Artificial Intelligence

Here you'll find articles detailing new developments in artificial intelligence and how it's impacting higher education.


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Rubrik Agent Cloud Expands Policy Controls for Agent Prompts/Responses

Rubrik has made Rubrik Agent Cloud generally available, adding expanded governance controls that enforce predefined and custom policies on both AI agent prompts and responses.

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Report: No Foolproof Method Exists for Detecting AI-Generated Media

Microsoft has released a new research report warning that no single technology can reliably distinguish AI-generated content from authentic media, and that deepening reliance on any one method risks misleading the public.

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AI Adoption Is Surging, but Infrastructure and Language Gaps Persist

Artificial intelligence may be spreading faster than previous waves of consumer tech, but a report from Microsoft's AI Economy Institute suggests its benefits are concentrating in a relatively small set of countries, with infrastructure and language emerging as major dividing lines.

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Digital Holistic Student Supports Initiative Aims to Improve How Colleges Use Technology to Support Students

A new Gates Foundation-funded project is bringing together a group of access-oriented institutions and nonprofit partners to study and improve the digital tools colleges and universities rely on to support students.

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Anthropic's New AI Model Targets Coding, Enterprise Work

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, introducing a million-token context window and automated agent coordination features as the AI company seeks to expand beyond software development into broader enterprise applications.

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The Higher Ed Playbook for AI Affordability

Fulfilling the promise of AI in higher education does not require massive budgets or radical reinvention. By leveraging existing infrastructure, embracing edge and localized AI, collaborating across institutions, and embedding AI thoughtfully across the enterprise, universities can move from experimentation to impact.

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Anthropic Criticizes OpenAI Ad Strategy

Anthropic recently launched a multi-million dollar Super Bowl advertising campaign criticizing OpenAI's decision to start showing ads within ChatGPT.

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Snowflake, OpenAI Partner to Embed AI Models in Enterprise Data Workflows

Snowflake and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership that will make OpenAI models available on Snowflake's platform.

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Microsoft Unveils Maia 200 Inference Chip to Cut AI Serving Costs

Microsoft recently introduced Maia 200, a custom-built accelerator aimed at lowering the cost of running artificial intelligence workloads at cloud scale, as major providers look to curb soaring inference expenses and lessen dependence on Nvidia graphics processors.

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Shadow AI Isn't a Threat: It's a Signal

Unofficial AI use on campus reveals more about institutional gaps than misbehavior.