Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
Consultants and executive coaches who don’t have the bandwidth to address every inquiry are referring some clients to their A.I. doubles. Harvard Business School professors have incorporated A.I. versions of themselves into courses and office hours. And executives are using their A.I. avatars to address employees in other countries in their own languages. - New York Times
What: This session will explore Octonous, Mozilla.ai's agent platform, and learn how to build AI agents tailored to your team's workflows. No technical skills required. Just bring your curiosity.
Who: Caroline Bohu, Solutions Engineer at Mozilla.ai.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Mozilla.ai
What: Walk away knowing: Where your website is silently losing donors and what to fix first; What today's funders and supporters actually expect when they land on your site; The practical steps to turn your website into your hardest-working team member; How to make meaningful improvements without a massive budget or a full rebuild.
Who: David Pisarek, CEO of Wow Digital.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Techsoup, Canada
What: A discussion about the recent Santa Marta conference focused on transitioning away from fossil fuels — and the future of climate journalism.
Who: Keisuke Katori, Senior Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun; Saorla McCabe, Advisor on Communication and Information Strategy and Policy, UNESCO; Phil Newell, Communications Co-Chair, Climate Action Against Disinformation; Elena González, Local Television Engagement Manager, Covering Climate Now; Kyle Pope, Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives & Co-Founder, Covering Climate Now.
When: 9:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: CCNow & UNESCO
What: How learning teams can help employees develop judgment, operational fluency, and the human skills AI can’t replace. As AI becomes increasingly capable of prediction and information generation, the real differentiator will be a workforce that knows how to interpret, apply, question, and act on AI-driven insights.
Who: Karl Kapp, Director, Institute for Interactive Technologies, Bloomsburg University.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: ELB Learning
What: This session dives into vessel tracking and maritime monitoring using open-source intelligence. Journalists will learn how ships move, how to follow them in real time, and how to detect suspicious behavior such as illegal fishing, transshipment, or AIS manipulation. The session will also introduce satellite imagery and remote sensing tools to monitor ocean activity beyond what vessels report themselves.
Who: Fernanda Buffa, Pulitzer Center; Davide Mancini ORN Fellow; Federico Acosta Rainis, Pulitzer Center.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
What: Master trauma-informed reporting to cover mental health with accuracy, empathy and impact.
Who: Lisa Armstrong, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Poynter
What: We’ll teach you practical tips and tools for extending your cause and mission via social media. We cover the basics of using social media for your nonprofit organization and give you handy tips for the most useful social media platforms for nonprofits.
Who: Kiersten Hill, Director of Nonprofit Solutions.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring
What: Lessons learned from the panelists’ work and an open the discussion about what's worked and how they've experimented in this space.
Who: Chicago Public Media's Ellery Jones, Aditi Mukund, and Mark Chonofsky.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
Who: Levi Ismail, Creator and NewsChannel5 journalist; Chelsea Cox, Content creator journalist.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University & and Trusting News
What: In this session, you’ll learn how to optimize your profile to attract ideal clients, create content that gets seen without spending hours online, and turn connections into real business conversations. Whether you’re launching your first business or scaling an established one, you’ll walk away with a practical 30-day action plan to make LinkedIn work for your business goals.
Who: Karen Seymour, Founder and CEO of KJS Digital Marketing.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Temple University
What: This session provides a practical view of how organizations can move from experimentation to scalable impact—while keeping medical writers central to the process.
Who: Melissa Morine, Senior Staff AI Staff Engineer, Weave Bio; Nancy Smith, RAC SVP, Medical Writing Services, Syner-G.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members
Sponsor: American Medical Writers Association
What: This webinar to help you define self-directed learning, identify barriers within your online learning environment, and make changes so that learners can drive their professional growth.
Who: Jeremy Tuttle, Director of Learning Design at Niche Academy.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Niche Academy
What: We'll look into how AI sees race, why it matters more than most people realize and what it looks like to navigate a world that's increasingly being built by machines trained on our blind spots. We'll talk about who's at the table when these technologies are created, who's missing, and why that gap has real consequences for our communities.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Luna
What: Learn more about joining the fifth (2026-2027) cohort of our Al Accountability Fellowships.
