In the Loop: Week Ending 7/5/26
Last week in AI: Fable 5 Returns, AI Drives the World Cup, Founding Fathers Get the Gemini Treatment Even with the 4th of July holiday, it was a busy ...
Every week, I summarize the week's top AI news, with an emphasis on higher education and healthcare marketing.
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Sam Altman's Rose-Colored Glasses Sam Altman of OpenAI this week released a post called "The Information Age," which outlines his view of what AI can do for the world: "Our children will have virtual tutors who can provide personalized instruction in any subject, in any language, and at whatever pace they need. We can imagine similar ideas for better healthcare, the ability to create any kind of software someone can imagine, and much more." The optimist's optimist or an overly rosy pitch for the trillions in investment money he's looking for? |
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Higher Ed 2025: AI Agents, Tutors & Campus Robots? A thought-provoking look at what the AI-fueled near future of higher ed could look like. |
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Amazon Ads: From Static to Steam in No Time Flat Buying ads through Amazon this holiday season? You have some new AI-driven options to choose from, including things like adding rising steam to a formerly static picture of a cup of coffee. ☕
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🤖 The Bot Doc Will See You Now According to Forbes, health systems are increasingly using AI bots for primary care. "Intake and data entry will be done [in the app] before patients are assigned to and seen by a physician...allowing clinicians to spend more of their time on patient care." |
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Site Scrapers Pay Up! Did you know that AI bots are constantly scraping your site for new content? I didn't either until I read this article, which talks about how Cloudflare is working on a marketplace that will let brands (pay to) decide who scrapes their site and how often. |
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