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  • The Overwhelming Surge of AI Crawlers: Challenges, Offenders, and the Path Forward

    The Overwhelming Surge of AI Crawlers: Challenges, Offenders, and the Path Forward

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    In the digital age, websites serve as the backbone of information dissemination, commerce, and community building. However, a growing menace is undermining this ecosystem: the relentless activity of AI crawlers and fetchers. These automated tools, designed to scrape and retrieve data for training artificial intelligence models or generating real-time responses, are inundating servers with unprecedented…

  • The AI Bubble: Parallels to the Dot-Com Era and Beyond

    The AI Bubble: Parallels to the Dot-Com Era and Beyond

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    In the realm of technological innovation, few phenomena capture the collective imagination like a speculative bubble. A bubble occurs when asset prices inflate rapidly due to hype, speculation, and investor enthusiasm, often detached from underlying fundamentals, only to burst and cause widespread financial fallout. Today, as of September 2025, the artificial intelligence (AI) sector is…

  • Teaching LLMs to Ask Smarter Questions: Bayesian Experimental Design for Multi-Turn Information Gathering

    Teaching LLMs to Ask Smarter Questions: Bayesian Experimental Design for Multi-Turn Information Gathering

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    Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating text, but they struggle with adaptive, multi-turn information gathering – i.e. asking relevant follow-up questions based on previous answers. The paper “BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design” (arXiv:2508.21184) addresses this shortcoming by introducing a new approach that enables LLMs…

  • AI Companions in the Classroom: Parallels Between Gibson’s Vision and the Educational AI Revolution

    AI Companions in the Classroom: Parallels Between Gibson’s Vision and the Educational AI Revolution

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    In William Gibson’s 1988 novel Mona Lisa Overdrive, the third installment of his Sprawl trilogy, young Kumiko Yanaka receives a sleek, wand-like device from her Yakuza father before being sent to London for safety. This device houses an advanced AI named Colin—a sophisticated, invisible companion who serves as guide, confidant, and protector, manifesting only to…

  • Implications of AGI for Universal Basic Income

    Implications of AGI for Universal Basic Income

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    The emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems capable of matching or exceeding human abilities across virtually all tasks – promises to profoundly reshape economies and societies. As machines become able to perform any job a human can do, the traditional link between employment and livelihood comes into question. In a post-AGI world,…