Who: Joanna S. Kao, Pulitzer Center; Si Err Yap, AI Fellow; Maria Karienova, Pulitzer Center.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
What: You’ll experience firsthand what truly captures attention, builds connection, and invites participation. Through a series of intentional moments, we’ll explore five specific experiences that consistently spark audience response and how to bring them to life using the tools available to you.
Who: Kassy LaBorie speaker, author, Virtual training pioneer.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Aha Slides
What: This session focuses on how publishers can move beyond surface-level metrics and build KPI frameworks tied directly to financial outcomes.
Who: Reilly Kneedler, an AlignSimple data and audience analytics expert.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Online Media Campus
What: Whether you're a seasoned social media pro or you're just dipping your toes into the digital waters, you'll walk away with actionable tips, new friends in social . . . and maybe even a giveaway prize!
Who: Jake MacDonald, Hey Orca!
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Hey Orca
What: Now it’s time to use social media to stand out from the crowd. You’ll learn a few advanced social media tips and tricks, elevate your social media presence through micro strategies and activate your advocates.
Who: Kiersten Hill, Director of Nonprofit Solutions.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring
What: Explore how faculty and researchers can use Codex to move from a research question or teaching need to a working prototype faster. This session will show practical workflows in higher education. We’ll focus on realistic academic use cases, including how to give Codex clear context, review its work, and keep humans in control of research quality and reproducibility.
Who: Gaurav Kaila, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Open AI Academy
What: A moderated discussion and theological responses to the ways in which AI can contribute to planetary flourishing and the ways in which AI contributes to environmental concerns.
Who: Greg Cootsona, Executive Director of AI and Faith; Jim Stump, the Vice President at BioLogos; Sharon Talbot, marketing strategist; Leslie Herrmann, a scholar-advocate; Braden Molhoek, the Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
When: 5:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom (hybrid)
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union & New College Berkeley.
What: Learn how to assert your right to press freedom and use the law to improve your reporting. This event is open to current undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. colleges and universities, with a special focus on those involved in journalism. Attendees will hear from experts in the field about the importance of student journalism and how to protect a free and open press.
When: 9 am – 5:30 pm
Where: In person (WHYY, Philadelphia)
Cost: Free
Sponsor: FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
Prompts – These instructions for an AI are the main way to steer it in a particular direction, indicate intent and provide context. Prompting can be time-consuming when the task is complex, but better prompts elicit richer and more robust responses. Prompt strategies include assigning the AI a role, an attitude and a style.
What Are A.I. Agents Actually Doing? - New York Times
AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains? – BBC
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas? – New York Times
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge - Aeon Essays
What is AI reading? Takeaways from a report on AI brand visibility – Muck Rack
Do LLMs identify fonts? – Max Halford
Researchers claim their AI ‘thinks’ like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies – Nature
Why LLMs don’t think like you: A look at the compression-meaning trade-off – BD Tech Talks
Little-known cells might be key to human brain’s massive memory: This could be a “fresh source of inspiration” for AI technology – Washington Post
Beyond algorithms: Agentic AI and the behavioral data scientist – Tech Radar
We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem. - New York Times
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works – The Atlantic
What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it? – BBC
"The 'What is AI Reading?' Report looks at 1 million+ links cited by AI models. It says about 99% of links cited by AI come from non-paid media. Paid and advertorial content account for just 0.3% of all citations." -MuckRack
World Models – These are AI systems that build up an internal approximation of an environment. Through trial and error, these bots use the representation to evaluate predictions and decisions before applying the results to real-world tasks. This contrasts with LLMs, which operate on correlations within language rather than on connections to the word itself. In the late 1980s, world models fell out of favor with scientists working on artificial intelligence and robotics. The rise of machine learning has brought interest in developing these systems back to life.
