Mike Watts

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Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Production source says it takes "weeks" to produce just minutes of usable video.

Ars Technica
The British military is integrating more #AI into its kill chain: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/mod_project_asgard/ #ArtificialIntelligence
British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

: Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARD

The Register
Slamming the door on AI-based cybersecurity threats

AI is exposing blind spots in cybersecurity. CIOs may be creating new risks as fast as they can eliminate them. Is automation the only viable response?

Information Week
Like most tools that make workers more efficient, giving employees #AI tools results in them doing more work: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_makes_employees_work_harder/ #ArtificialIntelligence
AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

: Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster

The Register
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2026 https://computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2026/02/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks.html #ArtificialIntelligence
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2026

1) Vision Mamba: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy Author(s):  X. Liu, C. Zhang, F. Huang, S. Xia, G. Wang, L. Zhang Pages:  505 - 525 2...

Europe and the Middle East are lagging behind in preparing data centres for #AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_datacenters_bcs/ #ArtificialIntelligence
Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues

: Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push

The Register
Weekly Review 13 February 2026

Some interesting links that I  Tweeted  about in the last week (I also post these on  Mastodon ,  Threads ,  Newsmast , and  Bluesky ): Fire...

South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam

: Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks

The Register
AI security worries stall enterprise production deployments

From Big Tech executives at Cisco's AI Summit this week to market research, the industry is waking up to a major hindrance in enterprise AI adoption.

TechTarget
DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

: Your own personal Jarvis. A bot to hear your prayers. A bot that cares. Just not about keeping you safe

The Register