I tested Perplexity vs Google AI overview with 7 prompts — the results were shocking

Search is undergoing a profound change. For decades, Google has dominated the web search world, with some 90% of all searches funnelled through the massive Google machine. But suddenly, with the arrival of artificial intelligence, things are starting to change, and seriously so.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/we-tested-google-ai-overview-vs-perplexity-to-find-the-search-champion-the-results-are-shocking

https://www.axios.com/sponsored/new-research-open-source-ai-drives-economic-growth-and-cost-savings

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/sponsored/new-research-open-source-ai-drives-economic-growth-and-cost-savings

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs “have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching.”

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-study-leading-ai-models-show-up-to-96-blackmail-rate-against-executives/

Your Brain Instantly Sees What You Can Do, AI Still Can’t

Summary: New research shows that the human brain automatically recognizes what actions an environment affords, like walking, climbing, or swimming, even without conscious thought.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://neurosciencenews.com/human-ai-visual-encoding-29279/

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development

The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors' generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it's already kneecapping the development of future AI models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development

Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/companies-replaced-workers-ai

AI runs on dirty power — and the public pays the price

The data center boom is driving utilities to torpedo renewable energy goals and rely on fossil fuels, pushing data centers' expected air-pollution-related public health costs to between $5.7 billion and $9.2 billion annually, a Business Insider investigation found.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-runs-dirty-power-and-the-public-pays-the-price-2025-6

Engineer: With AI, "Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over... It’s Just a Matter of Time"

You hear two wildly diverging narratives about AI lately. One, emanating mainly from the tech sector, is that AI is not only poised to supersede human intelligence, but is already radically changing the world and workforce.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/engineer-ai-job-automation

I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT

For most of my career, I taught writing, literature, and language, primarily to university students. I quit, in large part, because of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7026050/chatgpt-quit-teaching-ai-essay/

https://openai.com/index/affective-use-study/

ORIGINAL LINK: https://openai.com/index/affective-use-study/

Joint studies from OpenAI and MIT found links between loneliness and ChatGPT use

Studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found connections between the amount a user talks to ChatGPT and how lonely they feel.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.engadget.com/ai/joint-studies-from-openai-and-mit-found-links-between-loneliness-and-chatgpt-use-193537421.html

https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

Gemini can turn text into audio overviews — here's how to do it

You may already be familiar with NotebookLM, Google's Gemini-powered research companion. If you're new to it, it's worth exploring its standout feature called Audio Overview, which takes uploaded information and turns it into a podcast hosted by two AI presenters.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/gemini-can-turn-text-into-audio-overviews-heres-how-to-do-it

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development

The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors' generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it's already kneecapping the development of future AI models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development

A Knockout Blow for LLMs?

Ha ha ha. But What’s the fuss about? Apple has a new paper; it’s pretty devastating to LLMs, a powerful followup to one from many of the same authors last year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/a-knockout-blow-for-llms/

The Godfather of AI reveals which jobs are safest — and where 'everybody' will get replaced

Now is a great time to become a plumber, at least according to the so-called Godfather of AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-safe-jobs-2025-6

With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to ChatGPT Pro and Team users, replacing o1-pro in the model picker.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/with-the-launch-of-o3-pro-lets-talk-about-what-ai-reasoning-actually-does/

Sam Altman says the energy needed for an average ChatGPT query can power a lightbulb for a few minutes

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, said the energy needed to power an average ChatGPT query can keep a lightbulb on for a few minutes.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use-average-query-watts-altman-2025-6

AI Therapy Gets Its First Reality Check

Young people are embracing AI for mental health support in ways that have professionals scrambling to catch up. A new Harris Poll reveals that young adults are twice as likely to discuss mental health with AI chatbots as older generations.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://derekebaird.medium.com/ai-therapy-gets-its-first-reality-check-e43fa4632aa2

A Billionaire Is Buying Entire Businesses and Converting Them to Run With AI

You might have heard the term "private equity" thrown around lately. Private equity, or "termite capitalism," as it's been ironically called, is a sweeping term for a massive industry built around buying and flipping established companies.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/billionaire-ai-businesses

Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Water on the Entire AI Industry

Researchers at Apple have released an eyebrow-raising paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/apple-damning-paper-ai-reasoning

AI reveals hidden language patterns and likely authorship in the Bible

Graphical representation of the team's results. By comparing word usage and sentence patterns, their AI-based statistical model identified three distinct writing styles, or scribal traditions, shown here in yellow, blue and green. Credit: Faigenbaum-Golovin et al.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ai-reveals-hidden-language-patterns.html

We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

College Professors Turn Back to Blue Books to Combat ChatGPT

As college students use ChatGPT to complete take-home tests, finish homework and write essays, professors are using blue books, or inexpensive, stapled exam booklets with a blue cover and lightly lined pages, to ChatGPT-proof the classroom.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/college-professors-turn-back-to-blue-books-to-combat-chatgpt/492450

