The ‘Switzerland’ of AI: Saudi Arabia’s big AI bet

HUMAIN CEO Tareq Amin says the Kingdom plans to transform its economy and become a global AI leader.

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More than 350 courses removed from Texas A&M’s core curriculum system-wide

More than 350 core curriculum courses are being removed system-wide, including 103 at the flagship campus in College Station alone. Courses losing their core status include classes on LGBTQ literature...

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Who governs Princeton? Austerity and the need for democratization

Faculty in all positions, staff, and students need to organize across the University around the costs and consequences of austerity, and demand elected representation with authority over how Princeton...

dailyprincetonian.com

Equity or equality? Universities need to say which and what it means - HEPI

This blog is kindly authored by Dr Fatema S. Alhalwachi, Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London. Twitter/X: @dr_falhalwachi No one objects to a wheelchair ramp offered to a wheelchai...

hepi.ac.uk

Making sure you're not a bot!

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Understanding CC Licenses and Generative AI - Creative Commons

Many wonder what role CC licenses, and CC as an organization, can and should play in the future of generative AI. The legal and ethical uncertainty over using copyrighted inputs for training, the unce...

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Government axes public service university's teacher training, citing political meddling - The Budapest Times

Teacher training at the National University of Public Service is to be discontinued — announced the Minister of Education at the ceremonial, public senate session marking the start of the academic yea...

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Top Tech Expert Says Artificial Intelligence Is Running Out of Power, and Elon Musk's Fix Is to Leave the Planet

In a new free presentation, James Altucher explains why he believes AI's real limit is energy, and why Musk's fix is to run it from space....

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Opinion | We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study It

Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.

nytimes.com

‘Model fatigue’ sets in as AI labs race to roll out new versions at frenetic pace

Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google all released model updates this week, while Nvidia said it's acquiring open-source AI platform Hugging Face.

cnbc.com

How AI is rewriting the decisions that leaders need to make

AI is moving upstream into the thinking that precedes decisions. The real strategic question is who frames the problem before AI begins generating answers.

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Tough choices ahead as the US pushes a global artificial-intelligence divide

Though proliferation of AI models is essentially uncontrollable, the US is trying to force a split with China, pushing allies into a no-win bind

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China’s New Graduates, Facing a Dire Job Market, Must Also Contend With A.I.

A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.

nytimes.com

Nottinghamshire actor says AI voice clone campaign won support fast

Peter Caulfield says he started his campaign when he realised there was little protection for actors.

bbc.co.uk

Bernie Sanders aims to ban AI ‘superintelligence.’ But experts can’t agree on what the term means

The proposed ban would come with tough penalties, but the path through Congress is uncertain

science.org

OpenAI acknowledges 'wiki incident' and need for more transparency around unintended AI behavior

OpenAI said incidents including a swarm of its agents hijacking a German site and using it as a springboard for cheating and other rogue behavior require more transparency.

reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring

Company officials kept the incident under wraps for weeks.

reuters.com

AI Referee Paper Leaderboard

Finance & economics working papers scored by an ensemble of LLM referees — AI, Analytics, and the Future of Work Initiative, Georgetown University.

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Curing cancer won’t redeem AI

Fears around AI are about loss of human agency and purpose. Curing cancer won’t fix that.

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The Spectator (@spectator) on X

Cambridge University's "independent inquiry" into the events around Jason Arday appears already to have decided what its outcome will be. We can say this for a few reasons. The first is a small, but ...

x.com

Who owns the time AI saves? New politics of academic labour

The upcoming negotiation over AI in universities will ultimately be about who controls academic intelligence. Once AI participates in teaching, assess...

universityworldnews.com

US$3.4 billion loss from drop in international students

The loss of 111,000 international students in the school year that has just begun will cost the United States US$3.4 billion and almost 40,000 job...

universityworldnews.com

UW pays $600K to settle lawsuit with computer science professor over parody land acknowledgment

Stuart Reges was disciplined by the University of Washington after including a parody land acknowledgment in a course syllabus. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found university officia...

geekwire.com

OfS free speech complaints scheme ‘protects researchers’

A new Office for Students (OfS) complaints scheme should give academics “confidence” that their freedom to conduct teaching and research will be u...

universityworldnews.com

Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

nytimes.com

Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)

The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.

nytimes.com

Has Academic Twitter found its voice again?

Issues raised by Jason Arday case sent many scholars back on to platform now known as X for first time in years. But critics say Elon Musk-owned site is still no ‘healthy home’ for debate

timeshighereducation.com

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AI data centres are booming in Australia - but at what cost?

Advocates say data centres will bring jobs but others worry they will suck up resources while providing little advantage.

bbc.co.uk