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Government
- State Department AI to Revoke Foreign Student Visas (Axios)
- Bad AI Law Risks Damage to Creatives (The Times)
- US Court Rejects Copyrights for AI-Generated Art (Reuters)
- OpenAI’s Chris Lehane on Trump Policy (Axios)
- Worried About DeepSeek? Turns out Gemini is the Biggest Data Offender (ZDNet)
Higher Education
- AI School Surveillance Concerns (AP News)
- UK Universities Warned as 92% of Students Use AI (The Guardian)
- University of South Florida Receives $40 Million for Cyber and AI College (Wall Street Journal)
- Beijing to Introduce AI Courses for Kids (Bloomberg)
- What a Gutted Department of Education Means for AI in Schools (CNBC)
- State of AI (McKinsey)
- Small Language Models for Higher Ed (EdTech Magazine)
- From Teaching Students to Catching ChatGPT Cheats (The Walrus)
- Mass Adoption of Generative AI (McKinsey)
- Publishers Adopt AI Tools to Bolster Research Integrity (Inside Higher Ed)
Industry News
- Nvidia CEO on AI Computing Needs (Wall Street Journal)
- Baidu AI Reasoning and Alibaba’s DeepSeek (Investor’s Business Daily)
- AI Leaders Bring AGI Debate Down to Earth (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI’s New Tools for Building Agents (OpenAI)
- OpenAI Pours $12B Into CoreWeave in Chess Move with Microsoft (TechCrunch)
- AI and Wineries/Vineyards (AP News)
- Amazon’s AI Tools and Net-Zero Goals (Emerging Tech Brew)
- McDonald’s Gives Its Restarurants An AI MakeOver (Wall Street Journal)
- NASA AI Rovers Set to Explore the Moon (Daily Galaxy)
- AI Model Detects Endometrial Cancer with Near-Perfect Accuracy (ScienceDirect)
Media
- World’s First AI-Generated Newspaper Edition (The Guardian)
- Zoom’s Latest AI Updates at Enterprise Connect 2025 (Zoom)
This Issue’s Tip: Creative Brainstorming
Experiment with using AI for creative brainstorming. Tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E can generate unique ideas for marketing campaigns, story plots or product concepts. Use them as a starting point and build on their suggestions to add a human touch.
This Issue’s Prompt: Travel Guide
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:
“Pretend you are a travel planner specializing in unique and offbeat destinations. Plan a week-long vacation for me, including activities, food recommendations and hidden gems.“
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