Inside the OpenAI project where freelancers train ChatGPT on everything from farming to commercial flying

Handshake AI contractors from niche industries were directed to create tasks that reflect real work, like animal husbandry.
The Daily Iowan

Merit-based pay has little merit among Iowa lawmakers, educators

Lawmakers and school administrators are unsure how a merit-based pay system for educators in Iowa would operate. The ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Transformer-Based Automatic Item Generation for Course-Based Test Items: A Case Study of Translation Tasks in China’s Context ()

In order to meet the rapidly increasing demand for item pools for large-scale assessments, automatic item generation (AIG) ...
UPI

Writing teacher's AI-age task: Teaching students when to struggle

I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now ...
digitalengineering247

Teaching Robots by Example

Last December, in its TMT (technology, media, telecommunications) Predictions for 2026, the analyst Deloitte wrote, “the global cumulative installed capacity of industrial robots could reach 5.5 ...
blockchain

Microsoft Copilot Tasks: Latest Automation Breakthrough for 2026 Workflows and Productivity

According to Microsoft Copilot on X, Copilot Tasks lets users describe a task in natural language and have Copilot execute it end to end, with a public waitlist now open (source: Microsoft Copilot ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks AI uses its own computer to get things done

The AI assistant can do things like turn emails, attachments, and images from your inbox into a slide deck, or offer rundowns on nearby apartment listings. The AI assistant can do things like turn ...
The Conversation

It’s never too late to learn a language – adults and kids bring different strengths to the task

Karen Stollznow does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Healthcare IT News

Hospitals must transition from task-based digital tools to intelligent, agentic systems

For the next year, the transition from task-based digital tools to intelligent, agentic systems is a very important development in health IT, Ryan M. Cameron, the new chief information and innovation ...
VentureBeat

Claude Code's 'Tasks' update lets agents work longer and coordinate across sessions

Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Image / Nano Banana Pro One of the biggest constraints currently facing AI builders who want to deploy agents in service of their individual or enterprise ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively ...
IEEE

A Reusable Prompting Framework for Applying Large Language Models to Legal Tasks

Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for legal research, drafting, and analysis, but their answers can be inconsistent, hard to verify, and sensitive to small changes in prompt ...