Rick W / Wednesday, August 12, 2026 / Categories: Artificial Intelligence AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI… Previous Article LinkedIn Is Policing AI Slop, So Time to Reset Next Article Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data Print 4 Tags: AlgorithmAI