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• Poll Finds Abolishing the Education Department ‘Wildly Unpopular’ - Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed
  The majority of likely voters oppose abolishing the U.S. Department of Education by executive order, according to a new poll conducted by the progressive think tank Data for Progress, on behalf of the Student Borrower Protection Center and Groundwork Collaborative, a left-wing advocacy group. The poll found 61 percent of all survey respondents “somewhat” or […]
• College Presidents’ Survey Finds Alarm Over Trump - Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed
  The majority of college presidents surveyed by Inside Higher Ed believe the Trump administration will have a negative impact on the sector. Many are still optimistic. Even before President Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of executive orders involving higher education, college and university presidents expressed serious concerns about his possible impact on the sector and […]
• Amazon reportedly gears up to release next-gen Alexa - Kyle Wiggers, Tech Crunch
  Per a Reuters report, Amazon plans to preview an upgraded version of Alexa, the company’s smart home assistant that runs on a number of first- and third-party devices, at an event on February 26. The revamped Alexa is said to be able to respond to multiple commands in sequence, in contrast with the current iteration, […]
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI will match ‘country of geniuses’ by 2026 - Michael Nuñez, Venture Beat
  AI will match the collective intelligence of “a country of geniuses” within two years, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned in a sharp critique of this week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. His timeline — targeting 2026 or 2027 — marks one of the most specific predictions yet from a major AI leader about the […]
• ChatGPT Search is now free for everyone, no OpenAI account required – is it time to ditch Google? - John-Anthony Disotto, Tech Radar
  ChatGPT Search no longer requires an OpenAI account. You can access the AI search engine for free without logging in. ChatGPT Search lets you browse the web directly from within the world's most popular chatbot. ChatGPT Search is now available to everyone, regardless of whether you're signed into an OpenAI account or not. OpenAI announced […]
• Google opens its most powerful AI models to everyone, the next stage in its virtual agent push - Hayden Field & Jennifer Elias, CNBC
  Google on Wednesday released the Gemini 2.0 artificial intelligence model suite to everyone. The continued releases are part of a broader strategy for Google of investing heavily into “AI agents” as the AI arms race heats up among tech giants and startups alike. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have also expressed their goal of […]
• ChatGPT's Deep Research just identified 20 jobs it will replace. Is yours on the list? - Sabrina Ortiz, ZDnet
  Min Choi, an X user whose account is dedicated to sharing informational AI content, asked Deep Research to "List 20 jobs that OpenAI o3 reasoning model will replace huma n with into a table format ordered by probability. Columns are Rank, Job, Why Better Than Human, Probability." Choi then shared the results of the chat […]
• The CEO as elite athlete: What business leaders can learn from modern sports - McKinsey
  The development of sports technology and sports science—new ideas in nutrition, recovery, in-game strategy, coaching, athletic techniques, you name it—means that today’s athletes are unquestionably better than those from even 25 years ago. For today’s chief executive officers, there’s a lot to learn from that remarkable progress. And the need is urgent, primarily because the […]
• The Industry Reacts to OpenAI's Deep Research - "Hard Takeoff" - Matthew Berman, YouTube
  Matthew Berman responds to the release of OpenAI's "Deep Research." Generalized PhD: Deep Research's performance on STEM benchmarks surpasses that of human PhDs, demonstrating the potential for AI to outperform humans in specialized fields. Economic Impact: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, estimates that Deep Research can already accomplish a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable […]
• Cuts in January Hit Both Small Colleges and Large Systems - Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed
  A growing number of institutions across the country are looking to shore up their finances by eliminating athletic programs as well as jobs and underenrolled academic programs. A new year is underway, but many colleges are still reeling from the fiscal challenges of 2024. With yawning budget gaps and bleak financial projections at some campuses, […]
• Introducing deep research - Open AI
  Deep research is OpenAI's next agent that can do work for you independently—you give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst. Powered by a version of the upcoming OpenAI o3 model that’s optimized for web browsing […]
• Accreditors brace for Trump’s promised higher ed shakeup - Ben Unglesbee & Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  On the 2024 campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump accused the nation’s faculty of being “obsessed with indoctrinating America’s youth” and declared, “The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical Left.” His administration’s “secret weapon” in this conflict would be the accreditation system for colleges and universities.  “When I […]
• Higher education’s outlook for 2025 - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  If January is any indication, major changes are likely coming to the higher education sector in the year ahead. President Donald Trump has taken executive actions during the first two weeks of his second term that could have big impacts on diversity and equity initiatives, immigration and Title IX, the federal law barring sex-based discrimination […]
• Trump Orders Disrupt Academic Research - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  As the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation review grants and programming for verboten topics—including DEI and “gender ideology”—many researchers aren’t sure if their projects will pass Trump’s nebulous, ideological tests. Many federally funded scientists have either had their grants terminated or can’t access approved funding while the National Institutes of Health, […]
• Enterprise technology’s next chapter: Four gen AI shifts that will reshape business technology - McKinsey
  Our recent discussions with tech leaders across industries suggest that four emerging shifts are on the horizon as a result of gen AI, each with implications for how tech leaders will run their organizations. These include new patterns of work, architectural foundations, and organizational and cost structures that change both how teams interact with AI […]
• Annual Festival to Spotlight Artificial Intelligence - Kenya King, Georgia State University
  Beverly Wright, Ph.D., and vice president of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) for Wavicle Solutions, will keynote the annual Daffodil Festival & Symposium at Georgia State University’s Newton Campus on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 11:30 a.m. The theme for Wright’s talk will be "Daffodils, Academics and Artificial Intelligence: What Would Our Ancestors Think?”. Anita […]
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT for government agencies - Emma Roth, the Verge
  OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a version of its flagship chatbot that’s tailored to government agencies. The company says the tool will let US government agencies securely access OpenAI’s frontier models, like GPT-4o. As noted by OpenAI, government agencies can deploy ChatGPT Gov within their own Microsoft Azure cloud instance, making it easier to manage […]
• Alternative Credentials Market for Higher Education to grow by USD 1.8 Billion from 2025-2029, driven by skills gap expansion, Report on AI-powered market evolution - Technavio
  Report on how AI is driving market transformation - The global alternative credentials market for higher education size is estimated to grow by USD 1.8 billion from 2025-2029, according to Technavio. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of  15.3%  during the forecast period. Widening skills gap is driving market growth, with a […]
• Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Academic and Administrative Processes Through Responsible Strategic Leadership in the Higher Education Institutions - Suleman Ahmad Khairullah, Frontiers in Education
  This review explores the substantial impact of integrating AI in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), from improving education delivery to enhancing student outcomes and streamlining administrative processes and strategic leadership.By catering to the diverse learning needs of students with the help of tools that directly affect academics, monitor student engagement and performance, and provide data-driven interventions, […]
• University System of Maryland prepares to cut hundreds of jobs amid state deficit - Ellie Wolfe, Baltimore Banner
  System officials say the proposed budget reduction would directly affect students and the Maryland economy. “We fear unfilled faculty positions will grow our faculty to student ratios and impair students' abilities to graduate on time,” Perman said. “Because we’re responsible for so much of Maryland’s workforce, we’re concerned about the impact of our reduced capacity […]