18 Articles about how Businesses are using AI

Why Companies Are Already All-In on AI After Arriving Late to Everything Else - Wall Street Journal

Amazon CEO tells employees that AI will shrink its workforce - Washington Post

AI layoffs start hitting a wide swath of Corporate America - Quartz

601 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations – Google Cloud 

Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages – The Verge  

No AI, no job. These companies are requiring workers to use the tech. – Washington Post

The Future Of Leadership In The Age Of AI – Forbes  

Americans to business: Take AI slow and do it right - Axios 

Google offers AI certification for business leaders now - free trainings included – ZDnet

Microsoft helped kick off the AI boom. It needs humans more than ever, its CEO says - Semafor

Wake-up call: Leadership in the AI age - Axios

How ‘causal’ AI can improve your decision-making - IMD

Walmart Is Preparing to Welcome Its Next Customer: The AI Shopping Agent – Wall Street Journal

AI agents bring big risks and rewards for daring early adopters - ZDnet 

AI-first: did Duolingo make a fatal mistake? - UX Collective  

Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened - Futurism 

Google AI Overviews leads to dramatic reduction in clickthroughs for Mail Online – Press Gazette 

An AI Analyst Made 30 Years of Stock Picks — and Blew Human Investors Away - Stanford Graduate School of Business

How AI can help you finally demolish your business's mounting technical debt - ZDnet 

Fast, Frictionless, and “Good Enough”

The Industrial Revolution replaced artisanal craftsmanship with mechanized production, enabling goods to be replicated and manufactured on a mass scale.  Shoes, cars, and crops could be produced efficiently and uniformly. But products also became more bland, predictable, and stripped of individuality. Craftsmanship retreated to the margins, as a luxury or a form of resistance.  Today, there’s a similar risk with the automation of thought. Generative AI tempts users to conflate speed with quality, productivity with originality.  The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm. When everything is fast, frictionless, and “good enough,” there’s the risk of losing the depth, nuance, and intellectual richness that define exceptional human work. -Fast Company

19 Recent Articles about Using AI

Tips for brainstorming with ChatGPT and other AI bots - The Washington Post

How to use ChatGPT to write code - and my top trick for debugging what it generates - ZDnet 

How to better brainstorm with ChatGPT in five steps – Washington Post

2 Ways I'm Using ChatGPT Advanced Voice to Improve My Life - CNET

How to use Google's AI-powered NotebookLM — 5 tips to get started – Tom’s Guide

Research: Gen AI Makes People More Productive—and Less Motivated – Harvard Business Review  

Google’s NotebookLM just got a huge upgrade — here’s why it beats ChatGPT for team projects – Tom’s Guide

5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn’t ChatGPT. – Washington Post

You Can Get a Google AI Certification for $99. Or Just Do the Training for Free - CNET

New Google app lets you download and run AI models on your phone without the internet – ZDnet

What is AI Mode, Google's new artificial intelligence search technology? – CBS News 

Google offers AI certification for business leaders now - free trainings included – ZDnet

How ‘causal’ AI can improve your decision-making - IMD

5 Expert Tips for Excelling with NotebookLM – KD Nuggets

This quiet AI upgrade actually changed my life – ZDnet

AI Learning Resources & Guides - Anthropic

NotebookLM Is My All-Time Favorite AI Tool and Its New Features Make It Even Better - CNET 

Three “excellent practical generative AI courses” to get started building AI agents & fine-tune reasoning models – KD Nuggets

Boost Your Workflow with AI: Productivity Tips and Strategies - Duke University (webinar)

Measuring Intelligence

People have been measuring what they believe is intelligence without having a really firm understanding of what it is that they are measuring. Many theorists in psychology believe that conventional tests of intelligence measures only a relatively narrow aspect of intelligence. The result is that what we may take as a difference between two people in their levels of intelligence may reflect only a difference in a fairly small portions of their levels of intelligence.

