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TikTok Launches Campus Hub for College Students
The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they’re away for the summer.
Can AI Tool Use During Studies Affect Future Liability?
I graduated from university a couple months back, but have been continuing to use a student version of a coding/design agent that essentially gives me much more features at a significantly cheaper price. If this product launches and is proven to be successful can I be held liable for using this tech in the future and not paying for the full product? I know this situation may be unusual, but it's something that has been top of mind for me.
AI-Powered Job Descriptions: Student Project Seeks Feedback
We are a group of students working on our graduation project, which focuses on the use of AI tools in creating job descriptions within companies. We would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete this form: [https://forms.gle/aNECfoMBH5xFEXKZ6](https://forms.gle/aNECfoMBH5xFEXKZ6) Thank you
Scholly Founder Sues Sallie Mae Over Termination, Data Claims
Chris Gray is suing his startup’s acquirer, Sallie Mae, for wrongful termination and alleging it's selling student data through a subsidiary. Sallie Mae denies the allegations and vows to fight.
Algerian Student Launches AI Platform with 40+ Models
Hello, 20 years old here just got into the Ai platform and launched this last two weeks and here is what I have on it so far. \- **Latest Ai models Comparison**: ChatGPT 5.4 Claude Sonnet 4.6 and many more will be included as well \-**Ai models**: at the moment we have over 40+ different Ai models available for users to compare results from, side by side so its easier for users to compare results. \-**Pricing:** For the pricing I made the monthly plan only $10/mo with limited usage, however on the yearly/Lifetime plan it comes with no limited usage \- **Dark Theme**: lol a developer requested this from me so I added it as well for users specially at night it comes handy. \- **For Future:** I want to include something called mixture AI basically when you enter your prompt it will read all the responses and give you the best one or mix them up to the best use for you. **Please if you have any suggestions/recommendations I would really appreciate it, as I am still learning to develop and improve my abilities.**
Stanford Freshmen Inspired by AI Book to Rule the World
Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?
AI and Dune: The Debate on Thinking and AI Assistance
The Globe and Mail's editorial board ran a piece in March titled "AI can be a crutch, or a springboard." To illustrate the crutch half, they offered this: someone asked AI to explain a passage from Dune that warns against delegating thinking to machines. Instead of reading the book. That anecdote is doing more work than the studies the editorial cites. But the studies are real. Researchers at MIT published a paper in June 2025 titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" (Kosmyna et al., arXiv 2506.08872). The study tracked brain activity across three groups: people writing with ChatGPT, people using search engines, and people working unaided. The LLM group showed the weakest neural connectivity. Over four months, "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." The most striking finding: LLM users struggled to accurately quote their own work. They couldn't recall what they had just written. The Globe cites this and similar research to make a point about dependency. The implicit argument: hand enough of your thinking to a machine and you stop doing it yourself. That finding is probably accurate for the way most people use these tools. The question is whether that's the only way they can be used. The Globe's own title contains the counter-argument. Crutch or springboard. They wrote both words. They just didn't develop the second one. Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton who has been writing about AI use since the tools became widely available, argued in 2023 that the real challenge AI poses to education isn't that students will stop thinking, it's that the old structures assumed thinking was hard enough to enforce. ("The Homework Apocalypse," [oneusefulthing.org](http://oneusefulthing.org), July 2023.) When AI can do the surface-level cognitive work, the only tasks left worth assigning are the ones that require actual judgment. The tool, in that framing, doesn't reduce the demand for thinking. It raises the floor under it. Nate B. Jones, who writes and consults on what it actually takes to work well with AI, has made a sharper version of this argument. His position: using AI effectively requires more cognitive skill, not less. Specifically, it requires the ability to translate ambiguous intent into a precise, edge-case-aware specification that an AI can execute correctly. It requires detecting errors in output that is fluent and confident-sounding but wrong. It requires recognizing when an AI has drifted from your intent, or is confirming a premise it should be challenging. These are not passive skills. They are harder versions of the same thinking the MIT study found LLM users weren't doing. The difference between the group that lost neural connectivity and the group that doesn't isn't the tool. It's what they decided to do with it. Here's my own evidence. In the past year I built a working web application. Python backend. JavaScript frontend. Deployed on two hosting platforms. Payment processing. User authentication. A full data model. I do not know how to code. Every product decision was mine. Every architectural call. Every tradeoff judgment. I defined what the system needed to do, why, and what done looked like. I reviewed every significant change before it was accepted. When something broke, I identified where the breakdown was and directed the fix. The implementation was handled by AI. The thinking was mine. This mode (call it AI-directed building) is the opposite of the Dune reader. The quality of what gets produced is entirely a function of how clearly you can think, how precisely you can specify, and how critically you can evaluate what comes back. There is no shortcut in that. A vague brief to an AI doesn't produce a confused output. It produces a confident, fluent, wrong one. The discipline that prevents that is yours to supply. Non-coders building functional software with AI is common enough now that it isn't a story. What's less visible is the specificity of judgment underneath the ones that actually work. The practices that force more thinking rather than less are not complicated, but they require a decision to use the tool differently. When I've formed a position on something, I give the AI full context and ask it to make the strongest possible case against me. Ask for the hardest opposing argument it can construct. Then I read it. Sometimes it changes nothing. Sometimes it surfaces something I had dismissed without fully examining. The AI doesn't form my view. It stress-tests one I've already formed. When I'm uncertain between options, I don't ask which is better. I ask: here are two approaches, here is my constraint, now what does each cost me, and what does each require me to give up? I make the call. The AI laid out the shape of the decision. The judgment was mine. The uncomfortable part of thinking is still yours in this mode. The tool makes the work more rigorous, not easier. The MIT researchers and the Globe editorial are almost certainly right about the majority of current use. Passive use produces passive outcomes. That's not a controversial claim. The crutch half and the springboard half use the same interface. The difference is whether the person in front of it decided to think. What are you doing with it that forces more thinking rather than less? Are you using it to skip a step, or to take a harder one? Genuinely asking.
Stanford Freshmen Inspired by AI Book to Rule the World
Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?