OpenAI is reportedly getting ready to test ads in ChatGPT
Multiple reports suggest that OpenAI is going ahead with its plans to add ads to ChatGPT, but the experiment will be initially limited to its employees.
5 bold ways I use AI as a CEO, beyond automation
AI is not the intern. It’s the executive.
Team Function, Impact Matrix - Elisa MacDonald
A principal recently reached out to tell me how my chapter "Don't Settle for High-Functioning Teams" was eye-opening for her leadership team. The matrix I created has helped many teams assess their collaboration and grow into what I call, a Quadrant 1 High-functioning High-impact team.
I remember driving into work about to lead school coaches in our monthly PD about how to best support our teacher-led teams when a question that had been nagging me for years finally made sense.
🤔 How is it that a team can get along and get things done, but still have little to no impact on teacher practice and student learning?
Influenced by the words of Jim Knight's 2011 groundbreaking book, Unmistakable Impact, it became clear to me back then that not all team leaders think about "impact".
What was even more perplexing to me was:
🤔 🤔 How is it that a team who does NOT get along, who has group conflict and does not have psychological safety CAN have impact on student scores and learning?
I needed to create a framework that could explain the relation between how a team functions and its impact.
I came up with the “Team Function Impact Matrix”.
By viewing teams through 2 lenses (function AND impact) suddenly 4 types of teams emerged and I have made it my life's work to help leaders make sure their team collaboration lands in quadrant 1 so that teachers practice grows and teams reach the outcomes they need for students.
I published the first iteration of my matrix in my 2013 bestselling book, The Skillful Team Leader, where I provide indicators for the 4 types of teams and common hurdles facing teacher leaders striving to get to quadrant 1.
Since then, I have written more about this dual lens for looking at teams in my 2023 bestselling book, Intentional Moves, which holds nearly 150 strategies for helping your team get to quadrant 1.
You can access the chapters for Free on Corwin website:
🎆 Chapter 2 "Don't Settle for High-Functioning Teams" (Intentional Moves. Corwin 2023.)
🎆 Chapter 3 "Alone Together: Overcoming Hurdles to Foster a High-Functioning, High-Impact Collaborative Team" (The Skillful Team Leader. Corwin, 2013.)
...and you can also view a short primer of me explaining my Team Function Impact Matrix on my Channel - Skillful Intentional Team Leadership.
(Image below of "Team Function, Impact Matrix" from Intentional Moves: How Skillful Team Leaders Impact Learning. Corwin Press, 2023.)
#PsychologicalSafety #Leadership #IntentionalMovesBook #teachers #education | 23 comments on LinkedIn
Our A.I. Alignment Imperative: Creating a Future Worth Sharing - TheHumanist.com
Technology has never been humanity’s destination, only the vessel by which we travel.
Vibe Coding: An AI Trek, Part One – TCEA TechNotes Blog
A trek to recreate a beloved 80s text-based game, powered by an AI co-pilot, no coding skills required! This is vibe coding at its finest. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.
The New York Times Is Suing Perplexity For Copyright Infringement - Slashdot
The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement, accusing the AI startup of repackaging its paywalled reporting without permission. TechCrunch reports: The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week. The Times'...
Aravind Srinivas on X: "Perplexity Pro and Max users can now create and edit slides, sheets and docs directly from your prompt sessions on Perplexity https://t.co/gf93w1o41G" / X
Perplexity Upgrade: Pro and Max users can now create and edit presentations, spreadsheets, and documents right in the app
Perplexity to pay Snap $400M to power search in Snapchat | TechCrunch
Snap agrees to integrate Perplexity’s AI search engine into My AI, and Perplexity will pay $400 million in cash and equity. The feature is slated to appear in the app early next year. The arrangement grants Perplexity exposure to Snapchat’s 940 million users and lets Snap begin recognizing revenue from the deal in 2026. Snap announced the partnership while reporting Q3 2025 revenue of $1.51 billion, up 10%, and a narrowed loss of $104 million. The $400 million price tag highlights the premium AI firms will pay for built-in scale. For Snap, the agreement converts its My AI feature from a user perk into a material revenue source.
Amazon Accuses Perplexity of Computer Fraud, Demands It Stop AI Agent From Buying On Its Site - Slashdot
Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity AI demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online for users. From a report: The e-commerce giant is accusing Perplexity of committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when its AI ag...
