24 Recent Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year – Washington Post

AI saves scientists seven hours a week, Google paper finds – Research Professional News

What if AI can make Science Better, not just Faster? - Bradley Max Segal

AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done – Nature

The AI Discourse in Academia is Toxic. It Doesn’t have to be.- Ran Blekhman

Can researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas? – Science Business

Who gets credit in the AI era? OpenAI maths bombshell sparks debate – Nature

AI conference drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline – The Decoder

Journal editor developing system to weed out authors “submitting AI-assisted papers they ‘don’t understand.' - Nihar Shah

Use and Effects of LLMs in Peer Review: A Randomized Experiment and Survey at ICML 2026 – arXiv

Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using AI for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals – Futurism

South Korean Government New Guidelines mandate of AI Disclosure in Research – Chosun  

Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

All corners of academia will soon be flooded with AI-generated research - Giorgio Gilestro

Misconduct case dropped against AI expert after claims of AI use in recent book – Retraction Watch

AI in peer review should be a second reader, not a judge – KevinMD

Three-quarters of researchers unsure what use of AI to disclose - Research Professional News

The “synthetic validity” problem in AI-generated science – PNAS

A psychology journal has retracted a paper on how using generative AI can affect confidence in work tasks – Retraction Watch

It could be a long time before independent research emerges on how AI should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes. – Inside Higher Ed

Scholars are divided over how much AI use is acceptable. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Analysis of predatory journals using AI generated papers – Springer

AI Paper Mills Now Taint One in Ten Cancer Studies: France Cuts Big Publisher Ties – Tech Times

Why funders should investigate if AI is making research more conservative – Science Business

Professors & Students are in a Bind

Professors and students are often in a bind about what they should do: Use more A.I. to stay relevant, or dial back to preserve learning and thinking? Getting answers from a bot can create the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. at the first hint of struggle. At the same time, the potential of these technologies to augment work across campus is immense. -New York Times

Those who turn back

Those who turn back know only the ordeal, but they who persevere remember the adventure. -Milo L. Arnold

AI Definitions: Tokenmaxxing

Tokenmaxxing - Maximizing the use of AI by using as many tokens as possible. Some companies have treated this high consumption as a status symbol for productivity. However, the practice used up AI budgets quickly and has fallen out of favor in the corporate world.

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Students & Ideas

The university is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.  -Clark Kerr  

26 Surprising Things AI can do now

FAA launches AI tool to assist air traffic control at major D.C.-area airports – Washington Post

K-Pop Is Betting on AI and Robots. Will Fans Buy It? – Wall Street Journal

How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose – New York Times

Satellite data combined with machine learning gives meteorologists new tools to predict deadly floods sooner. – The Verge

AI can now control fusion plasma faster than humans can react – Science Daily

Will A.I. Kill Us? Can It Hack My Bank Account? Your A.I. Questions Answered – New York Times

Mastercard Joins Visa in Letting AI Bots Do Your Shopping – Wall Street Journal

Single brain implant enables people with paralysis to speak and convey upper-body gestures simultaneously via a virtual avatar - National Institutes of Health

Listing sites are littered with homes with fake fireplaces, improved views and virtual landscaping, raising false advertising concerns. – New York Times

Manuscripts-turned AI agents can now ‘talk’ to each other, make new discoveries – Stanford

Philosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose – Daily Nous

OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ – New York Times

This may be the first academic profession to see its work taken over by AI – Washington Post

Google’s New Phone Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That? – New York Times

Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices – Tech Crunch

AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors – Nature

A.I. Is Everywhere in China. See For Yourself. – New York Times

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say – Scientific American 

This $150 lifetime AI-powered app listens while you play piano and coaches you in real time - Mashable

I was an AI skeptic — until I started using it to identify plants – Tom’s Guide

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News – Wired

Baby’s first A.I. surveillance will track sleep and other data for young children – New York Times

AI Can Now Create Viruses From Scratch. What Happens When Someone Uses It for Harm? - Popular Mechanics

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack – ABC

A New Class of Cuddly Mascots Is Selling Everything From AI to Tap Water – Wall Street Journal

An A.I. was able to create 16 viruses not found in nature after scientists trained it on DNA libraries – New York Times

Making Peace

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman

AI Definitions: Model Architecture

Model Architecture — The blueprint for how an AI system is built. Like the architecture of a building, it defines how data flows through the model, how information is processed, and how results are produced.

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Stanford's Use of AI Questioned

Stanford University used AI to replace a Latino man with a fictitious Black woman on banners displayed on campus. The faces of the other students in the banner were also edited with AI tools, to make them appear slimmer. Stanford officials said the use of AI violated university policy, and the school has removed the welcome banners. -San Francisco Standard

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Use a Compass

Use a compass instead of a clock. It’s more important what direction you are going than how quickly you get there.

Unstirred Waters

Unstirred waters lead to stagnation, and stagnation can't support life. -Ron Martoia

AI Definitions: Intent Continuity

Intent Continuity – When an AI agent carries an old requirement into a new task without the user having to repeat it, and dropping that rule if something newer overrides it. This is particularly important when using coding agents for long-running projects where rules can be forgotten. It is not important when running single-session tasks that carry no history or when the rules never change.

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Heroic Imagination

The very same situations that inflame the hostile imagination in some people, making them villains, can also instill the heroic imagination in other people, prompting them to perform heroic deeds. -Philip Zimbardo

Just Religious Talk.

The way we live is what we believe. The rest is just religious talk.

New Security Vulnerabilities Coming

The expected arrival in a few months of open Chinese models that rival the power of the best currently offered by Anthropic and OpenAI will create significant new security vulnerabilities. The Pentagon’s top cyberdefense officer said last week that it has seen a ‘tenfold’ increase in security vulnerabilities as AI has emerged as a powerful tool for attackers. -Washington Post

A point in the race

There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide. - Rolf Arands, a runner

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