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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the University of California, Berkeley, are partnering to form a new nonpartisan academic institute they say will be dedicated to strengthening democracy
Some college classes are seeing a boom in students earning A's — many with the help of AI . Why it matters: Universities and colleges were already concerned about how many students are earning A's and B's, but now must worry that graduates are leaving AI-proficient rather than knowledgeable about their subjects of study. The big picture: It isn't a case where A- students get a slight bump to an A or A+, says Igor Chirikov, a UC Berkeley professor who authored a study on AI and grade inflation. - "We have a C student who is now an A student," Chirikov tells Axios, citing data from grades given between 2018 and 2025 at a Texas research university. What they found: Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, "excellent" grades rose by 30% in…
Data: Graphite.io ; Note: Based on an average of three AI-detector tools sampling URLs from Common Crawl; Chart: Megan Morrone/Axios The flood of AI-generated writing unleashed by ChatGPT appears to have leveled off — a sign that AI content hasn't overtaken the web after all. The big picture: The share of online news articles, blog posts and listicles that are primarily AI-generated has held near 50% for more than a year, according to a new analysis from digital marketing agency Graphite. - The plateau indicates that the feared takeover of human online writing by AI hasn't materialized — at least not yet. Why it matters: Researchers who've studied the spread of AI-written articles warn that once models start training on that…
The Trump administration is casting new scrutiny on foreign funding at U.S. colleges and universities — a push critics say is part of a broader effort to assert control over higher education under the guise of national security. The big picture: The Department of Education is pointing to newly-revealed data on foreign gifts and contracts to schools as a national security issue, which is misleading, Alexander Cooley, a political scientist researching foreign authoritarian influence, tells Axios. Driving the news: The Education Department on Wednesday released foreign funding disclosure data submitted by colleges and universities for 2025, "documenting over 8,300 transactions worth more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and…