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Steve Dempsey

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Steve Dempsey

    Zuckerberg says his new AI tool will 'improve our lives'. Are we insane enough to believe him? (opens the original)

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    THE PAST FORTNIGHT has been a rolling car crash of artificial intelligence news. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned saying that the people building advanced AI genuinely believe it could destroy humanity, while Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei warned that swarms of AI agents could soon overwhelm the internet without stronger safeguards. Researchers uncovered an AI-powered campaign against online retailers that saw 105 attacks launched in just six days, with data on more than 600,000

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Steve Dempsey

    France could save us all from AI slop (opens the original)

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    FEW COUNTRIES HAVE as sure a sense of themselves as France. The French have spent much of the past thousand years maintaining the proposition that France is not merely a country, but a grand idea that must be protected. The Académie Française was established in the 17th century to standardise and protect the French language. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted with the revolution. In 1905, they established a complete separation of church and state in public life.

  3. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Steve Dempsey

    Why Robert F Kennedy Jr is copying Dollar Shave Club (opens the original)

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    THE MODERN DIRECT-to-consumer boom began in the late 2000s, when a few things fell into place that allowed brands bypass the traditional mechanisms of retail and marketing. Online payments, outsourced fulfilment, access to customers through Google, Facebook and YouTube all played a part. Things went very online very quickly. And direct-to-consumer challenger brands saw an opportunity. Early adopters like Bonobos, Glossier and Warby Parker realised they didn’t need big department stores and massi

  4. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Steve Dempsey

    Why Grand Theft Auto’s Netflix deal is the greatest heist in entertainment (opens the original)

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    SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED on Netflix on Thursday. The games developer Rockstar gave the streaming service a six-hour exclusive window on an extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI, before releasing exactly the same material free on YouTube. In other words, Netflix subscribers are getting early access to an ad. And the gaming community loved it. So much so, they broke the internet. IShowSpeed’s YouTube reaction to the event was interrupted by technical difficulties on Netflix. Gaming network Twitch

  5. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Steve Dempsey

    Why AI might kill the second-hand bookshop (opens the original)

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    THE DESTRUCTION OF books never looks good in hindsight. In medieval Florence the Bonfire of the Vanities saw the followers of Savonarola burn books, paintings and other supposed provocations to sin. Nobody now visits Florence and complains there is too much art. In May 1933, German students burned tens of thousands of books deemed “un-German”. The largest bonfire drew about 40,000 people to Berlin’s Opernplatz and featured an address by Joseph Goebbels. The square now features a memorial: a subt

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