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Columbia Student Kicked Out for Creating AI to Cheat, Raises Millions to Turn It Into a Startup

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I read the student handbook quite thoroughly before I actually started building this thing, because I was ready to burn bridges with Amazon, but I didnt actually expect to get expelled at all," the youthful tech founder told podcast host Kevin Roose. And the student handbook very explicitly doesnt mention anything about academic resources."

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

The teacher model generates data which then trains a smaller student model, helping to quickly transfer knowledge and predictions of the bigger model to the smaller one. Read full article Comments Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. She asked me to comment on a bunch of issues around Bookshare, and we prepared the comments below. serving students with print disabilities. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Study: Hand clapping is akin to a Helmholtz resonator

Ars Technica

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The Looming Membership Cliff: What Associations Can and Should Be Doing

The MatrixFiles

Low student-to-professional conversion : Many associations struggle to transition discounted or student members to full membership. We had nearly 100 people in the webinar and the chat was going crazy with insights and comments! Membership Models Are Under Strain The traditional membership model is facing scrutiny.

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These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat

The Verge

She surmised that Edgenuity’s AI was scanning for specific keywords that it expected to see in students’ answers. Edgenuity didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment, but the company’s online help center suggests this may be by design. Students on @EdgenuityInc , there's your ticket. And she decided to game it.

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