Academic Scholarship

Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop – LSE  

AI can help with research, but humans must remain accountable say university executives – Times Higher Ed 

Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers – Taylor & Francis

AI tool flags plagiarism in 95% of Ph.D. theses submitted this year at India university. – Times of India 

How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct – Dorethea Baur

Ministers urged not to allow data mining of academic literature – Research Professional News

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal – Retraction Watch 

AI is inventing academic articles – and scholars are citing them – the Observer  

DataSeer develops AI system to track dataset reuse – Research Information  

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations – Inside Higher Ed

Account for AI in the environmental footprint of scientific publishing – Nature  

Will AI Help or Hinder Scientific Publishing? – Undark

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. – Nature

Scientists are failing to disclose their use of AI despite journal mandates, finds study – Physics World

AI in the editorial workflow: Journals set the rules, institutions set the habits – Scholarly Futures  

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture - Nature

What happens when reviewers receive AI feedback in their reviews? – ArXiv

Human versus artificial intelligence: investigating ability of young academics from research and non-research institutions to identify ChatGPT-generated dental research abstracts - Nature 

Fear of stigma blamed as 0.1 per cent of papers declare AI use - Times Higher Ed

Can we use AI for academic writing? It depends – Times Higher Ed

Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing – Nature

Are AI Tools Killing Review Articles? Two Failure Modes Suggest Otherwise – Aaron Tay

Artificial Intelligence guidance for authors, peer reviewers, and editors: A content analysis of journal policies - Taylor & Francis  

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test – New York Times 

AI agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server. – Nature

The Case of the Mysterious Citations – ArXiv

AI is advancing too quickly for research to keep up - Axios

AI 'Copy-Paste' Lands PhD Students in Trouble, UGC Rejects Dozens of Research Papers – Patrika

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right – Nature

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review – Times Higher Ed 

Why write a literature review if AI can do it for you? – London School of Economics   

On the troubling rise of generative AI suspicion in academic publishing – Nature

Researchers find nearly 300 papers at linguistics conferences contained hallucinated citations. - ArXiv

Self-Disclosed Use of AI in Research Submissions to BMJ Journals – JAMA  

AI research deluge: why one conference is asking authors to rank their own papers – Nature

Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It – Scholarly Kitchen  

An AI Bot Is Making Podcasts With Scholars’ Research. Many of Them Aren’t Impressed. – Chronicle

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, two years of academic work vanished – Nature  

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop - ArXiv

AI conference “accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations – Fortune

LLMs in Peer Review—How Publishing Policies Must Advance – JAMA  

Why scholarly publishing needs a neutral governance body for the AI age – Research Information  

From model collapse to citation collapse: risks of over-reliance on AI in the academy – Times Higher Ed 

Qualitative researchers’ AI rejection is based on identity, not reason: The claim that AI can’t make meaning contradicts what researchers are finding – Times Higher Ed

AI research should always be verified, especially in court – Post Crescent 

Invisible Text Injection and Peer Review by AI Models – JAMA

Artificial Intelligence and the Fraud Industry in Scientific Publishing (video) -  Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain 

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The Bigger Questions & AI

Why A.I. Can’t Make Thoughtful Decisions - “Judgment is a uniquely human skill.”

ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind - “We need to redefine “intellect” so as to make it work in an AI-driven world. It’s easier to define it via negativa, by what it is not.”

Will AI destroy us? Consider the nature of intelligence. - “Intelligence is fundamentally about processing information to further the goals of life.” 

If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious - “We don’t have a theory of consciousness” 

AI is becoming introspective - “One of the most profound and mysterious capabilities of the human brain is introspection.” 

What Does It Really Mean to Learn? - “A.I. systems are not as flexible as human minds because they are not yet educable.” 

What Is The "Divine Image" in the Age of AI? - “Does AI obscure the divine image in the human person?” 

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI - “In that moment we were at odds about the essence of humanity.”  

Humanizing AI Is a Trap - “LLM systems cannot provide the experiences that users associate with human interaction, such as genuine empathy, emotional connection, or confidentiality.”  

We must build AI for people; not to be a person. - “So what is consciousness?”   

On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism - “Panpsychism is the belief that consciousness is inherent in all matter.” 

Bringing AI to medicine requires philosophers, cognitive scientists, and ethicists - “What is the question to which human judgment is the answer?”  

Philosophers and a psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to AI - “We need to find ways of focusing on living a distinctly human life.” 

Rage against the machine - “There is tendency of some scientists to take for granted what can only be described as a wildly simplistic picture of human and animal cognitive life.” 

