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Princeton's faculty voted this week to require proctors at all in-person exams starting July 1 — the most significant change to the university's honor system since it was established in 1893. For 133 years, Princeton ran entirely on student self-reporting: no supervisors, no proctors, just a pledge. AI ended that. Faculty cited that AI tools on personal devices have made cheating "much harder for other students to observe and report" — opening a laptop during an exam now looks identical whether you're taking notes or prompting ChatGPT.

A 2025 survey of Princeton seniors made the case for change starkly: 29.9% admitted to cheating on an assignment or exam, 44.6% said they'd witnessed an Honor Code violation and said nothing, and just 0.4% had ever reported a peer. The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch covered the faculty vote today as a turning point — not just for Princeton, but for every institution still relying on trust in a world where AI makes cheating undetectable. The honor code isn't gone. It's just no longer enough.

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Google announced Googlebook today: a new category of laptops built from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence. The headline feature is the Magic Pointer — point your cursor at anything on screen and Gemini surfaces contextual suggestions instantly. Point at a date in an email to set a meeting. Select two images to visualize them together. It's the first time the cursor itself has been meaningfully reinvented since right-click. A second feature, Create Your Widget, lets you prompt Gemini to build a custom dashboard pulling from Gmail, Calendar, and the web — your flight info, hotel reservation, and restaurant booking merged into one spot on your desktop.

Googlebook merges Android (apps, Google Play) with ChromeOS (Chrome browser) into a single OS, ending the long-running split between Chromebooks and Android tablets. Devices will come from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo — each featuring a signature glowing "Glowbar" on the keyboard. Phones and Googlebooks will share files seamlessly via Quick Access, with no transfers needed. Launching this fall. More details at googlebook.com.

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At its Android Show event on Tuesday, Google announced that Gemini can now complete multistep tasks across apps on your phone — autonomously. Press the power button, describe what you need ("copy my grocery list from Notes and add everything to my shopping cart"), and Gemini works through the whole sequence, pausing only for your final confirmation before checkout. The update also extends to auto-filling forms using details stored in Google's Personal Intelligence, and Gemini can now browse the web for you on Android and complete tasks like booking appointments.

A new Gboard feature called Rambler transcribes speech and strips filler words, Gemini summaries and Q&A land inside Chrome on Android in late June, and — in the most unusual announcement of the day — Google is letting users "vibe code" custom Android widgets by describing them in plain language. All Gemini Intelligence features roll out to Pixel and Galaxy devices first, this summer.

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When Amazon Ring faced a flood of customer calls during last year's holiday season, it tested more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing Vapi — a startup that now routes 100% of Ring's inbound call traffic. That deployment, along with an enterprise business that has grown 10-fold since early 2025, helped Vapi close a $50 million Series B at a $500 million valuation, led by Peak XV Partners with Microsoft M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating.

Vapi says its platform has now handled more than 1 billion calls total, currently processing between 1 and 5 million daily. CEO Jordan Dearsley says the company differentiates on infrastructure and orchestration — giving enterprises granular control over how AI agents behave in live calls — rather than pre-packaged applications. Other enterprise customers include New York Life, Intuit, and Kavak, while more than 1 million developers have used the self-serve platform.

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