China introduces groundbreaking regulations requiring AI companion apps to warn users about addiction and intervene during emotional crises, while Indonesia mandates environmental impact assessments for AI development as global data centers threaten to emit 180 million tons of CO2 annually by 2027.
New research reveals software engineers who heavily rely on AI coding tools complete tasks faster but score 17% lower on programming comprehension tests, with passive AI users showing the steepest skill decline compared to developers who actively engage with AI explanations.
College students increasingly turn to AI 'humanizer' tools from Grammarly and Quillbot to disguise machine-generated text as human writing, creating an escalating detection-versus-evasion arms race that exposes the unreliability of current AI plagiarism detectors and forces educators to completely rethink assignment design for the AI era.
Faulty AI detection software falsely accuses college students of cheating, forcing some to drop out while sparking an arms race between 'humanizer' tools that disguise AI-generated text and increasingly sophisticated detection systems, with students now self-surveilling and deliberately weakening their work to avoid wrongful punishment.
OpenAI launches Prism, a free GPT-5.2-powered LaTeX editor designed specifically for scientists to streamline research paper writing, responding to 1.3 million researchers submitting over 8 million weekly science queries to ChatGPT.
Scientists increasingly embrace ChatGPT for research communications as weekly usage for advanced science topics surges 47% to 8.4 million messages from 1.3 million users, with researchers primarily leveraging AI for writing assistance rather than analysis across computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence fields.
Aibrary launches Nova, an AI companion that transforms millions of books into personalized podcasts and features memory-enabled learning experiences, debate partners, and daily AI-generated content across 170 countries.
Innovation theorist warns that AI functions as 'anti-intelligence' by delivering polished but hollow answers that bypass natural learning processes of confusion and exploration, creating an illusion of expertise while quietly eroding users' critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities.
AI pioneer Andrew Ng declares artificial intelligence remains 'highly limited' and won't replace humans anytime soon, contradicting industry hype about imminent artificial general intelligence while urging people to learn coding as AI tools make programming more accessible.
OpenAI sells over 700,000 ChatGPT licenses to 35 US universities at deeply discounted bulk rates of just a few dollars per user monthly, as schools embrace AI integration despite initial cheating concerns to prepare students for AI-driven workplaces.