What real bodies can show artificial minds - “A fundamental facet of intelligence found across the entire animal kingdom is beginning to be unraveled”

Here’s why AI like ChatGPT probably won’t reach humanlike understanding - “What’s really remarkable about people … is that we can abstract our concepts to new situations,”

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness - “We survey several prominent scientific theories of consciousness. From these theories we derive ‘indicator properties’ of consciousness’” 

Final Fantasy 15's AI is secretly a grand philosophy experiment - “The act of designing and analyzing AI is an opportunity to reframe our conceptions of existence for the better.” 

There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence - “Successfully pretending to be human is proof of nothing more than the ability to successfully pretend to be human.”

AI isn’t conscious—but we may be bringing it to life – “The question ‘Is the AI conscious?’ is less meaningful than ‘Is the user extending his/her consciousness into the chatbot?’

We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious – “There are activations that light up in the models that we see as being associated with the concept of anxiety.”

AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains? – BBC

Humanizing AI Is a Trap – NN/G

What Is The "Divine Image" in the Age of AI? - Second Voice

On the Consumption of AI-Generated Content at Scale - Shreya Shankar Blog

An overview of emergent introspective awareness in large language models – KD Nuggets

If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious - Futurism

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI - The Atlantic

Anthropic says its Claude models show signs of introspection – Axios  

The Age of De-Skilling Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them? – The Atlantic  

Will AI destroy us? Consider the nature of intelligence. – Washington Post

Teaching Students to Think Critically About AI – Harvard

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Business & AI

Don't get used to cheap AI - Axios

Netflix to Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Firm – Bloomberg

Meta hires duo behind Moltbook - Axios 

Accessibility and AI Agents – Conor

Meta’s deepfake moderation isn’t good enough, says Oversight Board – The Verge

OpenAI head of robotics quits in response to Pentagon deal – TechCrunch

ChatGPT's user growth is slowing and Google's Gemini is gaining ground - The Washington Post

News Corp, Meta in AI Content Licensing Deal Worth Up to $50 Million a Year – Wall Street Journal  

What Do the People Building AI Believe? – The Atlantic

Elon Musk is betting his business empire on AI – The Economist

AI and the Data Center Backlash - Wall Street Journal  

Why Nvidia’s Huge Numbers Don’t Settle the Latest AI Fears - Wall Street Journal  

Meta will spend $65 million this year to help state politicians who are friendly to the A.I. industry – New York Times

Anthropic's Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store – Mashable  

ChatGPT started the AI race. Now its lead is looking shaky. - The Washington Post

A new startup sets up a marketplace of humans to be rented for AI agents to use. – INC

The economy is changing. Don’t forget who fears it most. – Washington Post

An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending the Stock Market Spiraling – Gizmodo

How Burger King's AI headsets are transforming employee interactions – Associated Press

Why Warren Buffett’s superpower is an Achilles heel for AI – Big Think

Here’s Where AI Is Tearing Through Corporate America - Wall Street Journal

How AI is shifting global supply chains from reactive to predictive – Supply Chain Management

JPMorgan eschews proxy advisers for internal AI tool – ESG Dive  

Your AI strategy is your leadership philosophy – Fast Company  

Instacart halts AI testing program that raised costs for some shoppers – Washington Post 

‘Silent failure at scale’: The AI risk that can tip the business world into disorder – CNBC

A Billion-Dollar Question Hangs Over the New AI Search Marketing Industry – Wall Street Journal  

New rule targets AI discrimination. Here’s what workers need to know. - Washington Post

AI Adoption Among Workers Is Slow and Uneven. Bosses Can Speed It Up.- Wall Street Journal 

Are we in an AI bubble? Eight charts will help you decide. - Washington Post  

Anthropic is tracking which jobs are most exposed to AI. These 10 professions top the list. – CBS News

Is AI productivity prompting burnout? Study finds new pattern of "AI brain fry" – CBS News

Enhance or Eliminate? How AI Will Likely Change These Jobs – Harvard Business School

FAQs about how AI affects PR in 2026 - Muckrack

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job – The Atlantic

Amazon Admits Extensive AI Use Is Wreaking Havoc on Its Core Business – Futurist  

Generative AI changes how much time developers spend on coding and project management – MIT Management  

Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure? - Ruslan Osipov 

Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now. - Wall Street Journal  

A.I. Isn’t Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet. - New York Times

The hottest job in tech pays $775,000 and has nothing to do with coding – Business Insider 

What AI Executives Tell Their Own Kids About the Jobs of the Future - Wall Street Journal

Why the AI jobs panic is misplaced - Washington Post

America isn’t ready for what AI will do to jobs – The Atlantic

How to Stay Sane in the AI Skills Race – Wall Street Journal  

Building AI brains for blue-collar jobs – Axios

Job Applicants Sue to Open ‘Black Box’ of A.I. Hiring Decisions – New York Times

Trump team touts a coming economic revolution as voters fear job losses – Washington Post