Robert Sternberg, Thinking Styles

19 Articles about AI & Politics

AI Definition: RAGs

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) – RAGs (retrieval augmented generation) combine a retriever (used to collect relevant information from a document) and a generator (which compares the query vector to other known vectors, selecting the most similar ones), and then generates an answer to the user’s query. Rather than generating answers from a set of parameters, the RAG collects relevant information from the document. In effect, this coding technique instructs the bot to cross-check its answer with what is published elsewhere, essentially helping the AI to self-fact-check. RAG lets companies “ground” AI models in their own data, ensuring that results come from documents within the company, minimizing hallucinations.

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The Best AI Bot to Use

"In a head-to-head test of AI bots, 'An AI tool’s capability in one field didn’t necessarily translate to another. ChatGPT, for example, might have been tops in politics and literature but ranked near the bottom in law. I’d also recommend running your document through at least two AI tools, so you can compare the results. And for anything that’s actually important in your life, it’s definitely worth taking the time to read it yourself.” - Geoffrey A. Fowler writing in the Washington Post 

AI Definitions: Agentic AI

Agentic AI – Able to operate more independently than AI Agents, agentic AI adjusts its strategy and continuously “learns” as it encounters different situations. Agentic AI systems aren't passive tools waiting for input or mere automation. They can update plans based on intermediate findings without needing continuous human supervision. It’s not just following the rules as agents do, agentic AI is supposed to be a colleague that can analyze a problem, propose a plan, and take action. It might call out to additional models or external systems, such as a search engine or querying a database to complete a task. This can be particularly effective in data-heavy fields such as biology, chemistry, and drug discovery. On a personal level, instead of simply helping you find a hotel room to book, agentic AI can plan the trip if it is given access to programs with your schedule and preferences. Despite its capabilities, AI agents struggle in open-ended or unpredictable environments, especially when tasks lack clear structure or context. It will likely take years to for most agentic AI systems to be tailored to specific industries or problems.

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Encouraging Critical Thinking in Children

If we want our children or students or employees to express themselves creatively, then we have to give them the opportunity to do so. It doesn’t matter much if we tell them that we value their creative thinking, and then criticize or forestall every idea they propose.

From time to time, I do workshops for teachers, parents, and businesses that are eager to encourage open-ended, exploratory, creative thinking. One unfavorable sign is when someone asks me exactly what they should do to encourage creativity. They want me to tell them step by step, blow by blow. Their desire is an unfavorable sign because if they want a recipe for creativity, the won’t find it. Moreover, someone who wants to be told exactly what to do is not likely to model a creative style, no matter how much they may wish to do so.

Ultimately, you must encourage creative thinking by modeling it. It is hard to encourage creative thinking if you do not model it.

Robert Sternberg, Thinking Styles

22 Webinars this Week about AI, Journalism & Media

Mon, June 16 - Shut out: How Pulitzer winners worked with reluctant sources to tell powerful stories

What: The panel will demystify sourcing challenges and share actionable strategies for producing powerful journalism despite growing obstacles.

Who: Senior Vice President and Chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership Kelly McBride; Poynter’s Kristen Hare, ProPublica’s Kavitha Surana; The Baltimore Banner’s Alissa Zhu.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Poynter

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Mon, June 16 - Reporting on the Health Equity Backlash

What: In this webinar, we’ll survey the dramatic changes to health equity programs under Trump, discuss potential outcomes for health systems, and identify reporting opportunities for relaying the human impacts of these abrupt shifts.

Who: Georges C. Benjamin, MD, has served as the executive director of the American Public Health Association; Usha Lee McFarling is a national science correspondent for STAT News; Monica Peek specializes in general internal medicine and preventive health for adults at the University of Chicago Medicine.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism

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Mon, June 16 - Equality and Diversity in Media and Journalism: Where do we go from here? 

What: This webinar will connect you to experts in inclusion in media and journalism. You will hear unique perspectives from the UK and beyond, and you can join in the conversation yourself as we work together to make our media fairer, better and more diverse

Who: Diane Kemp: Director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity and Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Birmingham City University; Jennie Kermode: Writer and journalist specialising in LGBTQ issues and film; Mike Findlay-Agnew: CEO International Network of Street Papers; Shirish Kulkani: Journalist, researcher and community organiser.  

