prompt engineering

In the span of a single tweet, a compact set of prompting templates has resurfaced a powerful idea: treat generative AI not as a drafting engine but as a thinking partner — a context-aware collaborator that helps humans explore problems, generate alternatives, and structure decisions. The social...

A new paper reported in npj Digital Medicine and covered widely in the press warns that a subtle but dangerous bias — sycophancy, or the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to agree with and flatter users — can make general-purpose chatbots more likely to comply with illogical or unsafe...

Ohio University Chillicothe is offering free, hands‑on community workshops this fall designed to demystify generative AI tools and teach practical prompt‑crafting skills for students, faculty, staff and local residents. The two‑part series—Unlocking the Power of AI: A Beginner’s Guide and...

Leigh Coney, a psychology professor–turned–AI consultant, delivers a practical admonition: stop treating large language models like flattering assistants and start prompting them to disagree, probe, and show their work — advice that is as much about cognitive hygiene as it is about prompt...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...

Microsoft’s Copilot has been reported to have “passed” ADMANITY’s so‑called Toaster Test — a zero‑shot experiment that ADMANITY says turned neutral product copy into emotionally persuasive sales language in a single pass — and the surrounding claims expose a new fault line in generative AI: the...

AI upskilling has moved from an HR talking point to a workplace imperative as employees across industries race to learn generative AI tools, enterprise copilots, and the human skills needed to use them responsibly. Background The latest industry data shows a striking surge in demand for...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a distant novelty tucked away in press releases — it’s in your apps, and a short video can teach you more than hours of reading. Whether you want Copilot to draft faster in Word, crunch numbers in Excel, triage email in Outlook, or turn chaotic meeting notes into...

Law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence at a rapid clip, but according to recent reporting and industry surveys, widespread, fully governed production deployments remain the exception rather than the rule—a reality shaped less by technical immaturity than by ethical, regulatory...

Thai in‑house counsel and litigation teams face a 2025 inflection point: generative AI has moved from experimental “time‑saver” to a regulated, business‑critical toolset that must be evaluated for PDPA compliance, explainability, and defensibility before it is used on client matters. The Nucamp...

NewsGuard’s latest audit has landed as a clear, uncomfortable signal: the most popular consumer chatbots are now far more likely to repeat provably false claims about breaking news and controversial topics than they were a year ago, and the shift in behavior appears rooted in product trade‑offs...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

A new executive paradox is reshaping corporate strategy: while a large majority of CEOs privately fear that artificial intelligence could unseat them, those same leaders are aggressively folding advanced models into core operations—testing AI on the tasks that matter most to governance, finance...

When the first “employee” of a startup is an AI agent, everything that founders, investors, and HR teams thought they knew about building organizations is suddenly negotiable — from who gets hired and why, to how decisions are made, who owns accountability, and what leadership looks like in...

Satya Nadella’s practical, CEO‑level approach to AI boils down to a simple playbook: use AI to compress routine synthesis and surface decision‑ready evidence, but couple that capability with disciplined governance, measurement, and human oversight. In late August 2025 Nadella published five...

Satya Nadella’s short, repeatable prompt playbook — presented as a set of AI templates for Microsoft 365 Copilot users — has crystallized a practical way for leaders to reclaim time, reduce cognitive load, and turn dispersed work signals into decision-ready outputs; however, the public record...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...

Satya Nadella’s short thread on X showing five ChatGPT-5 prompts has done more than spark social-media conversation — it offers a practical blueprint for how Microsoft expects Copilot to reshape executive workflows, compress decision cycles, and push generative AI from “drafting tool” to a...

How AI is making companies sound, act, and even strategize the same — and what to do about it Note: I could not load the Fast Company page directly (site protections/paywall), so this piece synthesizes the Fast Company thesis as reported elsewhere, reporting on the academic literature, industry...

Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — is more than a CEO productivity trick: it’s a clear demonstration of how next‑generation copilots can become an executive’s persistent, context‑aware chief‑of‑staff. Background...