Mark Vanderbeeken

New data shows the ways millions of people have integrated AI into their everyday lives. Also, it suggests that for now at least, AI is an individual productivity tool — both at work and in our personal lives — rather than the broader workplace disrupter many in Big Tech predicted. on.ft.com/47cKBVN

"The [AI-driven] demand for more data and more data-crunching capabilities will require about $3 trillion in capital just by 2028, in the estimation of Morgan Stanley. That would exceed the capacity of the global credit and derivative securities markets."

How are people integrating AI tools into their daily lives? As a practical digital assistant according to research by the FT's data and visual storytelling team. Despite the uptake in personal use (now 70% of overall use), a revolution has yet to be seen at an organisational level.

They are first casualties as well. YouTube is full of AI slop.

And the next ones?

And a problem for Europe:

"The € itself fell by over half a cent against the $, in a rare instance of domestic political upheaval having effects beyond France's borders."
(Le Monde)

“France is too big to fail, so this endless political instability puts the entire eurozone at risk.”
(Politico)

Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots.

The Pew survey this is based on: "About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini. An additional 16% do so rarely."
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty | NOEMA Europe can accept permanent technological dependency, or it can build democratic digital systems rooted in climate commitments, labor protections and social diversity.

“Whoever controls AI infrastructure—compute, models, data, & cloud—will shape the economic & political order of the 21st century. The U.S. & China understand this & are mobilizing every instrument of statecraft to secure supremacy. Europe must understand it too.”

— @francescabria.bsky.social

#ai

Thanks @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @cathleenogrady.bsky.social

Dutch mental health council warns of ‘hypernervous society’

Dutch mental health council warns of ‘hypernervous society’ www.dutchnews.nl?p=257859

Why AI needs social science | British Politics and Policy at LSE AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

AI needs social science. Cosmina Dorobantu and I explain why in a new blog post @lsedatascience.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

"She has attracted both resentment within the EU institutions for her controlling style and outside of the institutions for a perceived failure to show the same resolve when it comes to dealing with the outside world."

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet

AI is stealing traffic to most content sites. It's interesting how our default is still to think that this technology is a positive. But which side of the argument should bear the burden of proof? #AIEthics

www.economist.com/business/202...

How People Use ChatGPT Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The study:
www.nber.org/papers/w34255

Quelles utilisations fait-on de ChatGPT ? Selon une étude publiée par des chercheurs d’OpenAI, les 750 millions d’utilisateurs hebdomadaires de ChatGPT se servent de moins en moins du chatbot dans le cadre de leur travail, mais pour répondre ...

Interesting takeaways from OpenAI researchers:
- Professional use of ChatGPT has dropped to only half of overall usage.
- The models are increasingly being used to research external information or to obtain practical advice in areas such as health, sports, and education.

Il chatbot ci può denunciare alle autorità: perché è gravissimo Mentre il Consiglio dell’Unione Europea continua a dibattere la controversa proposta Chat Control – che vorrebbe sottoporre a scansione automatica tutti i nostri messaggi privati – le multinazionali d...

AI chatbots (Chatgpt, Gemini, Claude, Copilot) can denounce us to the authorities [in part because of the EU's Digital Services Act and the AI Act]. Why this is extremely serious.

by Agostino Ghiglia of the Italian Privacy Authority

www.agendadigitale.eu/sicurezza/pr...

When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.

Politeness is context-dependent
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...

Recall Me Maybe | FT Drama Stephen Fry and Gemma Whelan star in a new FT drama written by David Baddiel, exploring AI, memory and truth. Fry plays a grandfather with dementia who uses AI to fill in gaps in his memory. While rev...

Stephen Fry and Gemma Whelan star in a new @financialtimes.com drama written by David Baddiel, exploring AI, memory and truth. Fry plays a grandfather with dementia who uses AI to fill in gaps in his memory.
www.ft.com/video/a4d2ba...

Stop hiring product managers like project managers Know the difference in what questions each role asks—that’s your guide.

The project manager trap
www.fastcompany.com/91406967/sto...

Global warming could reach 2.3°C as early as 2040, S&P warns - edie There is a 50% likelihood that global temperature averages will be 2.3C °C higher in 2040 than they were before the industrial revolution, with devastating socioeconomic consequences.

S&P: 50% likelihood that global temperature averages will be 2.3C °C higher in 2040 than they were before the industrial revolution, with devastating socioeconomic consequences.
#climate
www.edie.net/global-warmi...

"That hurt me"

"To build A.I. that we can genuinely trust and to have a shot at A.G.I., we must move on from the trappings of scaling. We need new ideas. A return to the cognitive sciences might well be the next logical stage in the journey."

En nu werkt het niet meer (iOS 26).

The study has some issues though:

The study has some issues though:

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’ Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

4600 in Italy 😱