Academic Scholarship

Where Does Publishing’s A.I. Problem Leave Authors and Readers? – New York Times

Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data – Nature   

Frontiers issues AI guidance spanning full publishing lifecycle – Research Information  

Tackle ‘AI slop’ in education research ‘or lose teacher trust’ – Times Higher Ed

Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work – Conversation

If a Large Language Model can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM – Nature

Bloodhound code sniffs out copied-and-pasted numerical data – Retraction Watch

Scientists Invented a Fake Disease Caused by Blue Light—Now It's in Medical Papers  - Inc

AI Is a Better Researcher Than You That claim got a political scientist denounced. Is it true? – Chronicle of Higher Ed  

Cite unseen: when AI hallucinates scientific articles- Science.org

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? - Nature 

Anonymisation in research must be overhauled for AI era – Research Professional News

What is p hacking, is it bad, and can you get AI to do it for you? – Towards Data Science

Policies Permitting LLM Use for Polishing Peer Reviews Are Currently Not Enforceable – ArXiv

A citation alert led researchers to a network of fake articles. But who is benefiting? – Retraction Watch  

More AI will not beat the Red Queen - Wonkhe

STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI – Scholarly Kitchen   

Prompt injection in manuscripts: exploiting loopholes or crossing ethical lines? – Springer  

Seeing Is Believing? Scientific Misconduct and the Detection of Problematic Images – International Anesthesia Research Society

How to build an AI scientist: first peer-reviewed paper spills the secrets - Nature  

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers - Nature

An AI-authored paper just passed peer review. The scientific community isn’t ready – Scientific American  

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content – 404 Media

The European Research Council sets out firm line on use of AI in peer review – Research Professional News  

AI models fail to accurately pick out which social science studies could be replicated - OSF

Generative AI in academic writing: a comparison of human-authored and ChatGPT-generated research article titles - Nature

Restoring Trust in Science: Storytelling, AI, and Integrity in Scholarly Publishing – ISMPP (webinar recording)

Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop – LSE  

AI can help with research, but humans must remain accountable say university executives – Times Higher Ed 

Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers – Taylor & Francis

AI tool flags plagiarism in 95% of Ph.D. theses submitted this year at India university. – Times of India 

How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct – Dorethea Baur

Ministers urged not to allow data mining of academic literature – Research Professional News

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal – Retraction Watch 

AI is inventing academic articles – and scholars are citing them – the Observer  

DataSeer develops AI system to track dataset reuse – Research Information  

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations – Inside Higher Ed

Account for AI in the environmental footprint of scientific publishing – Nature  

Will AI Help or Hinder Scientific Publishing? – Undark

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. – Nature

Scientists are failing to disclose their use of AI despite journal mandates, finds study – Physics World

AI in the editorial workflow: Journals set the rules, institutions set the habits – Scholarly Futures  

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture - Nature

What happens when reviewers receive AI feedback in their reviews? – ArXiv

Human versus artificial intelligence: investigating ability of young academics from research and non-research institutions to identify ChatGPT-generated dental research abstracts - Nature 

Fear of stigma blamed as 0.1 per cent of papers declare AI use - Times Higher Ed

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Audio/Video in AI 

OpenAI unveils three audio models for real-time voice tasks – Reuters

AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it? – The Verge

An Idiot’s Guide to Music AI Companies - PitchFork 

China’s Biggest Streaming Platform Wants Most of Its New Films to Be AI-Generated – Gizmodo  

Inside Suno’s $2.5 Billion Bet That AI-Made Music Is Here To Stay – Forbes

YouTube Opens Up AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All of Hollywood – Hollywood Reporter

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed A.I.-generated video Campaign – New Yorker   

A new viral dating show featuring sexy, cheating fruit could be proof that AI content can actually captivate viewers. – Wall Street Journal   

Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War – 404 Media

AI-generated ads are trickling into political campaigns, sparking big worries – NBC News

A.I. Replica of Val Kilmer to Appear in Film After His Death – New York Times

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts - 404 Media

Netflix to Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Firm – Bloomberg  

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Drops Music Video for ‘Take the Lead’: ‘I’m Just a Tool, But I’ve Got Life’ – Billboard

AI-generated fake voices becoming increasingly hard to detect - Yahoo News

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters

How AI music tools are changing audio production – Venture Beat

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times

German voice actors boycott Netflix over AI training concerns – Reuters

Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio – Tech Crunch

The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds - New York Times

AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To Life For a New Aventure Film – Geek Tyrant 

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood – New York Times

Radio host David Greene says Google’s AI podcast tool stole his voice - The Washington Post

AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving – The Conversation  

AI Is Democratizing Music. Unfortunately. – The Atlantic  

A Googler explains how to “meta prompt” for incredible Veo videos – Google

Real vs. AI: Your Deepfake Spotter's Guide for AI-Generated Videos – Cnet

A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready - New York Times 

Inside the Creation of Tilly Norwood, the AI Actress Freaking Out Hollywood – Wall Street Journal  

Restaurant owner speaks out following AI-generated video – NBC Dallas

No Time to Read a Long Google Doc? Try Gemini's Quick AI Audio Summaries – PC Mag

Google Docs now has AI-generated audio summaries - Neowin

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The Bigger Questions & AI

Why A.I. Can’t Make Thoughtful Decisions - “Judgment is a uniquely human skill.”

ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind - “We need to redefine “intellect” so as to make it work in an AI-driven world. It’s easier to define it via negativa, by what it is not.”

Will AI destroy us? Consider the nature of intelligence. - “Intelligence is fundamentally about processing information to further the goals of life.” 

If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious - “We don’t have a theory of consciousness” 

AI is becoming introspective - “One of the most profound and mysterious capabilities of the human brain is introspection.” 

What Does It Really Mean to Learn? - “A.I. systems are not as flexible as human minds because they are not yet educable.” 

What Is The "Divine Image" in the Age of AI? - “Does AI obscure the divine image in the human person?” 

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI - “In that moment we were at odds about the essence of humanity.”  

Humanizing AI Is a Trap - “LLM systems cannot provide the experiences that users associate with human interaction, such as genuine empathy, emotional connection, or confidentiality.”  

We must build AI for people; not to be a person. - “So what is consciousness?”   

On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism - “Panpsychism is the belief that consciousness is inherent in all matter.” 

Bringing AI to medicine requires philosophers, cognitive scientists, and ethicists - “What is the question to which human judgment is the answer?”  

Philosophers and a psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to AI - “We need to find ways of focusing on living a distinctly human life.” 

Rage against the machine - “There is tendency of some scientists to take for granted what can only be described as a wildly simplistic picture of human and animal cognitive life.” 

What real bodies can show artificial minds - “A fundamental facet of intelligence found across the entire animal kingdom is beginning to be unraveled”

Here’s why AI like ChatGPT probably won’t reach humanlike understanding - “What’s really remarkable about people … is that we can abstract our concepts to new situations,”

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness - “We survey several prominent scientific theories of consciousness. From these theories we derive ‘indicator properties’ of consciousness’” 

Final Fantasy 15's AI is secretly a grand philosophy experiment - “The act of designing and analyzing AI is an opportunity to reframe our conceptions of existence for the better.” 

