Amazon, gig companies see spike in workers on SNAP and Medicaid, study shows — from washingtonpost.com by Lauren Kaori Gurley and Rachel Lerman
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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by Daniel Christian
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Agilities — from agilities.org by the DeBruce Foundation; via Paul Fain
Help students build confidence and prepare for bright careers!
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Also from Paul Fain, see:
Unlocking Opportunity: Progress on Moving More Students Toward Good Jobs — from highered.aspeninstitute.org
Released in partnership with the Community College Research Center (CCRC), Unlocking Opportunity: Progress on Moving More Students Toward Good Jobs highlights early outcomes from the first 10 colleges in the Unlocking Opportunity network. The report demonstrates that community colleges can rapidly increase enrollment in high-value workforce and transfer pathways while reducing enrollment in or improving programs with weaker labor market and bachelor’s degree outcomes.
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On 06/04/2026,
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by Daniel Christian
Cleveland Institute of Art’s Interactive Media Lab Redefines What an Art School Can Be — from edtechmagazine.com
The landscape for specialized colleges and universities such as art schools is shifting as higher education continues to evolve to fit emerging job markets and student interest.
Founded in 1882, Cleveland Institute of Art continuously challenges itself to stay modern and relevant. Years ago, the school’s leadership had the vision to partner with the city to revitalize an area due for reinvigoration.
The result was the Interactive Media Lab, which brings together the university, the city and private industry into a satellite campus that gives students and the community a space to create media, art and experiences with the most up-to-date tools available.
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by Daniel Christian
This $10K AI School Promises to Future-Proof Your Career — from builtin.com by Matthew Urwin
Khan Academy, TED and ETS are starting a new program to equip students and professionals with the skills to thrive in an increasingly AI-driven economy. Here’s what you need to know.
Summary: The Khan TED Institute is a higher-education program that will teach students and workers how to use AI through interactive learning. The program’s AI-centric curriculum is an unproven approach, though, casting doubt on whether it will actually improve learning outcomes and career prospects.
Higher education might be on the verge of a radical overhaul to bring it up to speed in the age of artificial intelligence. At the TED2026 conference, Khan Academy, TED and ETS announced that they’re partnering to establish the Khan TED Institute — a new program that reorients the college curriculum around AI. By joining forces, the education technology trio aims to develop an alternative to traditional universities that better tracks student progress, teaches more relevant skills and provides a more personalized learning experience.
Accessibility is another major tenet of the Khan TED Institute. Its virtual nature allows anyone with an internet connection to participate in the program and makes it easier for students to move at their preferred pace. And because its curriculum prioritizes competency over course credits, advanced learners can complete the program in a shorter period. Time isn’t the only thing students can save on, either: The Institute promises a bachelor’s degree for less than $10,000, offering a much more affordable alternative to the typical four-year degree.
From DSC:
Faculty senates don’t do well with this pace of change. But to their credit, few organizations can begin to deal with this pace of change.
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From DSC:
It’s great to see this type of good news for a change!
Tiny Traverse City restaurant sells more than 3,000 burgers in one day – all to help a competitor — this is a gifted article (which lasts for 7 days) out at mlive.com, by Tanda Gmiter
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – The long line out the door and down the street of the little Oakwood Proper Burgers shop was a head-turner Saturday as the restaurant invited people to its 1,000 Burger Challenge event.
But the swift sales being rung up inside weren’t benefitting their own business. Instead, they were a heartfelt helping hand to a competitor across town.
The team behind Oakwood Proper – as well as several other restaurant friends from the area – joined together to raise money for “Chef Tim” Bergstrom, the man behind his namesake Bergstrom’s Burgers. He’s been undergoing cancer treatment for some time now, and medical bills are mounting.
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by Daniel Christian
The State of AI Report 2025 — from nathanbenaich.substack.com by Nathan Benaich
In short, it’s been a monumental 12 months for AI. Our eighth annual report is the most comprehensive it’s ever been, covering what you need to know about research, industry, politics, and safety – along with our first State of AI Usage Survey of 1,200 practitioners.
