INSTANT AI UPDATE 41 - WIKIPEDIA VS GROKIPEDIA - AI-POWERED KNOWLEDGE The emergence of Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI, has sparked a new era in the way digital knowledge is curated, updated, and consumed. Grokipedia's late-2025 launch marks a significant shift from the established, human-edited Wikipedia model, raising critical questions about the future of information reliability, transparency, speed, and bias. This post synthesizes the l

INSTANT AI UPDATE 30 - WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF ANTHROPIC’S $1.5 BILLION COPYRIGHT SETTLEMENT? Anthropic has agreed to pay at LEAST $1.5B to a coalition of authors and publishers. This settlement, reached after months of negotiation and legal pressure, is the largest of its kind in U.S. copyright history and marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing debate over the use of copyrighted material in AI training. As AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), have becom

AI is rapidly transforming facets of higher education. Over 70% of university professors have embraced AI for research, leveraging its power for data analysis, literature reviews, and hypothesis generation, but less than 35% have integrated AI into teaching and learning.