A report from MIT that came out this month on the use of AI in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training, a matter we have been constantly discussing and grappling with.
https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
The report is particularly interesting for two reasons: its emphasis on education and training, and its timeliness, given how rapidly AI capabilities and the broader landscape are evolving.
The second, bigger NSF grant for Quantum in CT
https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/14/major-nsf-award-turbocharge-quantum-tech-innovation-conn Major NSF award to turbocharge quantum tech innovation in Conn.
The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/science/researcher-huntingtons-disease-wexler.html
A condensed version ran in Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/06/11/ai-doom-wrong-metric-human-judgment-emergence-capital-ritter/?gordon123 +
https://www.emcap.com/thoughts/above-the-model
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The short version: the doomers are counting jobs. I think they’re measuring the wrong thing. The companies pulling ahead are the ones pointing AI inward, building systems that capture their people’s judgment, while everyone else lets their best thinking drain into tools they don’t own. Your people are the most defensible algorithm you have.
I called a version of this in 2017 with Coaching Networks. The technology has finally caught up.
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The Fastest Woman to Circle the Earth on a Bike Is Aiming for the Men’s Record
Lael Wilcox will pedal around the world, and she hopes to do it in less than 80 days.
Goldberg is a computational biology major with a double minor in statistics, and science and society.
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“As a faculty adviser to the new major in computational biology, I have been especially impressed by Goldberg’s pioneering spirit,” says Itsik Pe’er, professor of computer science and systems biology at Columbia Engineering. As the first student — and for a while the only student — to take on this still-emerging program, she embraced the intellectual challenge of a curriculum that asks students to move fluently across computer science, biology and quantitative analysis. “}}
Columbia’s New Comp Bio Major
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