Optimists live longer

Here’s a good reason to turn that frown upside down: Optimistic people live as much as 15% longer than pessimists, according to a new study spanning thousands of people and 3 decades.  After controlling for health conditions, behaviors like diet and exercise, and other demographic information, the scientists were able to show that the most optimistic women (top 25%) lived an average of 14.9% longer than their more pessimistic peers. For the men the results were a bit less dramatic: The most optimistic of the bunch lived 10.9% longer than their peers, on average, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

David Shultz writing in Science Magazine 

Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative

Boredom might spark creativity because a restless mind hungers for stimulation. Maybe traversing an expanse of tedium creates a sort of cognitive forward motion. “Boredom becomes a seeking state,” says Texas A&M University psychologist Heather Lench. “What you’re doing now is not satisfying. So you’re seeking, you’re engaged.” A bored mind moves into a “daydreaming” state, says Sandi Mann, the psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire who ran the experiment with the cups. Parents will tell you that kids with “nothing to do” will eventually invent some weird, fun game to play—with a cardboard box, a light switch, whatever.

The problem, the psychologists worry, is that these days we don’t wrestle with these slow moments. We eliminate them. “We try to extinguish every moment of boredom in our lives with mobile devices,” says Sandi Mann, psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire. This might relieve us temporarily, but it shuts down the deeper thinking that can come from staring down the doldrums. Noodling on your phone is “like eating junk food,” she says.

So here’s an idea: Instead of always fleeing boredom, lean into it. Sometimes, anyway.

Clive Thompson, Wired

22 Articles about AI’s impact on College Faculty & Administrators

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

9 Podcasts about AI

Eye on AI (interviews from a longtime New York Times correspondent)

Machine Learning Guide (teaching the fundamentals of machine learning and AI)

AI in Business (for non-technical business leaders)

Data Skeptic (applies critical thinking and the scientific method to AI developments)

AI Today (practical insights)

AI for Humans (have a good time learning)

Practical AI (how to get stuff done)

The Artificial Intelligence Show (for marketers)

NVIDIA AI Podcast (interviews with people growing the AI space  from a major AI chipmaker)

Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline

Fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he did not actually perform, using a new artificial-intelligence tool called Prism, released by OpenAI last month. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. - Nature

The intersection of Science & AI in 18 Articles

Open-source AI program can answer science questions better than humans - Science.org

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

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop – The Atlantic

18 AI Dangers

AI Companions - Inappropriate dependance on AI, AI control over humans, weakening of human relationships, pornography, suicides, AI delusions, mental health care, human dignity.

AI Divide - Greater inequality, the distance between those who have access to powerful AI & those who don’t.  

Bias - AI can reflect societal prejudices and stereotypes, obscuring underrepresented and marginalized populations.    

Criminals & Crime - Using AI to commit crimes such as cyberattacks, fraud and child pornography.  

Copyright – AI may be trained on copyrighted works and reproduce copyrighted material without permission. 

Deep Fakes - Cyberbullying, nonconsensual pornographic images & video.

Economics - Potential AI-created financial crisis.

Environmental Concerns - Energy consumption, high water usage, and electronic waste.

False information  - Hallucinations can lead to fearmongering, fake news, poor health advice, corrupted learning tools for children, historical misinformation, and false criminal accusations.

Human Labor – Exploitation of workers, human trafficking.

Knowledge Collapse – AI models run out of fresh data, resulting in a feedback loop — dominant ideas are amplified while less widely held or new viewpoints are minimized.

Out of Control AI - Bullying humans, taking action against humans (particularly actions outside of what the AI was designed to do), and AI uprising where bots attempt to gain control outside of human direction. 

Politics - Influencing elections, creating or magnifying international conflict.

Privacy & Security - Facial recognition false arrests, malware, social media, data on children, using AI to hack databases, steal passwords, and personal information has the potential to be shared with third parties. 

Religion - Cultlike dependence on AI, allowing outsized control, treating AI like a Magic 8 Ball, worshipping AI. 

Science - AI Slop may erode scientific progress.

Slop – Low-grade AI content can clog email, social media and the internet. Also, work slop.

Weapons & War - Drones, satellites, biological weapons.

