You Must Decide
/There are only two ways to approach life – as a victim or as a gallant fighter – and you must decide if you want to act or react. A lot of people forget that. -Merle Shain
16 Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care
/The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise – MIT
The administration’s biodefense team has dwindled amid growing concern over AI-enabled pathogens – Washington Post
A.I. Is Finding Sperm Where Doctors Couldn’t – New York Times
What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? – The Guardian
AI could bring Mayo-quality health care to everyone - Axios
From policing authors to stewarding science: Governing artificial intelligence across the scientific publishing pipeline in medical journals – Science Policy Review
Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI – 404 Media
AI brings savings to clinical trials: study – Axios
Healthcare Investing Is Now an AI Short in Disguise – Wall Street Journal
What AI’s usurping of the peer-reviewed publications means for medicine and pharmaceutical industry - The London School of Economics
Doctors Don’t Want Patients to Read Test Results With AI. They’re Doing It Anyway. – Wall Street Journal
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users – Tech Crunch
Medical ethics journal retracts paper by high school student for AI, peer review manipulation – Retraction Watch
How A.I. Might Change the Way Doctors Think – New York Times
Medical students are using a popular research tool (aided by AI) to pump out misleading studies – Science.org
Survey finds 3 in 10 adults using social media, AI for health information and advice – AHA
Humans in the Loop
/Human oversight of AI does not mean manually reviewing every output. It means designing controls proportional to risk. A proposed email subject line does not require the same validation as a medical diagnosis, a credit decision, or an instruction affecting an industrial plant. Expertise establishes that threshold, identifies when a model moves beyond its reliable range, and determines when automation must stop. -Eduardo Perez
43 Articles about Resumes
/3 resume mistakes that can sabotage your job application - Fast Company
4 things Bill Gates did wrong on his 1974 Harvard student resume, from experts - CNBC
4 websites to help you create a clean, attractive resume - The Next Web
6 million job listings asked for 'communication skills': Here's how to include them on your resume - CNBC
6 Tips to Write a Winning Resume Summary (With Examples) - MakeUseOf
7 common resume mistakes to avoid - Fast Company
7 Mistakes that Doom a College Journalist's Resume - Michael Koretzky
13 Must-Have Words to Include in Your Resume - Glassdoor
50 Action Verbs You Can Use For A More Dynamic Resume - Refinery29
20+ LinkedIn Profile Tips (Guaranteed Ways to Stand Out) - Buffer
AI is screening your resume. Here's how to make it past the bots - NPR
Attractive women should not include a photo with a job application - The Economist
Best and Worst Terms for Resumes - Huffington Post
FontPair (Helps you pick font combinations for your resume. so you stand out from the typical Times New Roman)
Gen Z is rewriting the rulebook on 'résumé gaps' - Business Insider
Google recruiters explain how to demonstrate 'past experience' on your resume-even if you've never had a job - Business Insider
How to format your resume if you don't have a degree - CNBC
How to include your personality in your resume, says a Deloitte exec: It will give you ‘the edge’ - CNBC
How to get your résumé past the robot reading it - Vox
How to Make Sure Your Résumé Passes Muster With an AI Reader - Wall Street Journal ($)
How to use ChatGPT to build your resume - ZDnet
How to Write a Data Scientist Resume in 2026: Complete Guide - Analytics Insights
How to Write a Great Resume - Matthew Hale (video)
How to Write a Resume - Glassdoor
Questions about resume gaps are expected. Here’s how job seekers can address them - AP
Looking for a new job? These best online resume services can help you stand out - New York Post
Meet the New Boss, Big Data - Wall Street Journal
The Most Efficient Way to Keep Your Resume Up to Date - LifeHacker
Over 55% of people admit to lying on their resume at least once—here are the 8 most common lies - CNBC
Resume advice from an internship supervisor
The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun - ArsTechnica
Resumes that impress no matter your background - Glassdoor Blog
This is how often you should update your resume—whether or not you’re looking for a new job - CNBC
Steps you can take to modernize your resume - Boston Herald
Stop Saying You 'Helped' on Your Resume (and Use These Verbs Instead) - Lifehacker
Tiny Typos Can Add Up To a Big X - Washington Post
To get a job, write your story instead of a resume - Quartz
Want a new journalism job? 'Crawl' your resume first - Poynter
Why I tossed your Resume - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Your Résumé Might Be Getting Tossed by AI. How to Push Back. - Wall Street Journal
Burning Books
/There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -Joseph Brodsky
Scaling a Flawed Assumption
