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• Which LLM Should You Use for Your Business? [Pros and Cons] - Nathan Lands and Matt Wolfe, Hubspot
  Choosing the right large language model can feel overwhelming with so many options out there, especially if you’re not exactly living and breathing AI. But as we’ve worked through each one, we’ve gotten a real sense of what they’re good at (and where they fall short). So, let’s talk about what to use, when.https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/which-llm-should-you-use
• Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model - Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google
  Gemini 2.5 is a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. Our first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, leads common benchmarks by meaningful margins and showcases strong reasoning and code capabilities. Gemini 2.5 models are thinking models, capable of reasoning through their thoughts before responding, resulting in enhanced performance and improved accuracy. In […]
• Creative Futures Academy (CFA) helping businesses equip their employees with the skills needed to thrive - Creative Futures Academy
  Creative Futures Academy was delighted to feature in 'Business This Week' within The Irish Times as part of a special report on Attracting Excellence in Ireland. Our Director, Louise Allen, and our courses featured across multiple articles focusing on prioritising career development to attract talent, sustainability and EDI considerations and also exploring career stagnation with […]
• Amplified Humanity: How AI Can Expand Our Capacity to Do Good and Be Good - Tawnya Means, University of Illinois Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation, via LinkedIn
  In an era where headlines about artificial intelligence swing between utopian promises and dystopian warnings, we're missing perhaps the most profound opportunity of all: using AI to help us become better humans. This isn't about outsourcing our humanity. It's about leveraging technology to amplify our uniquely human capacities for care, support, learning, engagement, and love. […]
• SUPERAGENCY: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future" - Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, Superagency
  Superagency, by Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, presents an optimistic view of AI's future, focusing on its potential to amplify human capabilities and improve society. Rather than dwelling on dystopian scenarios, the book explores how AI can enhance individual agency, enabling people to achieve more in areas like education, healthcare, and problem-solving. It advocates for […]
• The rise of the AI manager - Tigran Sloyan, Fast Company
  There’s a growing fear that artificial intelligence will soon replace human talent. While it’s undeniable that AI will impact the labor market, as with any disruptive technology, a closer look reveals a different—and far more empowering—future.  Rather than displacing highly skilled professionals, AI is setting the stage for knowledge workers to transition from individual contributors […]
• Innovation and Collaboration in Higher Education During Challenging Times - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  The field of higher education is notoriously slow to change. Yet, when faced with the extraordinary challenges of today, our associations are quick to foster support, collaboration and unity. I just returned from the UPCEA annual conference held in Denver. A record attendance of some 1,300 administrators, faculty and staff from member institutions gathered to […]
• Anthropic just gave Claude a superpower: real-time web search. Here’s why it changes everything - Michael Nuñez, Venture Beat
  Anthropic announced today that its AI assistant Claude can now search and process information from the internet in real-time, addressing one of users’ most requested features and closing a critical competitive gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new web search capability, available immediately for paid Claude users in the United States, transforms the AI assistant from […]
• New ways to collaborate and get creative with Gemini - the Keyword, Google
  Explore Gemini's latest features: Canvas, a new interactive space for refining your documents and code and Audio Overview, which transform your files into engaging podcast-style discussions. Gemini can already help you brainstorm ideas, do deep research and generate content for whatever project you’re working on. And starting today, Gemini can offer even more help, whether […]
• Human Augmentation: The Core Promise of AI - Lee Ott,Tech Crunch
  At the heart of AI is the goal of elevating human potential. When technology manages mundane or repetitive tasks, we are free to focus on creativity, collaboration, and decision-making. By offloading routine tasks to AI, workflows that once took days can be completed in hours, enabling people to think bigger and move faster.  This shift […]
• More than 7 in 10 College Students and Administrators Seek AI Agents to Close Support Gaps, Ease Burnout - Salesforce
  “AI agents offer an incredible opportunity for institutions to scale student support and engagement in a way that will enable them to increase enrollment and retention. Deeply knowledgeable, contextually aware AI agents that are grounded in an institution’s unique data are able to provide students with 24/7 personalized support from the moment they first engage […]
• Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks - Maxwell Zeff, Tech Crunch
  In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report released on Tuesday comes from the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, […]
• AI's Moore's Law: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
  We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months. Extrapolating this trend predicts that, in under five years, we will see AI agents that can […]
• Adobe previews AI generated PowerPoints from raw customer data with ‘Project Slide Wow’ - Carl Franzen, Venture Beat
  For businesses that rely on data-driven decision-making, Project Slide Wow could be a major step forward in simplifying the process of building presentations. If the tool gains traction, it may soon be available as an official Adobe product—potentially transforming how companies use customer data to inform strategy. Until then, CTOs, CIOs, team leads, and analysts […]
• Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education: Transforming Learning and Practice - Aadhitya Sriram, et al; Cureus
  Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping medical education by enhancing learning strategies, improving training efficiency, and offering personalized educational experiences. Traditional teaching methods, such as classroom lectures and clinical apprenticeships, face numerous challenges, including information overload, teaching quality variability, and standardisation difficulties. AI presents innovative, data-driven, and adaptive solutions to overcome these limitations, making medical training […]
• Leading Through Complexity: How Online Leaders Can Drive Digital Institutional Transformation - Bethany Simunich, Campus Technology
  As colleges and universities navigate an era of enrollment declines and financial uncertainty, many are betting big on online education as their path to long-term growth and sustainability. Yet, as nearly 70% of online learning leaders report that their institution is prioritizing the development of online courses for on-campus programs, the path forward is far […]
• Let’s look at AI as a reasoning partner, not a shortcut - Xiangen Hu, Times Higher Ed
  Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving from a simple memory retrieval tool into a sophisticated agent, capable of nuanced reasoning. We can see this in advanced models such as DeepSeek’s R1, OpenAI’s Deep Research and xAI’s Grok. These systems no longer act merely as extensions of search engines but serve as interactive partners that can […]
• OpenAI cancels standalone o3 AI model in favour of a ‘unified’ next-gen release - MSN
  OpenAI has effectively cancelled the release of o3, which was to be its next major standalone AI model, in favour of a “simplified” product offering, CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday. “We will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3,” he said in a post on X. Altman […]
• AI Ethics in Higher Education: How Schools Are Proceeding - Adam Stone, EdTech
  Higher education is uniquely positioned to deal with AI’s ethical considerations, partly because AI adoption is already prevalent in academia. At Miami University in Ohio, “there are courses about AI, and there are courses that use AI,” says Vice President for IT Services and CIO David Seidl. As AI use widens, colleges and universities need […]
• Mujo Releases Groundbreaking Textbook on Artificial Intelligence in Marketing for Higher Education - CBS4
  Mujo, an independent publisher of AI, business & digital marketing curriculum, is proud to announce the release of its latest textbook, Artificial Intelligence Marketing, designed specifically for higher education. This is the first textbook in our Applied AI for Business series. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform the marketing landscape, Artificial Intelligence Marketing provides […]