I bought a few copies of the Irish Independent in late April 2025 because there were several items pertaining to the way society is using AI. I heard about some of these items because they became talking points on prominent Irish radio stations.The Irish online safety commission is very concerned …
There are good reasons to go slow with new versions of AI as Cristina Criddle explains in the Financial Times, April 12. 2025. OpenAI has slashed the time and resources it spends on testing the safety of its powerful artificial intelligence models, raising concerns that its technology is being …
The WSJ carries analysts from J.P. Morgan “that despite Moscow becoming more insulated from global trends because of sanctions and severed international ties, the tsunami generated by U.S. trade policy is unlikely to leave Russia unscathed.” Putin’s national-security state is in …
Chinese officials analysed the code used in a recent attack and they believe the NSA used AI to plan tool solutions, to explore vulnerabilities, and monitor traffic in the attacks. The AI could automatically and rapidly create dynamic code during the attack process. Chinese cyber protection staff …
I have more than 10 years of content saved inside my Instapaper account. I’ve a Vimeo looking at the term “workflow” as I prepare a lecture for digital transformation students.
As NPR’s Steven Inskeep put it: “If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that …
There are good reasons to go slow with new versions of AI as Cristina Criddle explains in the Financial Times, April 12. 2025. OpenAI has slashed the time and resources it spends on testing the safety of its powerful artificial intelligence models, raising concerns that its technology is being …
From Shel Holtz and Scott Monty comes an explanation about tariffs. It involves a car dealer and a shocked pizza delivery boy. A wealthy Cadillac dealer orders a pizza for his family every Friday night. His family loves pizza from a particular restaurant because it’s the best tasting pizza and …
From the New York Times Editorial Board, “DOGE is not building a better government. Instead, its haphazard demolition campaign is undermining the basic work of government and the safety and welfare of the American people. Mr. Musk directed the firing of nuclear safety workers, necessitating a …
I know the image attached to this post obviously came from an AI but I enjoy participating in workshops with students and co-creating playful content. So 10 years ago, this little post might emerge a reminder of the fun we had with prompts to DALL-E. #TUSdx
I have a gigantic (encyclopedic) collection inside Readwise that I can use with NotebookLM. During INTED2025 I shared how I use NotebookLM to remember everything I have read. During one of my Prsctical AI Workshops I showed my collection of 9,271 quotes that I keep in a single notebook that Google …
I have a system that starts at Markdown, moves to public view, and then gets micropublished with [content from Bernie’s topgold blog](Quick Notes after AI Workshop). I’m sharing the process with people learning [TUSdx])tus.ie/courses/c…) and they’re reciprocating with …
A wonderful thing happened this week in the world of podcasting. Joe Rogan left the top spot on Spotify Podcasts, unseated by voices coming from the Meidastouch Network. And I’ve started introducing my 13yo son to the cacophony of American political discourse.Dylan holds both an Irish and an …
Charlie Taylor, editor of Connected Magazine in Ireland, uses his editorial column to show "while Europe has been something of a laggard in terms of tech spending in recent years, the latest forecast shows it is all-change in 2025. “Tech spend on the continent is set to grow by 5 per cent, …
Elizabeth Lopatto is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Let’s pause and look at what the Elon Musk administration has done so far. There’s been a lot of panic about the immediate …
You know it is Spring in Ireland when you see frogs crossing the roads and when you hear frogs croaking to attract attention. We go walking in a local forest to observe these rituals. The cacophony is seasonal and so welcome.
I am working with dozens of people every week who are trying to get their heads around the financial and geopolitical forces surrounding AI. OpenAI is used by more than 300 million people every week and is raising a fresh round of financing, led by SoftBank, that would value it at $300 billion (€285 …
If you’re tuned to the noise of Fox Business, you have heard all about reshoring and insourcing. The conversation is also happening in the Brexited UK and Tim Minshall, professor of innovation at Cambridge’s Institute of Manufacturing, is writing about it. Minshall’s book dwells …
Until today, I didn’t know know AI could get 275 tokens per second by accessing Deepseek R-1 through the American AI cloud, Groq. For reference, a human speaks at around 2-3 tokens per second. R-1 delivers much more efficiency than OpenAI o1 for a comparable level of performance.
If a hot air balloon monitored arrivals to Battery Pier in the 1860s, the vessel carrying my German ancestors might have been captured moving dockside to disembark Prussian Lorenz Goldbach onto Manhattan. When my great great grandfather arrived in America, Reconstruction was just starting during the …
I’m learning a lot about the AI inside mobile tools. Today I discovered I could use Google Gemini to look inside a folder containing notes I’m using to teach a digital transformation class. I’m pasting the Gemini summary below so this post will serve as both a preview and a recap …
On the first day of Trump 2.0, I woke up worried about losing my mind because of an email overload–not caused by a broligarchy empowered in the States but by my email bloatage.Since I have several paid versions of AI services, I thought I could just put one of them to work but Larry Maguire …
Research from San Diego State University shows American teenagers are less likely to have tried alcohol, had sex, acquired a driver’s license, had a job, or gone on dates than teenagers twenty years ago. Today’s teens are pushing those “firsts” into their twenties more and more, making modern-day …
Although I haven’t written down any Resolutions for 2025, I have taken some steps to clean up my routines so that during every increment of time, I’m aware of what I’m prioritising at the moment. I’ve been helped along in this Quest by the screen that welcomes me on my mobile phone. That screen is …
I started playing with the Substack app during the Christmas break, trying to see if it is strong enough to let me publish thoughts with my thumbs. I am podskills.substack.com because I like the networking effect inside the Stacks. I am sharing a photo that shows five tools on a table in front of …