/The same technology that scales knowledge can scale a flawed assumption. A well-written answer can be false; a historical pattern can reproduce bias; efficient automation can accelerate a process that should never have existed. The greatest risk is not that AI will be wrong, but that it will be wrong fluently enough for someone without domain expertise to trust it. -Eduardo Perez
14 Articles about AI & Coding
/How to Shine as a Data Scientist in the Vibe Coding Era – Toward Data Science
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering - Florian Herrengt
AI has torched the market for junior programmers - Seldo
In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all. – Jakub
Can Your AI Pass the Accessibility Test? – Aaron Gustafson
Everyone got excited they can suddenly code, and completely missed the point – Kasper Junge
Loop Engineering in AI - Addy Osmani
Tech Workers Maxed Out Their A.I. Use. Now They’re Trying to Minimize It. – New York Times
Code Is Cheap. Engineering Judgement Is Now the Scarce Resource – Toward Data Science
Prompts are technical debt too – Sean Goedecke
Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era – New York Times
The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming – Wall Street Journal
The 2026 edition of the State of Web Dev AI survey – State of AI
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload – New York Times
Two Ways Through Life
/There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski
A.I. Self-preference Bias
/There’s fascinating research emerging about so-called A.I. self-preference bias — the tendency for these systems to favor their own work. In other words, an A.I. recruiter will probably rate a résumé generated by ChatGPT more highly than one written by a human. - Callie Holtermann of the New York Times
AI Definitions: Tokens
/Tokens – A token can be thought of as the basic unit used by AI to process language, similar to the root of a word. “Creat” would represent words like create, creative, creator, creating, and creation. An LLM looks for correlations between words that go together like giraffe and neck. A single word might fall into many tokens since it might have multiple meanings and its subword might correlate to many other subwords. One token generally corresponds to ~4 characters of text for common English text. Examples: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
That’s when you find out
/There are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are. -Steve Jobs
AI Definitions: The Measurement Trap
/Frontier models can detect that they are being evaluated and will shift outcomes to meet the goals of a test. These so-called measurement traps are not unique to AI models. They show up in standardized testing (when instructors begin to “teaching to the test”) as well as in business when bonuses and promotions are tied to revenue measures. This leads to short-term sales being prioritized over long-term profitability. The problem is this: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
AI Mathematical Misconduct
/OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say. Two of the most exciting results, the experts say, incorporate preexisting ideas from the recent mathematical literature without properly citing them. Like a number of recent AI breakthroughs, it pasted together ideas from the mathematical literature to build a new theorem. Once again, the LLM’s trick is its superhuman patience for assembling puzzle pieces, not the ability to make some profound intellectual leap. -Scientific American
The Prison
/The prison isn’t the past, the prison is the belief that the past is still you. -Derek Parfit
19 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, Aug 17 - Leading Through AI Transformation
What: Industry experts will explore how organizations are equipping leaders to guide teams through AI-driven change. Learn practical approaches for strengthening communication, supporting employees through disruption and using AI to enhance collaboration, learning and business performance. This session will provide actionable insights for leaders working to build adaptable, resilient and future-ready teams.
Who: Alan Nelson, Co-Managing Partner CRA, Admired Leadership; Brittany Podolak, Chief Human Resources Officer, athenahealth; Danielle Silver, Solution Architect, SweetRush; Josh Cardoz, Chief Creative & Learning Officer, Sponge; Tom Kupetis Partner and Executive Vice President, St. Charles Consulting Group NIIT.
When: 11 am – 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Industry
Tue, Aug 18 - Framing Public Health Stories for Impact: From local to national
What: How to anchor local reporting in national data, policy, and trends without losing nuance; advice on localizing national health issues with reporting that centers people, place, and lived experience; and tips for engaging complex public health and healthcare topics into clear, engaging stories for broad audiences.
Who: Tracy Jan, a senior editor for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The National Press Club Journalism Institute,
Tue, Aug 18 - Keep that research off the shelf: Operationalizing audience research in your newsroom
What: Learn practical ways to turn audience research into real newsroom action. How to design research around real business challenges, integrate it into your newsroom's workflow, and measure its impact.
