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AI is saving teachers meaningful time. Whether that eases burnout depends on where the time goes.

https://edtechinsiders.substack.com/p/how-ai-is-changing-teaching-workflows…

Planning documents for “Scout” say the plan is to “make people addicted” to the tool before adding new features.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/…

The Pope’s first encyclical reportedly critiques AI’s concentration of power, lack of public oversight, privacy risks, manipulation, and tendency to reinforce hidden biases under the appearance of neutrality.

https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/…

A critical AI educator explains that, while deeply skeptical of AI’s harms and ideologies, they focus on building students’ critical AI literacy and transparency, and were pleasantly surprised by thoughtful student uses of AI in final reflections.

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AI exposes the collapse of a school bargain built on compliance and credentials, making student agency the only remaining source of real learning and success.

https://www.stevehargadon.com/2026/05/student-success-in-age-of-ai.html…

Claude Design may be emerging as a powerful AI presentation tool, able to generate cohesive, well-designed slide decks more effectively than tools like Gemini in Google Slides.

https://www.makeuseof.com/claude-design-built-best-slideshow/…

YouTube is adding AI-powered search with “Ask YouTube,” allowing users to ask complex and follow-up questions and receive generated responses based on both Shorts and long-form videos.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts/…

Google has thrown down the gauntlet as the first major player to change that by announcing Gemini Spark at Google I/O 2026. It’s a 24/7 personal AI agent that prioritizes out-of-the-box user-friendliness, seamless app integrations, and entirely cloud-based processing. Gemini …

Students are using generative AI widely for schoolwork, but beyond cheating concerns, it is raising deeper questions about authorship, academic identity, legitimacy, and whether AI-assisted work still feels truly their own.

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-college-students-aismoothed-strong.html…

The article tests viral “expert prompt” frameworks to see which genuinely improve AI responses and which mainly create overconfident hallucinations.

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-tried-the-viral-chatgpt-prompts-everyone-is-sharing-heres-what-actually-works…

Generative AI is undermining meaningful learning by making it too easy for students to bypass effort, leaving instructors exhausted and pedagogically constrained.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain…

Researchers have developed Palaeographicum, an AI tool that analyzes handwriting patterns in Hittite cuneiform tablets, helping scholars match broken fragments, date undated texts, and potentially identify individual scribes much faster than before.

https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/19/ai-decipher-hittite-handwriting…

The article argues that AI literacy should become central to education reform and that students should help shape responsible AI policies for schools.

https://www.the74million.org/article/students-are-digital-natives-let-them-lead-the-ai-revolution-in-education…

Google offers several free, browser-based AI tools beyond Gemini that provide practical, accessible ways to explore generative AI for work, learning, creativity, and everyday tasks.

https://aitoolsclub.com/10-free-google-ai-tools-youre-probably-not-using-yet-but-should-be…

A small retraction notice opens onto a large structural shift. AI did not start the rot in academic publishing. AI is the catalyst that is finishing it.

https://theslowai.substack.com/p/academia-is-enshittifying-ai-made-it-faster…