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News and Views
In Summary
Universities are launching AI literacy programs, rethinking curricula and grappling with student trust and workforce readiness gaps. Meanwhile, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 and secured a $40B Google investment and enterprise AI adoption is surging—even as organizations struggle to trust AI enough to deploy it fully.
Education, Teaching and Learning
- Penn State Launches AI Literacy Course for Employees (EDSCOOP)
- AI is Reshaping Higher Ed Workplaces (EdTech)
- ASU+GSV 2026: AI for Student Advising Has Promise, Limits (GovTech)
- ASU+GSV 2026: Preparing Students for the Future of AI-Enabled Work (GovTech)
- 4 Higher Education Leaders on AI’s Biggest Benefits and Risks (Higher Ed Dive)
- Survey: Americans View AI Use on Campus as Important, Yet Remain Skeptical (Inside Higher Ed)
- The Classroom of 2031: Why AI Will Not Dissolve the School (The Information)
- When AI Can Do Everything, What Is Left to Learn? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- College Students Are Changing Course in Search of ‘AI-Proof’ Majors (AP News)
- Advancing AI Literacy: A Faculty Course Refresh Institute at Indiana Wesleyan University (Educause Review)
- From Prompt to Practice: A Framework for Transparent GenAI Use in Higher Education (Educause Review)
- When AI Meets Data: The Promise and the Pressure of Bringing AI into Higher Education Systems (Educause Review)
- Faculty Concerned About ASU’s ‘Frankensteinian’ AI Course Builder (Inside Higher Ed)
- Students Are Using AI to Guide College Decisions. What Is It Telling Them? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- College Students Are More Polarized Than Ever. Can AI Help? (Inside Higher Ed)
Enterprise AI and Agents
- 85% of Enterprises Are Running AI Agents. Only 5% Trust Them Enough to Ship. (VentureBeat)
- Most Enterprises Can’t Stop Stage-Three AI Agent Threats (VentureBeat)
- OpenAI Updates Its Agents SDK to Help Enterprises Build Safer, More Capable Agents (TechCrunch)
- How CIOs Can Tackle AI Ownership (CIO Dive)
- AI-Written Software Creates Hassles for Wary Security Teams (CIO Dive)
- What Happens When A.I. Runs a Store in San Francisco? (The New York Times)
- First Take: Claude Design by Anthropic Hastens the End of Siloed UX (Gartner)
Claude and Anthropic
- Google to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic in Cash and Compute (TechCrunch)
- Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic)
- Anthropic Chief Dario Amodei: ‘I Don’t Want AI Turned on Our Own People’ (Financial Times)
- White House May Give Federal Agencies Anthropic Mythos AI (GovTech)
- Anthropic and Freshfields Agree Deal to Create Legal AI Tools (Financial Times)
- Anthropic Ran a Marketplace and Bots Closed Every Deal (PYMNTS)
Industry and Policy
- OpenAI Takes Aim at Anthropic with Beefed-Up Codex (TechCrunch)
- Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree on Deal for ‘Any Lawful’ Use of AI (The Verge)
- You’re About to Feel the AI Money Squeeze (The Verge)
Literacy and Skills
Workforce, Jobs and Economy
- LinkedIn Data Shows AI Isn’t to Blame for Hiring Decline… Yet (TechCrunch)
- Employers Say They Struggle to Find Graduates with the Right AI Skillset (Higher Ed Dive)
- Incentives for AI Use: A ‘Spectacularly Bad Idea’ (HR Executive)
- Why Are Workers So Worried About AI? Listen to How Business Leaders Talk About it (CNBC)
- AI Works Best with Humans – Not Instead of Them (University of East London)
- That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job (The New York Times)
- AI Is a Better Researcher Than You (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
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This Issue’s Win: Can AI Judge Itself?
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:
“You are a skeptical employer hiring a recent college graduate. Based on what you know about AI’s impact on entry-level work, design a 5-question interview that tests whether a candidate can think critically about AI outputs—not just use AI to produce them.“
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