How Americans are using AI at work, according to a new Gallup poll – Associated Press

Mass Hysteria. Thousands of Jobs Lost. Just How Bad Is It Going to Get? – New York Times

Arkansas attorney resigns after using AI to assist in case work – THV 11 

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years – Sean Geodecke 

In a jobs apocalypse, look to ‘AI-proof’ skilled trades, career experts say – CNBC

AI isn't taking people's jobs. Here's what's really happening – Quartz

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the Business of Running an AI Company 

AI is advancing too quickly for research to keep up – Axios 

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows – CNBC

Chinese AI models push pro-China views – Axios

Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation - Axios

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions - MIT Tech Review  

Anthropic has signed a multiyear deal with Atlassian Williams F1 Team, its first major sports partnership. - Axios  

Google Plans to Double Spending Amid A.I. Race – New York Times

AI arms race approaches IPO reckoning - Axios

Anthropic ‘destructively’ scanned millions of books to build Claude - The Washington Post

Meta Overshadows Microsoft by Showing AI Payoff in Ad Business – Wall Street Journal

In the AI boom, this energy company is suddenly flying high - Axios

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books - The Washington Post

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley - The New York Times  

Intel Shares Slide as Costs Pile Up in Bid to Meet AI Demand – Wall Street Journal

Are we in an AI bubble? Economists share the clues to look for – NPR  

What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies: They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers – The Verge

The AI race is creating a new world order – Rest of World  

Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products - The New York Times

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Google is adding an "AI Inbox" to Gmail - Axios 

How to kill a rogue AI Shutting off the internet? Detonating a nuke in space? None of the options are very appealing. – Vox

If U.S.-China AI Rivalry Were Football, the Score Would Be 24-18 - Wall Street Journal 

Meta Buys AI Startup with Chinese roots for More Than $2 Billion – Wall Street Journal

LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting – EpochAI

US to mandate AI vendors measure political bias for federal sales – Reuters

These teenagers are already running their own AI companies – MSNBC

Explainable AI in Chat Interfaces – NN Group 

The Eerie Parallels Between AI Mania and the Dot-Com Bubble – Wall Street Journal

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs – New York Times  

An AI product’s position on the personality spectrum shapes how people engage with it – UX Design  

The Good, Bad and Ugly of AI - Wall Street Journal

The Architects of AI: Person of the Year 2025 – TIME  

Why AI's winners won't be decided by benchmarks – Axios  

Behind the Deal That Took Disney From AI Skeptic to OpenAI Investor - Wall Street Journal

Something Ominous is Happening in the AI Economy – The Atlantic

‘Circularity’ is a flashing warning for the AI boom Wall Street’s buzzword for investors - Washington Post

The New York Times sued Perplexity, an A.I. start-up, claiming that Perplexity repeatedly used its copyrighted work without permission. - New York Times 

A Prompt Engineering Framework for Large Language Model-Based Mental Health Chatbots – National Library of Medicine

ChatGPT started the AI race. Now its lead is looking shaky. - Washington Post 

A YouTube tool that uses creators’ biometrics to help them remove AI-generated videos that exploit their likeness also allows Google to train its AI models on that sensitive data – CNBC  

China's DeepSeek debuts two new AI models – Bloomberg  

A growing share of America’s hottest AI startups have turned to open Chinese AI models - NBC News  

Nvidia's massive investments are shaping the AI bubble debate – Axios  

Gemini is most ‘empathetic’ AI model, test shows - Semafor

A.I.’s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy - New York Times

Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation - Wall Street Journal 

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry - New York Times

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Data Science

AI Definitions: "Model Collapse"

Designing Data and AI Systems That Hold Up in Production: A system-level perspective on architecture, agents, and responsible scale 

AI Definitions: Symbolic Artificial Intelligence 

New AI-features used in test flight better identifies targets by distinguishing different types of emissions

The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead (thanks to AI agents) 

5 Python data validation libraries that each solve a specific class of often repeated problems

The top Python libraries for implementing progress bars 

A foundation-model GeoAI framework for continuous heat and health risk mapping 

Satellite imagery and AI reveal development needs hidden by national data

Top 5 Embedding Models for Your RAG Pipeline 

AI Definitions: Imitation Learning

Data Science Certificate Programs for Professionals 

A review of AI agent OpenClaw

AI Definitions: Convolutional neural networks   

High-performance scene classification in remote sensing imagery using a custom deep CNN architecture

Advanced geospatial intelligence with satellite imagery — one of the most powerful tools in any investigative journalist’s arsenal

Power Prompts in Claude Code 

There's a crisis in particle physics. Researchers hope AI can help. 

