Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for us. Millions of AI agents are descending on a web built for humans. Websites are trying to keep them out, but the arrival of these new visitors could transform the internet. technologyreview.com/2026/10…

What is AI doing to our brains? People who use artificial intelligence fall into one of two groups: those who use the technology to think better, and those who use AI instead of thinking. Without intervention, the latter group could pay a heavy price. mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-…

Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Recent hacks have shown that the law is lagging when it comes to holding companies accountable technologyreview.com/2026/09…

A delightful morning’s promenade at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, surrounded by bonnets, fine gentlemen, elegant gowns, and just enough scandal to keep things interesting. One might almost believe we had stepped straight into the pages of Persuasion!

The biggest AI blind spot? We still don't know how people are really using it (and it's less to do with work than the AI companies claim) technologyreview.com/2026/08…

Women-led deep-tech startups consistently outperform on capital efficiency but continue to attract only a fraction of venture funding. Is the market overlooking one of the most promising innovation opportunities? raconteur.net/finance/the-in…

Research shows that learning to “think about thinking” may be just as important as learning to use AI itself: fastcompany.com/91578663/gen…

Getting precisely what you asked for and bitterly regretting it is one of the oldest hazards from ancient folklore: do we need a “Genie coefficient” for agentic AI? spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-b…

5 investments to close the gap between AI wealth and welfare: "The success of transformative new technologies depends on parallel investments in capital, human development, metrics, systems thinking, and social and economic institutions" mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-…

The people who will thrive in the AI age: they are “not the ones who seek relaxation and passively use AI to work less. They are the ones who will seek improvement and actively wrestle with AI to develop their own mental capabilities” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Quicker & cheaper, or bigger & better: AI as a growth engine: “Costs can only be cut to zero, but revenue can grow without a ceiling” hbr.org/2026/06/companies-ar…

Have we lost control of our brains? UoC's Gloria Mark on attention span erosion, and cognitive atrophy (and what to do about it) technologyreview.com/2026/06…

How to shrink the psychological costs of adopting AI: "reducing psychological debt will require that companies design human-AI relationships that recognise the sources of, and barriers to, human motivation and behaviour" hbr.org/2026/05/the-psycholo…

The creative risk of letting AI do all the work: "the organizations that will win in the Imagination Era are not those that replace the most humans with AI, but those that become genuinely excellent at human-AI collaboration" fastcompany.com/91536391/cre…

Happy National Towel Day to you. As the temperature rises remember to sling that slightly damp rectangle of preparedness over your shoulder & remember: DON’T PANIC! This is the 1 day of the year that you can pretend that carrying a towel around the supermarket is perfectly normal

So sad to hear that we’ve lost yet another member of the original Blake’s 7 cast - RIP Michael Keating, one of the nicest, most humble people I’ve had the pleasure of having a cup of tea with digitalspy.com/soaps/eastend…

'Think outside the bots': How to stop AI from turning your brain to mush bbc.com/future/article/20260…

Adults lose skills to AI. Children never build them. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

AI use appears to have a “boiling frog” effect on human cognition, new study warns "AI assistance improves immediate performance, but it comes at a heavy cognitive cost" futurism.com/artificial-inte…

Does Mark Zuckerberg announcing he’s building a chatbot digital twin of himself make us question what CEOs actually do, and how much of that time is well spent? ft.com/content/782b1eee-5a64…