Signs of Endings

Endings and losses are the commonest first sign that people are in transition. These endings tend to be signaled by one of several experiences: 

• A sudden and unexpected event that destroys the old life that made you feel like yourself 

• The “drying up” of a situation or a relationship 

• An activity that has always gone well before, suddenly and unexpectedly goes badly

• A person or an organization that you have always trusted proves it be untrustworthy 

• An inexplicable or unforeseen problem crops up 

William Bridges, The Way of Transition

26 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media

Mon, Feb 23 - AI in Training

What: Join engaging Q&A sessions with industry experts to discover how AI can seamlessly fit into your training strategies and solve your biggest challenges. This is your chance to rethink how you approach training and position your organization at the forefront of AI-driven innovation.

Who: Stephen Weaver, Key Account Manager, isEazy; Margo Gouley, VP, Product, Box of Crayons;  Justyna Poray, Senior Learning Experience Designer, Box of Crayons; Scott Mahoney, Chief Strategy Officer, Seertech Solutions; Kelly Sieracki, Product Marketing Manager, BizLibrary; Blake Ryan, Senior Product Manager, BizLibrary.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Industry

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Mon, Feb 23 - Turning Impact Into Investment: Storytelling that Drives Funding

What: Your work makes a difference, but funders don’t always see it. In this 30-minute session, learn how to turn your impact into investments with a story funders understand and support. We’ll explore common pitfalls, show what’s possible with a clear, confident story, and share reflection questions to help you strengthen your fundraising success.

Who: Emily Taylor, teenyBIG.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab

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Tue, Feb 24 - What Editors Want To See In Pitches

What: The series is aimed at freelance journalists who don’t have a lot of contacts in the industry and want to cold pitch an editor and get their first byline in national newspapers and magazines. 

Who: Donna Ferguson is a multiple award-winning freelance journalist for national newspapers and Head of the Freelance Chapter for Women in Journalism; Leah Harper, assistant editor on Guardian Features, previously worked as acting assistant editor on the Guardian’s Fashion desk and Features commissioning editor, having started out as a Researcher for the Observer New Review.

When: 7:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: £20 or £10 for members

Sponsor: Women in Journalism

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Tue, Feb 24 - Challenging the Arguments Behind Youth Social Media Bans

What: A panel discussion examining the global movement to ban social media for youth, the tradeoffs these policies present, and alternative approaches that balance safety, rights, and the realities of growing up in a digital world.

Who: Alex Ambrose, Policy Analyst, Moderator; Matthew Lesh, Country Manager, Freshwater Strategy; Angela Luna, Technology & Innovation Policy Analyst American Action Forum (AAF); Sydney Saubestre, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Technology Institute, New America; Nicol Turner Lee, Governance Studies, Director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution.

When: 9 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

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Tue, Feb 24 - Double Machine Learning Causal Inference applied for weekly offer rollout

What: We applied causal inference methods to evaluate the incremental impact of weekly versus monthly offer releases, isolating their true effect on key business KPIs. The results provided statistical validation for the weekly cadence and informed its large-scale rollout at WELT.

Who: Pablo Mateos Masa, Senior Data Scientist, Axel Springer NMT; Dr. Ana Moya, Data Scientist,  INFOMOTION.

When: 9 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers

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Tue, Feb 24 - Digital Marketing Trends in 2026

What: We will explore the key digital marketing trends in 2026. Learn what’s next in content marketing, search, AI-driven personalization, and automation so you can refine your strategy and stay ahead of the competition.

Who: Digital Marketing Strategist Ray Sidney-Smith, CEO, W-3 Consulting

When: 10 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: $45

Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Duquesne University

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Tue, Feb 24 - Beyond the Pitch: Building Productive Relationships between Journalists and PR Professionals

What: This webinar is designed to strengthen the way religion journalists and communication professionals work together for the public good. Together, we’ll explore how thoughtful, intentional connections can lead to stronger reporting, clearer communication, and more informed audiences. Panelists will unpack common misconceptions about each other’s roles, share what makes outreach genuinely useful, and offer practical insights on building trust, setting boundaries, and creating value on both sides.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Religion Communicators Council

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Tue, Feb 24 - AI Data Centers & Their Climate and Community Impact

What: This discussion will equip journalists with the fundamental understanding of the economic and climate impacts stemming from AI’s vast power use, explore how to investigate data centers in their area, and highlight unique story ideas to tackle this growing issue playing out in communities across the world.

