The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.11…

"The #emissions from individual #AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next" technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/111…

Are humanoid robots the future of ‘intelligent warfare’? China’s civilian robotics sector is powering advantages on battlefield, combining tactical flexibility and strategic deterrence, military mouthpiece says sc.mp/fpx0f?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

"Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into #Starlink's Direct #Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements" By Zoraida Frías and colleagues arxiv.org/abs/2506.00283

Six ways to deal with your phone One powerful idea Zero demand on willpower #situationmodification youtube.com/watch?v=HxVsaN…

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works? They write articles about it in The Atlantic.

A new study tracked people's phone use at a granular level then asker them what activity they enjoyed and regretted. Unfortunately for big tech, we regretted listless scrolling through algorithmic feeds the most. My latest for Fast Company fastcompany.com/91348032/why-y…

The story of how Novo Nordisk will lose billions because it didn’t pay a couple of hundred dollars trib.al/TV7fW08

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞. Check our paper: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : brainonllm.com

In response to the recent "Your Brain on ChatGPT" pre-print that is making the rounds, here's a short history of tech-induced brain rot.

Artificial intelligence has created a new digital divide, separating the nations with the computing power for building cutting-edge A.I. systems and those without. The split is influencing geopolitics and global economics. Here's how. nyti.ms/40dOm9x

Here's a Subliminal Channel You Haven't Considered Before schneier.com/blog/archives/…

Foditsch: "This is more important than ever, because it's the first time we have a discussion on IGF discussing specifically on financing. So while this has been a need for a long time, I'm glad to see that we are finally starting to add that to the agenda here too."

Smriti Parsheera Amb (Prof) Bitange Ndemo, PhD, CBS Renata Mielli Funke Opeke Qusai Al-Shatti Olga Cavalli Bianca Kremer Maarja Kask Sabhanaz Rashid Diya William J. Drake Roxana Radu avri Nathalia Foditsch (LLM/MPP) Below the links to some of the research outputs I have used for the presentations in the various sessions this week, as promised! Feel free to send feedback if you have any! Book on “Financing Self-Sustaining Community Connectivity Solutions” comconnectivity.org/self-sustainin…

Just one illustration of the unspeakable tragedy that USAID will be gone on 7/1, referencing US famine relief in 2022: “it cost the average American household roughly $6 a year in taxes to prevent about half as many deaths as occurred in the Holocaust.” nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opi…

#AI for wireless -this is a great walk-through basics webinar by Int’l Telecommunication Union

"Moderating #Quechua Content on #SocialMedia" by Dhanaraj Thakur (@[email protected]) cdt.org/insights/moder… Center for Democracy & Technology

The problem isn’t just a lack of capital—it’s how we direct it. Blended finance has mobilised ~$15B/year, estimated at less than 0.4% of what’s needed. “Mind the Mission, Not the Gap” challenges the logic that more capital alone will deliver development. Read it our new report,

Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes. nyer.cm/CCR01ez

Data center construction "has exacerbated water shortages across the world" nytimes.com/2025/07/14/tec…