🍜 Students fear AI..

Students are saying AI is frying their ability to focus...

October 16, 2025

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AI energy stocks are heating up so fast, you might want to slap a “Caution: Flammable” sign on Wall Street ⚡. Apparently if you whisper “machine learning” near a solar panel, investors throw money at it. Students are saying AI is frying their ability to focus 🎓. It helps with homework but also turns your brain into a potato. Good grades, no thoughts. Just vibes. And while 70% of Americans use AI, very few actually trust it 🤖. Imagine relying on a tool every day and still side-eyeing it like it might steal your identity and your job.

Is this progress or are we just glitching with confidence? Let’s find out...

In today’s AI digest:

  • AI bubble brews in energy stocks as investors chase hype ⚡

  • Students fear AI is hurting their study and focus skills 🎓

  • 70% of Americans use AI but few actually trust it 🤖

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WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY

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(source: WSJ)

⚡ The Digest: The AI hype train has officially hit the power grid. Investors are pouring money into energy companies, convinced that every chatbot and model needs its own personal power plant. Suddenly, utilities are acting like tech startups, which is exciting until you realize that turbines do not scale like software.

Key Details:

🔋 Nuclear Startups With Big Dreams
Companies like Oklo and Fermi are seeing their valuations skyrocket even though some have more press releases than power plants. It is giving major startup energy, just with uranium instead of hoodies.

📈 Utilities Want to Be Cool Too
Traditional energy giants are rebranding as “AI infrastructure leaders.” These are the same companies that once bragged about stable dividends, now promising to “power the intelligence revolution.” Somewhere, a marketing intern deserves a raise.

💸 Valuations Are Glowing
Energy stocks are being priced like hot tech startups. The only difference is these ones actually make something tangible, like electricity instead of essays. Analysts warn that when the hype cools, a few of these might experience a total power outage.

🔁 History Might Repeat Itself
Experts say the biggest AI bubble might not be in software or chips, but in the energy companies that supply them. It is like investing in the gold rush by buying shovels made of lightning.

Why It Matters: AI may be the next big thing, but physics still runs the show. If the hype keeps growing faster than the power supply, investors might soon find out that plugging into excitement without grounding in reality leads to one thing: getting shocked.

AI for students

(source: TheGuardian)

🎓 The Digest: A growing number of students say AI is starting to mess with their ability to study and stay focused. The same tools that were supposed to make learning easier might actually be making it harder to think deeply, focus longer, and finish an essay without checking ChatGPT every five minutes.

Key Details:

📚 Skills Are Slipping
Students worry that constant AI use is eroding their creativity, problem-solving, and independent thinking. When every answer is one click away, struggling with ideas starts to feel optional.

🧠 Critical Thinking on Autopilot
Researchers say heavy reliance on AI tools can weaken reasoning and decision-making skills. Too many students are accepting AI’s answers without question, turning “study sessions” into “copy and paste sessions.”

🎓 Mixed Feelings All Around
About half of students say AI has mixed effects on their academic performance. Some say it helps with structure and organization, while others admit it makes their brains feel like they are running on autopilot.

📉 Creativity Takes a Hit
Students say AI makes schoolwork too easy, which kills motivation to brainstorm or wrestle with tough problems. It is like using a calculator for everything and then forgetting how to add.

🤔 Teachers Needed More Than Ever
Many students say they want better guidance on how to use AI responsibly. They want to learn with AI, not through it. Because even the smartest chatbot cannot replace a good teacher with a sense of humor.

Why It Matters: If students keep outsourcing their thinking, we could end up with a generation that can craft the perfect prompt but cannot form an original thought. In the future, “doing homework” might just mean asking your favorite chatbot nicely.

AI

🤖 The Digest: A new KPMG survey found that 70 percent of Americans use AI, but only about 40 percent actually trust it. In other words, most people are fine letting AI write their emails, plan their workouts, and pick their Netflix shows, as long as it never touches anything important like their bank account or dating profile.

Key Details:

📈 Everyone Uses It, Nobody Trusts It
AI has become the coworker everyone relies on but nobody believes. People love what it can do, but they do not want it anywhere near their personal data or grandma’s medical records.

🧠 Secret AI Users Everywhere
Almost half of workers admit they use AI tools even when their bosses tell them not to. So when a coworker turns in a 20-page report before lunch, it is probably not caffeine powering that productivity.

🛡️ Big Companies Still Get the Side Eye
Seventy percent of Americans say they do not trust corporations to use AI responsibly. Which makes sense since most companies still struggle to reply-all correctly.

⚖️ Trust Goes to Professors, Not CEOs
People say they trust universities and healthcare systems with AI more than tech giants or governments. Apparently, we think professors grading papers are less dangerous with algorithms than politicians tweeting about them.

Why It Matters: AI might be running half our lives, but we are still side-eyeing it the whole time. We depend on it to summarize books, fix code, and explain math, but we still triple-check every answer. It is basically the digital equivalent of “I love you, but I am keeping both eyes open.”

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AI Hacks & How-Tos

The Digest:
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⚙️ How to

Visit ProRata.ai
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