This message was originally shared to subscribers December 20, 2024.

Happy Orange Appreciation Days from ITS!

Before you enjoy some well-earned rest and reflection during Orange Appreciation Days, we wanted to send an all-links edition of “AI Insights” and wish you a happy 2025! Our New Year’s Resolution is to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments in AI while helping you incorporate it into your work.

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News and Views

Government

  • ChatGPT, meet DHSChat: Homeland Security has a new AI bot (FedScoop)

Higher Education

  • Interview With an AI Higher Ed Fundraiser (Inside Higher Ed)
  • Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset (TechCrunch)
  • Google built an AI tool that can do research for you (Google)
  • Rutgers Business School partners with Google to enhance teaching and classroom learning with Generative AI (Rutgers University)

Industry

  • 12 Days of OpenAI (OpenAI)
  • Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser (The Verge)
  • Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era (Google)
  • ChatGPT adds live video access to “see” what your phone sees (Axios)
  • Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos (TechCrunch)
  • OpenAI makes AI video generator Sora publicly available in US (Guardian)
  • Introducing ChatGPT search (OpenAI)
  • AI Agents: What You Need to Know Now (LinkedIn)
  • AI’s Greatest Hits: Seeing the Path to AGI (Special Competitive Studies Project)

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