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Claude’s Excel Integration Brings AI to Financial Modeling
Claude is stepping into the spreadsheet arena, offering a new Excel integration that transforms financial analysis. The integration includes a sidebar for easy data manipulation and features seven financial connectors, like real-time market data. Finance pros can now create cash flow models or company analyses seamlessly. This step positions Claude as a game-changer in AI-driven financial tools, challenging established spreadsheet giants by adding an intelligent touch.
Google’s Version of Vibe Coding Turns Prompts Into Full Apps
Google AI Studio is embracing vibe coding, reshaping how AI apps are crafted by simplifying the process from idea to execution. By leveraging the Gemini models, users can bypass traditional hurdles like API complexities to create innovative apps swiftly. This facelift doesn't coin the vibe coding term but introduces Google's seamless spin on it, making app development accessible to both tech veterans and newcomers.
Google To Offer Free Gemini AI Pro, 2TB Storage To India's 505 Million Reliance Jio Users - Slashdot
Google will offer 18-month free access to its Gemini AI service for all 505 million telecom users of India's Reliance Jio, a tie-up that follows similar freebies from rivals including OpenAI to boost adoption in the world's most populous nation. From a report: The move also comes weeks after Google ...
AI Won’t Give American Children the Education They Need
Elected officials are finally waking up to the educational harms of mobile phones in public schools. As more districts ban them, the reports are highly encouraging — though hardly surprising, given the positive results we saw in New York City when we removed them from schools nearly 20 years ago. Yet even as phone bans spread, elected officials and Silicon Valley executives are trying to open classrooms to a technology that could set students back even further than mobile phones have: artificial intelligence.
Elected officials are finally waking up to the educational harms of mobile phones in public schools. As more districts ban them, the reports are highly encouraging — though hardly surprising, given the positive results we saw in New York City when we removed them from schools nearly 20 years ago. Yet even as phone bans spread, elected officials and Silicon Valley executives are trying to open classrooms to a technology that could set students back even further than mobile phones have: artificial intelligence.
Adobe Delivers New AI Innovations, Assistants and Models Across Creative Cloud to Empower Creative Professionals
Adobe introduced more than 100 new AI features and partner models across its Creative Cloud suite at the Adobe MAX conference. The release embeds generative fill, upscale, conversational assistants and bulk editing directly into Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Illustrator and Firefly.
The new, commercially safe Firefly Image Model 5 is now in public beta, while customizable Firefly models and the Firefly Creative Production batch editor enter private beta with waitlists. Photoshop’s Generative Fill, Generative Upscale and Harmonize are generally available today, and Premiere’s AI Object Mask and new masking tools are live in public beta.
By integrating third-party models from Google, Topaz Labs and others, Adobe keeps creators inside its subscription instead of sending them to external AI services.
Discover the powerful relationship between AI and big data. We break down how they work together to unlock insights, drive innovation, and shape our future.
Fatigue Detection Software: Boost Safety with AI Monitoring
Fatigue detection software – also called a fatigue monitoring system – uses AI and computer vision to watch for signs of tiredness in real time. From the
Character.AI To Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Character.AI said on Wednesday that it would bar people under 18 from using its chatbots starting late next month, in a sweeping move to address concerns over child safety. The rule will take effect Nov. 25, the company said. To enforce it...
The art of effective prompting is a skill that philosophical training lends itself to nicely. Prompting is about situating the request. You have to clarify the audience, define the scope, specify what counts as success, and minimize ambiguity.
The art of effective prompting is a skill that philosophical training lends itself to nicely. Prompting is about situating the request. You have to clarify the audience, define the scope, specify what counts as success, and minimize ambiguity.