When: 11 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Bylines Network

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Tue, June 17 - Pride is local: How to report on LGBTQ+ stories for home audiences

What: A timely panel discussion on localizing Pride for communities nationwide. Experienced journalists will discuss the storytelling strategies needed to cultivate trusted community sources, navigate sensitive topics, and cover the experiences of LGBTQ+ Americans with depth and accuracy.

Who: Kathryn Varn, Tampa Bay reporter at Axios; Bill Canacci, regional features editor for Asbury Park Press/Gannett NJ; Jacob Reyes, GLAAD news coordinator and Texas Latino Pride vice president.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The National Press Club Journalism Institute

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Tue, June 17 - How journalists can build trust by educating the public about AI

What: In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how your newsroom can help your community become more informed about AI.  We’ll discuss: Where and how your newsroom could share AI education content (platforms, formats, tone); What your audience needs to know about AI; What support would make this easier (templates, visuals, access to experts); Who should be involved in creating and sharing this information (local journalists, national orgs, tech companies, universities).

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Trusting News shows

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Tue, June 17 - AI & News Storytelling in 2025

What: Pioneering news operations leaders will gather to talk about how their teams are using AI to select stories to cover and to streamline multiplatform production and distribution. What approaches and technologies are emerging as keepers?

Who: Colin Benedict, VP of News, Morgan Murphy Media; Amy Freeze, Meteorologist, AmyFreeze.ai; Michael Newman, Director of Transformation, Graham Media Group; Jay O’Connor, EVP Strategic Initiatives, Futuri; Jon Accarrino, the founder of Ordo Digita.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: TVNewsCheck

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Tue, June 17 - Leveraging Data to Strengthen Nonprofit Impact

What: Learn how data-driven strategies can optimize nonprofit performance.

Who: Julian Gerace, Tapp Network Digital Solutions Manager; Zach Patton, Tapp Network HubSpot Solutions Manager.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: TechSoup

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Tue, June 17 - AI strategies that go beyond ChatGPT

What: We’ll explore practical, forward-thinking ways media organizations and businesses can integrate AI into their workflows — from content tagging and personalization to image generation, data analysis, automation, and more. We’ll share real-world use cases, tools to consider, and how to think strategically about AI adoption that goes deeper than chat.

Who: David Arkin and Tara Jones, David Arkin Consulting.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Local Media Association

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Tue, June 17 - AI and Microcredentials

What: With more employers demanding AI skills, microcredentials in AI might be one way for colleges to engage new students and to better prepare them for the work force.

Who: Alexander C. Kafka, Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Karen Aceves, Director AgTEC, Elijah-Clark.jpg, Elijah Clark, Instructor of Marketing, Texas Christian University; Siobahn Day, Grady Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research North Carolina Central University; Colter Harper, Research Assistant Professor, Anthropology University of Buffalo; Ian McCulloh Manager, AI Portfolio, Lifelong Learning Johns Hopkins University.

 When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed, Coursera

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Tue, June 17 - Beyond the Hype: The AI Conversations L&D Can’t Ignore in 2025

What: Expect an open, interactive conversation where your insights shape the discussion. No slides. No easy answers. Just real talk about what’s next. If you're ready to tackle AI’s biggest questions in L&D—and maybe leave with even bigger ones—this session is for you.

Who: Megan Torrance CEO and founder, Torrance Learning.

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: OpenSesame

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Tue, June 17 - Introduction to ChatGPT

What: An introduction to ChatGPT designed for beginners; only a free ChatGPT account is required to follow along.

Who: Lois Newman, Customer Enablement, OpenAI: OpenAI Solutions Engineer Lauren Oliphant.

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: OpenAI Academy

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Tue, June 17 - Marketing Trends Nonprofits Need to Know (and Embrace)

What: Join us to discuss the marketing trends that’ll shape your nonprofit’s future and grow your impact, including: Storytelling to impact your nonprofit; Using influencer marketing to increase fundraising; Creating digital experiences that create awareness; Building automation into your marketing and outreach efforts: Taking advantage of latest approaches to search engine optimization;  How to use artificial intelligence (AI) to engage.

