In the Loop: Week Ending 5/10/25
Marketing AI Week in Review – May 4–10, 2025 This week offered a clear view of how quickly AI is moving from experimentation to execution. Big tech an...
Every week, I'll summarize the week's top AI news, with an emphasis on higher education and healthcare marketing.
| OpenAI's new model o1 (aka 🍓) is capable of "reasoning" (OpenAI website): This creates new possibilities in genetics, mathematics, cognition and so much more. |  |
| Yale invests $150M in AI (New Haven Register): Funds will go to building GPUs, creating a proprietary generative AI platform, recruiting new faculty, funding grants and more. | 
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| Rice University research could make weird AI images a thing of the past (Rice website): Too many fingers, backwards heads, faceless faces, extra legs. Am I the only one who will miss the bonkers images and videos created by AI? | 
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AACU launches a new AI Institute (Inside Higher Ed): 124 institutions are coming together to deal with the challenges presented by AI in the classroom. |
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Google and Others Are Developing AI That Can "Hear" Signs of Sickness (Bloomberg): The technology could bring inexpensive diagnostic tools to poor and rural places for diseases like TB.
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