Who: Jenn Abamu, Reporter, WAMU/NPR, Marc Conte, Professor, Fordham University, Dan Gearino, Reporter, Inside Climate News, David Dickson, Covering Climate Now.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Covering Climate Now

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Tue, Feb 24 - How journalism collaboratives can raise money from small-dollar donors

What: Big-dollar grants are important for sustaining journalism collaboratives, but that doesn’t mean you should overlook success with small-dollar donors. These small donations can add up quickly and provide ongoing support for your collaborative’s work. Learn important tips for going after these donations and how to put a process in place easily and quickly.

Who: Claudia Laws, director of consumer revenue for The Times-Picayune.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Center for Cooperative Media

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Tue, Feb 24 - Google AI Tools For News

What: We will offer a practical overview of three powerful, free-of-cost tools designed to streamline investigative research and daily reporting workflows. Move beyond the hype and learn how to integrate NotebookLM, Gemini, and Pinpoint into your reporting toolkit to find stories faster and manage your beat more effectively.

Who: Collenn Kimmett, Google News Initiative.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association

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Tue, Feb 24 - How to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing in the New Year

What: This webinar session will get those creative juices flowing with some new writing exercises and prompts. We will also share some tips to help you move your writing project forward.

Who: Cathy Fyock is The Business Book Strategist. 

When: 1:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Author Learning Center

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Tue, Feb 24 - Digital Security Fundamentals for Student Journalists  

What: In this interactive session, we will highlight tools and tactics to help student journalists secure these critical systems in light of today’s increasingly complex threat environment.

Who: Trainers from Freedom of the Press Foundation.

When: 4:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Freedom of the Press Foundation

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Wed, Feb 25 - How to Pitch Comment Pieces

What: This session explores how to find strong angles, shape timely arguments, and establish authority without overclaiming.

Who: Hannah Fearn, The Independent’s former Comment Editor.

When: 8 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: £7.50

Sponsor: Freelancing for Journalists

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Wed, Feb 25 - Delivering AI-Ready Data: Pipelines, Agents, and Automation at Scale

What: You will learn how to overcome these challenges and equip your organization with robust data pipelines for AI solutions. Attendees will gain expert insights, practical frameworks, and a research-backed understanding of the unique challenges of data integration for AI solutions and emerging practices that successful organizations follow in delivering production applications with impact.

When: 11 am - 3:20 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Transforming Data With Intelligence

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Wed, Feb 25 - How to Maximize $10K/Month in Free Google Ads for Your Nonprofit!

What: We'll teach you everything you need to know about the Google Ad Grant and how to get started. Learn how to build and launch your own successful digital marketing campaign and get ideas from case studies with proven results. Use the power of the Google Ad Grant to amplify your message and attract a broad audience.

Who: Simon Choy is the Founder & CEO of ConnectAd.

When: 1:00 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: CharityHowTo

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Wed, Feb 25 - Recalibrating and charting a path forward after a layoff: A community support session

What: A free community session for recently laid off journalists, where we'll help you design your post-layoff strategy. You'll also have the opportunity to connect with others who have similar experiences and share industry resources to help you find your next steps.

Who: Career coach Phoebe Gavin.  

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Online News Association

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Wed, Feb 25 - Social Media Boot Camp

What: This two-day webinar series combines our Social Media 101, 102 topics, and includes more resources for you to elevate your social media presence. Attendees will receive a Social Media Boot Camp Workbook and get additional Q&A time with our experts each day.

Who: Kiersten Hill Headshot Kiersten Hill, Director of Nonprofit Solutions.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Firespring

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Wed, Feb 25 - Building America: Powering the AI Age

What: How America can build new sources of energy and strengthen its energy security in the wake of the artificial intelligence revolution.

Who: Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.); Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.); Tammy Ma, Director of the Livemore Institute for Fusion Technology; Josh Magnuson, Ecolab; Josh Levi, Data Center Coaltion.

When: 9 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Washington Post, Ecolab

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Thu, Feb 26 - Boost your journalism curriculum: Introduction to Media Helping Media

What: We now have access to 400 free training resources for journalists working at all levels, produced by Media Helping Media. We will demonstrate how to download, adapt and use them.

