AI Insights for November 25, 2025

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AI at Work

Join us on December 10 from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. in 500 Hall of Languages or via Teams for our next AI at Work session. This workshop will return to Claude Enterprise, with a focused look at effective prompting, projects, artifacts, and how Claude integrates with your Microsoft 365 files. If you were unable to attend the November session, the recording is available on our website. We hope you will take this opportunity to explore new tools, build practical skills, and engage with AI before the semester concludes.

In This Issue

AI is having a very “everything, everywhere” moment. Google’s Gemini 3 marks another big step in model power and coding tools, and Anthropic’s $50B U.S. infrastructure push shows just how intense the compute race has gotten. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to pay off in workplaces and are headed for higher ed too—think automated support, smarter tutoring, and back-office help. But the risks are rising fast: misuse in espionage, legal fights over training data and a growing tug-of-war over regulation.

News and Views

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Education

Industry, Investment and Technology

  • Google Launches Gemini 3 with New Coding App and Record Benchmark Scores (TechCrunch)
  • Google releases Nano Banana Pro, Its Latest Image-Generation Model (TechCrunch)
  • Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic Forge AI Compute Alliance (AINews)
  • Anthropic Invests $50 Billion in American AI Infrastructure (Anthropic)
  • What If the AI Race Isn’t About Chips At All? (Financial Times)
  • A New Era of Intelligence with Gemini 3 (Google)
  • Microsoft Ignite 2025: The Biggest News In AI, Agents, Data (CRN)
  • Tech Giants Pour Billions Into Anthropic as Circular AI Investments Roll On (Ars Technica)

Policy, Ethics and Safety

  • ‘It Keeps Me Awake At Night’: Machine-Learning Pioneer on AI’s Threat to Humanity (Nature)
  • ChatGPT Violated Copyright Law By ‘Learning’ From Song Lyrics, German Court Rules (The Guardian)
  • Anthropic Warns State-Linked Actor Abused Its AI Tool in Sophisticated Espionage Campaign (Cybersecurity Dive)
  • Should We Protect Adults From AI Chatbots? (Politico)
  • White House Prepares Executive Order to Block State AI Laws (Politico)
  • Why Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Spends So Much Time Warning of AI’s Potential Dangers (CBS News)

Society and Daily Life

Workforce and Business Impact

    This Issue’s Tip: Step-by-Step Claude Projects Guide

    Looking to deepen your use of Claude Enterprise? We’ve published a new step-by-step guide to help you create and manage Projects—an especially useful feature for organizing ongoing work, saving time and building repeatable AI-supported workflows. The guide covers the essentials, from setting up Projects and structuring prompts to connecting Microsoft 365 files and reusing artifacts across tasks. Explore the guide on our website and consider how Projects might support your teaching, research or administrative work.

    This Issue’s Prompt: AI Analyst for Higher Education

    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:

    “Act as an AI landscape analyst for higher education. I will paste a few headlines or brief notes about recent AI developments. Your job is to help me translate them into what matters for a university context.

    Here are the headlines/notes:
    [PASTE 3–8 bullets or links]

    Please produce:

    • Trend snapshot (5–7 sentences): What bigger patterns connect these items? Keep it accessible for a campus audience.
    • Why it matters for higher ed (bulleted): Implications for teaching/learning, research, student support, and administration.
    • Actions to consider this month (3 items): Concrete, low-risk steps a department or individual could take now.
    • Watch-outs (3 bullets): Policy, ethics, safety, copyright, or data-privacy concerns to flag.
    • Tone: professional, evidence-minded, not hypey. If something is uncertain, say so. Keep the full response under 350 words.”

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