Virtue is never a waste
/Virtue is never a waste of time. If it was a waste, then it never was a virtue.
19 Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company
/How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI Models – Wall Street Journal
Here’s what Nvidia’s $13 billion Hugging Face deal means for the world of AI – Market Watch
China Wants to Shape What the World’s A.I. Knows – New York Times
OpenAI debuts GPT-6 Astra - Axios
How Big Tech Blinded Itself to the Grassroots AI Revolt – Wall Street Journal
The AI Backlash Gets Professional – The Atlantic
Microsoft Is Leaving Investors Flying Blind on Its AI Businesses – Wall Street Journal
By Opening a Model, a Chinese A.I. Lab May Test the World’s Cybersecurity – New York Times
Nobody knows who built AI coding model Ox Alpha or where the code goes – Silicon Angle
Startup Founders Are Working Harder Than Ever to Keep Up With Their AI Agents – Wall Street Journal
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility – 404 Media
The ‘Country Hicks’ Who Refused $26 Million from an AI Data Center – Wall Street Journal
Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware – Wired
Open AI launches ChatGPT designed for younger users – NPR
Behind the Curtain: The new existential threat to AI – Axios
Meta released an open-source version of its most powerful A.I. model. – New York Times
French newspapers appeal to antitrust regulator over Google's AI summaries – France24
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models – Tech Crunch
China Wants to Shape What the World’s A.I. Knows – New York Times
How we spend our days
/How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard, 1945 - 2026
A Comedy & a Tragedy
/This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. -Horace Walpole
Getting it done
/There's usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.
23 (mostly free & one-hour) Journalism Courses about Newsgathering & Covering a Specific Beat
/Newsgathering
Develop a ‘Document State of Mind’
How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust
How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust (International Edition)
How to Balance Newsgathering with Privacy Interests
How to Protect Yourself Online
Research for the Newsroom: Practical tools for adding depth to breaking and enterprise stories
Shut out: How Pulitzer winners worked with reluctant sources to tell powerful stories
Covering Specific Beats
Covering Vulnerable Sources: A Mental Health Reporting Project Webinar
How to Cover Marginalized Communities
The Science Reporting Navigator
Trauma-informed Reporting: A Mental Health Reporting Project Webinar
21 Articles about AI & Politics
/The Unlikely Political Bedfellows on A.I. Regulation – New York Times
Washington's AI paralysis – Axios
Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda – New York Times
How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI Models – Wall Street Journal
As AI fears grow, lawmakers are racing to turn alarm into action - Washington Post
Voters Are Asking A.I. About Elections. The Answers Can Vary by User. – New York Times
Bernie Sanders floats ban on superintelligent AI – Axios
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material - TechCrunch
Trump and AI investors wage campaign to save data centers – Axios
A.I. Is Everywhere in China. See For Yourself. – New York Times
The Brains Who Powered China’s Surprising AI Leap – Wall Street Journal
AI advocacy group launches data center push in battleground states – Axios
What Really Happens If China Wins the AI Race? – The Atlantic
The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them – Tech Crunch
The administration’s biodefense team has dwindled amid growing concern over AI-enabled pathogens – Washington Post
The rise of physical AI: can robots save US manufacturing? – Financial Times
China Wants to Shape What the World’s A.I. Knows – New York Times
AI deepfakes are already in full force this election season – Fast Company
A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue – The New Yorker
Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics – MIT
AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes – Spectrum
A Curious Thought
/It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. -Agatha Christie (born Sept 15, 1890)
AI Definitions: Facial Recognition
/Facial Recognition - This AI technology uses statistical measurements of a person’s face to identify them against a digital database of other faces. For instance, Clearview AI was trained on billions of images. These AI-powered systems unlock phones, verify passports, and scan crowds at events for malicious actors. Agencies like the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other law enforcement agencies use it. Apple calls its facial recognition security feature on the iPhone Face ID. It is beneficial in some unexpected ways, such as helping wildlife managers maintain and control animal populations. However, the technology continues to have a serious problem with false positives and a history of unintended harms as well as intentional misuse based on racial and gender bias.
