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• McKinsey Publishing’s year in charts - McKinsey
  McKinsey Global Publishing’s data visualization team shares a curated selection of the most compelling data it worked with this year—spotlighting the major themes that defined 2025. Our Week in Charts series showcases charts that help explain a rapidly changing world. From artificial intelligence to population transitions and shifting trade routes, the forces reshaping the global […]
• Future-proof provision means offering degrees plus skills - Brendan O’Malley, University World News
  To improve employability, tertiary education should recalibrate provision to focus additionally on ensuring students acquire skills useful in the current and future labour market and improve how they make those identifiable to employers. Key steps include identifying what those skills are, examining whether the curriculum and learning experience delivers on them and embedding micro-credentials for […]
• Upskilling Community Cancer Centers: A Training Pilot Hints at Promising Ways to Boost Oncology Clinical Research - Kara Bastarache, et al; Applied Clinical Trials Online
  The pilot project aimed to build clinical research capacity and enhance diversity in oncology trials at community cancer centers. Phase 1 identified barriers such as patient recruitment, staffing, and training needs, while Phase 2 provided targeted training to research-naïve programs. Training improved participants' knowledge and confidence, suggesting potential for increased trial access and diversity in […]
• Enhancing College Education Management with Artificial Intelligence - Bioengineer
  In an age where technology shapes our daily lives, the role of artificial intelligence in education is taking center stage. A recent study conducted by researcher Q. Lai sheds light on how AI can transform the management of college student education. The findings, soon to be published in the journal Discover Artificial Intelligence, mark a […]
• How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age - Shean Cho Ayers, the Conversation
  I am a college professor working at the intersection of humanities and artificial intelligence, and yes, I believe the latter not only threatens to devalue college, but it also risks stripping humanity from our lives altogether. It doesn’t have to be this way. AI automating away parts of work and life challenges the next generation […]
• AI Isn't Killing Education - John Nosta, Psychology Today
  AI isn’t destroying learning, it’s exposing how education replaced thinking with ritual. Knowledge has shifted from static maps to living webs that demand judgment, not recall. The real risk isn’t ignorance, but fluent minds that no longer notice when thinking stops. For the first time, machines outperform humans in domains that education has long treated […]
• University-Developed AI Tool Helps Simplify Transfer Process - Abby Sourwine, GovTech
  A new tool developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is helping colleges simplify transfer credit evaluation, potentially reducing labor and expediting decisions. About 120 college campuses across the U.S. are piloting a new artificial intelligence tool designed to make transfer course equivalencies clearer and more standardized. Credit transfer is a point of […]
• Universities must lead the world through change, ACU told - Brendan O’Malley, University World News
  Instability and crisis are increasingly the ‘new normal’ across the world, but universities should approach this as a landscape of opportunity, solidifying their role as anchors of stability and leaders of progress, the Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) Congress was told. As change hurtles towards us from all sides and in new forms, universities will […]
• 70% of employers have confidence in universities – Survey - Nathan M Greenfield, University World News
  Seventy per cent of employers indicate that they have either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in America’s higher education institutions, according to a new survey by the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). Another 23% indicated they had some confidence, with only 7% indicating “very little confidence”. Seventy-three per cent […]
• For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert - Steve Nadis, Wired
  This view was summed up by Noam Chomsky, a prominent linguist, and two coauthors in 2023, when they wrote in The New York Times that “the correct explanations of language are complicated and cannot be learned just by marinating in big data.” AI models may be adept at using language, these researchers argued, but they’re […]
• Purdue unveils comprehensive AI strategy; trustees approve ‘AI working competency’ graduation requirement - Phillip Fiorini, Purdue
  Purdue University on Friday (Dec. 12) unveiled a broad strategy of AI@Purdue across five functional areas: Learning with AI, Learning about AI, Research AI, Using AI and Partnering in AI. A key element of the comprehensive plan came as the Board of Trustees approved a first-of-its-kind plan in the country to introduce an “AI working […]
• 2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise - Tim Tully, Joff Redfern, Deedy Das, Derek Xiao, Menlo
  Venture funding surged back toward all-time highs, with nearly half of it concentrated in just a handful of frontier AI labs. Then the euphoria peaked. An MIT study2 claiming that 95% of generative AI initiatives fail rattled markets over the summer, exposing how quickly sentiment could shift beneath the weight of AI’s massive capex spend. […]
• Skills are the new hiring currency: 86% of employers say certificates show real job readiness - Preston Fore, Forbes
  No longer does simply getting a degree guarantee career success; instead, employers are increasingly evaluating candidates based on demonstrable skills—and credentials that prove them. And a new report from Western Governors University released today, shared first exclusively with Fortune, underscores that shift: 86% of employers now see nondegree certificates as valuable indicators of job readiness. […]
• The Psychology of AI Doom - Andrew, the Batch
  In this letter, I’d like to explore why some people who are knowledgeable in AI take extreme positions on AI “safety” that warn of human extinction and describe scenarios, such as AI deciding to “take over,” based less on science than science fiction. As I wrote in last year’s Halloween edition, exaggerated fears of AI […]
• Gpt-5.2 is the first human replacer -Wes Roth, YouTube
  This video by Wes Roth, published in December 2025, discusses the release of OpenAI's GPT-5.2, describing it as a massive leap forward rather than a small incremental update. The second half of the video focuses on the economic implications, specifically analyzing a new benchmark called "GDP-eval," which measures performance on real-world, economically valuable tasks. In […]
• Micro-credentials as shape-shifters: From learning to recognition - Simone Ravaioli, University World News
  What is perceived as ‘new’ is the shape – the naming, the framing, the emerging infrastructure around them. What is not new is the spirit – the longstanding practice of short, targeted, work-based learning tightly connected to capability and performance. Employers have always participated in lifelong learning, but they have never called it ‘micro-credentials’. This […]
• Bringing state-of-the-art Gemini translation capabilities to Google Translate - Rose Yao, the Keyword
  We’re bringing Gemini’s most powerful translation capabilities to Google Translate for text, launching a beta experience for live speech-to-speech translations with headphones, and adding new languages to the app for practice and skill building. True understanding comes from not just what someone says, but also the nuance of how they say it. Today, Google Translate […]
• Introducing GPT-5.2 The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents. - OpenAI
  We are introducing GPT‑5.2, the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work. Already, the average ChatGPT Enterprise user says⁠ AI saves them 40–60 minutes a day, and heavy users say it saves them more than 10 hours a week. We designed GPT‑5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people; it’s better at […]
• Texas Christian University Commits $10M to Expand AI Use - Samuel O'Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  A private research university in Texas announced a partnership with Dell to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence on campus and implement an AI system that keeps critical data in-house. The partnership, called AI², is one of TCU’s largest-ever research and technology commitments. AI² will enrich the student learning experience and career preparation by expanding […]
• Universities must respond to students’ emotional reliance on AI - Agnieszka Piotrowska, Times Higher Ed
  If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska. One of my research students told me recently, almost apologetically, that he sometimes turns to ChatGPT “as an emotional crutch”. He said it seemed to understand him better than his therapist. When I […]