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A writer named Sam Kriss published a piece this week with what may be the most direct headline in recent memory — a blunt warning to anyone outsourcing their prose to artificial intelligence. The essay cuts to something real: that writing is thinking, and handing it off means surrendering the very act of having something to say.
That tension around AI gets sharper when you consider the security angle. A piece out of Ireland's RTE examines how Anthropic's Claude model creates new vulnerabilities around sensitive personal and financial data — raising questions about what happens when we trust these systems with information that actually matters.
And researchers at Apple have quietly published work on a new image compression approach called the Perceptual Image Codec. The project focuses on what human eyes actually notice rather than raw pixel accuracy, potentially changing how images are stored and transmitted across devices at meaningful scale.
Three very different stories, but a common thread — artificial intelligence is reshaping writing, security, and even how we see. The trade-offs are still being written. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
