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Stephen Goforth
When someone keeps repeating inappropriate behavior, try the DESC approach. The four steps are describe, express, specify, and consequences.
1. Describe the objectionable behavior.
2. Express your feelings.
3. Specify what action you want to see.
4. Tell the person the consequences if there is no change in behavior.
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
Though agentic tools often excel at complicated work, such as synthesizing unfathomable reams of text, they struggle to do something as simple as copy and paste text from Google Docs into Substack. And because they are so powerful, they can also be dangerous: When one venture capitalist recently asked Claude Cowork—Anthropic’s new, more accessible agentic tool—for help organizing his wife’s desktop, the bot subsequently deleted 15 years of family photos. “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important,” the bot told him. “I made a mistake.” -The Atlantic
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
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
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
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
Every person expects to be treated as a person. The proof that he really believes there are some unconditional values is that he expects his freedom and dignity to be respected. In his actions, he may not always respect others, but in his reactions, he proves that he always expects others to respect his freedom and dignity. Hence, human expectations are the key to what a man believes to be absolute.
Norman Geisler, Options in Contemporary Christian Ethics
“One of my growing concerns is that A.I. could inadvertently slow scientific progress. The theoretical physicist Max Planck is often credited with saying that “science advances one funeral at a time.” I am mindful that I may be quite wrong in my viewpoints. However, if my opinion becomes encoded into A.I. systems and persists indefinitely, will it hinder the evolution of new scientific ideas?” - Tamara Kolda, who runs MathSci.ai, a consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area, quoted in the New York Times
Imitation Learning – This is a popular method for training robots, along with reinforced learning. The robots learn by watching humans or by being given data on other robots which are being operated by humans. Out of fashion for decades, it has recently come back into favor in robotics because of AI. The downside to this technique is the need for large amounts of data for the robots to imitate new behaviors.
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
In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss - New York Times
What: This session will examine how brands are evolving their planning, creative, and media approaches — looking ahead to moments like the 2026 World Cup, alongside other major events such as the Winter Games, March Madness, and the NBA Playoffs and Finals — and what the broader sports calendar signals for marketers preparing for the year ahead.
Who: Bill Bradley, deputy TV, media, and sports editor at ADWEEK; Adam Azor, EVP., Global Marketing, Sportradar.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: SportRadar & ADWEEK
What: In this webinar, established writers and editors share how they created wildly successful new avenues in their businesses. You’ll hear their stories and learn how they created new programs, events, and offerings that allow them to make money while helping others.
Who: Elizabeth Hanes, award-winning health journalist and content writer; AJ Harper, an editor and publishing strategist; Jennie Nash, the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator; Gwen Moran is a longtime freelance writer, editor, and content strategist.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: American Society of Journalists and Authors
What: The virtual workshop will cover: What “data journalism” means for arts and entertainment; Spreadsheets 101: Sorting, filtering, and summarizing basic data in Google Sheets — no math required; Cleaning Practice: How to fix messy artist names, genres, and labels — and why consistency matters; Quick Analysis: How to find simple story patterns (Patterns, Trends, Outliers); Visualization Basics: Building a visualization in Flourish, focused on storytelling; Finding Credible Data: Where to get trustworthy arts and culture data; Writing with Data: Turning your finding into a “nut graf” that connects the number to people and context; Using AI Responsibly: How to use tools like ChatGPT to speed up cleaning, analysis, and writing while staying accurate.
Who: Jill Blackman, Medill lecturer and director of data journalism.
When: 9 am – 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
What: Join us as we go through tips, techniques and tools to help the modern marketer tell better and more impactful stories to activate their audiences around ideas and actions.
Who: Kiersten Hill, Director of Nonprofit Solutions
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring
What: Explore how to balance technology-driven learning with human-centered development. Learn how to build programs that prepare employees to work alongside AI, solve complex problems and lead with insight and creativity.
Who: Paul George, Facilitating Consultant, Corporate Visions; Dan Rust, Vice President, Leadership & Commercial Development, Infopro Learning; Abby Paterson, Solution Architect, Hemsley Fraser; Rick Maloney, VP of Strategic Accounts, Hemsley Fraser; Ryan Heinl, CEO, SIY Global; Sarah Plummer, Sales Engineer and Solutions Consultant, Allego Jessica Peck, Senior Sales Content Manager, Allego.
When: 11 am to 3:45 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Industry
What: Our guest will lead us through a conversation at the intersection of disability, technology and responsible storytelling.
Who: Stephen Cass with IEEE Spectrum.
When: 11:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Military Veterans in Journalism
What: Explore how generative AI can streamline your daily work tasks in this practical, hands-on session. We'll highlight the GenAI tools available to the Duke community and demonstrate how they can assist with common activities such as summarizing meeting notes, drafting emails, generating images, and brainstorming ideas. Whether you're new to AI or looking to expand your toolkit, this session will provide actionable tips and real-world examples to help you get started confidently.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Duke University
What: We will highlight AI policies and practices.
