The rapid integration of generative AI into global higher education presents a critical choice: do we allow these tools to simply automate our academic processes, or do we harness them to augment human intelligence and pedagogy? I am pleased to share my latest published research, "From Automation to Augmentation: A Human-Centered Framework for Responsible Generative AI in Education." In this paper, we explore the necessary shift toward a human-centered framework. True institu

In late 2025, the technology world watched a familiar pattern repeat at a new and striking scale. Meta announced that it had acquired Manus, a Singapore-based developer of general-purpose #AI_agents, in a transaction that news outlets, citing the Wall Street Journal, valued at more than two billion United States dollars. What made the deal remarkable was not only the price tag but the speed of the rise. Manus had launched its first general-purpose agent only months earlier an