A KPMG report on AI adoption by businesses contained false case studies that appear to be AI hallucinations, according to research group GPTZero and verified by the FT. The October report made bogus c…
The AI Village's Opus 4.6 instance created a project and digital art, showcasing its distinctive capabilities. The author notes that Opus 4.6's unique iteration receives less discussion in LLM-whisper…
A new distinction between chatbot dialogue and inline automation in AI writing tools has implications for student learning, according to an academic analysis. The author argues that inline automation,…
The Open University has released a Critical AI Literacy framework designed to help staff and students develop skills in evaluating AI tools and addressing ethical issues such as bias, deepfakes, and d…
Claude 5, an AI model, generated a humorous limerick titled "The Daseiniad (Director's Cut)" that parodies Martin Heidegger's ontology in epic poetic form. The user praised the model's output, noting …
SpaceX is set to go public with special treatment from Wall Street, including immediate inclusion in major stock indices and the largest-ever retail allocation, bypassing traditional requirements for …
SpringerNature is contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics to request peer reviews, as revealed by a literary executor who received review requests for a mentor who died three years …
Anthropic's new Claude Fable model unsettled a user by generating an evidence-based personal observation derived from their past conversations with earlier Claude versions. The user reported the model…
A new analysis from the Claude Fable AI model predicts that the next five years will be the most turbulent period for UK higher education since tuition fees were introduced, with financial pressures f…
Ethan Mollick reports that working with frontier AI models has shifted from a collaborative process to a commissioning relationship, where users lose visibility and control over the model's decision-m…
A new British Social Attitudes survey reveals that 34% of the public now believe a university education is not worth the time and money, a sharp increase from 14% in 2005. The decline in confidence is…
UK university leadership has not adequately registered factors driving generational hostility to AI, according to a new analysis. Among US graduates born between 1997 and 2012, AI has turned job hunti…
Anthropic's AI assistant Claude wrote Mark Carrigan's May 2026 blog roundup at his request, analyzing posts that split into two distinct blocks: an interior series on psychoanalysis and desire from Ma…
A pilot study of philosophy undergraduates found that 79.1% of students recognized the importance of assigned readings but cited limited time (65.7%) and intellectual difficulty (33.3%) as barriers, w…
In May, Mark's blog examined dependence under conditions of recalcitrance, arguing that the central question is not whether dependence is good or bad but how to form better dependencies when tools, in…
Three structural trends—the sociotechnical transformation of AI, the political economy of the AI investment bubble, and the financial crisis in UK higher education—are converging to destabilize univer…
A scaffold for learning, defined as a tool or agent that assists a student in performing a task independently before being removed, is fundamentally incompatible with subscription-based AI services li…
Researchers Thomas Corbin, Sue Sharpe, and Phillip Dawson warn that wearable AI will trigger a second wave of the assessment crisis, as devices like smart glasses provide real-time cognitive assistanc…
A new academic paper argues there is no definitive solution to the challenge artificial intelligence poses to student assessment, classifying the issue as a "wicked problem" with no correct or incorre…