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News and Views
In Summary
Anthropic is on the verge of its first profitable quarter, with revenue set to top $10 billion. Bristol-Myers Squibb just rolled out Claude to 30,000 employees. Meanwhile, universities are navigating campus-wide AI adoption with mixed results, new grads are entering an AI-reshaped job market and Silicon Valley’s lobbying push is intensifying by the day.
Academia and Higher Education
- Artificial Intelligence and Grade Inflation (UC Berkeley)
- UCF Commencement Speaker Met with Boos Over Pro-AI Remarks (NY Post)
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI (NBC News)
- AI Will Make the Academic Article Obsolete (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Why Are Students Opening Up to AI Instead of People? (Inside Higher Ed)
- College Students Are Booing Commencement Speakers Celebrating AI, but Still Using It to Cheat (Fortune)
- Ban for Authors Submitting AI Content ‘Welcome but Unenforceable’ (Inside Higher Ed)
- Theo Baker Is a F**king Menace! (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- This Big University System Is Embracing AI. Students and Faculty Aren’t All on Board (NPR)
- The First Class of AI Natives Is Graduating. Offices Are Getting Ready. (The Wall Street Journal)
Capabilities and Research
- OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-year-old Math Problem (TechCrunch)
- Claude Mythos Finds 10,000+ Critical Vulnerabilities (Anthropic)
- 2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership (Anthropic)
- The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming (The Wall Street Journal)
- These 5 Charts Show How ChatGPT Has Flooded Our Lives (The Washington Post)
Enterprise
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Brings Anthropic’s Claude to 30,000 of Its Staff (The Wall Street Journal)
- Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter (The Wall Street Journal)
Cybersecurity
- AI Used to Develop Working Zero-Day Exploit, Researchers Warn (Cybersecurity Dive)
- OpenAI Launches Daybreak to Combat Cyber Threats (CIO Dive)
Safety, Ethics and Policy
- Silicon Valley’s A.I. Lobbying Reaches a Fever Pitch (The New York Times)
- Responsible AI Needs More Than Good Intentions (Boston Consulting Group)
- AI Guardrails Stripped from Meta and Google Models in Minutes (Financial Times)
- Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical (The New York Times)
- Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. (The New York Times)
Workforce
- Engineering Roles Shift from Developing Code to Managing AI (CIO Dive)
- The Tech Workers Building A.I. Are Scared of It, Too (The New York Times)
- Congrats, New Grads! Welcome to Job Market Hell. (The Washington Post)
- Unions Push for Guardrails on AI, With Mixed Success (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The AI Assembly Line: Strategic Imperatives for CEOs (McKinsey & Company)
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This Issue’s Win: Make It Make Sense
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:
“I want to understand something I keep hearing about but don’t fully get. I’ll give you the topic, and I want you to explain it three ways: once like I’m a complete beginner, once like I’m an expert in an unrelated field, and once using an analogy from everyday life.“
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