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AI Roundup: De Gruyter Brill, Emerald Publishing, IOP Publishing, Silverchair and Springer Nature Partner With Kudos to Examine Zero-Click and AI Search Risks to the Research Ecosystem & More Headlines
Anthropic Anthropic and Teach For AllLaunch Global AI Training Initiative For Educators Conferderation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Mitigating the Impact of AI Bots; New Resource: “Dealing With Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers” Clarivate Clarivate Announces Launch of Alma Specto (An AI-Powered Digital Collection Platform) Guidelines Guidelines and Best Practices for Making Government […]
Roundup: New AI-Related Research and News Reports
Most of the items listed below were published/posted in the past day or two. Chatbots Poetry Can Trick AI Chatbots Into Ignoring Safety Rules, New Research ShowsSource: Euronews Copyright Creative Grey Zones: Copyright in the Age of HybriditySource: The Alan Turing Institute Cultural Heritage Publishing Cultural Heritage Data in the Age of AISource: Europeana/Open Future […]
Media Roundup: “Supreme Court Leaves Copyright Official Targeted by Trump in Place For Now”
From Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court postponed on Wednesday a decision on whether to let Donald Trump remove the government’s top copyright official, leaving her in place for now in the latest battle over the Republican president’s targeting of federal officials. The justices declined to immediately resolve the Justice Department’s request to lift a lower court’s ruling that had […]
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Roundup: Characterizing Web Search in the Age of Generative AI; Do Large Language Models Speak Scientific Workflows?; and More Preprints
Below, find links to five preprints shared for the first time or updated in recent days and made available on arXiv . We hope one or more will be of interest to you. LibraryLens: An Interactive Tool for Exploring and Arranging Digital Bookshelves Existing digital book management platforms often fail to capture the rich spatial […]
Media Roundup & Statements: “Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Between AI Company Anthropic and Authors”
From the Court Docket (9/25) From the Associated Press U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns about the settlement, which will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each of the books covered by the agreement. It does […]
Public Library News Roundup (Reports From AL, FL, GA, IL, MN, & PA
Alabama Alabama Library Must Give List Of Challenged Books Before Funding Is Returned (via AL.com) Florida Gulf County Library Faces Budget Issues and Staff Shortages (via MyPanhandle) Georgia Houston County Libraries See Record Growth With Over 210,000 Visitors in 2025 (via WMAZ) Illinois Small Libraries in South Suburbs Feel Federal Cuts to Already Limited Resources […]
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AI Roundup: “Report From UK: Quarter of Students ‘Believe AI-Assisted Work Will Go Undetected'”; What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide; & More
Future Forecast: AI Glasses Market Poised to Hit 10 Million Units in 2026, According to Omdia What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide (via NY Times) Scholarly Communications Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Podcast: “Beyond Detection: Responsible Use of AI Across Peer Review and Authorship” Students Report From UK: Quarter of […]
AI Roundup: Charting the Future of Scholarly Knowledge with AI: A Community Perspective; ResearchQA: Evaluating Scholarly Question Answering at Scale Across 75 Fields with Survey-Mined Questions and Rubrics; & More Headlines
Higher Education The New Thing on Campus: Why Universities are Appointing Their First Chief AI Officers (via Fortune) Literacy Beyond Tool Use: Tracking the Evolution of Generative AI Literacy Among University Students Through a Process-Oriented Investigation (via Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence) Politics The President Blamed AI and Embraced Doing So. Is It Becoming The […]
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Media Roundup + Statements: “Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors”
Primary Document: Settlement Agreement (39 pages; PDF) (via CourtListener) From The NY Times: In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books. The settlement is largest payout […]
AI Roundup: “Prompt Engineering is So 2024. Try These Prompt Templates Instead”; “Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Frontier on Cataloguing and Metadata Work in Libraries”; “Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?”; & More
Autonomous Agents The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Autonomous Research: A Survey of Scientific Agents (preprint via TechRxiv) Deep Research: A Survey of Autonomous Research Agents (preprint; via arXiv) Higher Education Understanding Student Attitudes and Acceptability of GenAI Tools in Higher Ed: Scale Development and Evaluation (preprint via arXiv) Large Language Models (LLMs) Do Large Language Models […]