The Amazing, but Unsettling, Value of AI for Medical Diagnosis (a personal story)

For over 20 years, I’ve lived with peripheral neuropathy—a quiet background of constant numbness, tingling, and pain-causing supersensitivity in my feet that, until recently, stayed mostly contained.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/the-amazing-but-unsettling-value-of-ai.html

Results from the "Students and AI" Survey and Collaborative Webinar

"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/results-from-students-and-ai-survey-and.html

CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs — if Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei is to be believed, at least.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/anthropic-ai-destroy-jobs

Behind the Curtain: A White-Collar Bloodbath

Hardly anyone is paying attention.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

Please Don’t Use AI as Your Expert Witness

"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/please-dont-use-ai-as-your-expert.html

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says current AI models lack 4 key human traits

What do all intelligent beings have in common? Four things, according to Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. At the AI Action Summit in Paris earlier this year, political leaders and AI experts gathered to discuss AI development.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-yann-lecun-ai-models-lack-4-key-human-traits-2025-5

Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style

Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/fantasy-novel-ai-prompt-copy-style

Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'

Rogue chatbots resorting to blackmail and pondering consciousness? It has to be clickbait, right? Actually, no.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/anthropic-says-its-claude-ai-will-resort-to-blackmail-in-84-percent-of-rollouts-while-an-independent-ai-safety-researcher-also-notes-it-engages-in-strategic-deception-more-than-any-other-frontier-model-that-we-have-previously-studied/

'We no longer have to worry so much about not having qualified teachers': Arizona school debuts AI tutors to help teach practical skills

PHOENIX — Arizona has consistently struggled in education rankings, coming in dead last in a 2024 nationwide survey. But one new online school hopes to change that – by combining artificial intelligence with practical life skills like financial literacy.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/new-arizona-school-ai-tutors-kids-financial-literacy/75-666601a3-7929-4ba7-b524-da8785572ccc

Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style

Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/fantasy-novel-ai-prompt-copy-style

The Zika Virus and the Limitations of AI Reasoning

As a high school exchange student in Brazil many years ago, I fell in love with the country and its people.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/the-zika-virus-and-limitations-of-ai.html

Why Do People Hate AI?

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/why-do-people-hate-ai

The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

As a new type of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is becoming widely used in learning. However, academic consensus regarding its efficacy remains elusive.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y

Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation for Publishers

Audiobooks are the fastest-growing format in publishing, yet of the millions of books published today, only a fraction are available in audio.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.audible.com/about/newsroom/audible-expands-catalog-with-ai-narration-and-translation-for-publishers

The Paleolithic Paradox: Why AI Is Not Like Us

The more I chat with large language models like Grok and ChatGPT—my go-to conversational partners these days—the less I fear a Skynet-style AI uprising.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/the-paleolithic-paradox-why-ai-is-not.html

The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

As a new type of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is becoming widely used in learning. However, academic consensus regarding its efficacy remains elusive.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man

An AI avatar made to look and sound like the likeness of a man who was killed in a road rage incident addressed the court and the man who killed him: “To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the AI avatar of Christophe

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.404media.co/email/0cb70eb4-c805-4e4e-9428-7ae90657205c/

Anthropic CEO Admits We Don't Understand How AI Works

In a rare and striking moment of candor, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic—one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) research labs—has publicly admitted that even the foremost experts do not fully understand how their own AI models work.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://aisecret.us/anthropic-ceo-admits-we-dont-understand-how-ai-works/

Could AI Really Replace Teachers? Not So Fast, Experts Say

As dissatisfied American parents look for education alternatives in the wake of pandemic-era frustrations with the status quo, the role of the teacher is rapidly evolving, with some private schools redefining the human element inside tech-laden classrooms.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.newsweek.com/evolving-role-teachers-ai-classrooms-alpha-school-2067309

US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument : 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI back in 2023, alleging pirated versions of their works were used without permission to train AI language models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/us-federal-judge-on-metas-ai-copyright-fair-use-argument-you-are-dramatically-changing-you-might-even-say-obliterating-the-market-for-that-persons-work/

Tech Companies Are Seeking To Develop AI That Excels at Flattering and Manipulating Us

A disturbing new use of AI—to understand and manipulate our intentions through flattery and false friendship—has been identified in new research from the University of Cambridge.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://thedebrief.org/tech-companies-are-seeking-to-develop-ai-that-excels-at-flattering-and-manipulating-us/

These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers

Researchers have trained a new kind of large language model (LLM) using GPUs dotted across the world and fed private as well as public data—a move that suggests that the dominant way of building artificial intelligence could be disrupted.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/these-startups-are-building-advanced-ai-models-over-the-internet-with-untapped-data/