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17 Articles about AI’s impact on College Faculty & Administrators
/Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role - GovTech
Crafting Thoughtful AI Policy in Higher Education: A Guide for Institutional Leaders – Faculty Focus
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting: Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it – The Atlantic
How Higher Ed Institutions Are Using Built-In Generative AI Tools – EdTech Magazine
AI Agents Are Set To Transform Higher Education—Here’s How – Forbes
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. – New York Times
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State. - New York Times
What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee – Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI and Threats to Academic Integrity: What to Do – Inside Higher Ed
How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future - New York Times
In Battle Against AI-Powered Fraudsters, Colleges Turn to New Weapon – AI – Voice of San Diego
Boston University Denies It Would Use AI to Replace Striking Teaching Assistants – Inside Higher Ed
Are You Ready for the AI University? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Students Found Out AI Will Help Read Their Names at Commencement. Protest Ensued. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
How To Stay Ahead Of AI – The Human Skills Universities Must Teach - Forbes
To ‘publish or perish’, do we need to add ‘AI or die’? – Times Higher Ed
As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond – Voice of San Diego
The Mental Model
/The mental model I sometimes have of these chatbots is as a very smart assistant who has a dozen Ph.D.s but is also high on ketamine like 30 percent of the time. -Kevin Roose quoted in the New York Times
A Pattern Emerges
/Today’s AI excels at the execution phases: writing code, running tests, deploying systems. But it struggles with the strategic phases that come before. A pattern emerges: AI dominates where work is structured and verifiable, but falters where judgment and context matter most. -Hardik Pandya
The best Social Network for Success is Often Overlooked
/Several years ago sociologist Brian Uzzi did a study of why certain Broadway musicals made between 1945 and 1989 were successful and others flopped. The explanation he arrived at had to do with the people behind the productions. For failed productions, one of two extremes was common. The first was a collaboration between creative artists and producers who tended to all know one another. When there were mostly strong ties, the production lacked the fresh, creative insights that come from diverse experience. The other type of failed production was one in which none of the artists had experience working together. When the group was made up of mostly weak ties, teamwork and group cohesion suffered.
In contrast, the social networks of the people behind successful productions had a healthy balance: There were some strong ties, some weak ties. There was some established trust, but also enough new blood in the system to generate new ideas. Think of your network of relationships in the same way: The best professional network is both narrow/deep (allies with whom you collaborate regularly) and wide/ shallow (weak-tie acquaintances who offer fresh information and ideas).
Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, The Startup of You
27 Webinars this Week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, June 23 - Writing for the Reader's Brain
What: An informative webinar focusing the primary errors that writers make in emails, marketing materials, job application letters, and pitches.
Who: Yellowlees Douglas
When: 8 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Cambridge University
Mon, June 23 - Agentic AI in News Media: Real-World Applications & Future Possibilities
What: This session will provide actionable insights for news organizations looking to harness the power of Agentic AI while navigating ethical and operational challenges.
Who: Ezra Eeman, WAN-IFRA AI Expert; Markus Franz, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Ippen Digital GmbH & Co. KG;
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers
Mon, June 23 - Leading for AI: The Three Mindsets for Thoughtful Implementation
What: This session cuts through the tech hype to focus on the essential mindset shifts required for successful AI adoption in nonprofits. Leaders will explore how experimentation, collaboration, and 'critical friend' mindsets influence AI implementation success in their organizations. This presentation uses a unique blend of leadership, coaching, behavior change, and org development to help leaders navigate the human side of AI.
Who: Valerie Ehrlich, Mission Bloom.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
Tue, June 24 - Using Public Records To Fight Government Secrecy and Improve Communities
What: These experts will discuss how secrecy harms communities and damages trust in all levels of government, and how records requests can fight back and help inform the public. The panel will discuss success stories and lessons learned, and share practical tips about how to craft the most effective requests possible, even at this daunting hour for the public’s right to know.
Who: Lauren Harper, Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy at FPF; Michael Morisy, CEO at MuckRock Miranda Spivack, journalist and author of “Backroom Deals in Our Backyards”; Nate Jones, FOIA director at The Washington Post and author of “Able Archer 83”.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Freedom of the Press Foundation
Tue, June 24 - AI-Powered Government: 3 Strategies to Transform Your Workforce
What: Industry experts will discuss how the advent of artificial intelligence is reshaping the public sector and what you can do to stay ahead.
