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OpenAI launches study mode in ChatGPT, designed to encourage students to engage with learning material, available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-study-mode/

ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems
OpenAI’s new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn’t address generative AI’s underlying disruption of education.

»Dein Gesicht gehört uns – Die Gefahr automatischer Gesichtserkennung:
Ein Computersystem, das sekundenschnell jeden einzelnen Menschen auf der Welt identifizieren kann: Das klingt mehr nach dem Roman «1984» von George Orwell als nach der Realität. Und doch: Die Software des US-Unternehmens Clearview AI ist schon sehr nahe daran, genau das zu schaffen.«
Wenn deren "Sicherheit" auch zur Bevölkerung Überwachung eingesetzt wird?
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Dein Gesicht gehört uns – Die Gefahr automatischer Gesichtserkennung - DOK - Play SRF
Ein Computersystem, das sekundenschnell jeden einzelnen Menschen auf der Welt identifizieren kann: Das klingt mehr nach dem Roman «1984» von George Orwell als nach der Realität. Und doch: Die Software des US-Unternehmens Clearview AI ist schon sehr nahe daran, genau das zu schaffen. Neue Technologien durchdringen unser Leben, zum Guten und manchmal auch zum Schlechten. Jaime Ramirez ist Leiter der Abteilung für Ermittlungen mithilfe künstlicher Intelligenz bei der Polizei von Miami – ein…

Fox warns customers that Fox News and other channels could be pulled from YouTube TV "unless Google engages in a meaningful way soon" in a carriage dispute (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu…

Fox and Fox News at Risk of Being Pulled From YouTube TV in Carriage Dispute
Fox began warning customers Monday that its channels could be pulled from YouTube TV unless they reach a new deal soon.

We watched the #EngEsp #Euros final in a pub in Brecon, south Wales, and even the locals cheered when England won! (The gargoyles on a local church represent the mood when it went to penalties)

Lost at the Beginning of Reasoning
Baohao Liao, Xinyi Chen, Sara Rajaee, Yuhui Xu, Christian Herold, Anders S{\o}gaard, Maarten de Rijke, Christof Monz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22058

Lost at the Beginning of Reasoning
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced complex reasoning capabilities, particularly through extended chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning that incorporates mechanisms such as backtracking, self-reflection and self-correction. Despite these developments, the self-correction abilities of LLMs during long CoT reasoning remain underexplored. And recent findings on overthinking suggest that such models often engage in unnecessarily redundant reasoning. In this wo…

A Hybrid Recommendation Framework for Enhancing User Engagement in Local News
Payam Pourashraf, Bamshad Mobasher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19539 https://a…

A Hybrid Recommendation Framework for Enhancing User Engagement in Local News
Local news organizations face an urgent need to boost reader engagement amid declining circulation and competition from global media. Personalized news recommender systems offer a promising solution by tailoring content to user interests. Yet, conventional approaches often emphasize general preferences and may overlook nuanced or eclectic interests in local news. We propose a hybrid news recommender that integrates local and global preference models to improve engagement. Building on evidence…

McCarthyism was rate limited by the number of people engaged,
the amount of money available,
the legal frameworks in place,
and the media environment,
in a way that is very different from what universities will face
not just in the next three years
but until we find a way to contain these people

RelAItionship Building: Analyzing Recruitment Strategies for Participatory AI
Eugene Kim, Vaibhav Balloli, Berelian Karimian, Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Benjamin Fish
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20176

RelAItionship Building: Analyzing Recruitment Strategies for Participatory AI
Participatory AI, in which impacted community members and other stakeholders are involved in the design and development of AI systems, holds promise as a way to ensure AI is developed to meet their needs and reflect their values. However, the process of identifying, reaching out, and engaging with all relevant stakeholder groups, which we refer to as recruitment methodology, is still a practical challenge in AI projects striving to adopt participatory practices. In this paper, we investigate th…

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DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination
Liwenhan Xie, Jiayi Zhou, Anyi Rao, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22051

DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination
Animating metaphoric visualizations brings data to life, enhancing the comprehension of abstract data encodings and fostering deeper engagement. However, creators face significant challenges in designing these animations, such as crafting motions that align semantically with the metaphors, maintaining faithful data representation during animation, and seamlessly integrating interactivity. We propose a human-AI co-creation workflow that facilitates creating animations for SVG-based metaphoric vi…