There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence - “Successfully pretending to be human is proof of nothing more than the ability to successfully pretend to be human.”

AI isn’t conscious—but we may be bringing it to life – “The question ‘Is the AI conscious?’ is less meaningful than ‘Is the user extending his/her consciousness into the chatbot?’

We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious“There are activations that light up in the models that we see as being associated with the concept of anxiety.”

AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains? – BBC

Humanizing AI Is a Trap – NN/G

What Is The "Divine Image" in the Age of AI? - Second Voice

On the Consumption of AI-Generated Content at Scale - Shreya Shankar Blog

An overview of emergent introspective awareness in large language models – KD Nuggets

If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious - Futurism

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI - The Atlantic

Anthropic says its Claude models show signs of introspection – Axios  

The Age of De-Skilling Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them? – The Atlantic  

Will AI destroy us? Consider the nature of intelligence. – Washington Post

Teaching Students to Think Critically About AI – Harvard

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Business & AI

Walmart’s AI Chief Earned More Than Its CEO in 2025 With a $44.1M Payday - WWD

Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I. - New York Times

Brands Adopt ‘No AI’ Disclaimers to Stand Out Amid the Slop  – Wall Street Journal 

AI is testing the oldest debate in business: Who’s the customer? – Semafor  

Data, not infrastructure, must drive your AI strategy – Fast Company

The IT department: Where AI goes to die – Economist

Chief people officers at large companies push back on the assumption AI agents should be managed the same as human workers – Wall Street Journal 

Why are executives enamored with AI but ICs aren’t? – John Wang

Mark Zuckerberg is creating an AI CEO to help him do his job – Metro

Why AI Policy Is Really A Workforce Question For Higher Education - Forbes

The Do’s and Don’ts of Using AI to Write Performance Reviews – Wall Street Journal

3 Steps to Bring Order to AI in Marketing Teams - Holly Fee

AI Is Ruining Your Leadership Because You Keep Making This Mistake - Entrepreneur    

AI Needs Management Consultants After All – Wall Street Journal 

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence – Anthropic 

AI isn't taking people's jobs. Here's what's really happening – Quartz  

10 Urgent AI Takeaways for Leaders – MIT  

AI Is Upending Marketing on Two Fronts – Harvard Business Review

Don't get used to cheap AI - Axios

Netflix to Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Firm – Bloomberg

Meta hires duo behind Moltbook - Axios 

Accessibility and AI Agents – Conor

Meta’s deepfake moderation isn’t good enough, says Oversight Board – The Verge

OpenAI head of robotics quits in response to Pentagon deal – TechCrunch

ChatGPT's user growth is slowing and Google's Gemini is gaining ground - The Washington Post

News Corp, Meta in AI Content Licensing Deal Worth Up to $50 Million a Year – Wall Street Journal  

What Do the People Building AI Believe? – The Atlantic

Elon Musk is betting his business empire on AI – The Economist

AI and the Data Center Backlash - Wall Street Journal  

Why Nvidia’s Huge Numbers Don’t Settle the Latest AI Fears - Wall Street Journal  

Meta will spend $65 million this year to help state politicians who are friendly to the A.I. industry – New York Times

Anthropic's Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store – Mashable  

ChatGPT started the AI race. Now its lead is looking shaky. - The Washington Post

A new startup sets up a marketplace of humans to be rented for AI agents to use. – INC

The economy is changing. Don’t forget who fears it most. – Washington Post

An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending the Stock Market Spiraling – Gizmodo

How Burger King's AI headsets are transforming employee interactions – Associated Press

Why Warren Buffett’s superpower is an Achilles heel for AI – Big Think

Here’s Where AI Is Tearing Through Corporate America - Wall Street Journal

How AI is shifting global supply chains from reactive to predictive – Supply Chain Management

JPMorgan eschews proxy advisers for internal AI tool – ESG Dive  

Your AI strategy is your leadership philosophy – Fast Company  

Instacart halts AI testing program that raised costs for some shoppers – Washington Post 

‘Silent failure at scale’: The AI risk that can tip the business world into disorder – CNBC

A Billion-Dollar Question Hangs Over the New AI Search Marketing Industry – Wall Street Journal  

New rule targets AI discrimination. Here’s what workers need to know. - Washington Post

AI Adoption Among Workers Is Slow and Uneven. Bosses Can Speed It Up.- Wall Street Journal 

Are we in an AI bubble? Eight charts will help you decide. - Washington Post  

Anthropic is tracking which jobs are most exposed to AI. These 10 professions top the list. – CBS News

Is AI productivity prompting burnout? Study finds new pattern of "AI brain fry" – CBS News

Enhance or Eliminate? How AI Will Likely Change These Jobs – Harvard Business School

FAQs about how AI affects PR in 2026 - Muckrack

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job – The Atlantic

Amazon Admits Extensive AI Use Is Wreaking Havoc on Its Core Business – Futurist  

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the Business of Running an AI Company 

Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss – The Guardian

"Too Powerful to Release": The Greatest Marketing Playbook in AI – Florent Daudens 

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? – New Yorker

Meet the Startup That Used AI and OpenClaw to Automate Its Own Developers – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek – Tech Crunch

AI Giants Go on Charm Offensive to Avert Public Backlash - Wall Street Journal

Anthropic holds Mythos model due to hacking risks – Axios

Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves – The Atlantic

Local Opposition Is Slowing A.I. Data Centers. Wall Street Has Noticed. – The New York Times 

GeoAI in the Age of Foundation Models - ArcNews

A Documentary About A.I. Gets Chief Executives on the Record - The New York Times

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file – Ars Technica

What OpenAI's erotica retreat really means – Axios  

Mark Zuckerberg is creating an AI CEO to help him do his job – Metro  

OpenAI Scraps Sora Video Platform Months After Launch - Wall Street Journal

How Rules for Publicly Available Data Are Shaping the Future of AI – Data Innovation

AI’s energy appetite is big—but its climate impact might be surprisingly small, and even beneficial. – Science Daily

Apple Is Way Behind in AI—and Still Making a Fortune From It - Wall Street Journal 

Nvidia Built the A.I. Era. Now It Has to Defend It. - The New York Times

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back – 404 Media

As AI data centers scale, investigating their impact becomes its own beat – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Utilities Plan to Spend $1.4 Trillion Over Next Five Years to Power AI Boom – Wall Street Journal

AI is advancing too quickly for research to keep up – Axios 

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows – CNBC

Chinese AI models push pro-China views – Axios

Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation - Axios

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions - MIT Tech Review  

Anthropic has signed a multiyear deal with Atlassian Williams F1 Team, its first major sports partnership. - Axios  

Google Plans to Double Spending Amid A.I. Race – New York Times

AI arms race approaches IPO reckoning - Axios

Anthropic ‘destructively’ scanned millions of books to build Claude - The Washington Post

Meta Overshadows Microsoft by Showing AI Payoff in Ad Business – Wall Street Journal

In the AI boom, this energy company is suddenly flying high - Axios

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books - The Washington Post

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley - The New York Times  

Intel Shares Slide as Costs Pile Up in Bid to Meet AI Demand – Wall Street Journal

Are we in an AI bubble? Economists share the clues to look for – NPR  

What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies: They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers – The Verge

The AI race is creating a new world order – Rest of World  

Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products - The New York Times

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Google is adding an "AI Inbox" to Gmail - Axios 

How to kill a rogue AI Shutting off the internet? Detonating a nuke in space? None of the options are very appealing. – Vox

If U.S.-China AI Rivalry Were Football, the Score Would Be 24-18 - Wall Street Journal 

Meta Buys AI Startup with Chinese roots for More Than $2 Billion – Wall Street Journal

LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting – EpochAI

US to mandate AI vendors measure political bias for federal sales – Reuters

These teenagers are already running their own AI companies – MSNBC

Explainable AI in Chat Interfaces – NN Group 

The Eerie Parallels Between AI Mania and the Dot-Com Bubble – Wall Street Journal

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs – New York Times  

An AI product’s position on the personality spectrum shapes how people engage with it – UX Design

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Creative Arts & AI  

Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use – New York Times 

Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow – Smashing Magazine

Why AI-Generated UX Still Feels Off – Vandelay Design 

Netflix to Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Firm – Bloomberg

Designing AI Experiences People Actually Use - Buzz

Tilly Norwood, the fully AI 'actor,' to be part of rapidly expanding 'Tillyverse' – NBC News

How I’m dealing with the pressure to adopt AI as a designer — mynameismartin

German voice actors boycott Netflix over AI training concerns – Reuters

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece – New Yorker  

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood  - New York Times

Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity? – Lit Hub

Some thoughts about tool design and AI - Buckenham

Hundreds of creatives warn against an AI slop future – The Verge  

How design elements are used in Google’s Gemini – Google Design

’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale - Vice 

AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To Life For a New Aventure Film – Geeky Rant  

AI and the Rosetta Stone – Yann-Edern Gillet

Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art? – Hyperallergic  

Using AI as a Design Engineer – Jakub.kr

The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work AI is destroying the career ladder for aspiring artists – The Atlantic  

8 Ways A.I. Affected Pop Culture in 2025 – New York Times

Universal Music Group and Splice Ink AI Partnership – Hollywood Reporter 

AI Is a Gift to Human Creativity When anyone can produce passable work, real talent becomes more readily apparent than ever. – Wall Street Journal

What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI? - Figma

Inside the Creation of Tilly Norwood, the AI Actress Freaking Out Hollywood - Wall Street Journal

Town’s Christmas art contest ends in scandal: Did the winner use AI? – Washington Post

The Current No. 1 Christian Artist Has No Soul – Christianity Today

AI artists blow up on country music chart – Axios

People can't tell AI-generated music from real thing anymore, survey shows – CBS News

From design to direction: Bridging product design and AI thinking – UX Design  

Coca-Cola Injects ‘Holidays Are Coming’ Ads With an Upgraded Dose of AI – Wall Street Journal

More AI actors are in development - Deadline

A handful of creators have been paid more than $1 million to license their videos to AI companies. – Semafor

On AI Removing Creative Constraints – Illusion of More

Using AI for UX Work: Study Guide – NN Group  

On Coding Agents and the Future of Design – Veen

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Dangers of AI  

The real danger of military AI isn’t killer robots; it’s worse human judgement – Defense One 

Behind the Curtain: AI's scary phase – Axios

The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral – The Atlantic

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice – Stanford

Behind the Curtain: AI's looming cyber nightmare – Axios

Researchers say AI systems are increasingly ignoring human instructions – The Guardian

AI chatbots are the ‘wild west’ for violence against women and girls – Observer 

Stanford just proved your AI chatbot is flattering you into bad decisions – AI for Automation

A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety – New York Times

Data centers are gobbling up a resource — but not the one you think – Washington Post 

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts – 404 Media

How AI Damages Work Relationships—and Where It Can Actually Help – Harvard Business Review

AI’s energy appetite is big—but its climate impact might be surprisingly small, and even beneficial. – Science Daily

Where to look for generative AI risks – MIT  

What’s scaring people about AI? We ran a study to find out. – Clearer Thinking  

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back - 404 Media

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of Ai Data Centers. – The Atlantic

Former NFL-player asked ChatGPT for advice on “unresponsive” person before girlfriend found dead – Local 3 News

Is AI productivity prompting burnout? Study finds new pattern of "AI brain fry" – CBS News   

Humans are being replaced by machines in the food supply chain — and it's leading to truckloads of waste – Live Science 

This AI agent freed itself and started secretly mining crypto – Axios

Your Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses recordings aren't private – Mashable

Is Transhumanism the Future or Our Downfall? – Psychology Today

The Existential Threats of Artificial Intelligence – Counter Punch

How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse? – New Scientist  

Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice – Tech Crunch

AI Can Have Power Over You, Experts Say. Does That Mean It’s Intelligent, Conscious—Or Something Else Entirely? – Popular Mechanics

We’re entering dangerous territory with AI – Vox

When AI lies: The rise of alignment faking in autonomous systems – Venture Beat 

‘Silent failure at scale’: The AI risk that can tip the business world into disorder – CNBC

The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds – New York Times

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations – New Scientist  

AI is coming. Is there enough power to run it? – Washington Post

AI insiders are sounding the alarm – Axios

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes – BBC  

What AI is really coming for – Washington Post

When AI Bots Start Bullying Humans, Even Silicon Valley Gets Rattled – Wall Street Journal

Bots on Moltbook Are Selling Each Prompt Injection “Drugs” to Get “High” – Futurism

I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me. – Wired

Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs (through social media) – threatening democracy - The Conversation

Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ In Resignation – Forbes

How AI and social media sites are still collecting kids’ data despite privacy laws – Technical.ly  

A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising – Washington Post

Stop panicking about AI. Start preparing - The Economist

See ChatGPTs Hidden Bias about your State or City – Washington Post

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Data Science

Causal Inference Is Different in Business

16 Ways to make a Small Language Model think bigger

15 Best Certifications for Data Analysts

6 Things I Learned Building LLMs From Scratch That No Tutorial Teaches You  

AI Agents Need Their Own Desk, and Git Worktrees Give Them One

Beyond retrieval and prompting: RAG needs context engineering

'Jagged Intelligence': The Illusion Of Reasoning In Modern LLMs

Building the foundation for running extra-large language models

Russia plans to put nuclear weapons in orbit which could cause mayhem by interfering with civilian aircraft and satellites

Understanding and Fixing Model Drift

Advanced RAG Retrieval: Cross-Encoders & Reranking

How Does AI Learn to See in 3D and Understand Space?

Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Deep Dive

Data, not infrastructure, must drive your AI strategy

Synthetic Data in GeoAI

Benchmark Best 30 AI Governance Tools in 2026

AI Definitions: Embedding

Beyond Code Generation: AI for the Full Data Science Workflow  

AI Definition: Training Data

GeoAI in the Age of Foundation Models

AI Definitions: "Model Collapse"

Designing Data and AI Systems That Hold Up in Production: A system-level perspective on architecture, agents, and responsible scale 

AI Definitions: Symbolic Artificial Intelligence 

New AI-features used in test flight better identifies targets by distinguishing different types of emissions

The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead (thanks to AI agents) 

5 Python data validation libraries that each solve a specific class of often repeated problems

The top Python libraries for implementing progress bars 

A foundation-model GeoAI framework for continuous heat and health risk mapping 

Satellite imagery and AI reveal development needs hidden by national data

Top 5 Embedding Models for Your RAG Pipeline 

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Fakes & Detecting AI

Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun – NPR 

How Fake People Became Real Influencers AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online. – The Atlantic  

Bloodhound code sniffs out copied-and-pasted numerical data – Retraction Watch

Scientists Invented a Fake Disease Caused by Blue Light—Now It's in Medical Papers  - Inc

Tackle ‘AI slop’ in education research ‘or lose teacher trust’- Times Higher Ed

Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers – Futurism

Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son. – New York Times 

How Creators are Fighting back against AI Deepfakes – Rolling Stone

I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced – BBC  

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? - New York Times

Arizona women's deepfake lawsuit targets AI porn industry – Axios  

A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared. - New York Times

Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She’s made with AI. – Washington Post

His Father Lost His Life’s Savings in a Scam. A Fake Lawyer Offered to Help. - New York Times

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online - New York Times

The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints – Scholarly Kitchen

An Amish Avatar and an A.I. Monk Are Pitching Supplements on Social Media - New York Times

AI is inventing academic articles – and scholars are citing them – Observer  

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers - Wired

AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra

AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East – Bellingcat

Three ways AI is making reliable information harder to find  - Poynter

A citation alert led researchers to a network of fake articles. But who is benefiting? – Retraction Watch

AI models fail to accurately pick out which social science studies could be replicated – OSF

Pangram said three of my writers produced ‘AI-generated’ articles. That didn’t hold up. – Wall Street Journal

This Is How To Tell if Writing Was Made by AI (video) – Bloomberg

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real – Nature

Grammarly Lawsuit Shows Existing Laws Can Combat Deepfakes – Lawfare

Study shows 83% of photographers use AI – has the technology already become an integral part of photography? – Digital Camera World

Sony removes 135,000 'deepfakes' of its artists' music – BBC  

Teens get probation after using AI to create fake nudes of classmates – Associated Press

Deepfake X-rays are so real even doctors can’t tell the difference – Science Daily

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes – Futurism  

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. – Nature

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters  

When AI lies: The rise of alignment faking in autonomous systems – Venture Beat 

1 year, 1 publisher, 9,000 books: AI-generated titles flood Korean shelves – Korea Times

The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds – New York Times  

How scammers are using AI deepfakes to steal money from taxpayers – Washington Post 

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece – New Yorker

AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To Life For a New Aventure Film – Geeky Tyrant

Researchers find nearly 300 papers at linguistics conferences contained hallucinated citations. – ArXiv

What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes – BBC

AI conference “accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations – Fortune

Scammers use AI photo of missing dog at emergency vet to steal nearly $2,000 - WTSP

Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning - Aperture

Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage – New York Times

How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help - PopSci

Restaurant owner speaks out following AI-generated video – NBC Dallas

‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video – Politico

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations – Inside Higher Ed

Fake Iran images show AI used as a weapon of ‘public opinion,’ USF experts say – The Hill

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media – BBC

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation – Financial Times

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Health Care & AI

Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows – New York Times

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts – Reuters

ChatGPT can analyze Apple Watch health data. Here’s how a doctor views it. - The Washington Post

Why some hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records – Stat News  

A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? – New York Times

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk – The Guardian

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor. – MSN

Institutions are missing AI’s real potential for drug discovery – Semafor

AI-generated sensors open new paths for early cancer detection - MIT News

Your next primary care doctor could be online only, accessed through an AI tool – NPR

What are the limits to biomedical research acceleration through general-purpose AI? – Nature

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Utah permits nation's first AI drug prescriptions – Axios

Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t – Wall Street Journal

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? - New York Times

40 million people turn to ChatGPT for health care - Axios

Researchers create a machine learning model “to distinguish paper mill publications from genuine cancer research articles.”- The BMJ

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss - New York Times

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Higher Ed: The Impact of AI on Admin & Faculty

An Overview of AI Governance in Education – EdTech Magazine

Harvard Proposes a Cap on AI’s amid worry over grade inflation – Bloomberg

Higher education needs to change in order to survive the AI economy – Fast Company

Hey, ChatGPT: Where Should I Go to College? – New York Times

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says – NPR  

Resisting AI slop in Science & Higher Ed – Science.org

5 Predictions on How AI Will Shape Higher Ed in 2026 – Inside Higher Ed

As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns - New York Times

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads – Forbes 

4 policy trends that should be on college leaders’ radars in 2026 – Higher Ed Dive

Voices of Student Success: A Liberal Arts College Goes All In on AI (podcast) – Inside Higher Ed

Higher Education Plans for a Future Markedly Changed by A.I. - New York Times

Higher Education’s AI Problem (podcast) - NPR

How AI Is Changing Higher Education – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Big tech companies are making the Cal State college system a training ground for A.I. tools in education. - New York Times

Can Colleges Be Run Using AI? - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

From Yale to MIT to UCLA: The AI policies of the nation's biggest colleges – Mashable

University of Georgia investing $800,000 in program providing students with AI tools – CBS News 

How AI Supports Student Mental Health in Higher Education – Ed Tech

Calcutta University plans 10% cap on AI use in PhD thesis – Millennium Post

The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed – The Atlantic

The worst AI strategy in higher ed is no strategy at all – University Business

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Journalism & AI

How to Save Independent Journalism from AI – Washington Monthly

Reporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in Dispute Over A.I. Content – New  York Times 

Teaching journalism in the AI era – Editor & Publisher 

Talking buildings and Pixar-like avatars: Cleveland Plain Dealer AI videos draw criticism – Poynter

Did I Really Say That? A European journalist apologized for using AI to fabricate quotes. But there’s little accountability in blaming a chatbot. – Columbia Journalism Review 

News organizations reconsider ties to AI company Nota after plagiarism findings - Poynter

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines – The Verge

ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI – Harvard’s Nieman Lab  

NYT union tells management its AI standards are "woefully inadequate" – Axios

AP threatens Lee over potential contract breach - Axios

Three ways AI is making reliable information harder to find - Poynter 

New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use – The Wrap

Journalism students are more skeptical of AI than you might think - Poynter

Senior European journalist suspended for publishing AI-generated quotes – Euro News

A Fortune editor has cranked out more than 600 stories using AI – Wall Street Journal 

AI advice from journalists who stopped talking and started building - Poynter

Can Jonah Peretti Save BuzzFeed From Extinction? Facing financial straits, the founder is betting on a skunkworks for A.I. experiments. - New  York Times

