EdTechSR Ep 348 Goodbye Home Button

What this episode covers

Check out our Episode 348 from February 19, 2025! (Although this episode published instantly to YouTube, we are late getting this posted on edtechSR.com and our Substack…) Here are all the links we discussed in the show: * The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers (Microsoft Research) * Microsoft shows progress toward real-time AI-generated game worlds (ArsTechnica, 19 Feb 2025) * Google pulls Gemini from main search app on iOS (TechCrunch, 19 Feb 2025) * Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons (The Guardian, 5 Feb 2025) - stopkillerrobots.org * 6 unsettling thoughts Google's former CEO has about artificial intelligence (NPR, 5 Feb 2025) * Now you can use Deep Research in Gemini on the Go (Google Blog; 18 February 2025) * Apple has officially killed off the Home Button (Apple Insider, 19 Feb 2025) “you cannot purchase any new Apple products that feature a Lightning port” * Apple debuts iPhone 16e: A powerful new member of the iPhone 16 family (Apple Newsroom; 19 February 2025) * Google says commercial quantum computing applications arriving within five years (Reuters, 5 Feb 2025) * Microsoft-DARPA collaboration yields possible quantum chip breakthrough (Defense One, 19 Feb 2025) * Microsoft Transitioning Away from HoloLens Mixed Reality Hardware (THE Journal, 18 Feb 2025) * AI Inside podcast: aiinside.show * Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Kindle Edition by Ethan Mollick * Book: “Hunter Killer: The True Story of the Drone Mission That Killed Anwar al-Awlaki” by T. Mark McCurley * Jason’s Geeks of the Week: MacWhisper - Google Recorder * Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Upscayl - Scrollytelling - Oasis (blog post) Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss: * Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3 (TechCrunch; 17 February 2025) * Introducing Perplexity Deep Research (Perplexity Blog) * OpenAI tries to ‘uncensor’ ChatGPT (TechCrunch; 16 February 2025) * OpenAI removes certain content warnings from ChatGPT (TechCrunch; 13 February 2025) * China's Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up (Reuters; 13 February 2025) * Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist (Google Research Blog; 19 February 2025) * AI is a game changer for students with disabilities. Schools are still learning to harness it (AP, 26 Dec 2024) * Fiverr wants gig workers to offload some of their work to AI (TechCrunch; 18 February 2025) * Superhuman introduces AI-powered categorization to reduce spammy emails in your inbox (Tech Crunch; 19 February 2025) * YouTube by the numbers: uncovering YouTube's ghost town of billions of unwatched, ignored videos (TechSpot, 17 Feb 2025) * Clearview AI’s CEO Resigns As Facial Recognition Company Focuses On Trump 'Opportunities' (Forbes, 19 Feb 2025) archive.ph paywall free link * Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection (MSN, 3 Sept 2024) * The Best Instagram Alternatives If You're Sick of Meta (LifeHacker, 18 Feb 2025) * Behind the Curtain: America's drone-swarm crisis (Axios, 18 Feb 2025) Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe