Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present to a group of folks. Like many of the folks I present to, there’s an expectation that you can protect data privacy with free Gen AI tools. I may ha…

What we are seeing now with data privacy policy changes is a bait-n-switch. First, we’re promised our data is safe. Then, after we use the tool and find it indispensable, the policy is change…

Today, no advancement in technology (save for cell phones, which are now facing widespread, warranted bans) has shred through the fabric of our classrooms like AI has. (source: Clayton Kistner…

Are you a Texas public school librarian with questions about the new laws? You’re not alone. This past week at the Sun City Ed Tech Conference in El Paso, Texas, I shared a new custom GPT I p…

What we talk about when we talk about using AI

Humanities as a CAPTCHA Test in the Age of AI

The Cult of Human Exceptionalism

The AI Assessment Scale (v2) has officially been published in the open access Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (JUTLP). Read more here!

Learn more about Gemini for Home, powering new, smarter AI features for Google Nest and other smart home products.

Yoshua Bengio called for a pause on AI model development two years ago to focus on safety standards. Companies instead invested hundreds of billions of dollars into building more advanced models capable of executing long chains of reasoning and taking autonomous action. The A.M. Turing Award winner ...

: Other studies are finding the same thing

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Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

Data Commons announces the availability of its MCP Server, which is a major milestone in making all of Data Commons’ vast public datasets instantly accessible and actionable for AI developers worldwide.

New report: “Scam GPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud.” This primer maps what we currently know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts that are making people more willing to take risks, more vulnerable to deception, and more likely to either perpetuate scams or fall victim to them. AI-enhanced scams are not merely financial or technological crimes; they also exploit social vulnerabilities ­ whether short-term, like travel, or structural, like precarious employment. This means they require social solutions in addition to technical ones. By examining how scammers are changing and accelerating their methods, we hope to show that defending against them will require a constellation of cultural shifts, corporate interventions, and eff­ective legislation...

We’ll see how this goes…

OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a TikTok-style app where users create AI cameos, raising fresh questions on internet “AI slop.”

Google has long argued that AI Overview is not killing traffic to publishers. Additional research is showing otherwise.

Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 4.5 as ChatGPT adds shopping checkout. The AI race shifts from model benchmarks to platform control. Read the analysis.

It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic.

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AI-related infrastructure spending by Big Tech is expected to surpass $2.8 trillion through 2029.

“You’ll either get it or pretend you don’t,” AI-generated character Tilly Norwood’s Instagram bio declares. SAG-AFTRA has joined celebrities like Melissa

Rice Partnering with Google on Broad AI Initiative

There's a potential future where very human has a team of super persuasive AIs that are assigned to them to manipulate them in the market

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure — dip in and out where you'd like — but also in one go.  This is my comprehensive case that yes, we’re in a bubble, one that will inevitably (and violently) collapse in the near future. I'll also be cutting this into a four-part episode

: Good luck with that!

: Adds more Anthropic into the mix as Redmond hedges its bets