Who: David Brewer, founder and editor of Media Helping Media.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Fojo Media Institute, Linnaeus University, Sweden

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Thu, Feb 26 - Poynter Beat Academy: The midterms, data and America’s safety net

What: Get localized story ideas that explore where data makes a difference and boost your midterm coverage.  

Who: Former U.S. chief data scientist Denice Ross; Colleen Heflin, professor of Public Administration at Syracuse University; Paul Overberg, reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s data team; Elvia Malagón, a health reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Poynter Beat Academy

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Thu, Feb 26 - Automation vs. AI Agents: An Execution Framework for Enterprises

What: We will break down how enterprises can design automation and agent systems that scale without creating chaos. 

Who: Eugina Jordan, CEO and Founder of YOUnifiedAI.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Techtarget

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Thu, Feb 26 - Harnessing AI as a Collaborative Partner for Ethical Research & Writing

What: This session will cover practical approaches to the responsible use of AI as a tool for writing and research.

Who: University of Michigan librarian Yulia Sevrygina; University of Kentucky librarian Helen Bischoff.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Springer Nature

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Fri, Feb 27 - International Public Records

What: FOIA Friday is a community session to connect about all things FOIA and public records. This month, we will be focusing on international public records.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: MuckRock

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Fri, Feb 27 - Crafting Effective AI Prompts: Techniques for Quality Responses

What: This webinar introduces the principles of crafting prompts that produce reliable and high-quality AI outputs. Participants will explore prompt structures, context-setting techniques, and common pitfalls to avoid. Real examples and guided practice will help attendees refine their prompting skills across a range of tasks. By the end, learners will be able to design prompts that consistently yield useful results.

When: 5 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Claremont Graduate University

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Fri, Feb 27 - ASERL Copyright Office Hour

What: Please bring your puzzling and perplexing copyright questions.  Your ASERL colleagues are here to help!

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries

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Fri, Feb 27 - Introduction to Codex

What: Join us for a beginner friendly, high-level overview of Codex — the AI system that powers code generation. We’ll explain what Codex is, explore examples of how people are using it for real work and everyday tasks, and show how non-technical professionals can benefit from it today. Whether you’re curious about the future of AI and software, want to better collaborate with technical teams, or simply want to understand the possibilities, this webinar is your starting point. No coding experience needed!

Who: Derrick Choi Codex Deployment Engineer, OpenAI.

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: OpenAI Academy

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Life is too short

“Life is too short for drama and petty things. So KISS slowly; LAUGH insanely; LOVE truly; And FORGIVE quickly!” 

AI Health Advice

A new study found that AI "health advice from was frequently wrong. However, a closer look at the results tell a different story. "About half the time, mistakes appeared to be the result of user error. Participants didn’t enter enough information or the most relevant symptoms. By contrast, when researchers entered the full medical scenario directly into the chatbots, they correctly diagnosed the problem 94 percent of the time." -New York Times

Life is

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. –George Santayana

Using AI to Write an Apology to the Court

A judge in New Zealand questioned the remorse of a defendant who had used A.I. to write apologies to victims and the court. Increasingly, people are outsourcing many tasks to machines, including writing apologies, eulogies and wedding vows, perhaps saving precious time but also inviting the ire of some of their fellow humans. People apparently believe that certain activities should take work in order to seem genuine. -New York Times

12 Articles about AI & Robotics

To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot – New York Times

Chinese Robots Can Now Run Up Walls - Futurism

AI-powered "RoboCops" take up traffic duties in Chinese cities – People’s Daily 

The Way Boston Dynamics’ New Robot Moves Is Skin-Crawlingly Unnatural - Futurism 

China dials back robocar ambitions after deadly crash – Semafor

Robot smaller than grain of salt can ‘sense, think and act’ – Washington Post

Robotic dogs with human heads - CNN 

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy – Wall Street Journal

Robots in your bloodstream could deliver drugs with greater precision - Washington Post 

Two Harvard alums built a robot that can braid hair – The Hustle  

China’s Alibaba launches AI model to power robots as tech giants talk up ‘physical AI’ – CNBC

Indian university faces backlash for claiming Chinese robodog as own at AI summit - BBC

4 Steps When Addressing Inappropriate Behavior

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.

12 Recent Articles about AI & Audio/Video

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

“I made a mistake”

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

25 Recent Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

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

What we really believe

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

How AI might slow scientific progress

“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