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This week in AI: This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin's new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own provost's writing, and Ken Griffin gave Carnegie Mellon $3… Updated 2026-10-04

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#534 Universities cannot grade their way out of AI

This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin's new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own provost's writing, and Ken Griffin gave Carnegie Mellon $3 billion. Student AI use is no longer a future scenario. The useful question for universities is whether they can teach students to work with AI and still certify what those students can do without it. New evidence from tutoring trials, assessme...

2026-10-04

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#534 Universities cannot grade their way out of AI
This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin's new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own provost's writing, and Ken Griffin gave Carnegie Mellon $3 billion. Student AI use is no longer a future scenario. The useful question for universities is whether they can teach students to work with AI and still certify what those students can do without it. New evidence from tutoring trials, assessme...
2026-10-04
Altman sold a $500B AI race. Now he wants the brakes.
#533 Meta tested human callers behind its AI phone agent
Smarter agents, bigger attack surfaces
All 643 issues →
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