Episode Details

Techgrumps 3.40

• AI round up
  • All Birds
  • Sam Altman vs Elon Musk over OpenAI
  • Mocking Richard Dawkins:
    • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt
  • Apple pays $250m fine
    • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/apple-siri-ai-settlement (AI roundup)
  • A bill proposed in the US would add "AI literacy"
    • https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-rounds/
  • AI will run restaurants.
    • https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/marc-lore-says-that-ai-will-soon-enable-anyone-open-a-restaurant/
• .Plugin solar is coming to the UK
  • https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/may/09/home-batteries-cutting-energy-bills-fuel-prices-electricity-costs
• NHS go from Open to Closed for fear of Mythos
  • https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
• Automatic recognition cameras
  • https://cubicgarden.com/2026/03/26/following-up-from-my-ulez-fine-the-computer-is-wrong/
• Data workers getting professional
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aooiDA-AsNo,
• Meta builds AI of Zuck for staff to interact with
  • https://www.ft.com/content/02107c23-6c7a-4c19-b8e2-b45f4bb9ce5f?
• AOB
  • Salford university MSc course
    • https://www.salford.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/media-psychology-and-applied-communication
  • PublicSpaces 2026
    • https://conference.publicspaces.net/
  • Comrade Trump
    • https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/#acceleration
  • Here comes the sun book
    • https://bookwyrm.social/book/2108217/s/here-comes-the-sun