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A new interactive webinar focuses on responsible AI use in higher education.
The session will introduce the different types of AI and address common concerns about the technology.
IBM will share how it is approaching Responsible AI, according to the session description.
The webinar will also offer guidance to students about what they can do.

DT Editorial Team·Sep 14, 2026·via webinars.on24.com

Law professor Thibault Schrepel of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ran the same three-group experiment in 2024 (66 students) and 2025 (164 participants) in his Law of AI course.
Students barred from ChatGPT finished last both years, making mostly superficial wording edits and hitting what the researcher calls 'idea exhaustion' after 10-15 minutes.
The unguided AI group accepted ChatGPT revisions largely without question and every subgroup kept at least one misleading or legally extraneous term.
The trained group, taught legal prompt engineering and accuracy checking, scored far above the others in 2024, but the advantage nearly vanished in 2025 as chatbot familiarity grew.

DT Editorial Team·Sep 13, 2026·via the-decoder.com

The study analyzed more than 500,000 grades across eight fall semesters.
A grades rose sharply in writing- and coding-heavy courses after ChatGPT launched.
The effect was concentrated in courses where homework carried more weight than exams.

DT Editorial Team·Jun 21, 2026·via the-decoder.com

STAT published an opinion-focused warning about damage to science funding.
The piece says optimistic scientists are increasingly losing confidence.
The argument frames weakened research capacity as a national loss, not just an academic problem.

DT Editorial Team·May 27, 2026·via statnews.com

UC Berkeley Law will reportedly ban AI from almost all graded work starting in summer 2026.
Research use remains allowed, but students are responsible for factual accuracy and citations.
The move frames AI as a threat to core legal reasoning if introduced too broadly in training.

DT Editorial Team·May 25, 2026·via the-decoder.com

Theo Baker’s student reporting helped force Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne to resign.
Baker says he faced warnings and institutional pressure early in the investigation.
His new book expands the story into a critique of Stanford’s relationship with venture capital.

DT Editorial Team·May 19, 2026·via techcrunch.com

Canvas was disrupted by a cyberattack during finals period for many colleges and universities.
Instructure said service was restored to most users by late Thursday, but some schools kept access blocked.
The incident exposed how heavily higher education depends on centralized digital classroom infrastructure.

DT Editorial Team·May 9, 2026·via fastcompany.com