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🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

Anyone still clinging to the convenient narrative of “a few bad apples” or “a handful of hilltop youth” is simply choosing not to look at the data or the map. The reality is not subtle. And when Bezalel Smotrich states explicitly that “the farms are a mega-strategic tool for holding land” – even detailing the operational model – it becomes difficult to keep pretending this is incidental. This is not random. It is infrastructure. It is a mechanism. One farmer, one herd, minimal investment – and thousands of dunams effectively shift control. Then comes the “regularization” phase, bringing water, electricity, roads, and funding. Not negligence, but systematic construction. Viewed spatially, the pattern is clear: creating continuity between the mountain ridge and the Jordan Valley, linking isolated outposts to strategic axes, and fragmenting Palestinian space into disconnected enclaves. In less polite terms, this is the deliberate engineering of an irreversible reality. So no, this is not “hilltop youth” on a camping trip. It is not a malfunction. It is policy. And when such a policy is planned, funded, protected, and legitimized, responsibility no longer lies in the field but at the government table. Anyone still troubled by this should stop searching for convenient culprits on the margins. The address is perfectly clear. It only requires a minimum of honesty to look at it without blinking.

A plane carrying 240 new immigrants from the Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community landed this evening at Ben Gurion Airport.

This will be Netanyahu’s legacy, and it’s not a good one. He can boast as much as he wants on his special relationship with Trump, but he lost the American people, which for Israel’s long term can be devastating. One reason for this massive change is Bibi bringing to his government extreme right wing figures like Ben Gvir and others

Statement from President Trump on South Pars Gas Field:

SECRETARY RUBIO: There was absolutely an imminent threat. We knew that if Iran was attacked, even by someone else, they would immediately come after us and we were NOT going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.