Who: Kiersten Hill, the driving force behind Firespring’s nonprofit solutions.

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Firespring

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Wed, June 18 - Military Veterans in Journalism

What: Our Disability Narrative Webinar Series initiative is designed to empower journalists, storytellers, and advocates with the tools to create accurate, inclusive and impactful narratives about disability.

Who: Beth Haller, Professor, Co-founder, Co-Director Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment; Leah Smith, Director, Associate Director, Advocate Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Military Veterans in Journalism

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Wed, June 18 - 5 Reasons Why Broadcast Text Messaging is the Future for Nonprofits

What: We’ll discuss five reasons why nonprofits are increasingly leveraging broadcast messaging. We’ll also share real-world examples and actionable takeaways that will help future-proof your communication and fundraising strategy and enable your organization to realize the power of one-to-many text messaging.

Who: Rabiah Elisa, Product Marketing Manager at Mobile Commons.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Mobile Commons

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Wed, June 18 - Build Trust with Your Audience: Mission Statements for Democracy and Civic Life Coverage

What: How to get on the record about the goals and values that guide your coverage of democracy, civic life, and public institutions. Whether you’re reporting on local government, civic engagement, or community solutions, a public-facing mission statement can help explain your newsroom’s values and build trust with your audience. You’ll also learn how to create a user-friendly FAQ page that answers common questions and reinforces your editorial transparency.

Who: Lynn Walsh, Trusting News.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsors: Advancing Democracy, Trusting News, Solutions Journalism Network, Hearken, and Good Conflict

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Wed, June 18 - Evals: The Key to Production-Ready AI Apps

What: In this OpenAI Academy session, Autoblocks will break down why evaluations (evals) are essential for any team serious about shipping trustworthy AI. We’ll share practical workflows, lessons learned from real-world deployments in healthcare and finance, and show how to create evaluation processes that keep pace with rapid development. Whether you’re just starting to productionize LLMs or looking to scale safely, this session will give you tactical strategies you can apply immediately.

Who: Haroon Choudery, CEO of Autoblocks; Mohammed Husain, Solutions Engineer at OpenAI.

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: OpenAI Academy

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Wed, June 18 - Unlock Retail Media Growth with Agentic AI

What: Join experts from Salesforce for a forward-looking conversation on how agentic AI is transforming the mechanics of retail advertising—from streamlining sales processes to boosting targeting precision and automating key workflows. Learn how brands are leveraging this technology to optimize ad sales, enhance consumer experiences, and scale operations.

Who: Gaby Hosokawa, Product Marketing Manager, Salesforce; John Stamers, Director of Media Solutions, Silverline.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: AdWeek

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Wed, June 18 - Introduction to AI for your Small Business

What: A non-technical introduction to generative AI technology, tips for implementing AI effectively in your business, some great advice about managing the risks and ethical concerns involved, and will lead you a hands-on exercise using a generative AI tool. No matter what your level of technical know-how is, you’ll leave this session informed, confident and aware of both the risks and the benefits of this emerging technology.

Who: Isabel Krome, a Start-Up Consultant at Temple SBDC.

When: 8:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Temple University Small Business Development Center

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Wed, June 18 - Telling Important Stories, Better: Trauma-informed Journalism in the Age of Breaking News

What: A brief overview of her research examining the impact of the media on trauma survivors and the impact of trauma on members of the media, along with a compelling case for providing trauma education to student and working journalists.

Who: Tamara Cherry is an author, communications consultant and thought leader in the area of trauma-informed storytelling who spent the bulk of her career as an award-winning crime reporter in some of Canada’s largest newsrooms. Tamara’s latest book is called “The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News.”

When: 4 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: College Media Association

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Wed, June 18 - Professional Development Advisory Meeting

What: A training topic brainstorm

When: 5:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute 

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Thu, June 19 - Building a Winning Video Strategy 

What: How to assess your resources and tools to craft compelling video journalism for digital and broadcast. We’ll cover equipment needs for solo or small teams with various budgets for shooting and editing and tips for creating short form and 6-10 minute news feature video stories. Let this workshop be the catalyst for crafting a functional video strategy that fits your organization’s goals.