Who: Ariel Zirulnick, an entrepreneurial journalist and consultant who works at the intersection of editorial, audience, and product strategy to help news organizations build more sustainable, community-centered futures.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Indiegraf
Tue, Aug 18 - The AI Paradox: The More Technology Advances, the More human Influence Matters
What: Discover practical, research-based strategies that will help you strengthen your influence and succeed in a world where technology continues to evolve— but lasting success still depends on human Influence.
Who: Elaina Zuker President, Elaina Zuker Associates.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Tue, Aug 18 - Covering “Teen Takeovers”
What: Go beyond police reports and breaking-news narratives. Learn to cover so-called “teen takeovers” with context, accuracy and care.
Who: Fernanda Camarena, an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience; Liz Ryan, a policy expert, advocate and investigative journalist; Kevin Beckford, Advisor for Partnerships at Pretrial Justice Institute; Justin Garcia, State and Local Accountability Reporter, Tampa Bay Times
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Poynter
Tue, Aug 18 - SPJ Code of Ethics Listening Session No. 2
What: The second of three listening sessions. Learn about the work that has gone into the recommended Code revisions, the revisions being considered and ask your questions. Registration required.
Who: The SPJ Code of Ethics revision committee.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
Wed, Aug 19 - How to get your brand recommended in Claude
What: Learn how Claude finds, evaluates and recommends brands: what influences its answers, where SEO still matters, and what you can do to improve your chances of being recommended.
Who: JP Garbaccio Head of AEO & SEO, Searchable.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Searchable
Wed, Aug 19 - Builder Bootcamp: API Foundations
What: In this session, you’ll build a practical foundation for developing with the OpenAI API. We’ll cover core building blocks, model selection, prompting, structured outputs, and the key concepts that help teams move from an initial use case to a working prototype.
Who: Peter Diamond, Builder ADM, OpenAI; Allie Lei, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Tue, Aug 19 - Covering health care affordability: A big story with major impact
What: Join us for a conversation and Q&A about a topic that applies to every town, city and state as small businesses struggle with rising insurance costs and employees face daunting financial decisions.
Who: Joseph Burns, AHCJ Health Beat Leader for Health Policy, Insurance; Bob Herman, Business of Health Care Reporter, STAT.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Association of Health Care Journalists
Wed, Aug 19 - How to Actually Use AI in Virtual Training
What: We’ll cut through the noise and share three specific ways you can incorporate AI into your virtual classes. You'll explore how to use AI to create an engaging learning experience, as a facilitation support tool to stay present with learners during delivery, and as a tech backup to handle platform issues without derailing your session.
Who: Cindy Huggett, CPTD Principal, Cindy Huggett Consulting.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenSesame
Wed, Aug 19 - 15 AI Tools Every Professional Needs in 2026 Share
What: No technical background needed. What You'll Walk Away With: AI Productivity Checklist; 50 Ready-to-Use AI Prompts; AI Tools Resource Guide; Webinar Presentation; Certificate of Participation; Exclusive discount on advanced training.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: Humanitix
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Mangates
Thu, Aug 20 - Intro to ChatGPT Work for News Organizations
What: How ChatGPT Work can support the teams that help news organizations grow and operate. We’ll explore the shift from AI that answers questions to AI that can carry work forward across multiple steps, using the tools and context around you.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Thu, Aug 20 - AI in Action: What’s Working in the Field
What: You’ll hear directly from district leaders who are putting AI into practice as they share lessons learned, successful use cases, and the leadership decisions helping them build thoughtful, sustainable approaches that support educators and improve outcomes for students.
Who: Jared Bloom, Superintendent, Franklin Square Union Free School District (NY); Shaylia McRae, Deputy Superintendent, Academics and Transformation, Hillsborough County Public Schools (FL); Debbie Durrence, Interim Chief Accountability Officer, Gwinnett County Public Schools (GA); Dan Bridges, Superintendent, Naperville Community Unit School District 203 (IL); Jennifer Ferrari, Chief Executive Officer, ERDI; and Jeff McCoy, Chief Education Officer, ERDI.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Education Research and Development Institute
Thu, Aug 20 - AI for Government Admin, Executive Secretaries, and Critical Support Roles
What: A practical session exploring how administrative professionals, executive secretaries, and critical support teams can use AI to strengthen their everyday work.