Working with Billion-Row Datasets in Python

Generative AI for Data Scientists

For successfully using AI coding tools use type-safe programming

AI Tools Make Coders More Important, Not Less 

Use a dedicated AI agent to review code edits 

Fermilab Announces New Director of National Accelerator Laboratory

Aerial warfare in space between spy satellites 

Explainable AI in Chat Interfaces offered by large language models is often inaccurate, hidden, or confusing—here are some better approaches

Practical steps for preparing to deal with messy, real-life datasets

Finding Meaningful Work in the Age of Vibe Coding 

The One Data Analyst Role That’s AI-Proof

Self-reflection enhances large language models towards substantial academic response 

AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job 

AI Definitions: Foundation Models sit at the core of many generative AI tools 

A Beginner’s Guide to Building AI Agents 

What is next in reinforcement learning for LLMs? 

NASA researchers warn that satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin images from telescopes and observatories 

Are LLMs capable of analyzing and reporting on their own internal states?

5 cutting-edge MLOps (machine learning operations) techniques to watch for in 2026 

Using Simple Data Contracts in Python for Data Scientists to Prevent Pipelines from Breaking

 7 AI Tools I Can’t Live Without as a Professional Data Scientist

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Ethics & AI  

AI video app tops the download charts —horrifying many families of dead celebrities – Washington Post

I’m a Screenwriter. Is It All Right if I Use A.I.? – New York Times 

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us – New Yorker

CHATGPT resurrected my dead father – The Atlantic  

A stunning scientific accomplishment: Computers can now design new viruses that can then be created in the lab - Washington Post

Hype and harm: Why we must ask harder questions about AI and its alignment with human values - Brookings 

AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails - Washington Post

Turning “human in the loop” from a catchphrase into a design practice– Medium 

People, not corporations, should set the rules that govern A.I. - New York Times

AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say – Nature

AI for Scientific Integrity: Detecting Ethical Breaches, Errors, and Misconduct in Manuscripts – Frontiers in AI  

Chatbot Cheating in Ethics Class – Christianity Today 

Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify – Nieman Lab  

Does AI owe you for your small part in creating it? - Axios

Explainability in the age of large language models for healthcare – Nature

Responsible by Design – Why AI Must Be Human-First – Unite AI

Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less? - New York Times

ChatGPT isn’t great for the planet. Here’s how to use AI responsibly. - Washington Post

LLM-as-a-judge easily fooled by a single token, study finds – BD TechTalks

Ethical uses of generative AI in the practice of law – Reuters

Ethical Obligations to Inform Patients About Use of AI Tools – Stanford

The Ethical Problems With AI Sermons – Patheos

Can fake faces make AI training more ethical? – Science News

 Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources – ArsTechnica

Bringing AI to medicine requires philosophers, cognitive scientists, and ethicists – Stat News

Ethicists flirt with AI to review human research – Science.org

AI Supports Dishonesty in Humans, Making It Easier for Users to Cheat With an Accomplice – Discover

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Fakes & Detecting AI

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes – Futurism  

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. – Nature

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters  

When AI lies: The rise of alignment faking in autonomous systems – Venture Beat 

1 year, 1 publisher, 9,000 books: AI-generated titles flood Korean shelves – Korea Times

The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds – New York Times  

How scammers are using AI deepfakes to steal money from taxpayers – Washington Post 

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece – New Yorker

AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To Life For a New Aventure Film – Geeky Tyrant

Researchers find nearly 300 papers at linguistics conferences contained hallucinated citations. – ArXiv

What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes – BBC

AI conference “accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations – Fortune

Scammers use AI photo of missing dog at emergency vet to steal nearly $2,000 - WTSP

Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning - Aperture

Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage – New York Times

How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help - PopSci

Restaurant owner speaks out following AI-generated video – NBC Dallas

‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video – Politico

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations – Inside Higher Ed

Fake Iran images show AI used as a weapon of ‘public opinion,’ USF experts say – The Hill

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media – BBC

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation – Financial Times

AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests - Futurism

Grok deepfakes accelerate Hill action - Axios

Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse – Wall Street Journal

There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem – New York Times

Resisting AI slop in Science & Higher Ed – Science.org

A bibliography of genAI-fueled research fraud from 2025 – Sharon Kabel 

Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide – The Times 

Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled – Associated Press

Researchers call for retraction of two recent Nature studies about AI-generated crystals – Chemical & Engineering News  

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance – Nature  

The rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools – Associated Press

