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 20h
Very handy to nip into Bunnings for some extra parts ....
Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 20h
Not clear if we'll ever get the far too expensive nuclear submarines, but the autonomous ones are starting to roll off the production line here in Sydney already. www.navalnews.com/event-news/i...
Anduril Ghost Shark Factory Launches In Sydney
Anduril has launched its Ghost Shark factory responsible for manufacturing the XL-AUV for the Royal Australian Navy at an event in Sydney.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 20h
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Film Premier: “Iterations” OMNI AI Film Festival | City of Sydney - What’s On
OMNI International AI Film Festival is offering viewers and participants a glimpse into the future of AI created cinema.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 21h
Coming soon for my Dutch readers ....
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 23h
Please join me in Bathurst on 21st! bathurstlocals.com.au/an-evening-w...
An Evening with Professor Toby Walsh
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 1d
Who's winning the AI race?
Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 3d
"No more vague promises that “AI will solve the climate crisis.” Amazon must implement a public plan that includes: 1) powering all data centers with 100% additional, local renewable energy 24/7, 2) ending custom AI solutions for oil & gas companies .." www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter
AI Open Letter — AECJ
Sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Every single signature makes our message stronger.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 4d
Time to post a good news AI story ... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
In Senior Homes, A.I. Technology Is Sensing Falls Before They Happen
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 4d
We've got to the madness of autonomous underwater nuclear weapons www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Ukraine war briefing: Putin boasts of nuclear-driven torpedo that would swamp cities with radioactive tsunami
Russian president proclaims test of Poseidon which would launch from submarine and carry nuclear engine and warhead. What we know on day 1,345
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 5d
"If the company really has strong reason to believe it’s ready to bring back erotica on its platforms, it should show its work. People deserve more than just a company’s word that it has addressed safety issues. In other words: Prove it." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don’t Trust Its Claims About ‘Erotica.’
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 5d
Does consciousness emerge from feeling and not thinking? www.wired.com/story/ai-sen...
AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness
Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they might be onto something.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 6d
They will be AI powered drones soon. At this point, it is the science fiction dystopia we warned you about. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Ukraine war briefing: Russian drones hunt civilians in crime against humanity, UN inquiry finds
Ukraine strengthens Pokrovsk positions amid infiltration by estimated 200 Russian troops; Lukoil selling overseas assets after US sanctions. What we know on day 1,343
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 6d
“Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.”

No way is it safe to relax ChatGPT5's inadequate safeguards, despite what Sam Altman. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 6d
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More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 8d
People are worried about the water usage of AWS. It turns out "The wider Amazon group ... has an overall water consumption that is far higher [10x more than AWS], 105bn gallons per year."

So it's Amazon, not AWS that we should fix! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 9d
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AI and war
[The text of a speech I presented to a webinar of the  Inter- Parliamentary Union  (IPU)] I’ve spent the last decade lobbying governments a...
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 11d
Toby Walsh's 'The Shortest History of AI': Your 6-Hour AI Guide queenoftreasures.com/2025/10/01/t...
Toby Walsh’s ‘The Shortest History of AI’: Your 6-Hour AI Guide
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was born on International Panic Day. Slightly weird, but then babies do cry when they come out of the womb. Whether that was an omen for today’s disruptive black …
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 15d
Bullsh*t. There exist open source data sets for training frontier models on. Just go look in Hugging Face. www.innovationaus.com/australias-a...
Australia's AI future limited by copyright regime, OpenAI says
Australia’s AI infrastructure opportunity does not hinge on copyright reforms to allow text and data mining for AI training, according to OpenAI’s vice president of global affairs Chris Lehane. Speaki...
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 17d
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Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 17d
unswcentreforideas.com/article/kare...
Karen Hao: Empire of AI
Will AI be a force for good or a force to be reckoned with? Empire of AI author Karen Hao weighs in.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 18d
Firmus, CDC and Nvidia reveal $73bn ‘AI factory’ plan www.innovationaus.com/firmus-cdc-a...
Firmus, CDC and Nvidia reveal $73bn 'AI factory' plan
A series of AI factories, each featuring tens of thousands of powerful Nvidia chips, will spin up across Australia under a new strategic partnership that could cost up to $73.3 billion over the next t...
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 19d
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The Sydney hospital using AI to improve diagnoses under pressure
The trial is one of few to investigate how the technology is used by doctors – and what they do when AI gets it wrong.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 21d
SA cracks down on AI deepfakes in political advertising www.innovationaus.com/sa-cracks-do...
SA cracks down on AI deepfakes in political advertising
South Australia has become Australia's first state to ban AI-generated political ads and deepfakes aimed at misleading voters, with the changes coming into effect on Monday. Political parties, MPs and...
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 21d
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 24d
OpenAI’s motto should be “better to beg forgiveness than ask permission”. Its actual motto seems to be “we’ll do what we want and you’ll let us, bitch”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde
His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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