Being Miserable
/Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional. - Art Clanin
14 Articles about Branding & Reputation
/3 Personal Branding Mistakes Job Seekers Must Avoid - Forbes
Ace your job interview with a knockout elevator pitch - Moneywise
Approach Your Personal Brand Like a Project Manager - Harvard Business Review
Brands Shout and Reputation Whispers - FTI Counsulting
Building brand reputation in the age of AI - PR Daily
Call it what you like — Personal brand, career brand or professional reputation. Here’s how to build it. - Fast Company
How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Personal Reputation - CUindependent
How to build a standout personal brand online, in person and at work - CNBC
Managing Personal Reputation In The Age Of AI And Chatbots - Forbes
Personal branding strategies: 8 social media networks to use for self-branding - Business.com
How to Look and Act Like a Leader- Wall Street Journal ($)
The Importance of Likeability - Wall Street Journal ($)
Personal Branding In The Digital Age: Why It Matters - Forbes
AI definitions: Small Language Models
/Small Language Models (SLMs) – Requiring less data and training time than large language models, SLMs have fewer parameters, making them more useful on the spot or when using smaller devices. Perhaps the best advantage of SLMs is their ability to be fine-tuned for specialized tasks or domains. They are also more useful for enhanced privacy and security and are less prone to undetected hallucinations. Google’s Gemma (designed for developers) is an example.
22 Articles about the Business of Running an AI
/Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI as the most valuable artificial intelligence company - New York Times
OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections – Axios
CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft - CNN
A One-Stop Shop for A.I. Models Raises $113 Million - New York Times
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies - Is AI profitable
How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race – New York Times
These 5 charts show how ChatGPT is flooding our lives – Washington Post
OpenAI Bought Company That Offered A.I. Tools for Cloning Voices – New York Times
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure” - MIT
Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I. – New York Times
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in workplace AI adoption - Axios
Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable – New York Times
For Palantir, AI Is a Product, a Punching Bag—and a Problem - Wall Street Journal
Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw – New York Times
Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors – Reuters
Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Claims It Misled People on A.I. – New York Times
Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources – Tech Crunch
Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Right-Hand Man Who’s Unleashing AI at Meta - Wall Street Journal
Five book publishers and a best-selling novelist accused Meta of stealing their work to help train A.I. models. – New York Times
The death of AI idealism - Axios
Start-Up Raises $1.3 Billion for an A.I. electrical ‘Grid’ – New York Times
Peaks & Valleys
/One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.- GK Chesterton (born May 29, 1874)
AI Detectors are not Lie Detectors
/What’s really happening is that human expression is being measured against a distorted reflection of itself. So what does it mean that I “sound like AI”? It means I’ve internalized patterns that are now statistically recognizable. It means I’ve developed consistency, structure and voice. It means I write in a way that is legible, repeatable and coherent. In any other context, that would be called skill. In today’s world, it becomes suspicious. -Denise Zubizarreta writing in Technical.ly
32 Recent Articles about AI & Writing
/What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity: Writing is fundamental to how we think – New York Times
How to Deal With Students Using AI to Cheat – Wall Street Journal
Was a short story that shared a prestigious prize this week written with artificial intelligence? – New York Times
I’m an AI ethicist accused of AI plagiarism. Now what? - Technical.ly
Ban for Authors Submitting AI Content ‘Welcome but Unenforceable’ – Inside Higher Ed
This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything – The Atlantic
I’m a Professional Writer Who Uses A.I. It’s Not As Scary As I Thought. – Slate
‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize – The Guardian
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. – New York Times
The prevalence of AI content is growing rapidly and ‘it’s not just X, it’s Y’ – Tech Crunch
College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them – The Conversation
AI hasn't overtaken human writers online – Axios
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy. – 404 Media
Is AI bad for critical thinking? It depends on when you use it – Science News
Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI – Wall Street Journal
AI is changing how we write and speak – Axios
Why I Teach My Students to Write With AI – University of Central Florida
Nothing is “100% human authored” – London School of Economics & Political Science
Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter – Nature
New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real – Futurism
This new tool makes AI's role in student writing visible – Phys.org
An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing full of A.I. “hallucinations.” – New York Times
The Human Skill That Eludes AI – The Atlantic
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines – The Verge
WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more – Tech Crunch
How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) - New York Times
Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human – The Guardian
How Are Your Teachers Handling Writing in the Age of A.I.? – New York Times
Could you spot an AI-written book? An author set up an experiment to find out. – Vox
Plagiarism of ideas in the age of generative artificial intelligence - Nature
AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right – Chronicle of Higher Ed
When Opportunity Knocks
/Opportunity knocks! Quit complaining about the noise!