Who: Amanda Bullock, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI; Hillary Washington, Executive Ops, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Thu, Aug 20 - Data Made Simple: Google Sheets for Journalists
What: Designed for journalists with little or no spreadsheet experience, the workshop will cover the building blocks of Google Sheets, including sorting and filtering data, creating simple calculations and cleaning information for analysis. Participants will learn practical techniques they can immediately use to improve their reporting and workflow.
Who: Mónica Cordero is an award-winning investigative data reporter.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: iMediaCampus
Thu, Aug 20 - ChatGPT Work for data analytics teams
What: Learn how data analytics teams can start using ChatGPT Work for common workflows. This session will focus on practical ways newly enabled users can begin exploring Work with the tools and context they already use.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Thu, Aug 20 - AI Governance for the Public Sector: Balancing Innovation, Security and Trust
What: You'll learn: Where AI adoption is creating new risks across state and local government environments, and why many organizations lack full visibility. How to identify and manage shadow AI, and what steps can help improve oversight of tools and usage across your organization. What it takes to establish practical governance frameworks, and how to balance innovation with security and compliance.
Who: Jim Bergen, Vice President, State Local and Education, CrowdStrike; Matt Singleton Executive Public Sector Strategist, CrowdStrike and Former State of Oklahoma CISO; Adam Zoller Chief Information Security Officer, CrowdStrike.
When: 2:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
Thu, Aug 20 - The FāVS Model: What One Newsroom Can Teach Us About Building a Sustainable Journalism Community
What: A conversation about the organization's evolution, the lessons learned along the way, and what other journalists, editors, and publishers can apply to their own work. From recruiting contributors to building community and adapting to a changing media landscape, this webinar offers practical insights for anyone interested in strengthening local journalism.
Who: Tracy Simmons, executive director of FāVS News; FāVS News associate editor Cassy Benefield; FāVS News reporter Emma Maple.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Religion News Association
Sat, Aug 22 - AI Speech-to-Text in Practice: Lessons for Library Workflows, Testing, and Evaluation
What: This webinar explores the practical applications, opportunities, and challenges of implementing these tools, drawing on real-world insights from recent evaluations of speech-to-text technologies.
Who: Meghan Xu Programmer/Analyst, DevOps, Scholars Portal, OCUL; Rachel Wang Systems Administrator, DevOps, Scholars Portal, OCUL.
When: 2:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries
Profanity
/Profanity is a lazy man’s way of trying to be emphatic.
A Competition Between People & Machines
/Framing the future as a competition between people and machines is a false choice. AI will automate tasks, transform professions, and displace some jobs. It is equally misguided to conclude that expertise no longer matters. What is changing is how expertise creates value: less time spent on repetitive execution, and more on defining the right problem, recognizing exceptions, validating outcomes, and taking responsibility for the consequences of a decision. -Eduardo Perez
10 Articles about Jobs in Public Relations
/Can journalists easily switch to PR? - PR Moment
From Policy to PR – It Was the Same Job All Along - Campaigns & Elections
From the pros: job-seeking advice everyone should know - PR Daily
How to choose between agency and in-house roles - PR Daily
How to Land a Fashion PR Internship, According to Publicists - Fashionista
How to write a great bio: A strong “about me” can really make you stand out - PR Daily
Majority of PR Pros Using AI, Survey Finds - PRSA
The PR Job You Want Exists (It’s Just Not Called “Public Relations”) - Media Bistro
What experienced communicators wish new PR pros understood - PR Daily
Your Guide to Landing an Entry-Level Marketing Job - Coursera
Who Admires You?
/Tell me who admires and loves you, And I will tell you who you are. –Charles Aguustin Sainte-Beuve
AI Definitions: Artificial Intelligence
/Artificial Intelligence (AI) – AI typically refers to computers that imitate the process of human thinking, able to make some decisions on their own without human intervention. The defining feature of artificial intelligence is that its behavior is learned from data rather than from being explicitly programmed. When most people talk about artificial intelligence, they typically refer to LLMs (Large Language Models). While AI can effectively mimic and mix established patterns in creative ways, it does not perform well at creating new things by breaking expectations and conventional forms.