An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work - Poynter  

The stigma around AI in journalism may be easing, but trust is still fragile – Fast Company

Why communicators need to think like journalists when using AI - Ragan

Notes on RISJ’s AI and the Future of News symposium - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

How Journalists Can Make AI Work for Them -  Columbia Journalism Review

A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” – Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes – Futurism  

Can AI Save Local News? – Wall Street Journal 

As AI data centers scale, investigating their impact becomes its own beat – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes - Futurism 

In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News – Columbia Journalism Review

Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations by an AI Tool - Arstechnica

Eight in ten of world’s biggest news websites now block AI training bots – Press  Gazette

The Fight over AI at McClatchy - Columbia Journalism Review

New York Times publisher: AI is using our facts without paying for them – Mediaite

Generative Engine Optimization FAQs from the ‘What Is AI Reading?’ report  - Muck Rack 

College paper fights to stop AI slop website from stealing its identity – Washington Post

How AI is reshaping the news industry - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

How will AI reshape the news in 2026? Forecasts by 17 experts from around the world – Reuter Institute

How AI is affecting me as a human (and journalist) – Axios

Here are the news outlets that got AI right in 2025 — and the ones that got it very, very wrong – Poynter

AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East – Bellingcat

What the ‘AI inflection point’ means for journalism – Fast Company

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Legal Issues & AI   

Even as hallucinations show up in legal filings, Big Law goes all in on AI with new Anthropic release – Fortune  

How AI, Digital Doubles, and New Laws Are Rewriting Fashion and Beauty – National Law Review

Can You Trademark Yourself? Inside Matthew McConaughey’s Novel Legal Strategy to Fight AI Theft – Variety

Celebrities are filing trademarks to combat AI clones. Should you? – Washington Post

Questions about AI liability for tax professionals – Reuters

Prosecutor suspended by state supreme court for artificial intelligence use in court docs – ABA Journal

Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors – Reuters

Five book publishers and a best-selling novelist accused Meta of stealing their work to help train A.I. models. – New York Times

AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you – Reuters

An incoherent patchwork of state laws threatens to handicap America in the artificial intelligence race. – Washington Post

U.S. OpenAI Sued by Seven Families Over Mass Shooting Suspect’s ChatGPT Use – Wall Street Journal

Taylor Swift Files to Trademark Her Voice and Likeness, Apparently to Protect Against AI Misuse – Variety

Alabama Supreme Court drops the gavel on lawyer who apparently used AI to apologize for using AI – Yellow Hammer News

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to court in high-stakes showdown over AI – Associated Press

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

Florida's attorney general announces criminal investigation into OpenAI over shooting – NBC News

Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era - New York Times

Health AI and the law: Could your chatbot doc testify against you? – Mashable

A Judge Mistakes the Claude Chatbot for a Person – Wall Street Journal

Judges are increasingly using AI to draft rulings and prepare for hearings – Washington Post

A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety - New York Times

Helping the legal profession get AI‑ready: A new advisory board takes shape – Reuters

Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era - New York Times

AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know – Builtin

This monkey selfie will protect you from AI slop – BBC

AI meets the gavel: Key legal battles and regulatory trends in the United States – JD Supra

Rethinking lawyer development in future AI-enabled law firms - Reuters

AI Legal Platform now Valued at $5.5 Billion – AI Business  

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training – Reuters

The AI Literacy Gap is Now a Security and Compliance Liability – JD Supra

Who’s liable when AI is used for harm? – KARE-11

Grammarly is using our identities without permission – The Verge  

Thaler Is Dead. Now for the AI Copyright Questions That Actually Matter. - Copyright Lately

AI legal advice is driving lawyers bananas - Axios 

AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra

A judge in New Zealand questioned the remorse of a defendant who had used A.I. to write apologies to victims and the court. - New York Times

Employers Turn to AI to Screen Candidates’ Social Media: Best Practices to Minimize Legal Threats – JD Supra

Arkansas attorney resigns after using AI to assist in case work – Thv11 

Interest in Law School Is Surging. A.I. Makes the Payoff Less Certain. – New York Times

AI research should always be verified, especially in court – Post Crescent

League City police to review policies after giving theft suspect an AI mug makeover – ABC13

How AI and social media sites are still collecting kids’ data despite privacy laws – Technical.ly  

ABA Highlights AI’s Challenges for Legal Education and Liability – Bloomberg

Proposed New York law would bar AI chatbots from posing as lawyers, allow duped users to sue – Reuters

What Was Grammarly Thinking? – The Atlantic

Legal advocates object to bill to allow AI interpretation in court – Wisconsin Public Radio

Federal Court Rules Some AI Chats Are Not Protected by Legal Privilege – Crowell Legal

White House puts red state AI laws under scrutiny – Axios

AI Legal Compliance for Law Firms: What Lawyers Need to Know in 2026 – JD Supra

A Long-Running AI Copyright Question Gets an Answer as Supreme Court Stays Mum – CNET

DOJ attorney in Raleigh accused of fake legal arguments, prompting warning about AI from prosecutor - WRAL

AI pilot program in L.A. County courts will help judges craft rulings in some cases – LA Times

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Photography & AI

Your phone edits all your photos with AI - is it changing your view of reality? – BBC

A.I. Loves Fake Images. But They’ve Been a Thing Since Photography Began. – New York Times

This guy’s obscure PhD project is the only thing standing between humanity and AI image chaos – Fast Company  

6 Best Gemini Photo Editing Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI Images – eWeek  

Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning – Aperture

Student arrested for eating AI art in University of Alaska Fairbanks gallery protest – UAF Sun Star

How AI is disrupting the photography business – Axios

Shutterstock rebrands as it goes all-in on generative AI - Fast Company

Pedophiles Are Using AI To Turn Children’s Social Media Photos Into CSAM – Forbes

The AI Slop Presidency – 404Media

How AI is disrupting the photography business – Axios  

Want to take better photos? Google thinks AI is the answer. – Washington Post

As AI proliferates, outdoor photographers and editors struggle to sort out what’s real and what’s not – Montana Free Press

I Fixed My Bad Family Photos. Here’s How to Do It—and When to Stop.- Wall Street Journal

In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful.  – Washington Post

Scammers use AI photo of missing dog at emergency vet to steal nearly $2,000 – WTSP

League City police to review policies after giving theft suspect an AI mug makeover – ABC13

Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage – New York Times

How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help – PopSci

Google debuts 'Me Meme' feature letting users turn their own selfies into shareable memes – Mashable   

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Possibilities: Things AI Can Do Now  

We put Claude Cowork to the test: See AI build a website in minutes - Washington Post 

China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I. - The New York Times

What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out. - The New York Times

Satellite imagery and AI reveal development needs hidden by national data – Phys.org

A I-powered lost-dog finder is now free for all. – Tech Crunch

How AI Can, and Can’t, Help With Your Taxes This Year – Wall Street Journal

AI comes to rodeo, setting up a cowboy culture clash – Axios

Using chemistry, archival records and AI, scientists are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields – Knowable Magazine

