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Quartz – Poll respondents said they were concerned that “too many people will lose their jobs” because of artificial intelligence. “In fact, 71% are afraid that artificial intelligence will cause permanent job loss, according to a new poll by Reuters and Ipsos. The poll surveyed 4,446 U.S. adults nationwide between August 13 and 18. Respondents …
Fortune: “Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – “Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work. But nobody thought it would happen this quickly. Three years later, the AI transformation is just about complete. By the spring of 2024, almost …
Kiwix is a non-profit organization and a free and open-source software project dedicated to providing offline access to free educational content. The name “Kiwix” is a play on the word “Wiki” as it represented our initial goal of making Wikipedia accessible offline. Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or …
Vox – no paywall: “Here’s a picture of what life looked like at the turn of the millennium: We couldn’t stop gossiping about the extramarital affairs of the scandal-ridden president of the United States; we rented movies from Blockbuster and showed off our vast CD collections; we waited patiently for modems to connect us to …
The Atlantic – no paywall – “This article appears in the May 2025 print edition with the headline “A Warning Out of Time.” It has been updated to clarify that Ernst Fraenkel deployed with the German army in World War I to Poland and the Western Front. As Fraenkel explained it, a lawless dictatorship does …
WSJ exclusive [paywall] “The White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with President Trump’s interpretation of American history. See also The New York Times: “The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would begin a wide-ranging review …
Google Blog: “The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is opening its doors wider than ever with a new online hub on Google Arts & Culture thanks to their digitization and storytelling technology. To support the National Gallery of Art’s mission to welcome all people to explore and experience art, creativity and our shared …
Wired no paywall – “A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than that of legitimate research. Over the last four centuries, an implicit contract has been established between scientists and …
The New York Times gift article: “…Ensnaring students is not a long-term solution to the challenge A.I. poses to the humanities. This summer, educators and administrators need to reckon with what generative A.I. is doing to the classroom and to human expression. We need a coherent approach grounded in understanding how the technology works, where …
Repici, Luke, Learning by Doing: The Importance of Limited and Thoughtful Generative AI use in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom (July 07, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5354233 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5354233 – “Technological advances that impact lawyers day-to-day work are nothing new. From typewriters, dictaphones, and computers to electronic legal research, email, and e-discovery, new technologies have …
Daily Beast – …In a March 27 Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump claimed that under the Biden administration the parks “advanced this corrosive ideology.” National Park Service employees have been directed to weed out “corrosive ideology” from their gift shops…National Park Service employees have flagged several books …
