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This month: the internet confidently roasted a real Monet painting thinking it was AI (nobody Googled it), Elon lost a $134 billion lawsuit in less time than a school lunch period, 10% of teens say almost all their schoolwork is AI, Google announced you can now deepfake yourself from your phone, AI can predict brain decline from your speech patterns, and someone hacked Canvas during finals week at Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton. Kelly Booz, Sari Beth Rosenberg, and Christopher Penn break it all down — real stories, real jokes, real talk.
📰 Stories covered:
📰 Stories covered:
- The internet confidently art-critiqued a real 1906 Monet painting thinking it was AI-generated
- Federal jury throws out Elon Musk's $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI — deliberated less than two hours
- Pew Research: 10% of teens say virtually all their schoolwork is AI, 60% say students cheat with it frequently
- Google Gemini rolls out AI avatar creation — you can now deepfake yourself from your phone
- Researchers can predict early signs of Alzheimer's from speech patterns with 78% accuracy
- Shiny Hunters hack Canvas during finals week at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and thousands of K-12 schools
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Kelly Booz 3: It's May,
and AI had a month.
The internet confidently trashed
a real Monet painting thinking
it was AI â nobody Googled it.
Elon lost a $134 billion lawsuit in
less time than a school lunch period.
Google announced you can now
deepfake yourself from your phone.
And somebody hacked
Canvas during finals week.
We've got the stories, we've got
the jokes, and we've got Christopher
Penn here with the details.
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Update is our SNL Weekend Updateâstyle
segment on our live AI Educator Brain
webinar series on Share My Lesson.
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AI-in-education stories with real talk
and real jokes â and this is that segment,
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Alright, let's get into it.
Live from Share My Lesson, it's the AI
Educator News Update with your hosts,
Kelly Boos and Sarabeth Rosenberg.
Real news, slightly exaggerated.
Always AI educator-approved
Kelly Booz: Okay.
Hi, everyone.
Welcome back to the AI Educator Brain.
It is May.
If you are still standing upright,
you are outperforming at least one
Disney robot
Sari Beth Rosenberg: May is that beautiful
month where you're writing report cards,
chaperoning field trips, and completing
a survey about your goals for next year.
Christopher Penn: Meanwhile, the AI
world has been absolutely unhinged.
Kelly Booz: These are real
stories with our flair of jokes.
Sari Beth Rosenberg: All
right, let's do this.
Christopher Penn: The internet destroyed
a Monet and felt great about it.
A bot account on Twitter posted an
image and said, "I just generated
this in the style of Monet using AI.
Please describe what makes
this inferior to a real Monet."
People wrote confident,
detailed art critiques.
One called the ch- color choices
incoherent, the reflections
egregiously vague, like most AI art.
The post got 446,000 views.
Then someone replied, "This
is a real Monet, you dingus."
It was.
It was Water Lilies painted in 1906.
Nobody Googled it.
Nobody reverse image searched.
They saw the word AI, and
their brain did the rest.
Now, in fairness, this
was generated by Claude.
Sari Beth Rosenberg: dum bum.
Okay, so Musk versus Altman.
The juries needed less
time than a lunch period.
In my school, that's 44 minutes.
Yesterday, a federal jury in Oakland
threw out Elon Musk's entire lawsuit
against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
Speaker 3: He wanted 134 billion, yes, 134
billion, and Altman removed from his job.
The jury deliberated for less than two
hours, so two lunch periods for me.
Unanimous.
Musk posted on X that it was a,
quote-unquote, "calendar technicality."
The judge said she was prepared to
dismiss his appeal, quote, "on the spot."
Elon is clearly leaning on
the no such thing as a late
assignment movement in education.
Kelly Booz (2): 10% of teens say
almost all their schoolwork is AI.
A new Pew Research data polls,
reports that more than half of
teens are using AI for schoolwork.
10% say virtually all of their work
is AI, and 60% say students, at their
school use AI to cheat frequently.
But here's the line that stopped me.
The teens themselves said their
biggest worry is that the overreliance
on AI will undermine their
ability to think for themselves.
And then they went home, and
they joked about students that AI
might hurt their ability to think
critically, and then they asked
ChatGPT to explain the article to them.
Christopher Penn: As of this afternoon,
Google Gemini now lets you be its face.
This afternoon, Google's Gemini
rolled out its avatar creation
inside the Gemini application.
with your permission and identity
verification, it generates videos
of you reading Gemini's answers.
this is an example that we just
created literally two, 20 minutes ago
Speaker: Graduates are booing pep talks
on AI at College Cartificial Intelligence.
They might finally pay attention
to automate their grading.
That's all for today's news
Christopher Penn: So that was literally
from twenty minutes ago from this
afternoon's Google IO conference.
It is available in the Gemini app today.
