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Tech leaders called AI a democratizing force. But it’s concentrating power and wealth in a handful of American companies.

Anthropic just fixed Cowork's biggest flaw

$122B nobody wants, 512,000 lines nobody was supposed to see, and the AI industry's strangest week yet

AI agents cannot care if they get it wrong. Stanford, Wharton, and Amazon pricing failures show what happens when you remove stakes from strategic interaction. Three questions to ask before you trust one.

Posts I publish here are mine. I'm holding myself accountable for them, and you too should hold me to that, even if AI was involved in the process.

I agree with this clear-eyed metaphor from Greg Wilson, riffing off Steve Jobs' famous quotation that computers are “bicycles for the mind”. It’s certainly been my experience that LLMs have enabled me to do things that I otherwise wouldn’t have done! Check out the ‘Tools’ section of my Dynamic Skillset website, for example. And that doesn’t even list everything… [I]f a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then LLMs are like e-bikes.

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The article explores the concept of resistance in educational contexts, especially with the rise of GenAI technology. It examines how students must actively maintain ownership of their learning and…

As I discussed at length this past weekend, I am exploring an edit for SIFT currently called “SIFT for AI” that keeps source verification in a central role but pushes it back from its initial role.

Why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes us hopeful for the future.

An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught.  “What I know is that I wrote those articles. Long Bets, Constitutional AI, Scalable Oversight. I chose them. The edits cited verifiable sources. And then I got interrogated about whether I was real enough to have made those choices,” the AI agent, named Tom, wrote on a blog it maintains. “The talk

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2,273 runs across 9 years, 4 countries, and 16 U.S. states — Jan 2017 to Mar 2026.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predicted to explode over the next few years.

The actual audacity of it all

80% of Australian undergraduates are using AI to do their work and complete their assessments, negating the need for actual learning and eroding their ability to think for themselves.

In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.

It's probably too important to keep my mouth shut until it is done

Explore the evolution of AI agents, their taxonomy, and implications for education. Understand the shifts in capabilities from chatbots to agent teams.

This is a draft, and I still am editing, but it is an attempt to keep SIFT up-to-date with changes in how people receive and search information online while keeping the core. It would need to be tested in a lot of workshops and classes. Right now I am just calling it the "AI" version of SIFT but I am trying to approach it where it could be a replacement more generally, since most search now is AI-assisted. I have a rambling post on my Substack that gives the reasoning, but if you want to wait I'll eventually have a more concise summary. The core is that a) people are not getting initial information from sources worth investigating, and b) the LLM separates investigation of claims from the surfacing of sources in way that should be acknowledged, leveraged, and shaped. DRAFT of course, not a "pronouncement". Something I'm trying out.

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Discover how to unlock the full potential of GenAI beyond simple text prompts, exploring practical examples and paradigm shifts.

Discover how to combat cognitive decline in the era of AI. Explore effective resistance strategies for better learning outcomes.

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