AI definitions: SQL
/SQL (pronounced ess-kew-ell or sequel) Structured Query Language is the most widely used method of accessing databases. This programming language can be used to create tables, change data, find particular data, and create relationships among different tables. For data scientists, SQL is second in importance after Python. Similar in structure and function to Excel, SQL can work with Excel and is able to handle billions of rows in multiple tables and thousands of users can access this data securely at the same time.
24 Recent Articles about AI Fakes
/Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice in fake kidnapping - ABC-7 SF
AI scamming ain’t brain surgery, but even neurosurgeons get fooled - The Hill
Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names - NBC News
Two men charged with creating AI-generated porn under new law targeting ‘deepfakes’ – Associated Press
Since chatbots hallucinate their own facts, it’s useful (and easy) to have a second, nitpicking AI that can audit the results for errors – Wall Street Journal
In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning – Economist
This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything - The Atlantic
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. – New York Times
Scammers targeting missing pet owners with AI – ABC7
Oregon DMV warns drivers about realistic scam texts written with AI – Statesman Journal
The JPMorgan Sexual-Assault Lawsuit Was Already Messy. AI Is Making It Worse. – Wall Street Journal
AI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest ones – Science.org
Fake data, AI slop, and the future of academia – Out of the Lab (video)
The Hantavirus Outbreak Is Resurrecting Covid-Era Misinformation Tactics – New York Times
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure” - MIT
PR crisis inside America’s biggest bank stoked by AI fakes. - Wall Street Journal
Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media - New York Times
Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account OpenAI made the perfect tool for scammers. - The Atlantic
Nothing is “100% human authored” – London School of Economics and Political Science
South Africa withdraws AI policy due to fake AI-generated sources - Semafor
Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf - ArsTechnica
YouTube Opens Up AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All of Hollywood – Hollywood Reporter
AI-powered scams cost seniors $800 million a year: How to protect yourself - ABC-7 NY
AI keeps inventing fake cases. Lawyers keep citing them – Scientific American
US judicial panel delays action on AI-generated evidence, deep fakes - Reuters
AI labels were supposed to help users spot fakes. Here’s why they’re failing – Fast Company
The AI Power of Suggestion
/A.I. interaction can narrow ideas is through the power of suggestion. Once a chatbot suggests a direction, humans tend to lock in on it. The conversational nature of A.I. can make it difficult to distinguish where the user’s thinking ends and the bot’s begins, making it effortless for people to adopt A.I.-generated perspectives as their own. It’s easy to see how an impressionable teenager could forgo writing the unconventional essay in favor of whatever A.I. suggests. -Rebecca Winthrop writing in The New York Times
Open Your Mouth
/Open your mouth only when you can improve on the silence.
11 Apps for Job Hunting
/Career Builder - online hiring app that allows job seekers to access tools that will help them at every point in the process.
ExpressJob - mapping that shows nearby jobs and makes applying easy with one-click applications but also offers ways to stay organized once you are hired (timesheets, schedule, etc.)
Glassdoor - search engine platform offering job openings along with company reviews.
Indeed - sort through the search engine database and stay on top of openings that interest you.
Linkedin - the social network for professionals.
Linkup - focuses on little-known job listings. Free, iOS only.
MeeBoss - A chat-first job matching platform.
Monster - brings jobs from other job searchers into a single app.
Snagjob - only hourly jobs. Free.
Strawberry.me - Matches individuals with professional personal and career coaches.
ZipRecruiter - offers more than 100 job boards with filters. Sends notifications about vacancies.\
Teens Using Phones At Night
/A new study finds “teens averaged over 50 minutes of smartphone use between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on school nights. Researchers drew data from an app installed on the teens’ phones. A lot of prior studies have relied on self-reporting of screen use, which isn’t as thorough or accurate.” -Washington Post
AI definitions: Shadow AI
/Shadow AI - Using generative AI inside an organization without the approval or supervision of the company’s IT. While not typically malicious, it creates risks that can grow over time. For instance, customer data might end up being stored in a third-party AI’s training environment or proprietary code might be copied and pasted into an AI code assistant to debug an issue.