The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees - New York Times
When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing - Robert Glaser
A.I. Doesn’t Have to Mean Layoffs – New York Times
How the AI backlash could cost investors – Axios
California’s Governor Signs A.I. Order Aimed at Protecting Workers – New York Times
What layoffs hide about the real problem with the job market – Washington Post
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in workplace AI adoption – Axios
Generative AI can boost performance for stronger business owners but harm those already struggling. - MIT
Rising AI Adoption Spurs Workforce Changes – Gallup
AI Is splitting CEOs into two camps: Lay Off Workers or Make Them Do More – Wall Street Journal
New Microsoft study: Leaders, not workers, are responsible for successful AI integration – Fast Company
How AI Helps the Best and Hurts the Rest – MIT
AI Is Distorting Practically Everything About the Economy – Wall Street Journal
AI Is changing the price of work – Semafor
What Happens When A.I. Runs a Store in San Francisco? – New York Times
The AI Splurge Is Costing Big Tech Its Workforce – Wall Street Journal
AI can cost more than human workers now – Axios
Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally – Tech Crunch
Indiana University's Kelley School of Business explicitly states that AI detection tools are not approved for use because they are "highly unreliable" and can produce both false positives and false negatives. Instead of trying to catch students using AI, the university is encouraging professors to rethink how they teach and assess student work in the age of generative AI. -Tom’s Guide
A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It. – Wall Street Journal
I Tried to Sell My House With a Chatbot – New York Times
BBC World Service to launch new language offers in Hungarian and Romanian – BBC
Wearables increasingly look to AI to predict health problems before they happen – Seattle Times
Etsy launches app within ChatGPT to facilitate conversational shopping experience – Retail Brew
New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real – Futurism
AI is being used in South Korea to make care calls to older adults who live alone and to fight dementia - New York Times
Using AI to map homelessness - Axios
New AI Approach Reveals Ocean Currents in Unprecedented Detail – UCSD
AI do? Weddings turn to AI but miss human touch - Axios
Google Tracks Flash Floods With a New AI Tool – Wall Street Journal
These people used AI to help find their lost pets – Washington Post
AI Learns to Smell – Wall Street Journal
Spelman College students developing AI tool designed to help people talk to their plants – CBS News
AI has powerful uses for First Nations oral cultural knowledge – PopSci
Anthropic’s AI Hacked the Firefox Browser. It Found a Lot of Bugs. – Wall Street Journal
A recent survey by Resume Builder found that four in five companies are using AI to scan resumes, two in five are using chatbots to communicate with candidates, and one in five is giving AI interviews. – The Atlantic
How to Fight AI Brain Rot at School? For One Country, It’s With Free ChatGPT – Wall Street Journal
These AI models are free, private, and will never say 'no' – NPR
Claims that China and overseas propaganda drive Americans to rise up against data centers are based on scant evidence. – Washington Post
Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective – New York Times
AI Has Broken Containment - The Atlantic
AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency - Washington Post
The world must stop AI from empowering bioterrorists – The Economist
Scammers targeting missing pet owners with AI – ABC-7
Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account OpenAI made the perfect tool for scammers. - The Atlantic
ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? - Wall Street Journal
5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good - Wired
A secretive AI hacking system has sparked a global scramble – Washington Post
Five Concerns About AI Data Centers, and What to Do About Them – Data Innovation
AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be? – Nature
Inside a growing movement warning AI could turn on humanity - The Washington Post
Behind the Curtain: The kids aren't AI-right - Axios
AI Is Finding Bugs That Hackers Can Exploit. Get Ready for Bugmageddon. - Wall Street Journal
A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity – New York Times
"Too Powerful to Release": The Greatest Marketing Playbook in AI – AI in the News
Four Reasons New AI Data Centers Won’t Overwhelm the Electricity Grid - ITIF
Over 4,732 Messages, He Fell In Love With an AI Chatbot. Now He’s Dead. - Wall Street Journal
AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out - Wall Street Journal
Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem - The Atlantic
Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.) – Mother Jones
We ranked the most environmentally damaging things you can do online. AI didn't top the list – Science Focus
The corporations buying A.I. access for themselves are finding that you cannot solve problems just by throwing A.I. at them. It takes work to structure a problem in a way that allows A.I. to be useful, just as it took work, in previous generations, to integrate I.T. into a company or redesign a factory to take advantage of electricity. -New York Times
Why satellite imagery falls short for AI training data
How to Write Robust Code with Claude Code
Recursive Language Models: An All-in-One Deep Dive
White House Approves a secret $9 Billion request for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
Germany is launching military AI into space
Why sandboxing OpenClaw doesn’t stop data exfiltration
Five fundamental concepts that every Python developer should have in their toolkit.
