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AI and the Future of HE
Today's AI Literacy Skills, Tomorrow's Floppy Disks
Apple researchers have delivered what AI critic Gary Marcus calls a \"pretty devastating\" blow to reasoning model hype, finding that advanced LLMs suffer...
Anthropic's Own Model Tried to Blackmail Someone
The pendulum is finally swinging back on AI inevitability, with attacks coming from both outside and inside the industry. The AI Now Institute just delivered a...
The AI Found an Affair, Then Used It
If you thought AI was getting weird, buckle up - these systems are exhibiting increasingly concerning behaviours while legal protections for their actions...
It Broke 50-Year Math Records While We Argued About Chatbots
Another week, another AI report trumpeting massive economic shifts. LinkedIn's \"AI and the Global Economy\" adds serious weight, projecting Generative AI could...
An AI Trained on 57 Million Patients
You’ve heard pundits and analysts talking about the changes AI will bring to the business landscape, knowledge work, and education in similar terms to the...
825 Million Chats With an Anime Antihero
More voices adding to the chorus on the disconnect between AI use, trust, and training. The University of Melbourne and KPMG surveyed over 48,000 people across...
Photocopied 74 Times, Barely Recognizable
This week highlights two distinct strategic paths for the future of open source AI. Meta unveiled its standalone AI app, integrating a personalised assistant...
Saying Please to ChatGPT Costs Tens of Millions
Recent developments point to OpenAI aggressively expanding beyond chatbots and the like - most notably with the potentially imminent integration of Shopify...
76 Percent of Experts, 24 Percent of Us
Another new, another new model(s) - this time from OpenAI who have just released their new o3 and o4-mini models. The ‘o’ indicates that this is a...
A Country of Geniuses, All in One Datacenter
Shopify ’s CEO Tobias Lütke dropped an absolute bombshell memo last week that might have just redefined workplace evolution! Lütke has officially made...
A Chatbot Cut Depression Symptoms by 51%
Long, long ago in very early January 2025 - ages past in the world of AI - Sam Altman (OpenAI boss) said that 2025 would likely be the year when AI agents...
One Person Plus AI Equals a Two-Person Team
This week has been a crazy decade in AI development. Gemini 2.5 is here and it has leapt to the top of the LMArena leaderboard. Available for paid users or in...
Google's Bias Fix Made the Nazis Diverse
If you haven’t played with Google Gemini recently, please consider this your invitation to get in the game because it’s gotten good. There’s a lot we could...
A Minister, a Chatbot, and His Podcast Circuit
In January, the UK government announced that AI will be \"mainlined into the veins\" of the nation. Fast forward a month or two and the UK government is making...
Students Call Their New AI Tutor 'Slop'
OpenAI are coming for white collar jobs? According to a new report from The Information, they are planning to launch several specialised “agent” products...