This guy’s obscure PhD project is the only thing standing between humanity and AI image chaos – Fast Company  

A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready. - New York Times

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – Card Catalog for Life

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals – Scientific American 

More A than I: Testing for Large Language Model Plagiarism in Political Science – Political Science Now  

A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready - New York Times

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Health Care & AI

Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows – New York Times

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts – Reuters

ChatGPT can analyze Apple Watch health data. Here’s how a doctor views it. - The Washington Post

Why some hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records – Stat News  

A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? – New York Times

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk – The Guardian

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor. – MSN

Institutions are missing AI’s real potential for drug discovery – Semafor

AI-generated sensors open new paths for early cancer detection - MIT News

Your next primary care doctor could be online only, accessed through an AI tool – NPR

What are the limits to biomedical research acceleration through general-purpose AI? – Nature

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Utah permits nation's first AI drug prescriptions – Axios

Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t – Wall Street Journal

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? - New York Times

40 million people turn to ChatGPT for health care - Axios

Researchers create a machine learning model “to distinguish paper mill publications from genuine cancer research articles.”- The BMJ

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss - New York Times

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Higher Ed: The Impact of AI on Admin & Faculty

An Overview of AI Governance in Education – EdTech Magazine

Harvard Proposes a Cap on AI’s amid worry over grade inflation – Bloomberg

Higher education needs to change in order to survive the AI economy – Fast Company

Hey, ChatGPT: Where Should I Go to College? – New York Times

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says – NPR  

Resisting AI slop in Science & Higher Ed – Science.org

5 Predictions on How AI Will Shape Higher Ed in 2026 – Inside Higher Ed

As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns - New York Times

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads – Forbes 

4 policy trends that should be on college leaders’ radars in 2026 – Higher Ed Dive

Voices of Student Success: A Liberal Arts College Goes All In on AI (podcast) – Inside Higher Ed

Higher Education Plans for a Future Markedly Changed by A.I. - New York Times

Higher Education’s AI Problem (podcast) - NPR

How AI Is Changing Higher Education – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Big tech companies are making the Cal State college system a training ground for A.I. tools in education. - New York Times

Can Colleges Be Run Using AI? - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

From Yale to MIT to UCLA: The AI policies of the nation's biggest colleges – Mashable

University of Georgia investing $800,000 in program providing students with AI tools – CBS News 

How AI Supports Student Mental Health in Higher Education – Ed Tech

Calcutta University plans 10% cap on AI use in PhD thesis – Millennium Post

The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed – The Atlantic

The worst AI strategy in higher ed is no strategy at all – University Business

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Journalism & AI

Notes on RISJ’s AI and the Future of News symposium - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

How Journalists Can Make AI Work for Them -  Columbia Journalism Review

A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” – Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes – Futurism  

Can AI Save Local News? – Wall Street Journal 

As AI data centers scale, investigating their impact becomes its own beat – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes - Futurism 

In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News – Columbia Journalism Review

Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations by an AI Tool - Arstechnica

Eight in ten of world’s biggest news websites now block AI training bots – Press  Gazette

The Fight over AI at McClatchy - Columbia Journalism Review

New York Times publisher: AI is using our facts without paying for them – Mediaite

Generative Engine Optimization FAQs from the ‘What Is AI Reading?’ report  - Muck Rack 

College paper fights to stop AI slop website from stealing its identity – Washington Post

How AI is reshaping the news industry - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

How will AI reshape the news in 2026? Forecasts by 17 experts from around the world – Reuter Institute

How AI is affecting me as a human (and journalist) – Axios

Here are the news outlets that got AI right in 2025 — and the ones that got it very, very wrong – Poynter

AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East – Bellingcat

What the ‘AI inflection point’ means for journalism – Fast Company back to top 

Legal Issues & AI   

AI Legal Platform now Valued at $5.5 Billion – AI Business  

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training – Reuters

The AI Literacy Gap is Now a Security and Compliance Liability – JD Supra

Who’s liable when AI is used for harm? – KARE-11

Grammarly is using our identities without permission – The Verge  

Thaler Is Dead. Now for the AI Copyright Questions That Actually Matter. - Copyright Lately

AI legal advice is driving lawyers bananas - Axios 

AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra

A judge in New Zealand questioned the remorse of a defendant who had used A.I. to write apologies to victims and the court. - New York Times

Employers Turn to AI to Screen Candidates’ Social Media: Best Practices to Minimize Legal Threats – JD Supra

Arkansas attorney resigns after using AI to assist in case work – Thv11 

Interest in Law School Is Surging. A.I. Makes the Payoff Less Certain. – New York Times