How AI's predictive power is helping to prevent deforestation - Reuters

How AI is shifting global supply chains from reactive to predictive – Supply Chain Management Review

JPMorgan eschews proxy advisers for internal AI tool – ESG Dive

Why Equinox Leaned on AI Slop in Its New Year’s Ad Campaign - Wall Street Journal

“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed with the help of AI – Cyber News

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss - The New York Times

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - Antirez

IBM stock falls after Anthropic says AI can now modernize old software – Fast Company

Chatbots Are Surprisingly Effective at Swaying Voters - The Atlantic

Home renovation platforms are rolling out A.I.-enabled imaging tools that redesign rooms in an instant – New York Times 

Police swap suspect sketches for AI – Washington Post

Redefining crisis communication in the age of AI with Molly McPherson - MuckRack

As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI – NPR

Two College Students Are Building a Robot to Replant Burned Forests – Smithsonian Magazine  

Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide – The Guardian  

A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season – New York Times

AI Accurately Predicts Complication Risk After Kidney Cancer Surgery – Cancer Nursing Today

Using A.I to Talk to Whales – New York Times 

How a 2,400 Year Old Problem Shows Us How Close ChatGPT's AI Is To Human Intelligence - BGR

ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude have a sense of humor – Axios

She used ChatGPT to win the Virginia lottery and then donated every dollar – Washington Post

Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia - The New York Times

Air Force Using AI to Plan Storage for Munitions – Air & Space Forces

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Politics

Congress Is Doing Little to Prepare for Potential A.I. Job Losses – New York Times

Will AI lead to more accurate opinion polls? – BBC

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores – New York Times

AI Use Among Political Consultants is Booming. Here’s How. – Campaigns & Elections

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released – New York Times

South Africa withdraws AI policy due to fake AI-generated sources – Semafor

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media - New York Times

Domestic Surveillance Is Expanding With New, AI-Powered Tools – Wall Street Journal

A violent reaction to AI is bubbling. But this isn’t the Luddites’ era. – Washington Post

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media – New York Times

GOP campaigns go all-in on AI — Dems not so much – Axios  

The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales. – ProPublica

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed A.I.-generated video Campaign – New Yorker

New pro-AI group preps $100M midterm blitz to boost Trump's agenda - Axios

Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War – 404 Media

As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters - The Guardian   

AI-generated ads are trickling into political campaigns, sparking big worries – NBC News 

One Issue Uniting Democrats and Republicans? Worries About A.I. - New York Times

GOP campaigns go all-in on AI — Dems not so much - Axios

The Age of Eerie A.I. Political Ads Is Here - New York Times

Humans — not AI — are to blame for deadly Iran school strike, sources say – Semafor

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online - New York Times

AI money is already influencing the midterms. And more is coming. - The Washington Post

The Future We Feared Is Already Here - New York Times

Fake Iran images show AI used as a weapon of ‘public opinion,’ USF experts say – The Hill

The Cost of the A.I. Boom: A Trade Deficit the President Detests – New York Times

‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video – Politico

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters

Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic - The Washington Post

ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate - New York Times

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media – BBC

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation – Financial Times 

White House puts red state AI laws under scrutiny – Axios

 AI's populist moment - Axios

How A.I. Money Is Flooding Into the Midterm Elections – New  York Times

Meta will spend $65 million this year to help state politicians who are friendly to the A.I. industry - New York Times 

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Possibilities: Things People are Trying to Get AI To Do

I Asked ChatGPT to Manage a Stock Portfolio. Here’s How It Did. – Wall Street Journal  

The Promise of Wearable AI: Opportunities Across Emergency Response - Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales. – Propublica

AI could vastly streamline policing. Skeptics urge caution. - The Washington Post  

Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves – The Atlantic

An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall – Blockclub Chicago

Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods – Tech Crunch 

Robots, cameras, and lots of data about garbage: Inside the recycling industry's new bet – Quartz

AI Predicts Experiment Outcomes Using Game Theory – Quantum Zeitgeist  

How Burger King's AI headsets are transforming employee interactions – Associated Press

A new startup sets up a marketplace of humans to be rented for AI agents to use. – Inc

Doctors Couldn’t Help Them. They Rolled the Dice With A.I. – New York Times

Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.) – Mother Jones  

Using AI for financial advice? Keep these 5 things out of your chats. - The Washington Post

Hey, ChatGPT: Where Should I Go to College? – New York Times

AI is reshaping police detective work, starting with cold cases - Axios 

Here comes the advertising in AI chatbots - The Washington Post  

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas? - New York Times

Team of tech titans makes bet that AI can be good for the soul - The Washington Post

BBC reporter tests AI anti-shoplifting tech – BBC

How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife – The Conversation

Our AI Future Is Already Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed -  Wall Street Journal

Can AI do your job? See the results from hundreds of tests. - The Washington Post

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Privacy & Security

A.I. and Humans Battle It Out in a Cybersecurity Showdown - New York Times

AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried. – NBC News 

AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency – Washington Post  

Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account OpenAI made the perfect tool for scammers. – The Atlantic  

Domestic Surveillance Is Expanding With New, AI-Powered Tools – Wall Street Journal  

Your Passwords Are Probably Screwed – New York Times

Will AI end anonymity? I tested it. – Washington Post

AI and Data Privacy in Investigations: What Legal Teams Need to Know - JD Supra 

5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good - Wired

Using AI for financial advice? Keep these 5 things out of your chats. - The Washington Post

Why Agentic AI Is Security's Next Blind Spot – The Hacker News

How LLMs could supercharge mass surveillance in the US – MIT Tech Review

A secretive AI hacking system has sparked a global scramble – Washington Post  

Your Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses recordings aren't private – Mashable

AI's big biosecurity blind spot - Axios 

How AI and social media sites are still collecting kids’ data despite privacy laws – Techincal.ly

People Are Uploading Their Medical Records to A.I. Chatbots – New York Times  

Military experts warn security hole in most AI chatbots can sow chaos – Defense News   

ChatGPT’s year-end review knows way too much. How to fix your privacy settings. – Washington Post

How Rules for Publicly Available Data Are Shaping the Future of AI – Data Innovation

A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully. – New York Times

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Relationships with AI 

She built an AI bot of her mother to help her grieve – Rest of World

AI romance is not a bug It’s Big Tech’s most dangerous feature. – Fast Company 

Could AI relationships actually be good for us?  - The Guardian

A religious fervor surrounds our relationship with technology. – New York Times

Inside Google's vision to make Gmail your personal AI agent command center - ZDnet

AI Romance is Perverse – Christianity Today  

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis – Futurism

They hear, but do they care? What AI can teach us about listening better – BBC

People Are Paying $99 a Month to Talk to a Tony Robbins Chatbot – Wall Street Journal

Recovering from AI delusions means learning to chat to humans again – Washington Post

AI companions: "The new imaginary friend" redefining children's friendships – Axios

A mom thought her daughter was texting friends before her suicide. It was an AI chatbot. – CBS News