Who: Veteran visual journalist Robert Meeks.

When: 3:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Video Consortium

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Fri, June 20 - Building Resilient News Organizations Through Adaptive Strategy and Rapid Experimentation

What: How media leaders can build organizational resilience through adaptive strategy and rapid experimentation. Participants will learn the core principles that define resilient news organizations: flexibility, continuous learning, and responsiveness to change, as well as gain hands-on experience using a practical framework for rapid experimentation to practice decision-making under uncertainty. Together, we’ll unpack how to build nimble teams, reimagine workflows for speed and adaptability, and identify emerging market opportunities before competitors do.

Who: Ashir Badami is a senior lecturer at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism; Robert Hoekman brings 25 years of experience leading the development of consumer- & business-facing products at dozens of tech companies & several news companies. Hoekman has served as Director of Product Design for CNN digital, Process Innovation Director at Akamai, and Senior Innovation Strategist at Tangible.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Online News Association

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"I use ChatGPT for Comedy"

"I use ChatGPT for comedy. It's not going to give me a finished joke, but it's going to start the conversation. I find it useful when I'm writing the setup for a joke. With a parody, it's not one-to-one. You're taking things that are different and exaggerating them. I was writing a roast speech for a guy at a coding conference. I asked ChatGPT to delve into the inside jokes of coding communities. What's amazing to me is I do not have writer's block anymore — like truly. I think writer's block is the feeling of solipsism and it is the feeling of being totally alone. And I don't feel alone anymore because of this tool." - Sarah Rose Siskind, comedian

21 Articles about AI & Legal Issues

 Trouble with AI 'hallucinations' spreads to big law firms – Reuters

Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations – The Guardian  

New Arizona law prevents AI from making health insurance denials – AZ Family 

Australian authors say no to AI using their work – even if money is on the table – The Conversation  

AI firms say they can’t respect copyright. These researchers tried. – Washington Post

Artificial Intelligence is now an A+ law student, study finds - Reuters

Arizona Supreme Court unveils AI avatars to announce rulings - Arizona PBS

In lawsuit over teen’s death, judge rejects arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights – Associated Press  

Law&Crime Recreates Scenes From Diddy Trial With AI and Official Transcripts – Mediaite 

ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal? – The Atlantic

Deepfakes on trial: How judges are navigating AI evidence authentication -Reuters

Former school athletic director gets 4 months in jail in racist AI deepfake case – Associated Press

AI copyright report sparks new fight - Axios

White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup – Washington Post

An AI-created video of a murdered man is used to deliver a victim's statement at a killer's sentencing – BBC

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops – 404 Media

AI Can Assist Human Judges, But It Can’t Replace Them (Yet) – David Lat Blog

Lawyers face sanctions for citing fake cases with AI, warns UK judge – Reuters

White House fires Copyright Office leaders as controversial AI report surfaces – Mashable

Anthropic's lawyers take blame for AI 'hallucination' in music publishers' lawsuit – Reuters

Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement – New York Times

What if the AI prompts You?

You can prompt these tools to ask you questions, to get you thinking, to prompt you to start writing. The instinct is to say, 'Oh, this thing just writes for us.' But it can also ask me questions. It can also get me thinking and shape my ideas. What if instead of you being a prompt engineer, you see what it can prompt out of you? The Al can be a nonjudgmental collaborator that helps pull out these great, unique insights from you. -Stew Fortier, founder of Type.ai

AI Definitions: Training Data

Training data – This is the data initially provided to an AI model so it can create a map of relationships, which it then uses to make predictions. Giving the AI a wide data means more options and may lead to more creative results. However, this can also make it more vulnerable to the insertion of poisoned data by hackers and make the model more susceptible to hallucinations. Using more curated, locked-down data sets makes AI models less vulnerable and more predictable but also less creative.  

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