April 22, 2026

AI Watch

Teachers of the Future Must Learn to Teach What AI Can’t

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The future of teaching in an AI reality is going to mean learning what humans can teach humans that AI cannot, and becoming maximally good at teaching humans that, letting AI teach the rest. A study from a University of Pennsylvania professor used AI to show not only is the future happening sooner than we think, it’s already happening.

Penn professor uses AI to generate sociology module, suggests shift in higher ed learning– www.thecollegefix.com
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Key Takeaways

  • A University of Pennsylvania economics professor utilized AI to develop a comprehensive 12-hour study plan on sociologist Erving Goffman, suggesting a shift in educational models to focus on areas where AI cannot replace human instruction.
  • The use of AI in education has the potential to enhance critical thinking and personalized learning, but experts warn that improper use could undermine learning and trust among students.
  • Professors advocate for assignments that encourage deeper engagement and critical thinking rather than rote answers, allowing AI to assist in the learning process without diminishing the educational experience.

Was ChatGPT Behind a Mass Shooting?

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier thinks ChatGPT may have had a hand to play in a recent mass shooting event on the Florida State University campus. He declared, “My prosecutors have looked at this and they’ve told me if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder.”

He is referring to ChatGPT, whom he accuses of aiding and abetting the shooting. The AG has opened a criminal investigation into ChatGPT.

Florida opens criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in FSU shooting– www.cbsnews.com
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Florida’s attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI after reviewing conversation logs between its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, and a Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding several others after opening fire on campus last April.

Elon Musk fails to appear at Paris legal summons over alleged child abuse, deepfakes on X – National– globalnews.ca

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Elon Musk failed to appear at a summons to meet on Monday with Paris prosecutors, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content.

Musk and Linda Yaccarino — the former CEO of X — were summoned for “voluntary interviews,” while other employees of X were scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

Musk was summoned after a search took place in February at the French premises of X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025 by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office. Musk and Yaccarino had been invited in their capacities as managers of X at the time of the events investigated. Yaccarino was CEO from May 2023 until July 2025.

OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT’s Image Generation Model– www.wired.com

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OpenAI launched a new image generation AI model on Tuesday, dubbed ChatGPT Images 2.0. This model can generate more than one image from a single prompt, like an entire study booklet, as well as output text, including in non-English languages like Chinese and Hindi. This release is available globally for ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version available for paying subscribers.

When any major AI company releases a new image model, it can revive interest and boost usage, especially if social media users adopt a meme-able trend, transforming images of themselves. Last year, Google’s launch of the Nano Banana model was a major moment for the company, especially when users started posting hyperrealistic figurines of themselves online. Earlier this year, ChatGPT Images made waves on social media as users shared AI-generated caricatures.

What AI model should you use for revenue intelligence? Von says all the big ones, and it will automate mixing and matching for you– venturebeat.com

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Looking at enterprise AI adoption, VentureBeat has anecdotally observed a fairly wide divergence when it comes to specific roles: For those who build—engineers and developers—the arrival of AI has been transformative, moving through the workflow with the speed of tools like Claude Code and Cursor to automate the heavy lifting of syntax and architecture.

Yet, for those who sell, the “revenue stack” has remained a fragmented collection of data silos, manual CRM entries, and anecdotal reporting.

Von, a new AI platform emerging from the team behind process automation startup Rattle, aims to bridge this gap. By positioning itself not as another “point solution” but as a foundational “intelligence layer,” Von seeks to do for Go-To-Market (GTM) teams what the modern IDE has done for the developer: provide a single, reasoning interface that understands the entire business context.

“AI has revolutionized the workflow for people who build things, but there is nothing that has revolutionized the workflow for people who sell those things,” Von CEO Sahil Aggarwal said in a recent video call interview with VentureBeat. “That is what we are trying to build with Von”.

Facebook users shared a supposed video of Trump at Walter Reed hospital. It’s AI-generated– www.politifact.com

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Two weeks after unfounded rumors said President Donald Trump suffered a health issue, social media users shared a video they said showed proof he was just taken to a hospital.

