(26 Jun 2025) In education and research, AI can generate text, improve writing style, and even analyse data. It saves time and resources by allowing quick summarising of work, language editing and reference checking. It also holds potential for enhancing scholarly work and even inspiring new ideas. Equally AI is able to generate entire pieces…
(4 Jul 2025) Researchers from major universities, including Waseda University in Tokyo, have been found to have inserted secret prompts in their papers so artificial intelligence-aided reviewers will give them positive feedback. The revelation, first reported by Nikkei this week, raises serious concerns about the integrity of the research in the papers and highlights flaws…
(10 Jul 2025) China is outpacing the rest of the world in artificial intelligence research at a time when AI is becoming a “strategic asset” akin to energy or military capability, according to a report from research technology company Digital Science. The report – entitled DeepSeek and the New Geopolitics of AI: China’s ascent to research…
(24 Jun 2025) A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that training — and only training — its AI models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use. It’s a first-of-its-kind ruling in favor of the AI industry, but it’s importantly limited specifically to physical books Anthropic purchased and…
One of the students, whose appeal request was rejected, has raised issues with the university’s lack of clarity in regulating AI misuse. (26 Jun 2025) Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will convene an appeal review panel that will include artificial intelligence experts following accusations that a student committed academic fraud by using generative AI tools. A…
(13 Jun 2025) Supported by “unrestricted gifts” from Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is working with libraries and museums around the world on how to make their historic collections AI-ready in a way that also benefits the communities they serve. Harvard’s newly released dataset, Institutional Books 1.0, contains more…
(11 Jun 2025) AI refusal can refer to a spectrum of approaches to AI, whether that’s refusing to use AI tools entirely, refusing the use of AI as much as possible, refusing to prioritize the use of AI, refusing to accept either boosterism or doomer narratives, refusing to accept the idea that AI is inevitable,…
(28 May 2025) A new study from Microsoft and Salesforce finds that even state-of-the-art AI language models become dramatically less reliable as conversations get longer and users reveal their requirements step by step. On average, the systems’ performance dropped by 39 percent in these scenarios. To simulate how people actually interact with AI assistants,…
(1 Jun 2025) Charles Sturt University has developed the S.E.C.U.R.E. framework to guide university staff in making informed decisions about using GenAI software according to risk parameters. It organizes GenAI-related risks into six categories: Security Credentials Ethical Use Confidential Information Use of Personal Information Rights Protection Evaluation of Outputs Find out more about…
(28 May 2025) A new study from Microsoft and Salesforce finds that even state-of-the-art AI language models become dramatically less reliable as conversations get longer and users reveal their requirements step by step. On average, the systems’ performance dropped by 39 percent in these scenarios. To simulate how people actually interact with AI assistants,…