Nothing sends mixed messages about
deepfakes like an AI company that
wants you to deepfake you to yourself
Kelly Booz (2): And this is where
I pause to say, this is the creepy
or cool, so you get to vote.
Was that creepy or cool?
That was, Chris, not really human Chris
creating a video of himself, which
is creepy in my, at least my opinion.
But what do you guys think?
Creepy or cool?
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2):
Yeah, creepy or cool?
Yeah, what do you guys think?
Christopher Penn: And that
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2): was
Christopher Penn: from my phone.
Kelly Booz (2): That was
only from your phone?
So that wasn't even like- That was from
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2): your phone?
Kelly Booz (2): that wasn't
even really good audio/video.
I mean, phones have gotten a
lot better, that's for sure.
Yeah.
But still, that was just with a phone.
Wow.
That's crazy.
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2): Oh my God.
Kelly Booz (2): Okay.
Well, it looks like most
people think it's creepy.
All right.
So that's
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2): All right.
Speaking of, speaking of creepy, AI can
read your ums and predict brain decline.
Speaker 3: Do you guys wanna hear this?
So researchers found AI can analyze
your speech, your pauses, your
filler words, the moments you lose
your train of thought, and predict
early signs of cognitive decline.
One study predicted Alzheimer's
from speech patterns along with
78% accuracy, sometimes before the
patient was officially diagnosed.
The science is incredible.
Early detection does save lives.
If forgetting words is a warning
sign, then every teacher in May should
qualify for extended warranty coverage.
Kelly Booz (2): I'm gonna go with creepy
or cool on this one because, we, we get
the joke about the, you know, teachers
and gosh, I like, I feel like I forget
words all left and right all the time.
Yeah, me
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2): too.
Um,
Kelly Booz (2): But, you know,
especially if you're getting older
and how this can help detect.
Is this creepy from your
opinion or is this cool?
Let us know.
The poll should be up right now.
What do you guys think,
Chris and Teri-Beth?
Christopher Penn: Uh, it's very
cool and it is just the tip of
the iceberg about how good AI
is getting at diagnosing things.
The new DeepSeek version four model that
came out on radiology tests scores a 98.6%
correctness on radiology.
Wow.
The best human doctors in Beijing, which
is where it was tested, scored a 96.
Kelly Booz (2): Wow.
That's
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2): crazy.
Yeah, no, that's incredible.
I, I think that's extremely cool,
especially paired with AI helping us
find ways to maybe cure Alzheimer's
or help mitigate it a bit, right?
Kelly Booz (2): Yeah.
Yeah, certainly.
It looks like we have a mixed
audience when it comes to this one.
All right.
All right.
Last one, and then we're
gonna jump into that topic.
Someone hacked the homework,
all of it, during finals.
A hacking group called Shiny Hunters
breached Canvas, the learning
management system used by 41% of US
colleges and thousands of K-12 schools.
They claimed data from 9,000 institutions.
When Instructure tried to patch
it instead of negotiating Shiny
Hunters, Chris likes this story.
Shiny Hunters- Yeah ⦠took over the
Canvas login page at Harvard, Columbia,
Princeton, and ASU and replaced it with
their ransom note during finals week.
Cyber security researchers describe
Shiny Hunters as a loose group
of teenagers and young adults.
The ransom note said, and I'm quoting,
"Instead of contacting us to resolve it,
they ignored us and did some security
patches," that they put in air quotes.
So honestly, if they had just added per my
last email, the message would've sounded
exactly like faculty communication.
Ba-dum-bump.
All right, Chris, y- you, you love this.
You love this story.
You find it funny.
tell us more about Shiny Hunters.
Christopher Penn: If you go, so
they're not just a bunch of kids.
If you go onto their dark web,
portal, which you can find- Ooh it
was floating around on LinkedIn this
week, you can find all the companies
that refused to pay the ransom and
all of the data that they published.
And I was curious- Wow ⦠so I downloaded
one of the data sets into a secure
environment that if it was infected,
I could just destroy the environment.
The data was all clean, and
it was, it's the real thing.
Huh.
So up there at the top
right, Aman Resorts.
This is one of the most expensive
hotel chains in the world.
A single room in New York City, in a
New York City hotel, $2,800 a night
is what it costs to stay there.
Wow.
That database, it, which they are sharing
on their hack- or hackers portal, is their
customer records of the who's who of some
of the wealthiest people in the world.
Sari Beth Rosenberg (2): Yeah.
Kelly Booz (2): Wow.
So it's, oh my goodness.
Yeah.
mean, I- There's
different- We got an email.
I don't, we got an email about this
hack you know, in our public school
system, so it was pretty widespread.
Kelly Booz 3: That's your AI
Educator News Update for May 2026.
Lesson learned â if you're going to
roast a painting on the internet,
maybe reverse image search it first.
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