Who: Jason Joseph, Workforce Transformation Solution Principal, Dell Federal Services; Scott Morris, Senior Director, Dell’s Modern Workspace Solutions Group; Andrew Saltra, Business Development Manager, Dell Federal Services.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
Tue, June 24 - How To Create An Interactive Podcast From Your Sermons
What: Learn: How to upload a sermon and turn it into a conversational podcast using AI; How to use Google Notebook LM to summarize and discuss sermon content with AI-generated hosts; How to create private podcasts specifically for small group leaders; How to publish your podcast for free using Spotify for Podcasters.
Who: Kenny Jahng, founder of AI for Church Leaders.
When: 12:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $7
Sponsor: AIforChurchLeaders.com
Tue, June 24 - How to Set the Right AI Rules for the Campus
What: We’ll explore: What innovative assignments encourage the proper use of generative AI tools; How AI can be both beneficial and detrimental for students in diverse degree fields; What generative AI rules should be established for extracurricular activities on college campuses; How faculty can enforce AI rules both inside and outside the classroom.
Who: Ian Wilhelm Deputy Managing Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Van L. Davis Executive Director WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies; Gloria Niles Director of Online Learning, University of Hawai'i System; Elizabeth Reilley Executive Director, AI Acceleration, Arizona State University; Valerie Riggs, Ed.D Assistant Professor of Teacher Education and Professional Development, Morgan State University
When: 2:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed
Tue, June 24 - Public Health Journalism: Finding focus and shaping your narrative
What: Learn how to find focus and harness your narrative. We’ll share tips for organization, editing yourself, and finding clarity.
When: 12:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute
Tue, June 24 - How to Cover Plastic Pollution
What: Are you a journalist interested in covering plastics? Join this webinar to learn how to report on this pressing topic from science, civil society, and journalism specialists.
Who: Charles Pekow, freelance journalist and Mongabay contributor; Ana Lê Rocha from the Global Plastics Program at GAIA; Philip J. Landrigan, MD from the Global Observatory on Planetary Health at Boston College.
When: 8 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Mongabay
Tue, June 24 - OpenAI Academy Information Session
What: Discover how OpenAI Academy’s free educational tools, including webinars, guides, and videos can support your journey into artificial intelligence. Whether you’re an educator or AI enthusiast, this session will walk you through the platform, highlight tailored resources, and offer a live Q&A with the team.
Who: Cynthia Pereda, LCSW Grant Director, NAAIC; Antonio Delgado Vice President, Innovation and Technology Partners, Miami Dade College; Alex Nawar Head of OpenAI Academy, OpenAI.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: National Applied AI Consortium, OpenAI Academy
Wed, June 25 - From Draft to Submission: AI Tools for Optimizing the Research Workflow
What: This session will introduce participants to the most effective AI tools for optimizing each stage of the research workflow. Whether you’re an experienced AI user or exploring these tools for the first time, the session will provide insights into selecting the right solutions while addressing concerns about privacy, reliability, and ethical considerations.
Who: Raffaella Gozzelino Group Leader at NOVA Medical School of Lisbon; Vasundara BN Project Manager, Cactus Communications.
When: 3 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Editage
Wed, June 25 - Reimagining Financial Journalism in the Age of AI
What: This webinar will explore how we should redefine and re-educate financial journalists for an AI-augmented future.
Who: Ryk van Niekerk, an award-winning financial journalist with more than 25 years of experience. He currently serves as the editor of Moneyweb and hosts RSG Geldsake, the most widely listened-to business radio show in South Africa; Rob Rose, a South African business journalist with over two decades of experience in financial and investigative reporting. He is currently editor and co-founder of Currency, a financial news publication.
When: 7 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Wits Centre for Journalism, Johannesburg
Wed, June 25 - A Trauma informed care for grieving families
What: Learn how grief affects children at different developmental stages. The Do’s and Don’ts of trauma informed responses. And how to best support grieving youth and families.
Who: Paula Newcom, Northeast Regional Coordinator, Indiana State Library; Lindsy Diener-Locke, LSW·Ryan’s Place (Goshen, Indiana).
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Indiana State Library
Wed, June 25 - Enhancing the research journey in the Web of Science
What: We will explore the latest AI-driven enhancements to the Web of Science that are transforming the research experience.
Who: Elizabeth Killeen, Life Sciences Librarian, Imperial College London.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Clarivate
Wed, June 25 - Beyond Traffic: How Publishers Are Diversifying Advertising Revenue
What: Join executives from two top news media companies as they share practical strategies for building direct relationships, implementing engagement-focused KPIs, and demonstrating to advertisers why engaged audiences command premium CPMs over anonymous traffic.