Introducing Perplexity Patents: AI-Powered Patent Search for Everyone
Perplexity Patents, the world’s first AI patent research agent that makes IP intelligence accessible to everyone.
Perplexity Patents, the world’s first AI patent research agent that makes IP intelligence accessible to everyone.
Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in AI Browser
Perplexity's Comet AI browser can easily be tricked into following malicious instructions hidden in screenshots.
Think twice before using Comet browser: Security & privacy risks | Tuta
Perplexity Comet browser is redefining how users search the web, but Perplexity AI is not as safe as one might think. There are many red flags: From its extensive access to your data, to security vulnerabilities that allow the AI to follow malicious instructions. Let’s dive into it!
Reddit Sues Perplexity For Scraping Data To Train AI System - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: Social media platform Reddit sued AI startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train Perplexity's AI-based search engine. Reddit said in the complaint that the data-scraping...
An Open Letter to Perplexity AI:
Absolutely Don't Do This
The Internet is Better on Comet
Today we are releasing the Comet browser to the world, for free.
Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
Free #GenAI Offers for Students #Comet #Perplexity #Cursor #Gemini
Dr. Michelle Kassorla shared this tidbit (LinkedIn) this morning: 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒(and faculty can get them too–they just require an .edu account–although, I think this is …
Creating Custom GPTs in Perplexity
Note: Read Other Blog Entries in this series: BoodleBox Bots | Local AI | ChatGPT GPTs | Google Gems Creating some of my favorite task-helpers via Custom GPTs in OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been a l…
Creating Custom GPTs in Perplexity
Note: Read Other Blog Entries in this series: BoodleBox Bots | Local AI | ChatGPT GPTs | Google Gems Creating some of my favorite task-helpers via Custom GPTs in OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been a l…
Experiments with Google Gemini
I help run Tuesday evening Zoom RUNEUAI meetings for a group of students from five universities across three time zones. Our 7 October session focused on effective prompting techniques and AI tools like Google Gemini, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot. Several people encountered challenges accessing our shared Google Drive so we tried using Gemini.Google.Com in a browser and made better progress. We used Gemini to summarize content. One of our participants shared her experiences with Canva, highlighting several of its features for image creation.
Parents call for New York governor to sign landmark AI safety bill
They called it “minimalist guardrails” that should set a standard.
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
: Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things
Copy-and-Paste Now Exceeds File Transferring as the Top Corporate Data Exfiltration Vector - Slashdot
It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and pasting than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025. This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI prompts, and 32% of all copy-pastes from corporate accounts to non-corporate accounts occurring within genAI tools…Overall, 45% of employees actively use AI tools, with 67% of these tools being accessed via personal accounts and ChatGPT making up 92% of all use..." "With the rise of AI-driven browsers such as OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet, governance of AI tools' access to corporate data becomes even more urgent, the LayerX report notes."
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
new research shows exactly how this fusion of kid’s toys and loquacious AI models can go horrifically wrong in the real world.
After testing three different toys powered by AI, researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches. One of the AI toys even engaged in explicit discussions, offering extensive advice on sex positions and fetishes.
In the resulting report, the researchers warn that the integration of AI into toys opens up entire new avenues of risk
AI web browsers are cool, helpful, and utterly untrustworthy
Maybe it's time we rethink just how much we're depending on AI these days, before it blows up in our faces. Just saying!
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
Reddit v. SerpApi et al
Reddit filed a lawsuit against Perplexity and three other data-scraping companies, accusing them of circumventing protections to steal copyrighted content for AI training.
Meta Allows Deepfake of Irish Presidential Candidate To Spread for 12 Hours Before Removal - Slashdot
Meta removed a deepfake video from Facebook that falsely depicted Catherine Connolly withdrawing from Ireland's presidential election. The video was posted to an account called RTE News AI and viewed almost 30,000 times over 12 hours before the Irish Independent contacted the platform. The fabricate...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory.
Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025, 7% of total online news consumers use AI assistants to get their news, rising to 15% of under-25s.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025, 7% of total online news consumers use AI assistants to get their news, rising to 15% of under-25s.
AI Browser Extensions Violate Privacy
Yikes, this is worrisome. Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn. Some of these extensions may violate their own …