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Apr 02 from https://venturebeat.com/

Anthropic flips the script on AI in education: Claude’s Learning Mode makes students do the thinking

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic introduced Claude for Education today, a specialized version of its AI assistant designed to develop students’ critical thinking skills rather than simply provide answers to their questions. The new offering includes partnerships with Northeastern...

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Apr 02 from https://edition.cnn.com/business/tech

Tech industry experts warn AI will make us worse humans

New York CNN — While the top minds in artificial intelligence are racing to make the technology think more like humans, researchers at Elon University have asked the opposite question: How will AI change the way humans think? The answer comes with a grim warning: Many tech experts worry that AI will make people worse at skills core to being human, such as empathy and deep thinking. “I fear...

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Apr 01 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

Kids are talking to ‘AI companions.’ Lawmakers want to regulate that.

Happy April Fools’ Day! Send fake news tips to: [email protected]. Kids are talking to ‘AI companions.’ Lawmakers want to regulate that. After a California state senator read alarming news reports in November about “AI companion” bots’ interactions with teens, his legislative director tried talking to one herself. “It was, ‘Hello,’ and ‘how are you?’, and then the [chatbot’s] first...

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Mar 31 from https://venturebeat.com/

Gartner forecasts gen AI spending to hit $644B in 2025: What it means for enterprise IT leaders

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of money being spent on generative AI in 2025. Analyst firm Gartner released a new report today forecasting that global gen AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025. That figure represents a 76.4% year-over-year increase over...

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Mar 29 from https://venturebeat.com/

Why businesses judge AI like humans — and what that means for adoption

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As businesses rush to adopt AI, they’re discovering an unexpected truth: Even the most rational enterprise buyers aren’t making purely rational decisions — their subconscious requirements go far beyond the conventional software evaluation standards. Let me share an...

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Mar 28 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules

Artificial intelligence images from OpenAI’s new image generator went viral this week on social media after the company loosened its rules around what kind of images users can make. People embraced the tool to create images made in the style of Studio Ghibli, the animation company behind movies including “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away.” First, they shared images of themselves and...

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Jul 17 from https://themarkup.org/

Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless – The Markup

Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority By Jon Keegan Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests known as AI...

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Mar 16 from https://themarkup.org/

I Used ChatGPT as a Reporting Assistant. It Didn’t Go Well – The Markup

Subscribe to Hello World Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. Hello, readers! When it comes to developments in artificial intelligence, things are moving fast. It’s been less than two years since the public release of AI tools like ChatGPT,...

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