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by Daniel Christian
Recurring Themes In Bob Ambrogi’s 30 Years of Legal Tech Reporting (A Guest Post By ChatGPT) — from lawnext.com by ChatGPT
#legaltech #innovation #law #legal #innovation #vendors #lawyers #lawfirms #legaloperations
- Evolution of Legal Technology: From Early Web to AI Revolution
- Challenges in Legal Innovation and Adoption
- Law Firm Innovation vs. Corporate Legal Demand: Shifting Dynamics
- Tracking Key Technologies and Players in Legal Tech
- Access to Justice, Ethics, and Regulatory Reform
Also re: legaltech, see:
How LegalTech is Changing the Client Experience in 2025 — from techbullion.com by Uzair Hasan
A Digital Shift in Law
In 2025, LegalTech isn’t a trend—it’s a standard. Tools like client dashboards, e-signatures, AI legal assistants, and automated case tracking are making law firms more efficient and more transparent. These systems also help reduce errors and save time. For clients, it means less confusion and more control.
For example, immigration law—a field known for paperwork and long processing times—is being transformed through tech. Clients now track their case status online, receive instant updates, and even upload key documents from their phones. Lawyers, meanwhile, use AI tools to spot issues faster, prepare filings quicker, and manage growing caseloads without dropping the ball.
Loren Locke, Founder of Locke Immigration Law, explains how tech helps simplify high-stress cases:
“As a former consular officer, I know how overwhelming the visa process can feel. Now, we use digital tools to break down each step for our clients—timelines, checklists, updates—all in one place. One client recently told me it was the first time they didn’t feel lost during their visa process. That’s why I built my firm this way: to give people clarity when they need it most.”
While not so much legaltech this time, Jordan’s article below is an excellent, highly relevant posting for what we are going through — at least in the United States:
What are lawyers for? — from jordanfurlong.substack.com by Jordan Furlong
We all know lawyers’ commercial role, to be professional guides for human affairs. But we also need lawyers to bring the law’s guarantees to life for people and in society. And we need it right now.
The question “What are lawyers for?” raises another, prior and more foundational question: “What is the law for?”
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But there’s more. The law also exists to regulate power in a society: to structure its distribution, create processes for its implementation, and place limits on its application. In a healthy society, power flows through the law, not around it. Certainly, we need to closely examine and evaluate those laws — the exercise of power through a biased or corrupted system will be illegitimate even if it’s “lawful.” But as a general rule, the law is available as a check on the arbitrary exercise of power, whether by a state authority or a private entity.
And above these two aspects of law’s societal role, I believe there’s also a third: to serve as a kind of “moral architecture” of society.
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Is graduate employability a core university priority? — from timeshighereducation.com by Katherine Emms and Andrea Laczik
Universities, once judged primarily on the quality of their academic outcomes, are now also expected to prepare students for the workplace. Here’s how higher education is adapting to changing pressures
A clear, deliberate shift in priorities is under way. Embedding employability is central to an Edge Foundation report, carried out in collaboration with UCL’s Institute of Education, looking at how English universities are responding. In placing employability at the centre of their strategies – not just for professional courses but across all disciplines – the two universities that were analysed in this research show how they aim to prepare students for the labour market overall. Although the employability strategy is initialled by the universities’ senior leaders, the research showed that realising this employability strategy must be understood and executed by staff at all levels across departments. The complexity of offering insights into industry pathways and building relevant skills involves curricula development, student-centred teaching, careers support, partnership work and employer engagement.
Every student can benefit from an entrepreneurial mindset — from timeshighereducation.com by Nicolas Klotz
To develop the next generation of entrepreneurs, universities need to nurture the right mindset in students of all disciplines. Follow these tips to embed entrepreneurial education
This shift demands a radical rethink of how we approach entrepreneurial mindset in higher education. Not as a specialism for a niche group of business students but as a core competency that every student, in every discipline, can benefit from.