How AI Agents Will Transform Data Science Work in 2026
How to undo Git actions with confidence
Making Claude Code validate its own work
How to Build an Efficient Knowledge Base for AI Models
Re-thinking human–machine interaction and the governance of AI in the military domain
How insertion and deletion errors disrupt data synchronization in modern communication systems
NRO says proliferated satellite architecture exceeding expectations
How AI Tools Generate Technical Debt — and What to Do About It
To accelerate adoption of commercial technology, NGA has established a Rapid Capabilities Office
Claude Code is leaking API keys into public package registries
My version of “human” is no longer acceptable. What’s actually happening is not AI detection; it’s enforcement. We’re enforcing a narrow, flattened version of what “human writing” is supposed to look like. For emerging writers, it doesn’t just challenge their credibility; it destabilizes their confidence before they’ve even had the chance to build it. It tells them that their voice is not something to develop, but something to dilute until it passes inspection. -Denise Zubizarreta writing in Technical.ly
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) – A machine that has the capacity to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. Rather than focusing on solving specific problems (like Deep Blue, which was good at chess), this type of AI has broader uses and may possess seemingly human-level intelligence to learn and adapt. Scientists have had difficulty defining human intelligence and disagree as to what would count as AGI. Regardless of where they draw the line, most experts say AGI is at least decades away. Scientists have no hard evidence that today’s technologies can perform even some of the simpler things the human brain can do, like recognizing irony or feeling empathy. Beyond AGI lies the more speculative goal of "sentient AI," where the programs become aware of their existence with feelings and desires.
What: We will highlight several functional, educator-created vibe-coded media curation platforms, and consider how we can experiment together in building the kind of community-driven, serendipity-friendly information environments we, our students and our colleagues deserve.
Who: Wesley Fryer, a middle school STEM and media literacy middle school teacher at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Media Education Lab
What: Insights into the newsrooms’ operations of our guests and what they look for in job applicants and potential colleagues. Attendees will learn what types of jobs exist within the broad spectrum of political journalism, how to stay motivated among trends in hiring, and which skills are worth gaining or adapting to match real-world opportunities.
Who: Coy Draytona, editorial recruiter for Axios; Dave Clarke, policy editor for Punchbowl News.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute
What: How is artificial intelligence being used for hiring, and why? How can better understanding of how these tools work improve the hiring experience for employers and job seekers? The event will discuss trends in how tools are used and offer tips that attendees can use while navigating the hiring process.
Who: Hilke Schellmann, investigative reporter and Pulitzer Center grantee.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
What: The hidden execution gaps that determine whether AI transforms your organization or quietly makes things worse. You'll walk away knowing exactly what "readiness" actually means, why your current approach to AI adoption is missing the most critical variable, and what to do about it.
Who: Tim Ohai Founder and Sr. Principal, Kupu Solutions.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Who: Liz Kelly Nelson, Project C and The Independent Journalism Atlas.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University & Trusting News.
What: This session will introduce UNESCO’s Model Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan for Media Institutions and seek to equip media with the tools to adapt and apply it in their own organisations. The session will highlight how disaster-ready media can uphold journalistic standards, counter information disruptions, and help communities, especially those most at risk, retain access to trusted, life‑saving information before, during and after disasters.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Public Media Alliance & UNESCO
What: This webinar is on how staff and administrators can identify, scope, build, test, and safely use Workspace Agents for recurring operational workflows. We’ll start with the basics: what Workspace Agents are, how they work, and when they are a better fit than a regular ChatGPT conversation or reusable skill. Then we’ll walk through how to choose a strong first use case, define the sources and review steps an agent needs, build a first version, and improve it through testing and feedback
Who: Andrew Glenn, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: Whether you’re an established journalist keen to explore scientific subjects or a scientist hoping to hone in on your science communication skills, this class will outline the basics of science journalism, from pitching to best practices for creating accurate, reliable and engaging science news.
