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Bacon and Eggs in Cola? Just Eat’s AI Images Passed Human Review

2026-10-31 by tokiwo

コーラに目玉焼きが浮いた!?――AIが英国の朝食を誤解、Just Eat「人間も確認した」の謎

On October 19, 2026, British media reported that food delivery platform Just Eat had apologised for some remarkably strange menu images.

One showed what looked like a glass of cola. Floating inside were sausages, bacon and a fried egg.

No, this wasn’t an experimental breakfast drink. An AI image generator had apparently interpreted a menu item called “Breakfast Soda” as a fizzy drink containing breakfast ingredients.

Just Eat had been trialling AI-enhanced images for restaurants without photographs of their dishes. But after a series of bizarre results came to light, the company paused the rollout.

Here’s the particularly curious part: according to Just Eat, every AI-generated image had been manually checked by a person.

So what exactly did the AI misunderstand? And how did images like these get through human review? To find out, we compared local reporting with actual restaurant menus on Just Eat.

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They Know Where Samba Is. So Why Can’t They Catch the Capybara?

2026-10-30 by tokiwo

On October 27, 2026, Marwell Zoo in Hampshire, England, released new camera-trap images of a capybara that had been on the run for more than seven months.

Her name is Samba, a young female capybara originally brought to the zoo from another wildlife park. Capybaras are the world’s largest rodents, native to South America.

Since her escape, search teams have deployed thermal-imaging drones, tracking dogs, wildlife cameras and more than 20 staff members. Two of the cameras were even stolen during the search.

Yet Samba remains at large.

Here is the strange part: the zoo now knows the general area where Samba is living. It still cannot simply go in and bring her home.

Why not? Marwell’s official search records, together with the story of another escaped British capybara, reveal why locating an animal and safely recovering it are two very different challenges.

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One Stoat, £148,790 in Extra Funding: Why Rousay Went on a Six-Month Hunt

2026-10-14 by tokiwo

On October 9, 2026, a six-month wildlife hunt on a remote Scottish island finally came to an end.

The quarry was a single stoat, a small carnivorous mammal measuring roughly 30 cm (12 inches) in body length.

Yet catching this one animal involved detection dogs, AI-assisted cameras, an extensive network of traps and an additional £148,790 in approved funding.

There was another twist: the captured stoat was male. No female had been confirmed on the island.

Why did one male stoat warrant an island-wide search and nearly £150,000 in extra funding?

A closer look at the project’s official records, local reporting and financial disclosures reveals a more complicated story than an extraordinarily expensive pest-control operation.

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