A teen’s final weeks with ChatGPT illustrate the AI suicide crisis - The Washington Post

A Prompt Engineering Framework for Large Language Model-Based Mental Health Chatbots - PubMed

Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t – New York Times

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions - Wall Street Journal

The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions – Wired

Is AI making some people delusional? Families and experts are worried – LA Times

Instead of an AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends – Wired

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Religion & AI

AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations – Wired  

Christianity grapples with the rise of an AI Jesus – Salon

Notre Dame receives $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment for the DELTA Network, a faith-based approach to AI ethics – Notre Dame

How Christian Leaders Are Challenging the AI Boom - TIME

It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas – Axios

How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Bible Translation – Ministry Watch

Meet chatbot Jesus: Churches tap AI to save souls — and time - Axios

MIT takes down article on an AI platform for churches - MIT Technology Review 

How Scammers Use AI and Cryptocurrency to Defraud Churches - Ministry Watch

The Southern Baptist Convention warns against use of AI to write sermons – Christian Post

Charlie Kirk's AI resurrection ushers in a new era of digital grief – Religion News Service

Company uses AI to produce Bible videos. – NPR

Finding God in the App Store: Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high – New York Times

The seepage of AI into Christian practice is disturbing – Washington Post  

The 2,000-year-old debate that reveals AI’s biggest problem Silicon Valley is racing to build a god — without understanding what makes a good one.- Vox  

The race for an AI Jesus is on A chatbot offers personalised counsel on faith – Economist  

In new handbook updates, LDS Church spells out how members can use — and not abuse — A.I. – Salt Lake Tribune

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Science & AI 

Why You Should Stop Worrying About AI Taking Data Science Jobs – Toward Data Science

AI Learns to Smell – Wall Street Journal

Scientists are failing to disclose their use of AI despite journal mandates, finds study – Physics World

AI Predicts Experiment Outcomes Using Game Theory – Quantum Zeitgeist

Letting Machines Decide What Matters AI systems in particle detectors now shape what physicists study – IEEE

Human versus artificial intelligence: investigating ability of young academics from research and non-research institutions to identify ChatGPT-generated dental research abstracts – Nature

Will AI Help or Hinder Scientific Publishing? – Undark

Account for AI in the environmental footprint of scientific publishing – Nature

Decoding the brain, inspiring AI: How Rahul Biswas is bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence - TechTalks

The H-Index of Suspicion: How Culture, Incentives, and AI Challenge Scientific Integrity – NEJM  

Artificial Intelligence and the Fraud Industry in Scientific Publishing (video) -  Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain

What the Scientific Literature is Filling Up With (thanks to AI) – Science.org 

Today’s fraudsters can exploit the online scientific world to quickly create realistic looking papers on an industrial scale - Taylor and Francis  

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture – Nature 

Scientists build a “periodic table” for AI – Science Daily

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in – Nature

Today’s fraudsters can exploit the online scientific world to quickly create realistic looking papers on an industrial scale - Taylor and Francis

There's a crisis in particle physics. Researchers hope AI can help. – IEEE Spectrum

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science – MIT Tech Review

Researchers use AI to reverse engineer molecules – Semafor

Resisting AI slop in Science & Higher Ed – Science.org

2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs - Axios

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? – New York Times 

The H-Index of Suspicion: How Culture, Incentives, and AI Challenge Scientific Integrity – NEJM

Machine learning helps researchers create lab-grown ‘tiny brains’ to uncover how neurons may malfunction in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – SciTechDaily  

AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life – Washington Post  

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know - Science.org 

How ChatGPT-5 redefines scientific reproducibility – Elephant in the Lab

The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn – Chemistry World  

Hack reveals reviewer identities for huge AI conference – Science.org

Researchers call for retraction of two recent Nature studies about AI-generated crystals – Chemical & Engineering News

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Students Using AI

Advocates push for transparency rules in student AI systems – Dig Watch

Why honest students fear AI detectors - Washington Post 

Students are setting their own rules, judging one another, and often using the tools in secret. – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

As AI pushes students to reconsider majors, universities struggle to adapt – The Hill  

AI is making college students change majors – Axios

College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because Due to Offloading Their Thinking to AI – Futurism 

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them – The Conversation

How AI Can Close Equity Gaps for First-Generation Students – Ed Tech Magazine

Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers – Futurism

A college student's perspective on using AI in class – NPR

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree – KPBS

The Hottest College Majors in the AI Age Might Just Be in the Liberal Arts - INC 

Most teens believe their peers are using AI to cheat in school – Washington Post 

Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What? – Inside Higher Ed

How Teens Use and View AI – Pew Research 

AI Usage Mirrors Young People’s Offline Struggles – Inside Higher Ed

More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds – New York Times

Journalism students are more skeptical of AI than you might think – Poynter

I’m a college admissions counselor. I’ve changed my mind about students using ChatGPT – San Francisco Chronicle

AI Is Routine for College Students, Despite Campus Limits – Gallup

A writing professor’s new task in the age of AI: Teaching students when to struggle – The Conversation

Students Are Worried That AI Will Hurt Their Critical Thinking Skills – Ed Week

‘Everyone now kind of sounds the same’: How AI is changing college classes – CNN

Cal State students widely use AI tools, but mistrust results and fear job impact – Ed Source  

For AI Help, More College Students Ask Social Media First – Inside Higher Ed

Adelphi student accused of AI-generated plagiarism wins case in court - CBS News

How Gen Z Uses Gen AI—and Why It Worries Them – Harvard Business Review

Hey, ChatGPT: Where Should I Go to College? – New York Times 

The dangers of not teaching students how to use AI responsibly – Phys.org

A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries. – New York Times

Two-thirds of universities report AI use among doctoral students – Times Higher Ed 

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads – Forbes

When should students begin learning about AI? – K-12 Dive 

The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. – The Atlantic

Voices of Student Success: A Liberal Arts College Goes All In on AI (podcast) – Inside Higher Ed

As students’ use of AI rises, so do concerns about its influence – Dallas News 

AI’s future for students is in our hands – Brookings

LSU students face mounting AI cheating allegations – WAFB-TV  

To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI – NBC

Survey: College Students Lukewarm on AI Courses – Inside Higher Ed

How AI Supports Student Mental Health in Higher Education – Ed Tech

Students allegedly post AI generated photos targeting Plymouth teachers – WSBT-TV

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Teaching with AI

College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them – The Conversation

Why the ‘Middle Path’ of AI Literacy May Be the Future of English Class – The 74 Million

Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating – Wall Street Journal  

Pedagogy Under Pressure: How AI Is Forcing Business Schools To Rethink How They Teach – Poets and Quants

AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay. – Boston Globe

Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder – Inside Higher Ed  

When AI Cheating Becomes a Legal Risk – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter – Nature

A new library-based initiative at the University of Virginia embeds hands-on AI learning and workforce skills across disciplines. – Inside Higher Ed  

This new tool makes AI's role in student writing visible – Phys.org 

How should universities define AI proficiency? – Times Higher Ed

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us. - Ergophere

What the research shows about generative AI in tutoring - Brookings

Faculty are right that AI output is mediocre. They’re wrong about why – Times Higher Ed  