From Video Games to the Classroom: Michael Curtin on Translating AI for Higher Education — Smarter Campus Podcast
In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, host Zach Kinzler sits down with Michael Curtin, Innovation Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty in Informatics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Michael’s path is anything but ordinary — moving between the worlds of video game development and academia, he’s built a rare perspective on how to bridge creativity, technology, and education.Together, Zach and Michael explore how the skills that make great game designers — experimentation, iteration, and imagination — are exactly what higher education needs to navigate the AI era.In this episode, you’ll hear about:How Michael’s work in video games naturally led him to AI innovationWhy universities need “translators” who can bridge technical and non-technical communitiesThe expectation problem — why people think AI should act like every other programWhat makes ChatGPT 3.5 a turning point for higher educationHow AI can serve as a “thought partner” for rapid ideation and creative explorationThe importance of…
This event was recorded live on October 7, 2025.
Artificial Intelligence is developing at breakneck speed, causing much anxiety about how our society and daily lives may change in the not-too-distant future. Top of mind for many: jobs. A panel of experts brings the speculation down to earth, addressing questions such as: What jobs will AI replace? What new jobs will be created? How will AI affect workplace conditions, wages, unions, and the overall economy? Featuring Daron Acemoglu, Nobel laureate and professor of economics at MIT; Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate, former New York Times columnist, and research professor of economics at the CUNY Graduate Center; Danielle Li, David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at MIT; and Zeynep Tufekci, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and a New York Times columnist. Moderated by Steven Greenhouse, former New York Times labor reporter and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.
Presented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.
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Super Teacher is building an AI tutor for elementary schools — catch it at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Tim Novikoff’s, a former Google product manager and educator, startup, Super Teacher, offers an AI-powered tutoring app for elementary school students that costs $15 a month, or $10 with an annual plan. Super Teacher aims to make private tutoring accessible to families nationwide.
Tim Novikoff, a former Google product manager and educator, wants to change that. His startup, Super Teacher, offers an AI-powered tutoring app for elementary school students that costs $15 a month, or $10 with an annual plan. Super Teacher aims to make private tutoring accessible to families nationwide.
Adobe launches AI assistants for Express and Photoshop | TechCrunch
Adobe releases AI assistants for Express and Photoshop that turn text prompts into new images and edits. Express users get the feature now, while the Photoshop assistant remains in closed beta.
Express lets users switch into an assistant mode for prompt-driven design and back to familiar editing controls. The Photoshop sidebar assistant reads layers, auto-selects objects, and handles repetitive tasks like background removal or color tweaks.
Adobe is also testing “Project Moonlight,” a private-beta assistant that links multiple Adobe apps and taps creators’ social channels for stylistic cues. The company is exploring a ChatGPT integration so Express designs can be built directly inside OpenAI’s chatbot.
Amazon Says It Will Cut 14,000 Corporate Roles To Remove Layers - Slashdot
Amazon said on Tuesday it would reduce its corporate workforce by approximately 14,000 roles as part of an effort to remove bureaucracy and organizational layers. Beth Galetti, the company's senior vice president of people experience and technology, told employees in a memo that the cuts followed ea...
Chegg Slashes 45% of Workforce, Blames 'New Realities of AI' - Slashdot
Chegg says it will lay off about 45% of its workforce, or 388 employees, as the "new realities" of artificial intelligence and diminished traffic from internet search have led to plummeting revenue. From a report: The online education company, founded 20 years ago, has been hit by the rise of genera...
Commentary on Agentic AI and Security by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
Use of Perplexity, ChatGPT behind error-ridden orders, federal judges say
A pair of federal judges said staff use of generative artificial intelligence tools and premature docket entry were behind error-ridden orders they issued, according to letters made public by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday.
pair of federal judges said staff use of generative artificial intelligence tools and premature docket entry were behind error-ridden orders they issued, according to letters made public by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday
What OpenAI didn't tell users openly about its ChatGPT Atlas browser: It is built on ... - The Times of India
Tech News News: OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas browser, touted as a revolutionary AI-powered navigation tool, has been revealed to be built on Google's Chromium, the same
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