Who: David Murphy, Group Head of Digital, The Irish Times; Tuomas Airisto, Chief Commercial Officer, Sanoma Media Finland.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to INMA members
Sponsor: International News Media Association
Wed, June 25 - Harnessing AI: How journalists can reap the benefits – and avoid the pitfalls – of emerging AI tools
What: This panel will share some practical examples of how to incorporate AI tools into your day-to-day workflow. When used correctly, AI can help business journalists do their jobs more efficiently. The panel will also cover best practices to avoid AI hallucinations and other pitfalls, and how to ensure accountability to readers.
Who: Kylie Robison, Senior Correspondent, Wired; Ben Welsh, News Applications Editor, Reuters; Greg Saitz, Investigations Editor, FT Specialist US.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to SABEW members, $10 for nonmembers
Sponsor: Society of American Business Editors and Writers
Wed, June 25 - Geospatial Intelligence – New Data to Solutions
What: This webinar that takes you deep into the Geospatial intelligence lifecycle—from the capture of data to the advanced analytical tools and how advances in AI and machine learning are transforming it into actionable insights. Discover how organizations across sectors are leveraging geospatial intelligence to drive strategic decisions, optimize operations, reduce risk, and create new value in government, business, and humanitarian missions.
Who: Debra Werner Correspondent SpaceNews; Chad Anderson, Founder & CEO Space Capital; Brian Pope, Vice President of Intel Programs Maxar Intelligence; Scot Currie, Vice President of Geospatial Solutions BlackSky.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Black Sky
Wed, June 25 - The Ultimate Scrivener Guide for Non-Fiction Writers Who Want Results
What: This webinar is your step-by-step guide to mastering Scrivener, the ultimate tool for organizing research, crafting outlines, and producing polished manuscripts. Perfect for writers of memoirs, how-to guides, and journalistic works, this session delivers practical techniques you can use right away to simplify your process and achieve your writing goals.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Scrivener
Thu, June 26 - 2025 Cybersecurity Trends: Key Findings from Radware’s Global Application Security Survey
What: Join us for an in-depth look at Radware’s 2025 Cyber Survey, conducted in partnership with Osterman Research. Based on responses from hundreds of security and IT leaders across industries and regions, the report reveals growing concerns around offensive AI, API business logic attacks, third-party exposure, DDoS disruptions, and compliance gaps. This session will explore the key findings, including why most organizations lack visibility, documentation, and real-time protections. Learn what these trends mean for your customers and how Radware can help address the most urgent challenges in application, API, and cloud security.
Who: Dan Schnour; Michael Sampson
When: 2 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Radware
Thu, June 26 – Rewriting the Leadership Playbook: Innovative Ideas from the Executive Program
What: Join the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for a showcase of bold ideas and breakthrough strategies from the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Newmark J-School.
Who: Aldana Vales, Director of Audience Experiences at Gannett – USA TODAY Network; Andrea McDaniels, Managing Editor at The Baltimore Banner; Mariah Craddick, Executive Director of Product at The Atlantic; Paris Brown, Publisher at The Baltimore Times; Ross Maghielse, Deputy Managing Editor, Innovation & Development at The Philadelphia Inquirer; and 13 others.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Thu, June 26 – Accessing Immigration Records
What: What can local reporters do to get the records they need?
Who: Ellen Goodrich, Jack Nelson-Dow Jones Foundation Legal Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Renee Griffin, Staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where she oversees the Legal Hotline; Lau Guzmá, Reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio covering immigrant communities, housing, education and health; Jason Leopold, Senior investigative reporter at Bloomberg and federal Freedom of Information Act expert.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The New England First Amendment Coalition, the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications
Thu, June 26 – Automate Your Outreach: AI for Email and Social Media
What: This webinar is designed specifically for busy business owners and marketers. You’ll learn how to harness the latest in AI and automation to plan, write, and schedule your marketing—without sounding robotic.
When: 12:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Dream Local Digital
Thu, June 26 – AI and Law in Communication
What: Cayce Myers will share insights from his newly published book, “Artificial Intelligence and Law in the Communication Professions.” He’ll discuss the latest developments in AI regulation and what they mean for public relations, journalism, and advertising professionals.
Who: Cayce Myers, a nationally recognized expert on communication law and emerging technologies. He serves as the Director of Graduate Studies and a professor in the School of Communication at Virginia Tech.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Nashville Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America
Thu, June 26 – Empowering Communities Through Applied AI
What: This session is designed to demystify AI and empower individuals through real-world applications. From ethical considerations to practical demonstrations of AI tools like ChatGPT and custom GPTs, participants will gain insights into how AI can be responsibly and effectively used across professional settings.
