2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study: Into the Digital AI Divide — from library.educause.edu
The higher education community continues to grapple with questions related to using artificial intelligence (AI) in learning and work. In support of these efforts, we present the 2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study, summarizing our community’s sentiments and experiences related to strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education workforce, and the institutional digital divide.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
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— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) February 9, 2025
Law Prawfs Statement Regarding an Urgent Constitutional Crisis — from thefacultylounge.org
Over 400 law professors have signed the Call to Urgency below. The authors invite others to join in here.
A CALL TO URGENCY
The opening weeks of the second Trump administration convince us, as law professors who have spent years studying the American legal system, that we are beginning to see unfold the gravest threat to the rule of law and its constituent principles – the separation of governmental powers, the independence of prosecutorial authority, the inviolability of human rights, the transparency of government action, and the sanctity of constitutional accountability itself – ever presented in our lifetimes. The president’s and his associates’ actions, and threats of action, profoundly undermine the bedrock principle of our federal government system – that the Chief Executive and his agents are constrained by the United States Constitution. The fundamental guardrails of our constitutional democracy itself are threatened and notably battered. They are, as we write, at risk of complete collapse.
State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Year-End 2024 Edition — from onedtech.philhillaa.com by Phil Hill
Less about market share and more about diverging strategy
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What if students had the power to design their own learning journeys?
Across the U.S., states are moving beyond one-size-fits-all education and embracing unbundled learning, creating personalized pathways that equip students with the skills they need for the future. Getting Smart’s Unbundled Learning Podcast Series explores how Colorado, Arizona, and New Hampshire are leading the way—expanding real-world learning, shifting to competency-based models, empowering learner agency, and aligning education with workforce needs.
For policymakers, the newly released Policymaker’s Guide offers a roadmap for fostering unbundled systems. It highlights key priorities such as competency-driven accountability, flexible credentialing, and funding models that prioritize equity, helping state leaders create policies that expand opportunities for all learners.
Explore how unbundled learning is shaping the future of education and how states can build more personalized, future-ready systems.
New Pathways > Unbundled Learning — from gettingsmart.com
We used to think that learning had to happen in a school building. Spoiler alert…that was never true.
How might we create an ecosystem where learning doesn’t just happen at school? With Unbundled Learning, learners don’t need permission to have equitable experiences. Unbundled Learning removes all the barriers and allows learning to happen at school, after school, with industry partners and anywhere a learner can imagine. Unbundled Learning is the foundation for which new learning models are built, learners are supported and systems are scaled.
If we used to think that school was the only answer, now we know we have options.
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Wonder Tools: An investigative journalist’s favorites — from wondertools.substack.com by Jeremy Caplan and Madison Hopkins
A field guide to a reporter’s core digital tools
How do investigative journalists organize years of research, thousands of documents, and piles of notes? With toolkits like that of Madison Hopkins, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting has exposed Chicago’s fatal fire safety failures and flawed surveillance programs.
Read on for Madison’s tools for managing long-term investigative projects — from her note-taking system to her workflow for tracking public records. Whether you’re a journalist or manage other kinds of projects, you’ll find multiple resources for your own work. – Jeremy
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Introducing deep research — from openai.com
An agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you. Available to Pro users today, Plus and Team next.
[On 2/2/25 we launched] deep research in ChatGPT, a new agentic capability that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. It accomplishes in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours.
Deep research is OpenAI’s next agent that can do work for you independently—you give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst.
Comments/information per The Rundown AI:
The Rundown: OpenAI just launchedDeep Research, a new ChatGPT feature that conducts extensive web research on complex topics and delivers detailed reports with citations in under 30 minutes.
The details:
- The system uses a specialized version of o3 to analyze text, images, and PDFs across multiple sources, producing comprehensive research summaries.
- Initial access is limited to Pro subscribers ($200/mo) with 100 queries/month, but if safety metrics remain stable, it will expand to Plus and Team users within weeks.
- Research tasks take between 5-30 minutes to complete, with users receiving a list of clarifying questions to start and notifications when results are ready.
- Deep Research achieved a 26.6% on Humanity’s Last Exam, significantly outperforming other AI models like Gemini Thinking (6.2%) and GPT-4o (3.3%).
Why it matters: ChatGPT excels at quick, instant answers, but Deep Research represents the first major consumer attempt at tackling complex tasks that take humans days. Combined with the release of Operator, the landscape is shifting towards longer thinking with autonomous actions — and better results to show for it.
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The End of Search, The Beginning of OpenAI’s Deep Research — from theaivalley.com by Barsee
The quality of citations are also genuinely advance. Unlike traditional AI-generated sources prone to hallucinations, Deep Research provides legitimate academic references. Clicking a citation often takes users directly to the relevant highlighted text.
In a demo, the agent generated a comprehensive report on iOS and Android app market trends, showcasing its ability to tackle intricate subjects with accuracy.
Top 13 AI insights — from theneurondaily.com
Which links to and discusses Andrej Karpathy’s video at:
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This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full training stack of how the models are developed, along with mental models of how to think about their “psychology”, and how to get the best use them in practical applications. I have one “Intro to LLMs” video already from ~year ago, but that is just a re-recording of a random talk, so I wanted to loop around and do a lot more comprehensive version.
11 “‘Do not steal.
“‘Do not lie.
“‘Do not deceive one another.
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
4 For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. 5 The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
13 “‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor.
“‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.