37 Recent Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship
/AI tools are smuggling biases in their summaries – The London School of Economics & Political Science
Plagiarism of ideas in the age of generative artificial intelligence - Nature
AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists. – The Verge
Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers – Stat
Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban - Nature
Will Make the Academic Article Obsolete – Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest ones – Science.org
Safeguards against GenAI hallucinations in literature review – Times Higher Ed
As researchers aim for universal AI disclosure guidelines, the devil is in the details - Science.org
Retractions ‘must be the start of AI slop clean-up’, says critic – Times Higher Ed
AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It - Forbes
First AI tool to detect suspicious peer reviews rolled out by academic publisher - Nature
Performance of AI Tools in Citing Retracted Literature – JMIR Publishing
The AI scientist: now academic papers can be fully automated, what does this mean for the future of research? – The Conversation
How AI is Quietly Distorting Academic Enquiry and what to do about it – Times Higher Ed
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI - Nature
Modeling scientific uncertainty in language: Applied linguistic insights from human and artificial intelligence texts – Science Direct
Researchers already use AI—it’s time to agree on how to use it responsibly – Research Professional News
Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals – Daily Nous
Artificial intelligence in the retraction spotlight – Frontiers
Detecting Fraud-Associated Characteristics In The Medical AI Literature: A Multi-Signal NLP Framework Reveals Distinct Paper Mill Subtypes - Open Science Framework
Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems? - Nature
Study: AI Policies Fail to Reduce Undisclosed AI Use – The Scientist
Do Large Language Models know Which Published Articles have been Retracted? – ArXiv
AI Wrote A Harvard Physicist’s Most Recent Paper. No One Knows What It Means for Science – The Crimson
No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network - Nature
Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing – Wily
Harvard says researcher who published nearly 100 articles in 2 1/2 years has no affiliation with the university – Free Beacon
AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right – Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI Conferences Should Embrace Submission Explosion via Autonomous Review Pipelines - Preprints
Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site - Nature
An AI did the astrophysics. The paper got halted. – Blankline
Major accounting firm retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations - Financial Times
The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails - Nature
AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review – The Verge
25 research papers from one university in India retracted in 5 years amid integrity and AI concerns – India Today
A Sign of Growth
/One of the sure signs of growth is that you are no longer impressed with how you did it yesterday. -John Maxwell
14 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism, & Media
/Tue, May 26 - AI Tools: Automation, Trust and Revenue
What: In this webinar, we will explore how media organisations can leverage AI to streamline operations, build trust with audiences, and create new revenue streams while maintaining strong editorial standards in an AI-driven media landscape.
Who: Kevin Anderson, Director of the Digital Revenue Network, WAN-IFRA London; Marie Bering, Director of Product Management, Stibo DX; Heikki Rotko, Chairman, Choicely; Marko, Director of Product Development, StoryEditor.
When: 6 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers
Tue, May 26 - How journalism collaboratives can track impact
What: Learn how to define, measure and track the ways your journalism collaborative makes a difference in your community.
Who: Caroline Porter, Principal for Ralstin Agency, director of product and strategic partnerships for Open Campus.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Cooperative Media
Tue, May 26 - Public Media’s Digital Shift: Scaling Audience and Revenue with Indiegraf
What: Learn how to modernize your digital infrastructure, scale your audience, and secure your station's revenue and future, plus get a detailed overview of a subsidized program that can help qualifying stations significantly save on technology costs.
Who: Allison McIlmoyl and Bridget Thoreson from Indiegraf.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Indiegraf
Tue, May 26 - Codex Fundamentals
What: Join us for a technical overview of Codex, the AI software engineering agent that can help developers write features, debug code, run tests, and navigate large codebases. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how engineers are using Codex to accelerate development workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and collaborate more effectively with AI during the software development lifecycle.
