AI’s rapid capability leap promises transformative productivity—from research and corporate automation to search and teaching—prompting claims of AGI. Simultaneously, security, integrity, and governance risks (malicious packages, cheating, privacy, supply‑chain concerns) demand institutional guardrails, human judgment, and regulation.
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The Verge: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ (Mar. 23, 2026)
On Lex Fridman’s podcast, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, “I think we’ve achieved AGI,” claiming AI can start, grow, and run major companies. -
NY Times: Is Taste the One Thing A.I. Can’t Replace? (Mar. 22, 2026)
Tech workers are trying to cultivate “taste,” a human judgment guiding AI, as a skill that could keep them indispensable. They teach courses, host dinner salons, and debate whether taste is teachable, subjective, or merely a buzzword. -
Out of Sample: A Second Industrial Enlightenment (Mar. 23, 2026)
AI breakthroughs suggest machines can accelerate analyses, proofs, and experiments, approaching Nobel-level research in some fields. But limits in interpretation, verification, and incentives mean institutions are needed to sustain growth. -
WSJ: AI Is Rewriting the Old Rules of Google Search and SEO (Mar. 22, 2026)
AI-powered search is changing SEO, so companies must become trusted sources by engaging customers, structuring content, and adding contextual details. -
Simon Willison: Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 — credential stealer (Mar. 24, 2026)
LiteLLM on PyPI hid a base64 credential stealer that ran on install, stealing SSH keys, cloud credentials, wallets, and histories. -
The Chronicle of Higher Education: AI Broke College Assessment. One University Believes It’s Got a Fix. (Mar. 23, 2026)
U.S. colleges mostly leave AI policy to individual professors, creating a confusing patchwork, straining faculty, and harming integrity. -
Inside Higher Ed: Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent (Mar. 23, 2026)
Canvas launched IgniteAI to automate routine tasks, free faculty for mentoring, and include guardrails to prevent automated grading. Critics warn agentic AI may enable cheating, erode student-faculty ties, and push higher education toward larger classes. -
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Is AI Making Us Stupid? Cal Newport Is Worried. (Mar. 12, 2026)
Cal Newport warns AI threatens to outsource hard thought, and urges universities to cultivate cognitive fitness, protect deep work, and ban AI-written student work. -
NY Times: In N.Y.C. Classes, Teachers Can Use A.I. to Plan but Not to Assign Grades (Mar. 24, 2026)
New York City released an A.I. playbook letting teachers use A.I. for lesson planning, research, and drafting, but banning it for assigning grades or disciplinary decisions. It stresses guardrails, data privacy, teacher judgment. -
The Register: US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America (Mar. 24, 2026)
The FCC added all foreign-made consumer routers to its Covered List, banning approval of new models, while allowing previously authorized devices. It cites national security, critics say most routers are made abroad, and DoD, DHS, and conditional approvals are allowed.
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