In the video, two men appear to assist Trump as he walks unsteadily out of a building. A sign on the building reads “Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.”

“BREAKING: There are some reports Trump has been taken to Walter Reed Hospital,” the captions of multiple Facebook posts sharing the video read. The earliest we found was posted April 19 and the latest was posted April 21.

The footage isn’t real. It contains signs that it was made with artificial intelligence.

We contacted the Walter Reed hospital’s communications office, which said that the logo shown in the video is not the hospital’s official logo, and the signage is inconsistent with that at the hospital.

Can AI Save Luxury Retail?– www.vanityfair.com

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Rather than feel discouraged by the tech world’s disinterest in luxury, she decided to seize her company’s opportunity to target a massive, underserved market. The start-up builds custom tools for retailers, like customer-facing shopping assistants and back-end data optimizers, from the grocery store chain Sprouts to the multibrand retailers like Nordstrom. Looking ahead, Mostafazadeh is hoping her company “makes it so that what happened to the neighbor on the north doesn’t happen to the neighbor on the west,” she said, gesturing to Macy’s a few blocks away, lest it suffer the same bankruptcy fate as retailers like Ssense, Matches, and Saks Global.

You can probably think of a couple of pain points that Mostafazadeh’s technology—which she prefers to call “augmented intelligence”—aims to address. Many of these pain points can be found online, where shoppers can waste hours on an endless scroll without making a single purchase. (Natural language searches like “black loafers under $500 with ruching at the toe stitch only” are well within the realm of what’s technologically possible, but far from the reality you’d currently find on most e-commerce sites.)

The United States Is Repeating Its Silicon Mistake with Gallium Nitride– warontherocks.com

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China controls 99 percent of the world’s primary gallium, a critical mineral and semiconductor crucial for building the microchips of the future. In 2023, it placed export controls on gallium to retaliate against American restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China. In December 2024, China escalated to an outright ban on gallium exports to the United States. The U.S. National Defense Stockpile had zero gallium reserves when that ban landed.

The United States has been here before. The United States pioneered and scaled modern silicon semiconductor infrastructure. A significant reliance on international manufacturing and the loss of domestic silicon dominance reflect a failure to recognize the importance of industrial capacity to national security. With silicon, the intellectual property was American, but the chips were “Made in Taiwan.” If similar blind spots persist, the United States risks repeating this failure with gallium nitride, a wide-bandgap semiconductor that outperforms silicon at high voltage, high frequency, and extreme temperatures. It’s the beating heart of every modern radar and electronic warfare system.

AI Competition with China Continues to Heat Up | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org

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As major artificial intelligence breakthroughs arrive on what seems to be a near-weekly basis, the race between the US and China continues to intensify. In this post and the next, we will examine the good and bad news for the prospects of American triumph in the battle for AI superiority, a skirmish that could well determine the future of global innovation.

Let’s start with the bad news.

Last week, I attended a hearing of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party entitled “China’s Campaign to Steal America’s AI Edge.” Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) opened the proceedings by asserting that “China’s smuggling of advanced AI chips is a pervasive threat facing law enforcement” and observing that “just last month, the Department of Justice announced a $2.5 billion chip smuggling case, which would be the largest export control violation in US history.”

Moolenaar then asked, “Why is China so desperate to acquire US-designed chips? The reason is obvious. AI is a truly transformative technology. It’s already changing how we fight wars, run our government, and operate companies.” Critically, the chairman contended, “it is essential for the United States to maintain a decisive lead in the AI race. We cannot afford a future where Beijing dominates this technology.”

At the hearing, Dmitri Alperovitch, the founder and chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, echoed Moolenaar, arguing that “we are in a race, and the stakes could not be higher. Artificial intelligence will transform every industry, every battlefield, and every government.” Critically, Alperovitch asserted, “whoever fields the best models running on the best infrastructure will likely win not just the AI race itself but the 21st century. The single most important input to winning is compute—the processing power used to train and run AI models.”