Who: Tanner Wride, Builder ADM, OpenAI; Catherine LaChapelle, Builder ADM, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Tue, May 26 - How Nonprofits Should Think About Their Website as a Platform
What: We will explore how nonprofits can shift from a project-based mindset to a platform mindset. Attendees will learn how websites integrate with CRM and marketing systems, support ongoing optimization, and provide enhanced insights into user behavior. This session helps nonprofits plan websites that scale and remain effective over time.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Tue, May 26 - The Art of Bipartisan Storytelling: Insights from “Courage Can Save US”
What: This webinar comes ahead of the release of “Courage Can Save US.” This upcoming book explores the leadership of military veterans in civic society, featuring stories from ten veterans working across the political spectrum to combat polarization. During this webinar, attendees will have the opportunity to engage around the writing and publication process, tips for maintaining bipartisanship in writing of this nature, the stories of the selected veterans, and more.
Who: Rye Barcott, a Marine Corps veteran, social entrepreneur, and author of “It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace.” He is co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan organization that fights polarization by supporting principled veteran leadership in public office.
When: 4:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Military Veterans in Journalism
Wed, May 27 – Climate Disinformation: How to Spot it and Fight it
What: This webinar will equip participants with the tools to identify the mechanisms behind the ‘manufacturing of doubt’, deconstruct misleading narratives using real-world case studies, and develop the ability to verify information in the face of complex facts and the viral spread of falsehoods.
Who: Bianca Hall, an environment and climate reporter with The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and media vice president at the Media, Entertainment, and Arts Alliance, Australia; Emmanuel Vincent, the founder and president of Science Feedback; Jennifer Moreau, a Vice-President of the International Federation of Journalists.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: International Federation of Journalists
Wed, May 27 - Rejuvenating the newsroom
What: We’ll explore Sydsvenskan’s bold initiative called “Ungredaktionen” (The Youth Newsroom), which delivers both essential service journalism and rigorous, local investigative reporting tailored to a new generation. Learn how they integrate these voices into the newsroom, balance editorial standards with new creative formats, and why bringing in non-traditional talent is a strategic necessity for the future of local journalism.
Who: Camilla Sylvan, Managing Editor at Bonnier News/Sydsvenskan.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers
Wed, May 27 - Learn to Use AI to Remove Barriers to Learning
What: In this session, well explores the deeply human side of learning and demonstrates how AI can help remove barriers that have quietly limited development for decades. When learning becomes easier and more effective, the payoff is significant — individuals grow faster, and organizations benefit from a workforce better prepared to meet the demands of a changing world.
Who: Vince Han CEO and Founder, Mobile Coach.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Thu, May 28 - Your Campus Already Uses ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot. Here’s How to Make Them Research-Ready
What: We’ll cover the technical basics (what LLMs actually are, why hallucination happens, what MCP means) alongside the strategic and operational questions librarians are wrestling with: how to build a budget case, how to evaluate tools, how to partner with faculty, and how to use AI adoption data to demonstrate collection value.
Who: Sean Rife, Academic Relations at Scite and Associate Professor of Psychology, Murray State University; Drew Barontini, VP of Product Scite.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Scite by Research Solutions
Thu, May 28 - Smarter Together: A Human First Approach to Agentic AI
What: We will explore what it really means to take a human‑first approach to agentic AI in the philanthropic sector. Drawing from product design, user experience, and frontline consulting work with nonprofits, we’ll unpack how intelligent systems can extend human capacity—without replacing human judgment, empathy, or accountability. This session is designed to level‑set the conversation, cut through the hype, and offer a grounded perspective on where AI fits in purpose‑driven work today.
Who: Timothy Hammond, Principal User Experience Designer, Blackbaud; Steffanie Brown, Senior Strategic Consultant, Blackbaud.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Blackbaud
Thu, May 28 - Create Your Newsroom's AI Policy To Build Trust
What: We'll help you build an AI policy that works for your newsroom, whether you use AI tools or not. Walk away with practical templates, real examples, and a clear path to publishing a policy that builds audience trust.
Who: Laura E. Davis and Lynn Walsh from Trusting News.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Indiegraf
Thu, May 28 - How data science teams use Codex
What: A practical session on how Codex can support common analysis workflows. We’ll explore patterns behind use cases like KPI root-cause analysis, business impact readouts, and dashboard planning without locking the session to a single demo path.
Who: Diana Stegall, Customer Education, OpenAI; Lois Newman, Customer Enablement, OpenAI; Charmaine Pek, AI Deployment @ OpenAI.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Fri, May 29 - ASERL Copyright Office Hour
What: Please bring your puzzling and perplexing copyright questions.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
Rather
/Rather fail with honor than success by fraud. -Solphocles
Perhaps
/Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. -Dale Carnegie