Index

• $50 Van Gogh? Experts say no, offering alternative attribution in dramatic art dispute – Artnet News

  art, painting, Vincent van Gogh

• 10 takeaways from the night Trump marched back to the White House – The New York Times

  Donald Trump, politics, Ukraine, USA

• 100 of the Best Book Covers of 2024 – PRINT Magazine

  book covers, books, design, graphic design

• 13 things I found on the internet today (vol. 722) – Messy Nessy

  typewriters

• 15 years of Horrible Histories – kids’ TV so good it’s getting a Bafta – The Guardian

  history, humour, television

• 1970s sci-fi book covers by fab1an – glif

  AI, art, book covers, books, design, fakes

• 20 maps that changed the world – Mental Floss

  history, maps

• 321 real-world gen AI use cases from the world’s leading organizations – Google Cloud Blog

  AI, Google, LLM

• 3D Workers Island

  art, fiction, writing

• 52 things I learned in 2024 – Tom Whitwell

  education, internet, lists, movies, names

• 7 unforgettable dogs at Westminster – The New York Times

  dogs

• 93% of IT leaders see value in AI agents but struggle to deliver, Salesforce finds – VentureBeat

  AI, business, IT, jobs, productivity

• A 25-year-old with Elon Musk ties has direct access to the federal payment system – WIRED

  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, politics, technology

• A brief guide to Trump and the Spectacle – London Review of Books

  Donald Trump, politics, sociology

• A century ago, Warren Harding prefigured Trump’s brand of strongman nationalism – Conflict and Civicness Research Blog

  Donald Trump, history, politics

• A day in the life of a jobless copywriter – The Subtext

  jobs, writing

• A deadly love affair with a chatbot – Der Spiegel

  AI, chatbots, children, LLM, mental health

• A life nearly wrecked — and then rescued — by books – The Washington Post

  book reviews, books, mental health, reading, Sarah Chihaya, writing

• A machine-shaped hand: Read a story from OpenAI’s new creative writing model – The Guardian

  AI, writing

• A miracle: Notre-Dame’s astonishing rebirth from the ashes – The New York Times

  architecture, art, design, France, restoration

• A poem about waiting, and wishing you had a drink – The New York Times

  Philip Larkin, poetry, time

• A president touting Musk’s cars from the White House shows this: the Tesla boycott really irks him – The Guardian

  commerce, Donald Trump, economics, Elon Musk, politics, Tesla

• A treasure trove of tech history goes online with the unveiling of the Nokia Design Archive – Wallpaper

  archives, design, mobile phones, Nokia

• A young man used AI to build a nuclear fusor and now I must weep – Core Memory

  AI, engineering, science

• After non-endorsement, 250,000 subscribers cancel The Washington Post – The Washington Post

  Jeff Bezos, journalism, politics

• AI art with human “expressive elements” can be copyrighted – Hyperallergic

  AI, art, copyright

• AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds – BBC News

  AI, BBC, journalism, news, truth

• AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation” – Ars Technica

  AI, computing, LLM

• AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt – Ars Technica

  AI, programming, web

• AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse – Rest of World

  AI, jobs, Philippines, technology

• AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it – MIT Technology Review

  AI, Google, LLM, search

• AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ – The Guardian

  AI, computing, welfare

• AI Safety for Fleshy Humans by Nicky Case & Hack Club

  AI, ethics, technology

• AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds – The Register

  AI, BBC, journalism, news, truth

• AI teacher tools set to break down barriers to opportunity – GOV.UK

  AI, assessment, data, education, LLM, schools

• Ai Weiwei speaks out on DeepSeek’s chilling responses – Hyperallergic

  AI, Ai Weiwei, chatbots, China, LLM, politics

• AI ‘inspo’ is everywhere. It’s driving your hair stylist crazy. – Archive Today: The Washington Post

  AI, commerce, fakes, fashion

• AI-Generated slop is already in your public library – 404 Media

  AI, books, libraries

• AI-powered robot leads uprising, talks a dozen showroom bots into ‘quitting their jobs’ in ‘terrifying’ security footage – International Business Times

  AI, chatbots, China, robots

• AI’s Walking Dog, a response in our forum: “The AI we deserve” – Boston Review

  AI, Brian Eno, computing, history of technology

• Alexa’s new AI brain is stuck in the lab – Bloomberg

  AI, Amazon, chatbots, gadgets, LLM, technology

• All about the outcome – Archive Today: London Review of Books

  book reviews, books, Keir Starmer, Labour, politics

• Amazon plans to unveil next-generation Alexa AI later this month – MacRumors

  Amazon, chatbots

• Amazon’s Temu competitor Haul is an AI image wasteland – Modern Retail

  AI, Amazon, commerce, economics, photography

• America the evil mastermind? Not so fast, Russians are told – The New York Times

  politics, propaganda, Russia, USA

• An A.I. granny is phone scammers’ worst nightmare – The New York Times

  AI, fraud, marketing, scams

• An exhibition of non-existent books – Hyperallergic

  art, books, fiction, Jorge Luis Borges, poetry, Sylvia Plath, writing

• An ideal tool: prisons are using virtual reality to help people in solitary confinement – The Guardian

  psychology, society, VR

• An iPhone owner’s guide to living off the app grid – The Verge

  apps, design, iPhones, mobile phones, UI

• Angelina Jolie was right about computers – WIRED

  computer-science, computing, hardware, history of technology

• Animations 2024 – bleuje

  3D, animation, art, design, maths

• Anthropic Economic Index: insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet – Anthropic

  AI, computing, jobs, technology

• Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence – The Holy See

  AI, ethics, religion, technology

• Antiscientific vandalism – Quillette

  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, funding, politics, science

• Apocalypse later: How the world used to end – Parapraxis

  book reviews, books, environment, Nevil Shute, war

• Appalled by X and Meta? Try these social media alternatives – Hyperallergic

  art, design, Mastodon, Meta, photography, social media, Threads, Twitter

• Apple discontinuing this 18-year-old iPhone feature – MacRumors

  Apple, design, history of technology, iPhones, mobile phones, UI

• Apple innovation and execution – Benedict Evans

  AI, Apple, software

• Archivists work to identify and save the thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov – 404 Media

  archives, data, Donald Trump, politics

• Are better models better? – Benedict Evans

  AI, computing, LLM, truth