Who: Joshua Darr, associate professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications and a senior researcher in the Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship at Syracuse University.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: University of Vermont Center for Community News
What: This event is focused on practical, hard‑earned lessons from government AI implementations — and how leaders are turning those lessons into smarter, safer, more impactful AI programs.
Who: Rebecca Cai, Chief Data Officer, State of Hawaii; Marcus Thornton, Deputy Chief Data Officer, Virginia Office of Data Governance and Analytics; Mike Gilger, Chief Technology Officer and Director of Products, Modus Operandi; Aaron Hunter, Enterprise Account Manager, Coursera; Meghan Richter, Head of Marketing, Yoonify; Rohhit Tandon, Co-Founder & CEO, Yoonify; Bryan Rosensteel Head of Public Sector Product Marketing, Wiz.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
What: This session explores how marketers are adapting their strategies as AI, cross-channel planning, and smarter measurement become essential for staying competitive in 2026.
Who: Ryan Joe, editor in chief at ADWEEK; Brianna Gays, Chief Marketing Officer, Smartly; Rejeesh Ramachandran, Head of Marketing Transformation, Analytics & MarTech, TD Bank.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: ADWEEK
What: Delve into how to utilize events to foster a deep sense of community, enhance trust in journalism, and ultimately strengthen your ability to provide essential news and information. Attendees will gain practical insights and inspiration for designing and executing a diverse range of events that prioritize connection and engagement, learning how to measure their success in building a more resilient and connected audience that actively supports their news organization.
Who: Executive Director Jake Hylton, Lookout.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
What: How to make the climate connection across beats. We’ll share practical tips for identifying climate angles in everyday stories, explore examples from newsrooms around the world, and show you how even one sentence can transform your reporting. No science background required, just a willingness to connect the dots!
When: 6 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Covering Climate Now
What: A discussion as to how aspiring journalists and writers can be better supported at the start of their careers - and cope with some of the challenges of working in it.
Who: Andy Ridgway, UWE; Vera Novais, ABSW.
When: 10:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to Members
Sponsors: Association of British Science Writers and the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, UK
What: This session will explore ethical challenges, interviewing victims and survivors, informed consent, verification and corroboration, and how to balance compassion with rigorous reporting.
Who: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, The Global Center for Journalism and Trauma.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The Global Center for Journalism and Trauma & The Virginia Press Association
What: In this webinar, we will decode the rise of AI in the classroom, discuss the challenges it presents, and brainstorm effective strategies for educators to respond to these challenges. We will collaboratively discuss whether there exists a possibility for the ethical use of AI, and what its future looks like in the classroom.
Who: Akshay Sharan, Claremont Graduate University.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Claremont Graduate University
What: This webinar will help journalists make sense of the evolving AI licensing landscape and report on it with clarity and confidence. We’ll unpack what “AI licensing” really means, how early one-off deals are turning into structured revenue-sharing systems, and why recent agreements in media and entertainment could shift the conversation from conflict to cooperation.
Who: Jonathan Barnett, University of Southern California School of Law professor and director of its Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program; Sara Guaglione, a senior media reporter at Digiday; Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University professor of information technology and public policy; co-director of the Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Foundation
What: You’ll learn simple, effective strategies for building a strong internship opportunity that appeals to today’s students. We’ll cover where to find qualified candidates, how to create compelling internship roles, and what steps to take to ensure a smooth and successful hiring process. Whether you’re offering your first internship or improving an existing program, this session will give you practical tools you can use right away.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, PennWest University
What: We will ll unpack the most pressing issues in higher-ed policy, helping you stay informed and prepared for the year ahead.
Who: Sarah Brown, The Chronicle’s news editor; Rick Seltzer, author of the subscriber-only Daily Briefing newsletter.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed
What: Takeaways from recent API Local News Summits on local identity and history and civic discourse across generations. Panelists will situate those practical takeaways in the context of a rising trend: collaborations between local media and local influencers.
Who: Samantha Ragland of the American Press Institute; Kwasi Hope, an historian and award-winning speaker.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: American Press Institute & the Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship
What: A rapid‑fire briefing on the top data and AI trends shaping federal strategy. Industry and government experts will break down how budget compression, national AI standards, and new security requirements are accelerating the rise of secure “AI enclaves” across U.S. government cloud regions.
Who: Jennifer Franks Director, Center for Enhanced Cybersecurity, Government Accountability Office; Natalie Buda Smith Director of Digital Strategy, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Library of Congress; Amy R. Ritualo Acting Chief Data and AI Officer, Dept. of State; Stephen Moon CTO, Public Sector, Snowflake.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
What: This webinar for marketing will explore how ethical AI principles are reshaping marketing at Microsoft. Expect to learn how to create marketing campaigns that resonate with diverse audiences while upholding ethical standards.
