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If you couldn’t join us live, here’s your chance to catch up on the latest installment in our AI at Work series. Experts from the ITS Data and AI team and our Online Learning Services group explore the exciting potential of the new MentorAI platform and Blackboard’s AI assistant. Whether you’re curious about practical applications or ready to create your own AI tools, this session offers valuable ideas and insights for faculty and staff.
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Government
- Where the Legal Battle Stands Around Copyright and AI Training (Tech Brew)
- A Federal Mandate for Tech Platforms to Remove Nonconsensual AI-Generated Porn (Politico)
- Coming Up: Rights for “Conscious” AI (Axios)
- UAE to Use AI for Writing Laws (Tech In Asia)
- Trump Officials Eye Changes to Biden’s AI Chip Export Rule, Sources Say (Reuters)
- Echoing Big Tech, Newsom Warns Privacy Watchdog on AI (Politico)
- What Amazon, Meta, Uber, Anthropic and Others Want in the US AI Action Plan (PYMNTS)
- House Investigation Into DeepSeek Teases Out Funding, Security Realities Around Chinese AI Tool (CyberScoop)
Higher Education
- Artificial Intelligence: Lessons Learned from a Graduate-Level Final Exam (Educause Review)
- Higher Education’s AI Imperative: Why Universities Must Lead (Forbes)
- Mapping a Multidimensional Framework for GenAI in Education (Educause Review)
- Student Insight Can Shape the Way We Use GenAI in Teaching (Times Higher Education)
- ASU+GSV 2025: Uses for Agentic AI in Higher Education (Government Technology)
- Doctoral Researchers Are Turning to Generative AI to Assist In Their Research (Times Higher Education)
- The Digital Divide: Student Generative AI Access (Inside Higher Ed)
- Gen Z Says AI Has Made Their College Degrees Irrelevant (Higher Ed Dive)
- Higher Education is Warming Up to AI, New Survey Shows (EdScoop)
- AI in Academia: La Verne Faculty Discuss the Future of AI in Higher Education (University of La Verne)
- April 2025 AI Initiative to Advance Education for U.S. Youth (AI CERTs)
- The White House: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth (The White House)
- Google One AI Premium is Free for College Students Until Spring 2026 (The Verge)
Industry News
- ChatGPT Can Now Remember Everything You Tell It (OpenAI)
- Will AI Change Our Uniquely Human Traits? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- OpenAI’s New Reasoning AI Models Hallucinate More (TechCrunch)
- Values in the Wild: Discovering and Analyzing Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions (Anthropic)
- OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google (Wired)
- Introducing the Meta AI App (Meta)
- OpenAI Is a Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry (Where’s Your Ed At?)
- OpenAI Wants to Buy Chrome and Make it an “AI-First” Experience (ArsTechnica)
- Tracking Energy Use of Your AI Chats (Hugging Face)
- AI Index 2025: State of AI in 10 Charts (HAI Stanford University)
- Palo Alto Networks Acquires Startup Protect AI As RSA Conference Kicks Off (Investors Business Daily)
- An Overview of AI Platform Offerings (Gartner) (Access Gartner Here)
Trends
- The Latest Viral ChatGPT Trend is Doing ‘Reverse Location Search’ From Photos (TechCrunch)
- The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete (The Wall Street Journal)
This Issue’s Tip: Boost Your Productivity with Microsoft Copilot
Looking to supercharge your daily workflow? Check out this quick video overview of Microsoft Copilot—an AI-powered assistant that’s seamlessly integrated into your everyday Microsoft tools.
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🌐 Web interface – Natural language prompts to get things done fast.
📝 Word – Draft, edit, and refine documents in seconds.
☁️ OneDrive – Summarize and interact with your files using AI.
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🧭 Edge Sidebar – Get AI assistance as you browse the web.
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Whether you’re organizing your inbox or summarizing a research paper, Copilot helps you stay focused on what matters most.
This Issue’s Prompt: Plan a Low-Budget Event
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, OpenAI ChatGPT or Anthropic Claude) to execute the following prompt:
“Help me plan a low-budget, team-building lunch event for 10 people that encourages informal conversation and collaboration.”
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