This brain implant turns a stroke survivor's thoughts into speech in real time | AP News

"Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak.

A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldn’t speak for 18 years after a stroke. Doctors implanted it in her brain during surgery as part of a clinical trial.

It “converts her intent to speak into fluent sentences,” said Gopala Anumanchipalli, a co-author of the study published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience."

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Papa Johns wants AI to transform pizza ordering | Reuters

"Papa John's International wants to inject artificial intelligence technology into how its customers order pizza through an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, the chain said on Thursday."

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Keysmart Smartcards

This wallet sized tool is being chosen instead of airtags and run at $30 apiece and are flat and fit in a wallet. This might be a great alternative

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Studies Reveal Consumers Easily Detect AI-Generated Content

AI may not be the writing boon that, well, AI claims it is. From the image study, Youngblood warned,

“If consumers determine that AI images are poor quality or a bad fit they may hold that against your brand/product/services.”

The content study showed:

50.1% of respondents would think less of writers who use AI.
40.4% would view brands more negatively if they used AI-generated content.
Only 10.1% would view the brands more favorably.

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College Students Can Get a Two-Month Free Trial of ChatGPT Plus | Lifehacker

"You can only take advantage of this offer if you are a full or part-time student at a degree-granting school in either the U.S. or Canada. Don't be dissuaded if you don't see your school when attempting to sign up for the offer: OpenAI has a support link to help find or add your school to the list. This tool may also confirmed whether your school is ineligible. You need to be physically present in the U.S. (and its territories) or Canada to sign up for this offer, too—VPNs will not work, unless its a whitelisted educational VPN.

OpenAI says it'll confirm your student credentials through a service called SheerID. If the service is unable to verify you through your school's registrar office, or via your school's single sign-on service, you may need to provide SheerID with extra documents to prove your eligibility. SheerID says it only uses this data to authenticate your eligibility for this promotion, and does not sell or share your data with third parties."

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These AI Features Make Paint My Favorite Windows Photo Editing App

In a day when AI graphics are all the rage, more people are talking about the AI features built into Microsoft Paint. Here's a rundown of those features for those of you using PC's and without access to some of the other AI tools out there.

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NotebookLM launches new features to help students study

One of the most exciting things my college-bound seniors learned this semester is Notebook LM. Now, Google has rolled out three more features for students as they study for exams (many of which are college-level exams for my seniors.)

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‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war | History | The Guardian

This digital reconstruction of a face of a woman from the bronze age is really fascinating. This is a great way to weave AI/digital tech into history. "Dr Emily Hauser, the historian who commissioned the digital reconstruction, told the Observer: “She’s incredibly modern. She took my breath away.

“For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy – Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend – and from where the poet Homer imagined the Greeks of the Trojan war setting out. Such digital reconstructions persuade us that these were real people.”"

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CoSN2025: Why Are Cellphone Bans in K–12 Classrooms Sparking Controversy? | EdTech Magazine

A balanced overview of this debate from CoSN's conference. in Edtech Magazine. "In reality, Lapus shared, kids check their phones 52 times per day on average and spend an average of 43 minutes on their phones at school, according to research from Common Sense Media.

These numbers don’t paint a complete picture, however. There are the subsequent effects of children’s cellphone use to consider, as well as the ramifications of taking devices away."

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Playbrary

Larry Ferlazzo shared this in 2024 but this AI tool took many of the classic adventure stories and turned them into choose your own adventure games using chat. So frankenstein, Jane Eyre and many more are now interactive in a new way. I can see many exciting adventures in learning by using this as a tool. (And remember to have kids compare and contrast these to the novels they read, there is no substitute for a good book!)

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