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Three AI stories today are doing roughly the same thing in different professions. The Sorbonne fed Molière to a language model and got an “experimental play” in his style (The Guardian). Architecture firms are being forced to rethink a working model that hasn’t changed in decades (ArchDaily). And the New Yorker asks whether AI makes college obsolete (The New Yorker).
The higher-ed sector is already wobbling: Humanities chairs surveyed by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences are pessimistic about their departments’ future (InsideHigherEd). Ransomware crews picked finals week to take Canvas hostage and threaten to leak data on 275 million users (The Atlantic). And two years after UArts collapsed, its $77 million endowment is still tangled in court (Philadelphia Inquirer) — institutional failure has a long aftermath.
Two funding experiments worth holding next to each other: Cleveland’s cigarette tax for the arts has worked so well it’s collapsing the revenue source it depends on (The New York Times), and a New York State guaranteed-income trial found that artists given $1,000 a month didn’t stop working — they changed the kind of work they did (The Conversation).
Then there’s the timeless Rex Reed, dead at 87 (Variety).
All of our stories below.
