{"id":50080,"date":"2025-12-09T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/australia-launches-a-social-media-ban-and-is-ai-a-bubble-about-to-pop-3\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:06:13","slug":"australia-launches-a-social-media-ban-and-is-ai-a-bubble-about-to-pop-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/australia-launches-a-social-media-ban-and-is-ai-a-bubble-about-to-pop-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia launches a social media ban \u2013 and is AI a bubble about to pop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under-16s to be banned from social media in Australia, and analysts continue to monitor the massive investment in AI<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you from a New York City that feels much colder than last December. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/04\/nevada-ai-data-centers\">The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/dec\/02\/artificial-intelligence-threats-congress\">AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/05\/elon-musk-x-fined-eu-first-clash-under-new-digital-laws\">Elon Musk\u2019s X fined \u20ac120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/06\/ai-research-papers\">Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: \u2018It\u2019s a mess\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/audio\/2025\/dec\/02\/is-ai-making-us-stupid-podcast\">Is AI making us stupid? \u2013 podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/08\/australia-social-media-ban-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under-16s to be banned from social media in Australia, and analysts continue to monitor the massive investment in AI Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you from a New York City that feels much colder than last December. The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}