AI research should always be verified, especially in court – Post Crescent

League City police to review policies after giving theft suspect an AI mug makeover – ABC13

How AI and social media sites are still collecting kids’ data despite privacy laws – Technical.ly  

ABA Highlights AI’s Challenges for Legal Education and Liability – Bloomberg

Proposed New York law would bar AI chatbots from posing as lawyers, allow duped users to sue – Reuters

What Was Grammarly Thinking? – The Atlantic

Legal advocates object to bill to allow AI interpretation in court – Wisconsin Public Radio

Federal Court Rules Some AI Chats Are Not Protected by Legal Privilege – Crowell Legal

White House puts red state AI laws under scrutiny – Axios

AI Legal Compliance for Law Firms: What Lawyers Need to Know in 2026 – JD Supra

A Long-Running AI Copyright Question Gets an Answer as Supreme Court Stays Mum – CNET

DOJ attorney in Raleigh accused of fake legal arguments, prompting warning about AI from prosecutor - WRAL

AI pilot program in L.A. County courts will help judges craft rulings in some cases – LA Times

85 Predictions for AI and the Law in 2026 – National Law Review  

How Judges Are Using AI to Help Decide Your Legal Dispute - Wall Street Journal 

New York Times publisher: AI is using our facts without paying for them – Mediate  

AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests – Futurism  

Researchers find compelling evidence that AI models are copying data, not just learning from it – Futurism  

The NYT sued Perplexity claiming it repeatedly used its copyrighted work without permission. – New York Times  

Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse – Wall Street Journal  

Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI – Wall Street Journal 

Deepfake of North Carolina lawmaker used in award-winning Whirlpool video - Washington Post  

Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say - New York Times

AI jury finds teen not guilty: The mock trial at the UNC School of Law raises questions about AI’s role in criminal justice. – University of North Carolina 

Is AI making some people delusional? Families and experts are worried – LA Times

White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations - Washington Post 

Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis, leading him to the delusion that he could save the world. – CTV  

Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong? - New York Times 

OpenAI fights order to turn over millions of ChatGPT conversations – Reuters  

I Built a Python Script to Make 10,000 Laws Understandable – Hackeroon  

AI's Copyright Dilemma Affects All of Us, Even You. Here's What You Need to Know – CNET

Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings - New York Times  

An online database tracking AI “fabricated cases” cited in court filings -  Damien Charlotin 

South Korea launches landmark laws to regulate AI, startups warn of compliance burdens – Reuters

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Photography & AI

Your phone edits all your photos with AI - is it changing your view of reality? – BBC

A.I. Loves Fake Images. But They’ve Been a Thing Since Photography Began. – New York Times

This guy’s obscure PhD project is the only thing standing between humanity and AI image chaos – Fast Company  

6 Best Gemini Photo Editing Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI Images – eWeek  

Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning – Aperture

Student arrested for eating AI art in University of Alaska Fairbanks gallery protest – UAF Sun Star

How AI is disrupting the photography business – Axios

Shutterstock rebrands as it goes all-in on generative AI - Fast Company

Pedophiles Are Using AI To Turn Children’s Social Media Photos Into CSAM – Forbes

The AI Slop Presidency – 404Media

How AI is disrupting the photography business – Axios  

Want to take better photos? Google thinks AI is the answer. – Washington Post

As AI proliferates, outdoor photographers and editors struggle to sort out what’s real and what’s not – Montana Free Press

I Fixed My Bad Family Photos. Here’s How to Do It—and When to Stop.- Wall Street Journal

In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful.  – Washington Post

Scammers use AI photo of missing dog at emergency vet to steal nearly $2,000 – WTSP

League City police to review policies after giving theft suspect an AI mug makeover – ABC13

Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage – New York Times

How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help – PopSci

Google debuts 'Me Meme' feature letting users turn their own selfies into shareable memes – Mashable   

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Possibilities: Things AI Can Do Now  

We put Claude Cowork to the test: See AI build a website in minutes - Washington Post 

China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I. - The New York Times

What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out. - The New York Times

Satellite imagery and AI reveal development needs hidden by national data – Phys.org

A I-powered lost-dog finder is now free for all. – Tech Crunch

How AI Can, and Can’t, Help With Your Taxes This Year – Wall Street Journal

AI comes to rodeo, setting up a cowboy culture clash – Axios

Using chemistry, archival records and AI, scientists are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields – Knowable Magazine

How AI's predictive power is helping to prevent deforestation - Reuters

How AI is shifting global supply chains from reactive to predictive – Supply Chain Management Review

JPMorgan eschews proxy advisers for internal AI tool – ESG Dive

Why Equinox Leaned on AI Slop in Its New Year’s Ad Campaign - Wall Street Journal

