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A lot happened with AI in May: images, video, agents, search, risks, and more. I summarize and reflect here: open.substack.com/pub/aiandacade…

How is AI impacting college teaching? This Thursday I'm delighted to host John Warner to discuss his criticism and new book, _More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI_. You can register here: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regist… John Warner Hachette Book Group #FTTE

Deep time:

Afterlife: The unseen lives of AI actors between prompts. (Made with Veo 3)

"Harvard is the most prestigious university in the United States. It has the deepest pockets. If the Trump administration can force Harvard to acquiesce to its demands, that capitulation will make it that much harder for other universities to protect academic freedom." -Daniel

I have to echo Smith: ahahahahaha!

This is bad news for higher education and America in general.

Rubio’s new Chinese Exclusion Act: the Trump administration just went after Chinese students. bryanalexander.org/politics/rubio…

Poster in Washington, DC yesterday:

FFS

AI and economics: I share my research scane of actual business uses of AI, business models, investment, partnerships, labor effects, and the impact of geopolitics, plus my own reflections: aiandacademia.substack.com/p/the-ai-econo…

A Future Trends Forum participant spotted one of my cats (Spider) photobombing:

Struggling with @verizon help, which is terrible. Agent chat just stopped. Phone tree keeps failing.

How I find and listen to music in 2025: bryanalexander.org/podcasts/how-i…

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) ended funding for two major HIV vaccine research programs: science.org/content/articl…

I'm trying to think through this very odd CNN article. It claims that a bunch of elite universities are talking with the Trump administration, and that Trump wants a big public deal with one. This mostly rests on "a person familiar with the matter" - a deliberate leak?

OK, calling Trump's press secretary "TACO Belle" is genius.

Question: if you have Mac devices, are you using Siri? If so, how?

What the GOP House bill means for some science research:

From the DC Metro tonight.