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Rachel Kane

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Rachel Kane

    Forget Productivity: 3 AI Tips to Help You Keep Calm and Carry On at Work - CNET (opens the original)

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    Odds are, if you have a computer job, you have been told to use artificial intelligence in one way or another. But AI can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for a lot of workers. For some people, the chime of a Slack or Teams notification is just a noise. For others, it’s a Pavlovian trigger for everything we hate about the working world. Ping! It’s a nasty message from someone completely in the wrong. Boop! It’s an invite for a meeting that should have been an email. These modern element

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Rachel Kane

    How to Customize Your AI Tools, From ChatGPT to Gemini and Claude - CNET (opens the original)

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    Hallucinating, sucking up and providing way too many bullet points and emoji in the response when you just asked a simple question: The sins of AI chat tools are many. Spending precious moments searching for and refining prompts that will get you to the right answer in the way you want it delivered is one way to go, but there’s a more sophisticated, permanent method hiding in the depths of your favorite AI chat’s toolkit. AI chat tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude AI and others have optio

  3. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Rachel Kane

    Can You Tell When Students Write AI Essays? How to Catch AI Cheaters - CNET (opens the original)

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    It’s back-to-school season, and your students are likely experimenting with generative AI tools. AI writing may often read poorly, but that doesn’t always mean it’s easy to catch. AI detector software looks for surface-level signals such as word frequency, sentence-length variation, statistical patterns and other permutations, while the quality of AI-generated prose operates at a deeper level. That quality is invisible to most detection algorithms but immediately apparent to a reader who knows w

  4. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Rachel Kane

    AI Detectors Are Being Used to Discipline Students. I Tested Whether They Should Be - CNET (opens the original)

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    Academic integrity offices across the country are making disciplinary decisions based on AI detection scores. Students are appealing grades and fighting academic misconduct charges on the strength of what those scores say. And the tools producing those scores, like Turnitin, GPTZero and the others, are operating with a confidence that my testing didn’t find them to have earned. I submitted both AI-generated text and human-written text to every major detector I could access, documented the result

  5. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Rachel Kane

    I Gave AI My August Calendar and Asked It to Save What's Left of Summer - CNET (opens the original)

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    The window between August and Labor Day goes faster than any other five-week stretch of the year. By the time most people notice it’s closing, it’s already almost over. I’ve watched that happen enough summers in a row to try a different approach: Before August could get away from me, I gave an AI assistant my location, my interests and my available weekends and asked it to build a calendar I’d actually follow. What it came back with was more specific — and more useful — than anything I’d have pu

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