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Chris Stokel-Walker

@stokel
174 posts
2026-02-25
AI keeps recommending nuclear strikes when put into wargame tests, a new study finds... which is... alarming.  By me for @newscientist.com  —  www.newscientist.com/article/ 2516...
2026-02-25 View on X
New Scientist

A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

2026-02-03
Crikey - France really showing it isn't messing around when it comes to Grok's image generating horrors
2026-02-03 View on X
BBC

Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more

Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.

2025-12-11
This is wild - for both companies in different ways. OpenAI now has to get way more stringent with creating a safe AI environment, while Disney just became an AI investor. That's before you get to the AI copyright fight Disney is waging https://openai.com/...
2025-12-11 View on X
OpenAI

Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client

Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

2025-10-18
It should not be an opt-out regime...
2025-10-18 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants

OpenAI's CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios' characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users.

It should not be an opt-out regime...
2025-10-18 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions”

OpenAI responded, but is it enough? Mary Cunningham / CBS News : OpenAI blocks Sora 2 users from using MLK Jr.'s likeness after “disrespectful depictions” Katrina Morgan / WUSA : O...

2025-10-17
It should not be an opt-out regime...
2025-10-17 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions”

OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …

2025-09-20
A cyberattack hitting the check in and boarding system provider for many European airports is a nightmare situation www.reuters.com/en/cyberatta...
2025-09-20 View on X
Reuters

Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, confirms a “cyber-related disruption” as Heathrow and other European airports report issues

- London's Heathrow, airports in Berlin, Brussels affected by disruption  — RTX experiencing ‘cyber-related disruption’ in airport software

2025-09-04
Microsoft Teams is so unbelievably shit that competitors seemingly believe it'll die on the vine if it's not bundled into Office https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-09-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Microsoft is set to avoid a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by agreeing to sell Teams separately from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages

Microsoft Corp. is set to avoid a potentially hefty antitrust fine after the European Union got positive feedback … X: @stokel . Bluesky: @danhon.com , @daviduzumeri , and @quinnyp...

2025-08-24
Is this the point at which I feel smug and say I've been trying to land a story going to countries where they already use AI across million-plus, government-subsidised populations for about six weeks? If you're an editor suddenly interested, lmk https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2025-08-24 View on X
The Guardian

Sources: in a meeting with UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Sam Altman proposed giving ChatGPT Plus to everyone in the UK, a deal that would have cost £2B

“we'll give your entire country chatgpt plus for £2bn.  please???”  —  also, fuck you peter kyle for even taking this meeting. Mateusz Fafinski / @calthalas : Two billion for count...

2025-08-12
Wikipedia losing its court case against the Online Safety Act is a blow for them, but the Wikimedia Foundation believes the fight isn't over (and piled pressure on Ofcom to categorise platforms correctly) www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
2025-08-12 View on X
Reuters

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges

Europe is not allowed to make Internet Laws.  —  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru : There is a possible future in which the UK government ends up blocking...

2025-08-11
Wikipedia losing its court case against the Online Safety Act is a blow for them, but the Wikimedia Foundation believes the fight isn't over (and piled pressure on Ofcom to categorise platforms correctly) www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
2025-08-11 View on X
Reuters

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges

The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements …

2025-07-22
Main takeaway from this is Sam Altman doesn't know the difference between the UK and Britain (and the UK government - *not* the British government - didn't think it had the power to suggest OpenAI change it) https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
2025-07-22 View on X
Reuters

OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office

Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research …

2025-07-11
These arrests are only on suspicion of offences of course but regardless of those arrested's innocence or guilt, the speed at which arrests have come is really quick compared to previous allegations around cybercrime
2025-07-11 View on X
BBC

UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc

Dunno, not making a particular point, other than that I've been around for ages.  Don't cause havoc kids, at least not in these kinds of ways.  [embedded post] Eric Geller / @ericj...

2025-07-10
These arrests are only on suspicion of offences of course but regardless of those arrested's innocence or guilt, the speed at which arrests have come is really quick compared to previous allegations around cybercrime
2025-07-10 View on X
BBC

UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc

Four people have been arrested by police investigating the cyber-attacks that have caused havoc at M&S and the Co-op.

2025-07-02
I foresee a future where AI model providers pay to crawl sites for their training data which helps parse information fed to LLMs that users pay per million token API access to and the whole cycle repeats, handing money back and forth https://techcrunch.com/...
2025-07-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default

It's a total reshaping of how people make money on the internet.  Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/c... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com : “Deeply concerned that the incentives...

2025-06-24
It is very weird that the CMA is choosing to go after Google *now* for dominating the search and ad markets when its share of the market is easing off for the first time in 15 years https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-06-24 View on X
Financial Times

The UK CMA proposes to designate Google with “strategic market status” in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime

Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority's plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth

2025-06-08
A community-led package manager for WordPress to try and limit the single point of control that caused so many issues in the last year is about to be launched in Portugal.  I have the scoop for @FastCompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91347003/ wor...
2025-06-08 View on X
Fast Company

Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security

The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today.

2025-05-21
This is really, really bad www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...
2025-05-21 View on X
Reuters

Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans

A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier … Bluesky: @metacurity.com , @stokel , @zachsdorfman , and @micah...

2025-01-07
Moving the burned-out remains of what little trust and safety they intend to retain out of California and into Texas is the most dog-whistly dog whistle you've ever heard
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

2024-12-29
This is a wild switch given four years ago Trump was campaigning to ban TikTok
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Times

How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020 to backing off in 2024, as he became a political star on the platform with more than 14.7M followers

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app.  Now, he is opposing the Biden administration's effort to do just that.