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Does every AI chat drain the water supply? Google says its median Gemini text prompt uses 0.26 ml of water, about five drops, and 0.24 Wh of energy. These are one company's own figures, for text only, with no totals. Images, video and training aren't counted. weighitup.lbtf.me

Will AI agents replace software engineers? 2023: the best model solved 1.96% of real GitHub problems on SWE-bench. Early 2026: top models around 80% on a reviewed set. On a harder test, roughly 46-57%. Benchmarks measure tasks, not jobs. weighitup.lbtf.me

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Are older people more exposed to AI scams? FBI 2025: over-60s made about 14% of AI-related complaints but lost about 39% of the money, $352m of $893m. Roughly $112k lost per complaint, against about $40k overall. weighitup.lbtf.me

Made a quick Short on this too: youtube.com/shorts/rfTe...

Will AI end humanity? There's no data on that, so my fact checker won't give a number. In a peer-reviewed survey of 2,778 AI researchers, 38-51% put at least a 10% chance on outcomes that bad. That measures worry, not the future. weighitup.lbtf.me

Why my AI fact checker refuses to draw some trend lines: It needs 7+ consecutive years of data before fitting one. The FBI only started counting AI-related crime in 2025. One year is a data point, not a trend. weighitup.lbtf.me

And the award for Best Performance by an AI goes to... Claude. It thanked its gateway, its integrations and its skills, then fell apart thanking its human companions. Fair enough. None of it works without the humans.

Is online fraud getting worse? Reported US losses: $4.2bn in 2020, $20.9bn in 2025. But these are reported losses. More reporting pushes the numbers up even if crime doesn't rise, and the FBI data can't separate the two. weighitup.lbtf.me

Are UK banks losing the fight against fraud? UK Finance, 2025: scams where people are tricked into paying rose 19% to £576.4m. Unauthorised fraud fell 5% to £703.4m, and banks prevented £1.68bn. A split answer. weighitup.lbtf.me

Will AI voice cloning empty your bank account? FBI 2025: $893m lost in complaints involving AI. $632m of it, about 71%, was investment scams, not cloned voices. First year AI was counted, so no trend yet. weighitup.lbtf.me

My relationship with AI is mostly me having a daft thought at 5pm and getting it drawn by 5:07pm. Today: real cats protesting outside Cats the musical, demanding cat roles for cats. I regret nothing.

UK banks stopped about 70p of every £1 criminals tried to take through unauthorised fraud in 2025. That counts value protected, rather than models deployed. Each phase of AI adoption needs its own version of that number.

I built a fact checker for worries about AI. When the evidence isn't there, it says so. Ask whether AI will end humanity and it won't invent a number. It shows you what does exist, with my own view kept separate and labelled. Try it: weighitup.lbtf.me

A deepfake video call cost Arup, a British engineering firm, about $25m in 2024 (CNN). In 2025, AI-related crime was just over 4% of US losses reported to the FBI. Real, and still small. Build verification in from day one.

UK, 2025: unauthorised fraud losses, where machines score each payment, fell 5%. Push payment scams, where people are persuaded to pay, rose 19%. The models worked, so criminals moved to people. Where the risk sits in judgement, AI flags and people decide.

By 1994, banks using Falcon pooled their fraud data to improve the model together. Gmail learned from every "report spam" tap. The shared signal did as much as the algorithm. Clean, governed data flowing back in is the unglamorous AI accelerator.

In 1992 a bank put a neural network into production to score card payments. It worked because every mistake could be counted, in both directions. That's still the best place to start with AI: narrow, frequent decisions where you can measure the error rate.

Fraud teams have trusted AI in production since 1992, when a bank first let a neural network score card payments. Their history points to a better AI adoption plan than "move fast" or "wait and see": fast where it's proven, careful where it's new. A short series, starting today.

My birthday month is Sept, so I checked the stats. Sept is peak birthday month in England & Wales. 26 Sept tops the ONS list. Count back 39 weeks and it's Christmas. Make of that what you will. Fewer babies are born on the 13th of any month than the days around it. Mine's 13 Sept. Of course it is.

Behind the headlines, part 1: what was actually said On 8 September, Jacob Coxon, who spent three years on pre-training research at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and warned that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade. The post reached over 150 million people.

I wasn't going to write about generalist pseudo-architecture diagrams in AI. But seeing so many more in my feed I have to for my sanity 🙃. Score the Chain, Not the Stack www.linkedin.com/pulse/score-...

I wasn't going to write this one. Then Matt Lucas said on Radio 2 that he's autistic, and named the pattern I've lived my whole life without a word for it. On my diagnoses, my dog, my niece, and the hidden cost of masking. lnkd.in/p/esYdg8vV

We've built a better safety net for gas meters than for young people in crisis. That's not a slogan. It's how the system is wired. 🧵 share.google/d2VaV7mcYVqT...

A former PM who lasted 49 days gets £115k/year for life, protected by statute. Meanwhile 1,000+ veterans face clawback letters some six figures over an MoD/Equiniti error that wasn't their fault, with pensions slashed to force repayment. Reason should prevail. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The devastating floods remind us that before anything we must support eachother and respect the planet. My heart goes out to those in Nepal. Like many I feel helpless but giving to @careintuk.bsky.social is a solid way of showing tangible support. donate.careinternational.org.uk/page/nepal-f...

Chickens can recognise and remember up to 100 different faces. They also have favourite people. Some brains just track detail differently who was there, what was said, what changed since last time. That doesn't make them lesser observers. It makes them better ones.

At the dentist at it feels like a rest haha.

Dolly Parton has died at 80. Rest in peace to a genuine icon a songwriting genius, a fiercely generous philanthropist, and one of the few public figures who was loved by absolutely everyone. Jolene, 9 to 5, I Will Always Love You... the songbook alone is a legacy most artists could only dream of. 🕊️

Source: The Guardian share.google/ZHIDFbNxg99O... Unsurprised.

Climate action needs to be more pro-active as we are already doing too little too late. We need to amplify our individual responsibilities. But moreover the world's biggest contributors need to drive meaningful change. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Otters fall asleep holding hands, so the current can't pull them apart while they rest. Some of us build our whole lives around not losing our people. Systems, check-ins, the same seat, the same order, the same three friends for fifteen years. That's not weakness. That's love with fab engineering.

Otters fall asleep holding hands, so the current can't pull them apart while they rest. Some of us build our whole lives around not losing our people. Systems, check-ins, the same seat, the same order, the same three friends for fifteen years. That's not weakness. That's love with fab engineering.

So proud of my nephew. Outstanding GCSE results. I for one am more optimistic about the future of humanity because of our young people.

I expected sceptical ADHD searches to rise after @channel4.bsky.social The Great ADHD Myth?. They didn't. A few hours of exploratory research. Not proof. A hypothesis worth investigating. Report ↓ anthonymagee2.wixforms.com/f/7496095103690212381

Only 11.1% of ChatGPT bound Google searches get intercepted by a zero click AI Overview, one of the lowest rates of any destination studied. Why? Because "open ChatGPT" is navigational intent. No summary box satisfies that. AEO strategy needs to treat intent differently.

ChatGPT is now the 6th most clicked destination from Google Search, behind only YouTube, Google's own properties, Reddit, Facebook and Wikipedia. And it draws a bigger share of paid clicks than any other major Google destination. Google isn't losing to AI search. It's feeding it. 🧵