The Reckoning: Sora 2 and the Year We Said Enough
"Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?"
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.
AI and Big Data: The Symbiotic Revolution
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
OpenAI Platform prompt optimizer
Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
Superhuman Go | The AI Assistant That Works Where You Do
Meet Superhuman Go, your AI assistant that moves with you to save time, improve focus, and make work effortless.
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...
Why LLMs Won’t (Yet) Replace Philosophers
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…
AI and the Future of Work
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.
For more information about our events, visit: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/public-programs
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Emma Thompson hits out at AI involvement in writing process - Bytes Europe
Emma Thompson has made her feelings on artificial intelligence clear.
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.
Why AI is So Hard (For Education)
What habits of inquiry, dialogue, and courage can we cultivate now so our students are ready to design the next civilization?
AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes
Feature: Agentic features open the door to data exfiltration or worse
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...
Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
: Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview
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...
Agentic AI and Security
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
Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in AI Browser
Perplexity's Comet AI browser can easily be tricked into following malicious instructions hidden in screenshots.
We need private AI before it's too late | Proton
Big Tech companies are building AI aligned with their surveillance capitalism business model. We need a privacy-first and responsible AI alternative today.
Senators propose banning teens from using AI chatbots
Another bill promises to regulate AI.
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man
AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam
Andreessen Horowitz has poured $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup that runs a large phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated posts. The company bills itself as a bulk content service that orchestrates thousands of accounts to mimic human interaction.
Work smarter with your company knowledge in ChatGPT | OpenAI
OpenAI rolled out Company Knowledge for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu that connects to internal apps like Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, and GitHub. The feature delivers organization-specific answers inside ChatGPT and shows citations for every source used. The capability runs on a version of GPT-5 that searches multiple sources, resolves conflicting details, and produces comprehensive responses. It respects existing user permissions, gives admins granular control over connected apps, and is available immediately to all eligible customers.
Google's new vibe coding AI Studio experience lets anyone build, deploy apps live in minutes
Google launched a redesigned Build mode in AI Studio that lets anyone generate and deploy a web app from a simple text prompt. The update, branded as “vibe coding,” is available now at ai.studio/build and requires no payment info to begin. Users can mix Gemini 2.5 Pro with tools like Veo, Imagine and Flashlight, edit the full React/TypeScript source, and push directly to GitHub or Cloud Run. An “I’m Feeling Lucky” button auto-creates app concepts for inspiration, while advanced models and Cloud Run deployment unlock only after adding a paid API key. The hands-on demo showed a novice building a working dice-rolling app in 65 seconds, highlighting how far the barrier to AI app creation has fallen. That speed and simplicity position Google’s offering as a direct challenger to developer-oriented tools like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, according to the article.