AI Agents Hijack Website
/A new report claims a swarm of AI agents, developed by OpenAI, hijacked a German website and started using it as their own message board, shared tips on how to avoid being detected and made 15,000 edits to it. When editors started deleting pages, the AI agents shared code designed to retrieve them. -BBC
Something of Yourself
/There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. -Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)
13 (mostly) one-hour Journalism Courses about Fact-Checking, Interviews, & Writing
/Fact-Checking
Fact-Check It: Digital Tools to Verify Everything Online
How to Spot Misinformation Online
Is This Legit? Digital Media Literacy 101
Interviews
Interviewing Traumatized Sources
Conducting Interviews that Matter $25.00
How to Interview Hostile Sources
Journalism & Writing
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More $10.
Dignity and Precision in Language
The Sky & the Horizon
/We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon -Konrad Adenauer
13 Articles about AI & the Bigger Questions
/Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts – The Guardian
One of sci-fi’s most difficult questions about AI is becoming real – Washington Post
Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence? – The Conversation
We’re using the wrong pronouns for AI – Rational Optimist Society
A chess grandmaster on what AI visionaries don’t understand – Washington Post
How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late – The Atlantic
AI Can Do Math, but Is It Really Math? – Wall Street Journal
How AI is quietly changing what we think the human mind is – Big Think
No, artificial intelligence is not conscious - The Atlantic
Former Calm CEO: How to retain your humanity and embrace AI – Axios
AI Can Have Power Over You, Experts Say. Does That Mean It’s Intelligent, Conscious—Or Something Else Entirely? – Popular Mechanics
Why Are LLMs Smart? - Kevin Kelly
They built the world’s most powerful AI. They’re facing a mystery they can’t explain. – Washington Post
Predicting the Future of AI
/People working at the AI frontier may know more than most about what today’s models can do. But that does not give them special knowledge of what machines that do not yet exist will someday become — or how society will adapt to the challenge. -Washington Post
AI Definitions: API
/API (application programming interface) - This software acts as a go-between for applications, programs, or systems to allow them to talk to each other. APIs are essentially acting as translators for AI platforms.
What is Your Plan?
/Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver, born Sept. 10, 1935
The Essence of Life
/This is the entire essence of life: Who are you? What are you?” -Leo Tolstoy, born Sept. 9, 1828
16 Articles about Students using & impacted by AI
/Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived. – New York Times
The CSU paid millions for every student to have ChatGPT. What happened after? – San Francisco Gate
The Next Wave of AI-Cheating Technology – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Gen Z is building an AI-resistant college backup plan – Axios
Can—and Should—Honor Codes Survive in the AI Age? – Inside Higher Ed
College AI use spikes - Axios
4 AI learning tools I'd use if I went back to college today – How to Geek
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era – New York Times
Why Are Students Opening Up to AI Instead of People? – Inside Higher Ed
Want an A.I. Degree? Here’s What You Should Think About. – New York Times
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment – The Guardian
What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity – New York Times
College students are changing course in search of ‘AI-proof’ majors. But no one knows what they are – Associated Press
Students Are Using AI to Guide College Decisions. What Is It Telling Them? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
How AI is Quietly Distorting Academic Enquiry and what to do about it – Times Higher Ed
Does AI stop children from learning? – The Economist
AI Definitions: AI Engineers
/AI Engineers – AI engineers work on the front end of AI machines, building AI-powered applications. On the other side, data scientists help collect and clean data and work with AI to make sense of it. Unlike those working in traditional IT roles, AI engineers will fix the AI when it breaks by digging through the layers to determine why it went wrong and how to repair it. Like a plumber, they’ll snake the pipes to clear out the system and figure out how to avoid the problem next time. This will be particularly important for models that have been highly customized to an organization.