In the Loop: Week of 3/28/25

More with Less: How AI Can Help Marketing Teams Impacted by Recent Staff Cuts

Marketing and communications teams have long had to run lean, but a wave of budget and staffing cuts in healthcare and higher ed has them scrambling to keep up with increased demand. Loop shares 12 ways AI can support overstretched marketers, from simple ideas to more complex strategic uses.

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Microsoft Adds Research and Agent Functionality to Copilot 

Speaking of agents, Microsoft last week announced significant upgrades to the Copilot Studio platform: "deep reasoning capabilities that enable agents to tackle complex problems, and agent flows that combine AI flexibility with deterministic business process automation."

Claude Gets Internet Access

Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet LLM last week got the ability to access the internet in real time, functionality that already exists in other models from ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity and others. This means users can get up-to-date results, citations to support its 

How Does ChatGPT Use Impact People's Emotions?

​Researchers from OpenAI and MIT Media Lab studied ChatGPT's emotional interactions, finding that heavy users who engage emotionally with the chatbot tend to experience increased loneliness and emotional dependence. ​

Bill Gates: "Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers"

If you saw Gates's Oprah interview last year, you won't be surprised to learn that he thinks humans won't be needed "for most things."

AI-Related Conferences to Have on Your Radar

There are tons of great AI-related conferences happening in 2025. I complied a running list with a focus on healthcare and higher ed.