“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed with the help of AI – Cyber News

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss - The New York Times

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - Antirez

IBM stock falls after Anthropic says AI can now modernize old software – Fast Company

Chatbots Are Surprisingly Effective at Swaying Voters - The Atlantic

Home renovation platforms are rolling out A.I.-enabled imaging tools that redesign rooms in an instant – New York Times 

Police swap suspect sketches for AI – Washington Post

Redefining crisis communication in the age of AI with Molly McPherson - MuckRack

As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI – NPR

Two College Students Are Building a Robot to Replant Burned Forests – Smithsonian Magazine  

Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide – The Guardian  

A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season – New York Times

AI Accurately Predicts Complication Risk After Kidney Cancer Surgery – Cancer Nursing Today

Using A.I to Talk to Whales – New York Times 

How a 2,400 Year Old Problem Shows Us How Close ChatGPT's AI Is To Human Intelligence - BGR

ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude have a sense of humor – Axios

She used ChatGPT to win the Virginia lottery and then donated every dollar – Washington Post

Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia - The New York Times

Air Force Using AI to Plan Storage for Munitions – Air & Space Forces

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Politics

The Age of Eerie A.I. Political Ads Is Here - New York Times

Humans — not AI — are to blame for deadly Iran school strike, sources say – Semafor

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online - New York Times

AI money is already influencing the midterms. And more is coming. - The Washington Post

The Future We Feared Is Already Here - New York Times

Fake Iran images show AI used as a weapon of ‘public opinion,’ USF experts say – The Hill

The Cost of the A.I. Boom: A Trade Deficit the President Detests – New York Times

‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video – Politico

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters

Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic - The Washington Post

ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate - New York Times

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media – BBC

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation – Financial Times 

White House puts red state AI laws under scrutiny – Axios

 AI's populist moment - Axios

How A.I. Money Is Flooding Into the Midterm Elections – New  York Times

Meta will spend $65 million this year to help state politicians who are friendly to the A.I. industry - New York Times 

China’s Alibaba launches AI model to power robots as tech giants talk up ‘physical AI’ – CNBC

Move Fast, but Obey the Rules: China’s Vision for Dominating A.I. – New York Times

Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute – Axios  

Use of Anthropic’s Claude in Venezuela Raid highlights growing role of AI in the Pentagon – Wall Street Journal  

See how the Trump administration is using AI throughout the government - The Washington Post

Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs (through social media) – threatening democracy - The Conversation

Young people in China have a new alternative to marriage and babies: AI pets - The Washington Post

Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations - Engadget

The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments – MIT Tech Review

South Korea Issues Strict New AI Rules - Wall Street Journal

Trump team touts a coming economic revolution as voters fear job losses - The Washington Post

How AI swallowed tech lobbying in 2025 – Axios

Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS

A robotic dog made in China gets an Indian university kicked out of an AI summit – Associated Press

Grok deepfakes accelerate Hill action – Axios

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Relationships with AI 

She built an AI bot of her mother to help her grieve – Rest of World

AI romance is not a bug It’s Big Tech’s most dangerous feature. – Fast Company 

Could AI relationships actually be good for us?  - The Guardian

A religious fervor surrounds our relationship with technology. – New York Times

Inside Google's vision to make Gmail your personal AI agent command center - ZDnet

AI Romance is Perverse – Christianity Today  

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis – Futurism

They hear, but do they care? What AI can teach us about listening better – BBC

People Are Paying $99 a Month to Talk to a Tony Robbins Chatbot – Wall Street Journal

Recovering from AI delusions means learning to chat to humans again – Washington Post

AI companions: "The new imaginary friend" redefining children's friendships – Axios

A mom thought her daughter was texting friends before her suicide. It was an AI chatbot. – CBS News

A teen’s final weeks with ChatGPT illustrate the AI suicide crisis - The Washington Post

A Prompt Engineering Framework for Large Language Model-Based Mental Health Chatbots - PubMed

Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t – New York Times

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions - Wall Street Journal

The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions – Wired

Is AI making some people delusional? Families and experts are worried – LA Times

Instead of an AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends – Wired

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Religion & AI

AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations – Wired  

Christianity grapples with the rise of an AI Jesus – Salon

Notre Dame receives $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment for the DELTA Network, a faith-based approach to AI ethics – Notre Dame

How Christian Leaders Are Challenging the AI Boom - TIME

It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas – Axios

How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Bible Translation – Ministry Watch

Meet chatbot Jesus: Churches tap AI to save souls — and time - Axios

MIT takes down article on an AI platform for churches - MIT Technology Review 

How Scammers Use AI and Cryptocurrency to Defraud Churches - Ministry Watch

The Southern Baptist Convention warns against use of AI to write sermons – Christian Post