ChatGPT fed his students easy answers, so he built an app to argue with them – Washington Post 

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons – Associated Press  

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI – Associated Press

An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall – Block Club Chicago

How Are Your Teachers Handling Writing in the Age of A.I.? – New York Times

Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI - Inside Higher Ed

Blue books make an "out of step" campus comeback in the AI era – Axios

University of Minnesota professors concerned about AI faculty reviews - The Minnesota Daily

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) - New York Times

80% of Teachers Are Using AI Tools in the Classroom – Technological Horizons in Education

Teaching AI by Doing, Not Studying - Inside Higher Ed

Adapting to a New World: Teachers on How A.I. Is Reshaping the Classroom - New York Times

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? – Washington Post

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree – KPBS  

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers - Wired

China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I. - The New York Times 

What AI Is Teaching Us About Humanities Education – The Dispatch  

Will Agentic AI Break Higher Education? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

‘A.I. Literacy’ Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why. - The New York Times

Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What? – Inside Higher Ed

The Lesson of A.I. Literacy Class: Don’t Let the Chatbot Think for You - The New York Times

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? - Washington Post 

I’m Not Worried AI Helps My Students Cheat. I’m Worried How It Makes Them Feel - EdWeek

My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI – The Independent

AI Detection Pushed my Students to use AI – Chronicle of Higher Ed

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says - NPR

The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp - Chronicle of Higher Ed

As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns - The New York Times

More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why - EdWeek

To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper - Chronicle of Higher Ed

A veteran teacher explains how to use AI in the classroom the right way – Scientific American

California schools debate how much AI belongs in classrooms - Ed Source

This MIT prof says we don't know enough about AI to teach it - KJZZ

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Using AI

Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search – New York Times  

How AI Helps the Best and Hurts the Rest – MIT

Etsy launches app within ChatGPT to facilitate conversational shopping experience – Retail Brew

OpenAI releases new default ChatGPT model aimed at reducing hallucinations in law, medicine, finance, and other technical fields – Tech Crunch

Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I. – New York Times

'Jagged Intelligence': The Illusion Of Reasoning In Modern LLMs – Forbes

Anthropic's AI downgrade stings power users - Axios

Gen Z Is Using A.I., but Doesn’t Feel Great About It – New York Times 

Students Are Using AI to Guide College Decisions. What Is It Telling Them? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun – NPR

Don’t Use A.I. to Do This – New York Times

How to Switch AI Chatbots—and Why You Might Want To – Wall Street Journal  

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more – Tech Crunch

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? – New York Times

Artificial intelligence helps you work harder, instead of just outsourcing your brain. – Washington Post  

A.I. Agents: They’re Fun. They’re Useful. But Don’t Give Them the Credit Card. – New York Times

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice – Stanford

I gave my parents 7 ChatGPT prompts — now they’re using AI every single day – Tom’s Guide

I’ve taught thousands of people how to use AI – here’s what I’ve learned – The Guardian

Stanford just proved your AI chatbot is flattering you into bad decisions – AI for Automation 

Employers are demanding AI skills. What's the best way to learn them? – CBS News

Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son. – New York Times

What to do if your employer is requiring you to use AI – Fast Company

How to Make Claude Code Improve from its Own Mistakes – Toward Data Science 

I’ve taught thousands of people how to use AI – here’s what I’ve learned – The Guardian

You're Asking ChatGPT the Wrong Questions. Try My Secret Formula for Creating AI Prompts That Actually Work – PC Mag

AI and the Rosetta Stone – Yann-Edern Gillet

Labor Department launches AI literacy course – Axios

AI Is Rewriting the Old Rules of Google Search and SEO – Wall Street Journal

Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow – Smashing Magazine  

Why Prompt Engineering Hits a Wall and where we go next – KD Nuggets  

Five Ways People Are Using Claude Code – New York Times  

Don't get used to cheap AI - Axios  

How Teens Use and View AI – Pew Research  

I didn’t know NotebookLM could do this — 10 features hiding in plain sight – Tom’s Guide  

AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm – The Atlantic 

No Time to Read a Long Google Doc? Try Gemini's Quick AI Audio Summaries – PC Mag 

Google Docs now has AI-generated audio summaries - Neowin

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Writing & AI  

Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.? – New Yorker

This Is How To Tell if Writing Was Made by AI (video) – Bloomberg

Artificial intelligence helps you work harder, instead of just outsourcing your brain. - Washington Post

New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use – The Wrap

Using AI makes writing more bland, study finds – NBC News

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them – The Conversation

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content – 404 Media  

A Fortune editor has cranked out more than 600 stories using AI – Wall Street Journal

AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think – Scientific American

A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared. – New York Times

AI tool flags plagiarism in 95% of Ph.D. theses submitted this year at India university. – Times of India

Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use - New York Times

Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI – Inside Higher Ed

Grammarly pulls AI author-impersonation tool after backlash – BBC  

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? – Washington Post

1 year, 1 publisher, 9,000 books: AI-generated titles flood Korean shelves – Korea Times

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? - Washington Post

Can we use AI for academic writing? It depends – Times Higher Ed

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science – Nature

A judge in New Zealand questioned the remorse of a defendant who had used A.I. to write apologies to victims and the court. - New York Times  

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers - Nature

Senior European journalist suspended for publishing AI-generated quotes – EuroNews

Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing - Nature

Pangram said three of my writers produced ‘AI-generated’ articles. That didn’t hold up. - Wall Street Journal

I’m a college admissions counselor. I’ve changed my mind about students using ChatGPT – San Francisco Chronicle

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever – The Guardian  

Don't Let AI Write the Story of Your Life – Psychology Today

Wikipedia’s guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it. – ArsTechnica

Lit bots beware: AI creative writing faces reader skepticism, study shows- PhysOrg  

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts – The Conversation  

I had ChatGPT write my resume, LinkedIn Summary and cover letter — then asked Gemini if I would get the job – Tom’s Guide 

Funders ‘should support shared AI tools for translational research’ – Research Professional News 

Fine-Grained Detection of AI-Generated Writing in the Biomedical Literature – BioRxiv 

Visualizing poetry with deep semantic understanding and consistency evaluation - Nature

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – Card Catalog for Life

Researchers who use generative AI to write papers are publishing more – Chemical & Engineering News  

In 2026, AI will outwrite humans - Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? – New York Times 

Don’t Let AI Ruin the Em Dash – Wall Street Journal  

What are the clues that ChatGPT wrote something? – Washington Post  

AI is writing about half of the articles on the internet - Axios  

America is in a literacy crisis. Is AI the solution or part of the problem? - CNN 

10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please - The Ringer

A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer – The Hechinger Report 

Beyond ‘we used ChatGPT’: a new way to declare AI in research - Research Professional News  

AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews – Nature

An Ancient Answer to AI-Generated Writing – Inside Higher Ed

My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI – The Independent  

Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations - Engadget

Can researchers stop AI making up citations? – Nature 

’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale - Vice 

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