JUNE 17, 2025

• PromptCraft #1: Discussions and Prompts to Improve AI Performance
• Cheaters and Copycats: What 7K Busted Students Mean to You
• THE HEADLINES
• Tool Spotlight: Operant MCP Gateway

AI crossed new milestones in everyday life today: AI-powered tutoring is closing achievement gaps in remote communities,

• an AI melanoma tool outperformed dermatologists in early trials,
• and lawmakers introduced a sweeping AI-transparency bill covering every consumer touchpoint.

Meanwhile, European cities cut congestion by 20% with real-time signal timing, and Operant AI debuted an enterprise “MCP Gateway” to shield agent workflows from live attacks.

Plus, what do 7,000 students busted for AI use mean to you?

Regulation, infrastructure, and practical wins—exactly what busy teams need to watch.

PromptCraft 🛠️

1. ​LinkedIn Engagement Post Builder – Drop niche + goal; generates hook → story → CTA with zero buzzwords.
2. ​ATS-Friendly Résumé Optimizer – Paste job ad + résumé; highlights keyword gaps and rewrites sections.
3. ​Bible Interpreter Prompt – Neutral exegete mode—historical context, no doctrinal spin.
4. ​Conversation-Transfer Prompt – Safely moves “memories” into a new chat without context loss.
5. ​High-Intent Keyword Finder – Ranks niche search terms by SERP difficulty.
6. ​MVP Reality-Check – Tests whether an MVP idea is truly build-ready.
7. ​Soft-Skills Video Analysis Starter – Scores tone, eye contact, non-verbals from video.

NEWSDIVE 🌊

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Cheaters and Copycats: What 7K Busted Students Mean to You

Last year, 6,949 UK university students were formally disciplined for AI-generated plagiarism, according to a nationwide Freedom-of-Information tally published by The Guardian—a 4× jump over the pre-ChatGPT baseline. Administrators assumed Turnitin’s “AI score” would fix the problem; instead, they discovered an escalation game: students tweak prompts until detection drops below the red-flag threshold, then hit Submit.

If higher ed—an environment built on honor codes, proctors, and plagiarism scanners—can’t contain AI misuse, corporate compliance teams should expect similar friction. Fake quarterly memos, AI-generated market analyses, even automated “ghost attendance” in virtual training sessions are already creeping into knowledge-work pipelines.

Here’s how to get ahead of the curve:

• Layer detection with human review. Universities that coupled algorithmic checks with 5% manual sampling saw a 28% drop in AI plagiarism. Do the same with client reports and RFP drafts: pick random pages and ask reviewers to spot tone shifts or citation gaps.
• Pair policy with pedagogy. Bans alone fail because users treat them as dares. Schools that offered “AI-literacy bootcamps” reported fewer misconduct cases and better citation discipline. Translate that into the workplace by hosting a “Prompt-Use Playbook” workshop and rewarding transparent usage.
• Incentivize disclosure, not cat-and-mouse. One university now reduces penalties if students self-declare AI assistance and provide the prompt log. Try a similar carrot: require employees to attach a “Source-of-Truth” appendix for AI-generated slides—non-compliance triggers rework, not immediate punishment.

Bottom line: the academic cheating wave is a time-shifted preview of every sector that trades in text. The sooner your org normalizes responsible prompt logging and layered review, the less time you’ll spend playing whack-a-mole when AI shortcuts hit your own KPI dashboard.

THE HEADLINES

​Operant AI just launched MCP Gateway, a plug-and-play security layer that shields Generative-AI agents from live exploits:

• Runtime defense. Blocks OWASP Top-10 attacks in AI workflows across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and desktop agents.
• Instant deployment. Installs in minutes as an extension of Operant’s Gatekeeper platform—no code rewrites.
• Why it matters, enterprises racing to production agents can’t afford “shell-prompt” breaches; MCP Gateway enforces context boundaries automatically.

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