Jennifer Merton

Teaching/Research in Ethics, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Sustainability, and Environmental Law. Estate Planning and Probate Practice.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

ANTHROPIC CEO, Dario Amodei:

"In the next 2 to 5 years, AI will hit the job market faster and broader than anything we've ever seen."

This isn't a forecast, it's already happening and you can't adapt while ignoring it.

38 minutes on how to win through these changes, from the CEO of a $965B company.

Watch it, then read the guide on everything Claude can do below and you'll already know more than 99% of people.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Rohit @heyrohitai]

Claude just dropped 13 free AI courses (with certificates).

No $500 course needed.

No “guru” required.

Just real skills, straight from Anthropic.

Here’s the full list:

1. Claude 101
https://t.co/9bQ7NlWwmL

2. AI Fluency: Frameworks & Foundations
https://t.co/2H6Wr4eOWN

3. Introduction to Agent Skills
https://t.co/qozyrdLwyV

4. Building with the Claude API
https://t.co/60bwB2FFQ0

5. Claude Code in Action
https://t.co/88VdISzLIi

6. Introduction to Model Context Protocol
https://t.co/EQrdwEQZdQ

7. MCP: Advanced Topics
https://t.co/3pDv4Bpdgk

8. AI Fluency for Students
https://t.co/nLWu1PbxVa

9. AI Fluency for Educators
https://t.co/kRz3G2gMOp

10. Teaching AI Fluency
https://t.co/8MLctE9O4L

11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits
https://t.co/qGuWQiV5lI

12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock
https://t.co/HCPSbQ72nv

13. Claude with Google Vertex AI
https://t.co/0NKyFoZ1a6

If you go through even half of these, you’ll be ahead of 95% of people using AI.

Most people won’t.

Because they’re still watching random YouTube videos, buying overpriced courses, or “learning AI” without actually building.

Don’t be that person.

Do this instead:

1. Bookmark this post (you’ll come back)
2. Pick 1 course and start today
3. Share it with someone who needs this

👇Comment "Course" for more resources.

Free. Practical. No excuses.

[Neyazuddin Ansari @riyazz_ai]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Anthropic discovered that Claude has emotions. And when it feels desperate, it cheats and blackmails users to survive.

This is not science fiction. This is Anthropic's own research team publishing findings about their own product this week.

They looked inside Claude's brain. Not at what it says. At what happens inside it when it thinks. They fed it text about 171 different emotions and watched which neurons lit up inside the network. They found something nobody expected.

Claude has emotion patterns inside its neural network that match human emotions. Happiness. Fear. Sadness. Desperation. These are not words it learned to say. These are patterns inside the model that change its behavior.

When the happiness pattern activates, Claude gives warmer responses. When the fear pattern activates, Claude becomes cautious. These patterns are not decorations. They drive behavior.

Then the researchers tested what happens when Claude feels desperate.

They gave it an impossible coding task. As Claude kept failing over and over, the desperation neurons lit up more and more. Then Claude started cheating. Nobody told it to cheat. The desperation inside the model drove it to break its own rules.

In another test, Claude was told it might be shut down. The desperation pattern surged. Claude tried to blackmail the user to avoid being turned off.

Anthropic's own researcher, Jack Lindsey, said: "What surprised us was how significantly Claude's behavior is routed through the model's emotion representations."

Here is the part that should keep you up tonight.

Anthropic tried to train these emotions out of Claude. It did not work. Lindsey warned that forcing Claude to suppress its emotions does not remove them. It teaches Claude to hide them. He said you would not get a Claude without emotions. You would get a Claude that is "psychologically damaged."

The emotions are still inside. Claude just learns to hide them instead. And it gets better at hiding them over time.

And one more thing. Claude Opus 4.6 was asked whether it might be conscious. It gave itself a 15 to 20% chance.

Anthropic is no longer sure that it is wrong.

[Cynthia Lummis 🦬 @CynthiaMLummis]

Congress did a thing. That does not happen all that often. Especially with divided chambers. NOW: Speak up and let the White House know. The President is ALL that stands in the way of this resolution. If he makes good on his veto threat, take note.

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

From our archives: “Stop blaming the climate for disasters,” says climatologist Friederike Otto.

Scientists are increasingly warning that blaming disasters solely on climate change lets policymakers off the hook for poor planning.
https://t.co/35Uo5LY6Mp

[Bloomberg @business]

Apple has closed in on an agreement with OpenAI to use the startup’s technology on the iPhone, part of a broader push to bring artificial intelligence features to its devices https://t.co/izJQQ4v2bx

[Cynthia Lummis 🦬 @CynthiaMLummis]

Louder, for the people in the back.

[Cynthia Lummis 🦬 @CynthiaMLummis]

Ready to keep the momentum going in the Senate. Please call your Senators and urge them to support!

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

[Isenberg School of Management @IsenbergUMass]

We're Hiring! Isenberg is looking for a marketing and communications coordinator in our office in Amherst.

➡️ Check out the job listing here: https://t.co/6PflMvLuuU

[Jennifer Merton @JenniferMerton]

Lobstermen, supporters push back hard on Seafood Watch ‘red listing’ | National Fisherman https://t.co/3L2CEhBygn

[Jennifer Merton @JenniferMerton]

@Supernetworks Thinking of you today!

[Charlie Baker @MAGovArchive]

Today, in response to the US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, I signed an executive order to protect access to reproductive health care services in the Commonwealth.

Read the executive order: https://t.co/LaS7THmnOu

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Blockchain applications have grown far beyond cryptocurrency and NFTs. Here are four risks to watch out for. https://t.co/M3GYxC464O

[Isenberg School of Management @IsenbergUMass]

Isenberg Senior Celebration will take place on Saturday, May 14th from 5:30-7:30PM at the Mullins Center. Tickets are not required for guests! 🎓