Charlie Kirk's AI resurrection ushers in a new era of digital grief – Religion News Service

Company uses AI to produce Bible videos. – NPR

Finding God in the App Store: Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high – New York Times

The seepage of AI into Christian practice is disturbing – Washington Post  

The 2,000-year-old debate that reveals AI’s biggest problem Silicon Valley is racing to build a god — without understanding what makes a good one.- Vox  

The race for an AI Jesus is on A chatbot offers personalised counsel on faith – Economist  

In new handbook updates, LDS Church spells out how members can use — and not abuse — A.I. – Salt Lake Tribune

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Teaching with AI

Adapting to a New World: Teachers on How A.I. Is Reshaping the Classroom - New York Times

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? – Washington Post

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree – KPBS  

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers - Wired

China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I. - The New York Times 

What AI Is Teaching Us About Humanities Education – The Dispatch  

Will Agentic AI Break Higher Education? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

‘A.I. Literacy’ Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why. - The New York Times

Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What? – Inside Higher Ed

The Lesson of A.I. Literacy Class: Don’t Let the Chatbot Think for You - The New York Times

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? - Washington Post 

I’m Not Worried AI Helps My Students Cheat. I’m Worried How It Makes Them Feel - EdWeek

My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI – The Independent

AI Detection Pushed my Students to use AI – Chronicle of Higher Ed

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says - NPR

The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp - Chronicle of Higher Ed

As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns - The New York Times

More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why - EdWeek

To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper - Chronicle of Higher Ed

A veteran teacher explains how to use AI in the classroom the right way – Scientific American

California schools debate how much AI belongs in classrooms - Ed Source

This MIT prof says we don't know enough about AI to teach it - KJZZ

You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead. – Inside Higher Ed

Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it's wrong? – NPR

Professors are turning to this old-school method to stop AI use on exams – Washington Post 

I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse – New York Times

OpenAI Is Giving Teachers Their Own ChatGPT, Free Through 2027 - Newsweek 

How AI Is Changing Higher Education – Chronicle of Higher Ed  

AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking – The Conversation

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? – Nature

Is AI dulling our minds? Experts weigh in on whether tech poses threat to critical thinking, pointing to cautionary tales in use of other cognitive labor tools – The Harvard Gazette

Are we teaching students AI competence or dependence? - London School of Economics  

AI Has Joined the Faculty - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

To adopt or to ban? Student perceptions and use of generative AI in higher education – Nature

What are the clues that ChatGPT wrote something? - Washington Post

Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize. - New York Times

Teaching Students to Think Critically About AI – Harvard Graduate School of Education

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea – Rest of World  

More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind – NPR

From Yale to MIT to UCLA: The AI policies of the nation's biggest colleges – Mashable

A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer – Hechinger Report  

I Want My Students’ Effort, Not AI’s Shortcut to Perfect Writing – Edsurge

AI-resistant strategies - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

What’s working, not on front lines of AI in classroom - The Harvard Gazette

AI Tutors Are Now Common in Early Reading Instruction. Do They Actually Work? – Edweek

Bridging pedagogy and technology: a generative AI and IoT approach to transformative English language education – Nature

Teaching: How to respond when students don’t want to work with AI - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

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Writing & AI  

Wikipedia’s guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it. – ArsTechnica

Lit bots beware: AI creative writing faces reader skepticism, study shows- PhysOrg  

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts – The Conversation  

I had ChatGPT write my resume, LinkedIn Summary and cover letter — then asked Gemini if I would get the job – Tom’s Guide 

Funders ‘should support shared AI tools for translational research’ – Research Professional News 

Fine-Grained Detection of AI-Generated Writing in the Biomedical Literature – BioRxiv 

Visualizing poetry with deep semantic understanding and consistency evaluation - Nature

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – Card Catalog for Life

Researchers who use generative AI to write papers are publishing more – Chemical & Engineering News  

In 2026, AI will outwrite humans - Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? – New York Times 

Don’t Let AI Ruin the Em Dash – Wall Street Journal  

What are the clues that ChatGPT wrote something? – Washington Post  

AI is writing about half of the articles on the internet - Axios  

America is in a literacy crisis. Is AI the solution or part of the problem? - CNN 

10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please - The Ringer

A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer – The Hechinger Report 

Beyond ‘we used ChatGPT’: a new way to declare AI in research - Research Professional News  

AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews – Nature

An Ancient Answer to AI-Generated Writing – Inside Higher Ed

My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI – The Independent  

Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations - Engadget

Can researchers stop AI making up citations? – Nature 

’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale - Vice 

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