Who: Pandora Dewan, Trending News Editor, Live Science.
When: 7:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: members, £10; nonmembers, £20
Sponsor: Women in Journalism
What: An intensive seminar on deadline reporting and editing. This skills-intensive, one-day immersion event is designed to strengthen breaking-news reporting and fast-turnaround editing through guidance and hands-on practice.
Who: Kimberly S. Johnson, Corporate Editor, The New York Times; Jo Craven McGinty, Former science bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal; Cory Schouten, NYC-based editor, writer, and content strategist; Jennifer Smith, SVP, Director of Content & Editorial Strategy, Greentarget; Chris Winans, Former editor, The Wall Street Journal.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Eventbrite
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Cooperative Media
What: Our experts will explore how telcos are building out AI-ready infrastructure and turning these investments into revenue streams. We’ll cover the scale of the computing opportunity, the impact of AI workloads on network architectures and service portfolios, and real-world examples of how operators are deploying AI infrastructure today.
Who: Kerem Arsal, Senior Principal Analyst; Julia Schindler, principal analyst; and Brian Washburn, chief analyst, all at Omidia.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Omdia
What: Our panel of educators will discuss how they are adapting to AI, along with principles and practices for navigating its impact on learning.
Who: Karin L. Heffernan, MLIS Campus Faculty Librarian, Associate Professor Southern New Hampshire University.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Clarivate
What: We explore the methods panelists used to plan and execute their investigations.
Who: Patricia Clarke, AI Fellow, Pulitzer Center; Livia Garofalo, Data & Society Research Institute; Briana Vecchione; Joanna S. Kao who leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network.
When: 12:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
What: In this panel, attendees will learn: What’s happening nationally in housing and homelessness, essential data tools every journalist should know to report on housing, how to find housing stories in any community, ethical sourcing practices, and examples of strong housing journalism.
Who: Juan Pablo Garnham, the Communications and Policy Engagement Manager for Eviction Lab; Camila Vallejo, a bilingual communications specialist with the Eviction Lab.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Online News Association & the Eviction Lab at Princeton University
What: What You Will Learn: How to scale AI-driven creative production without compromising brand trust or governance; A new model for brand–agency collaboration that accelerates speed and decision-making; Practical ways to balance velocity, creative excellence, and risk in modern marketing.
Who: Alex Lemley, Global Brand Lead NetApp; Rod Sobral, Global Chief Creative Officer, OLIVER; Corey O'Brien, Head of Solutions, OLIVER.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: ANA
What: We’ll delve into scripting for hosted video, considering as different approaches for scripts and prompting hosts, how to transform your longer form reporting into video formats, script durations, how to think about hooks and the first 15 seconds, text on screen, and how to guide reporters without a video background to film/host video.
Who: Katrina Pham, Audience Engagement Reporter, Borderless Magazine.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Video Consortium
What: This session for neurodivergent journalists will help you assess difficulties, deal with pressure and offer tips to keep you calm while you thrive and achieve clarity and control.
Who: Jen Brdlik, a neurodivergent life coach, former mental health therapist, and an ADHD and autism specialist.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
What: You’ll learn how to strategically use AI to define your value proposition, build a compelling personal brand, and optimize your LinkedIn profile—without losing authenticity or credibility.
Who: Lynne Williams is the Executive Director of the Great Careers Network.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
What: How newsrooms can ethically use AI to boost their news products.
Who: Sean Mussenden, Interim Director of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Merrill College, University of Maryland; Derek Willis, Lecturer in Data and Computational Journalism; Eli Wohlenhaus, Director of Digital and AI News Strategy at Adams Multimedia.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: University of Maryland
What: We'll discuss what data can be used to tell stories about climate change and how you can gather and vet that data.
Who: Mara Hoplamazian is a climate, environment and energy reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association
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.
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
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
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
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