At my university, we’ve spent the past several years re-engineering how we embed entrepreneurship into daily student life and learning.
What we’ve learned could help other institutions, especially smaller or resource-constrained ones, adapt to this new landscape.
The first step is recognising that entrepreneurship is not only about launching start-ups for profit. It’s about nurturing a mindset that values initiative, problem-solving, resilience and creative risk-taking. Employers increasingly want these traits, whether the student is applying for a traditional job or proposing their own venture.
Build foundations for university-industry partnerships in 90 days— from timeshighereducation.com by Raul Villamarin Rodriguez and Hemachandran K
Graduate employability could be transformed through systematic integration of industry partnerships. This practical guide offers a framework for change in Indian universities
The most effective transformation strategy for Indian universities lies in systematic industry integration that moves beyond superficial partnerships and towards deep curriculum collaboration. Rather than hoping market alignment will occur naturally, institutions must reverse-engineer academic programmes from verified industry needs.
Our six-month implementation at Woxsen University demonstrates this framework’s practical effectiveness, achieving more than 130 industry partnerships, 100 per cent faculty participation in transformation training, and 75 per cent of students receiving industry-validated credentials with significantly improved employment outcomes.
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Agentic AI use cases in the legal industry — from legal.thomsonreuters.com
What legal professionals need to know now with the rise of agentic AI
While GenAI can create documents or answer questions, agentic AI takes intelligence a step further by planning how to get multi-step work done, including tasks such as consuming information, applying logic, crafting arguments, and then completing them.? This leaves legal teams more time for nuanced decision-making, creative strategy, and relationship-building with clients—work that machines can’t do.
The AI Legal Landscape in 2025: Beyond the Hype — from akerman.com by Melissa C. Koch
What we’re witnessing is a profession in transition where specific tasks are being augmented or automated while new skills and roles emerge.
The data tells an interesting story: approximately 79% of law firms have integrated AI tools into their workflows, yet only a fraction have truly transformed their operations. Most implementations focus on pattern recognition tasks such as document review, legal research, contract analysis. These implementations aren’t replacing lawyers; they’re redirecting attention to higher-value work.
This technological shift doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s occurring amid client pressure for efficiency, competition from alternative providers, and the expectations of a new generation of lawyers who have never known a world without AI assistance.
LexisNexis and Harvey team up to revolutionize legal research with artificial intelligence — from abajournal.com by Danielle Braff
Lawyers using the Harvey artificial intelligence platform will soon be able to tap into LexisNexis’ vast legal research capabilities.
Thanks to a new partnership announced Wednesday, Harvey users will be able to ask legal questions and receive fast, citation-backed answers powered by LexisNexis case law, statutes and Shepard’s Citations, streamlining everything from basic research to complex motions. According to a press release, generated responses to user queries will be grounded in LexisNexis’ proprietary knowledge graphs and citation tools—making them more trustworthy for use in court or client work.
10 Legal Tech Companies to Know — from builtin.com
These companies are using AI, automation and analytics to transform how legal work gets done.
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Four months after a $3B valuation, Harvey AI grows to $5B — from techcrunch.com by Marina Temkin
Harvey AI, a startup that provides automation for legal work, has raised $300 million in Series E funding at a $5 billion valuation, the company told Fortune. The round was co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue, with participation from existing investors, including Conviction, Elad Gil, OpenAI Startup Fund, and Sequoia.
The billable time revolution — from jordanfurlong.substack.com by Jordan Furlong
Gen AI will bring an end to the era when lawyers’ value hinged on performing billable work. Grab the coming opportunity to re-prioritize your daily activities and redefine your professional purpose.
Because of Generative AI, lawyers will perform fewer “billable” tasks in future; but why is that a bad thing? Why not devote that incoming “freed-up” time to operating, upgrading, and flourishing your law practice? Because this is what you do now: You run a legal business. You deliver good outcomes, good experiences, and good relationships to clients. Humans do some of the work and machines do some of the work and the distinction that matters is not billable/non-billable, it’s which type of work is best suited to which type of performer.