Mike Watts

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Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests

Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solving

The Guardian
#AI needs chips, and chips makers need helium. The war with Iran has interrupted the helium supply: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/helium-ai-iran-war #ArtificialIntelligence
The Iran War Has Cut Off Supply of a Gas the AI Industry Desperately Needs

The US war on Iran has severely kneecapped AI chip manufacturers by limiting the flow of helium from Qatar to the rest of the world.

Futurism
Having many services hanging off of a single #AI model means a single-point of failure: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/your-ai-vendor-is-now-a-single-point-of-failure #ArtificialIntelligence
Your AI vendor is now a single point of failure

Most enterprises have no continuity plan for the day their foundation model gets deprecated, repriced or acquired -- but they need one.

Information Week
Hands-on skilled workers are the ones least likely to be displaced by #AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/31/jobs-ai-cant-do-young-adults #ArtificialIntelligence
The jobs AI can’t do – and the young adults doing them

For many young people entering the workforce, the stigma of hands-on jobs is fading. There a competitive appeal – and they all require human expertise

The Guardian
Beware of headlines touting impossible AI benefits, analysts warn

But, they say, don’t lock your enterprise into a long-term contract for specific AI technologies in case breakthroughs occur elsewhere.

Computerworld
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026 https://computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/04/ieee-transactions-on-cognitive-and.html #ArtificialIntelligence
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026

1) Grasp Representation and Detection With Consistent Path in Robotic Grasping Author(s):  L. Chen, Z. Li, J. Yang, Z. Lu, P. Wu, T. Chen P...

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Exclusive: Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills

The Register
Modular data centres allow for faster and cheaper scaling for #AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/modular-data-center #ArtificialIntelligence
AI-Ready Modular Data Center Slashes Deployment Time

Speedy deployment of small, scalable units could be an alternative to hyperscale projects

IEEE Spectrum
#AI really is the ultimate capitalist tool-companies slash thousands of jobs even though they're already highly profitable: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/us-tech-firm-oracle-cuts-thousands-of-jobs-as-it-steps-up-ai-spending-larry-ellison #ArtificialIntelligence
US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending

Company seeks to reassure investors that bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure will pay off

The Guardian
AI Now Causing CEOs to Resign in Fear

A growing number of corporate executives are now using AI as a convenient excuse to retire from their posts.

Futurism