Who: Sheena Johns Instructor, Miami Dade College; Christian Vivas Founder, RAWBBIT; Dr. José A. Fernández-Calvo Leader, AI Center, Miami Dade College; Michael Mannino Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Syneurgy; Pedro A. Santos Acosta Executive Director of Emerging Technologies, Miami Dade College;
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy, Miami Dade College
Thu, June 26 - Build a Beautiful, Impactful Website with Wix
What: Discover how to effortlessly create a stunning website for your nonprofit using Wix's user-friendly tools. In this webinar, we’ll explore the power of the AI Site Generator, which helps you launch a fully designed and content-ready site in minutes. You’ll also get tips for using the Wix Editor, a no-code, drag-and-drop platform that makes customization a breeze. Finally, learn how the Wix Blog can help you share your story, increase visibility, and connect with your supporters. Perfect for nonprofits starting from scratch or looking to refresh their online presence.
Who: Ala Ebrahim, Head of B2B Product Training, Wix,
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Thu, June 26 - 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 Meek.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $20
Sponsor: Video Consortium
Thu, June 26 - Know your rights: Legal Protections for Journalists in the Field
What: This webinar will focus how to safely navigate police interactions and other tips for report in the field.
Who: Yelan Escalona, Attorney at Shullman Fugate; Karla Burgos-Moron, Pro Bono Partnerships Coordinator at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
When: 5:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Demanding Justice
/Since we have been the recipients of maximum mercy, who are we to suddenly demand justice from others? -Charles Swindoll
14 Surprising Things AI Can Do Now
/Big data for big animals: how AI is helping save Tanzania’s endangered giraffes – Microsoft
Doctors Report the First Pregnancy Using a New AI Procedure - TIME
Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms – The Verge
How AI Can Help Save Our Oceans - TIME
601 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations – Google
This Year’s Hot New Tool for Chefs? ChatGPT.- New York Times
How political cartoonists are bringing AI into their work - Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Some Dead Sea Scrolls are older than researchers thought, AI analysis suggests – Science
AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention – MIT
AI Shopping Assistants Are Here. Should You Use Them? – Wall Street Journal
People are asking ChatGPT for ‘harsh, honest’ beauty advice - The Washington Post
AI can now stalk you with just a single vacation photo - Vox
When!?
/When will you begin to look past what you see? – Mary Poppins
The Impact of AI on Computer Science Degrees
/Computer science has consistently been one of the top majors in the United States for the last decade. But with the ability to task A.I. to code, startups and tech giants alike are hiring fewer and fewer entry-level computer scientists. Reports suggest that at major A.I. companies, the hiring rate for software engineering jobs has fallen over the course of 2024 from a high of about 3,000 per month to near zero. If enrollments in computer science degrees dry up as jobs disappear, the whole pipeline from education to employment could crash. It’s not so surprising that chatbots might threaten technical jobs before writing ones. -Leif Weatherby, director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University, writing in the New York Times
A Natural Style
/When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. -Blaise Pascal (born June 19, 1623)
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
Years that Ask
/There are years that ask questions and years that answer. -Zora Neale Hurston
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)
Humans v Machines
/Humans know how to deal with a chaotic and constantly changing world. Machines struggle to master the unexpected — the challenges, both small and large, that do not look like what has happened in the past. Humans can dream up ideas that the world has never seen. Machines typically repeat or enhance what they have seen before. -Cade Metz writing in the New York Times
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
/New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters - Tech Crunch
AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse – Wired
OpenAI takes down covert operations using social media tied to China and other countries – NPR
The US to Become a Net Exporter of AI Talent in 2025 - Zekidata
AI-powered fanfiction blurs political reality – Semafor
A bid to bar states from regulating AI is getting pushback – Washington Post
Trump signs bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakes - TechCrunch
America Is Winning the Wrong AI Race – Wall Street Journal
The UAE and Saudi Arabia are pouring billions into U.S.-backed AI infrastructure – Wired
States chase OpenAI’s $100 billion AI American Dream - Washington Post
Scammers use AI to spoof senior U.S. officials' voices, FBI warns – Axios
AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state – The Verge
How Taiwan can bolster U.S. in the global AI and tech race - Washington Post
The AI Slop Presidency – 404 Media
White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup - Washington Post
US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance – New Scientist
A startup is using AI to summarize local city council meetings – Columbia Journalism Review
House GOP eyes moratorium on state AI laws - Washington Post
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.
More AI definitions here
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