AI Insights for March 6, 2025

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News and Views

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Government

  • Trump’s Budget Cuts Threaten AI Research, Top Scientists Warn (Fortune)
  • OSTP Nominee Kratsios Vows Focus on AI, Quantum, Innovation (MeriTalk)
  • OpenAI Uncovers Evidence of AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Tool (New York Times)
  • Rep. Obernolte ‘Optimistic’ CREATE AI Act Can Clear Congress (MeriTalk)

Higher Education

Industry News

  • The AI Future is Here (Scientific American)
  • What’s Ahead for AI (Wall Street Journal)
  • Honor’s New AI Agent Can Read and Understand Your Screen (Wired)
  • Google’s New Tech Means Video Calls May Not Be the Death of Us After All (Wall Street Journal)
  • The Future of Business Processes: Three Functions that GenAI Will Transform (Tech Radar)
  • What If Generative AI Could Help Save the Environment? (Forbes)
  • How Technology Will Revolutionize Sports in 2025 (Sports Video Group)
  • These Smart Cameras Spot Wildfires Before They Spread (Wall Street Journal)
  • Want to Be a Better Listener? Take Lessons From a Chatbot (Wall Street Journal)
  • When Will We See Mass Adoption of Gen AI? (McKinsey Digital)
  • The Real DeepSeek Revelation: The Market Doesn’t Understand AI (Semafor)
  • Apple Vows to Build AI Servers in Houston and Spend $500 Billion in US (New York Times)
  • Amazon Unveils Alexa+, Powered by Generative AI (New York Times)
  • OpenAI Unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ Its Largest AI Model Yet (Tech Crunch)
  • Microsoft Releases New Phi Models Optimized for Multimodal Processing, Efficiency (Silicon Angle)

Journalism

  • The LA Times Published an Op-Ed Warning of AI’s dangers. It Also Published Its AI Tool’s Reply (The Guardian)

Workplace and Workforce

  • US Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace (Pew Research Center)
  • “Humans in the Loop” Make AI Work For Now (Axios)
  • How AI Tools are Reshaping the Coding Workforce (Wall Street Journal)
  • Chegg Sues Google for Hurting Traffic With AI As It Considers Strategic Alternatives (CNBC)

This Issue’s Tip: Boost Research Productivity with AI-Powered Literature Reviews

Instead of manually sifting through hundreds of research papers, use AI tools like Elicit, Semantic Scholar, or ChatGPT to summarize key findings, compare papers and generate insights. AI can help identify gaps in existing research and suggest potential directions for further study.

This Issue’s Prompt: Debate Yourself

A prompt is how you ask generative AI tools to do something for you (e.g., creating, summarizing, editing or transforming). Treat it like a conversation, using clear language and enough context to get the result you have in mind.

To get more practice, use the generative AI tool of your choice (for example, Microsoft Copilot, Open AI ChatGPT or Anthropic Claude) to execute the following prompt:

“Act as a debate coach. I am preparing a discussion on [topic] for my class. Provide a list of thought-provoking, opposing viewpoints on this issue, along with supporting arguments for each side.“

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