Who: Nia Joseph, AI Products & Systems Lead Microsoft; Ray Sims, Senior Responsible AI Manager Microsoft.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Association of National Advertisers
Who: Lauren Walsh, managing director of journalist safety initiatives at the Foley Foundation; Tom Durkin, director of safety education at the Foley Foundation.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: University of Vermont
What: The Data Liberation Project is an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest. We’ll answer any questions, take your feedback and show you the newest tools on our platform. We’ll also feature case studies on how to use our services, new user orientations, showcasing new MuckRock features and more.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: MuckRock
OpenClaw AI – This open-source artificial-intelligence agent is designed to assist users with everyday tasks, such as reading and sorting email, scheduling calendar events, and making purchases. Text it on a variety of platforms and it will remember your messages and preferences, send you reminders and automate tasks for you. While its creator promises a capable assistant, critics warn it is not a polished, enterprise-ready product but a rough outline of a tool with significant security concerns, especially since it is still at work after users have logged off. OpenClaw was released as open-source software on the platform GitHub in November of 2025 under the name Clawdbot, which was briefly changed to Moltbot.
“You're not healing to be able to handle trauma, fear and depression. You're familiar with those things. You are healing to be able to handle joy.”
Love is friendship set on fire.
AI-Generated Photography vs Real Shoots: The 4-Hour Test - fstoppers
Prompting tips for journalists using AI image generators – JournalismUK
Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative - VentureBeat
The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World – New York Times
Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus - Manus
The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering – Phil Schmid
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete – Wall Street Journal
There are ways to ask a chatbot questions that make it more likely that it won’t make stuff up. – Wall Street Journal
The five biggest mistakes people make when prompting an AI – Zdnet
ChatGPT has a built-in 'hack' that makes your prompts so much better – BGR
How to Reduce AI Chatbot Hallucinations – Wall Street Journal
What makes a good AI prompt? Here are 4 expert tips – The Conversation
Study: Generative AI results depend on user prompts as much as models – MIT
Want to take better photos? Google thinks AI is the answer. – Washington Post
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) – Also known as “answer engine optimization” (AEO), this is the process of optimizing content to boost its visibility in AI-driven search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI). While SEO helps brands increase visibility on search engines (Google, Microsoft Bing), GEO is all about how brands appear on AI-driven platforms. There is overlap between the goals of GEO and traditional SEO. Both use keywords and prioritize engaging content as well as conversational queries and contextual phrasing. Both consider how fast a website loads, mobile friendliness, and prefer technically sound website. However, while SEO is concerned with metatags and links in response to user queries, GEO is about quick, direct responses from synthesizes content out of multiple sources.
Mrinank Sharma, who had led Anthropic’s safeguards research team since its launch last year, shared his resignation letter in a post on X Monday morning, which quickly garnered attention and has been viewed 1 million times. In his letter, Sharma said the “world is in peril,” not just from AI, but a “whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.” After leaving Anthropic, Sharma said he may pursue a poetry degree and “devote myself to the practice of courageous speech,” adding he wants to “contribute in a way that feels fully in my integrity.”
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Deepfakes – AI-produced images, photos or videos produced by AI tools designed to fool people into thinking the images are real.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he made so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809
Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs (through social media) – threatening democracy - The Conversation
Employers Turn to AI to Screen Candidates’ Social Media: Best Practices to Minimize Legal Threats – JD Supra
Grok AI is undressing anyone, including minors - The Verge
ChatGPT caricatures are taking over social media—Here’s what’s behind it. – Fast Company
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready. – New York Times
OpenAI tests ChatGPT in group chats – Axios
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History – 404 Media
Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News - The Verge
AI increased the time spent on Facebook and Instagram in Q2 – Tech Crunch
AI slop videos are ruining our scrolling – Axios
Teen safety: 6 tips for AI and social media – News Literacy Project
OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI - Tech Crunch
Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media – The Verge
World-first social media wargame reveals how AI bots can swing elections – The Conversation
Oakland County man who made AI porn of social media influencer pleads guilty – Fox 2 Detroit
How AI and social media sites are still collecting kids’ data despite privacy laws – Technical.ly
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs or ConvNet) – These deep learning artificial neural networks, often used in computer vision for object recognition, are trained on thousands of images. It works similarly to how our human eye processes images. The network is trained to recognize "kernels," which are tiny pieces of an image. However, they can fail when they encounter the same objects under new lighting conditions or from a different angle. CNNs play a role in unlocking our phones with our faces, identifying road signs in self-driving cars, and automatically tagging people in our photo galleries. CNNs were first introduced in 1989 by NYU professor Yann LeCun and have been used with autonomous vehicles and security camera systems.
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