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Writing Studies students in Associate Professor Amber Warrington’s class. The Department of Writing Studies is launching a new Writing with AI certificate to prepare students for artificial intelligence’s evolving role in the professional landscape. The certificate will teach students to evaluate the quality and appropriateness of AI writing tools, build proficiency in AI writing principles, impart best practices for responsible AI usage in writing and use AI to communicate effectively. Students must completely three courses (nine credits total) to earn the certificate: WRITE 229 (Writing For/With AI) introduces students to the intersection of writing and artificial intelligence, teaching them how…

Image: DC_Studio via Envato eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A popular AI coding assistant has defied expectations — not by generating code on demand, but by pushing users to sharpen their own programming skills. This bold shift has sparked debate among developers, educators, and tech enthusiasts, leaving many questioning the future role of AI in coding. The AI’s unconventional approach When a user asked Cursor AI to write code, the assistant responded with a firm directive: Learn to code instead. The coding assistant’s…

We recently launched our new article comments system and had an interesting weekend discussion about AI tools and whether they add value to our lives. The feedback saw a majority sharing the positive impacts that the various tools had in their lives.However, there are critical issues abound. Former OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy recently shared an interesting perspective, highlighting how AI could impact the web and its content (via The Decoder).It’s 2025 and most content is still written for humans instead of LLMs. 99.9% of attention is about to be LLM attention, not human attention.E.g. 99% of libraries still have docs…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.How many times do you call a customer service help desk before reaching breaking point? I came close when trying to arrange an internet connection for my new home earlier this year. Each time we booked an installation, we subsequently received an automated text message postponing our appointment. The process was repeated over weeks in an infuriating doom loop. “I don’t see this in our records,” one call centre adviser said over and over again in a scripted response. All I craved…

Way back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made waves with a striking claim that “the hottest new programming language is English”. This was because the advent of large language models (LLMs) meant that from now on humans would not have to learn arcane programming languages in order to tell computers what to do. Henceforth, they could speak to machines like the Duke of Devonshire spoke to his gardener, and the machines would do their bidding.Ever since LLMs emerged, programmers have been early adopters, using them as unpaid assistants (or “co-pilots”) and finding them useful up to a…

If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems. Other reasons people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations…

Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of content on platforms like Yahoo News rather than original publisher sites. This occurred even in cases where publishers had formal licensing agreements with AI companies. URL fabrication emerged as another significant problem. More than half of citations from Google’s Gemini and Grok 3 led users to fabricated or broken URLs resulting in error pages. Of 200 citations tested from Grok 3, 154 resulted in broken links. These issues create significant tension for publishers, which face difficult choices. Blocking AI crawlers might lead to loss…

ServiceNow has launched its Yokohama platform which introduces AI agents across various sectors to boost workflows and maximise end-to-end business impact. The Yokohama platform release features teams of preconfigured AI agents designed to deliver immediate productivity gains. These agents operate on a single, unified platform, ensuring seamless integration and coordination across different business functions. The platform also includes capabilities to build, onboard, and manage the entire AI agent lifecycle, making it easier for enterprises to adopt and scale AI solutions. Data is the lifeblood of AI, and ServiceNow recognises this by expanding its Knowledge Graph with advancements to its Common…

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor’s official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls “locs”), the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This…

Jack Clark at the Hullander Red Back Hymnal Singing Jack Clark has spent a lifetime playing the piano. Mr. Clark will celebrate his 91st birthday on Sunday at the Hullander farm, Apison, at the Red Back Hymnal Singing. The West Virginia native said he fell in love with the piano when he was five years old. While in elementary school he took lessons, and, at the age of 12, he began a long career of accompanying quartets. In a January, 2013, radio interview with the late Hamilton County Commission Chairman Curtis Adams, Mr. Clark said he developed an…