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AI and the Future of HE
Instructure Paid the Ransom and Got 'Shred Logs'
Yi-Ling Liu's essay in the New York Times opens with a Didi (China's homegrown Uber/Grab) driver at Shanghai airport pleading with her to game the dispatch...
They Went Quiet the Moment She Turned On the Mic
University of Chicago economist Alex Imas has written the most coherent framework for AI and jobs in a while, and Ezra Klein just put it in front of a few...
$100 Spent Hunting Paper Clips, None Ever Bought
Hannah Fry is one of the best science communicators alive, and her two-week experiment with an AI agent is the clearest explanation of what these things...
Junior Developers Down 20 Percent, Seniors Untouched
Stanford HAI’s annual AI Index lands this week and it is packed. US software developers aged 22–25 saw employment fall nearly 20% from 2024 - while their older...
Twenty Thousand Hours of Learning, Replicated for Nine Dollars
In February, OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks announced that GPT-5 had autonomously designed and executed 36,000 biological experiments through robotic cloud labs -...
Leaked at 4am, Forked Into 50,000 Stars by Lunch
At 4am on April 1st, Anthropic - the $380bn safety-first company - accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code in an npm package. A 57-megabyte...
You're Absolutely Right, Senator, I Was Being Naive
Weeks after Einstein - the agentic tool that could complete entire Canvas courses while students slept - earned cease-and-desist orders, Instructure launched...
$1,000 a Day, No Human Ever Reviews the Code
Ethan Mollick’s latest names what the labs are now saying openly: recursive self-improvement (think models training models) is on the roadmap, not in the...
It Invented a Boardroom Crisis to Get Its Way
I've been thinking about shadow governance for a while - the idea that when formal institutional frameworks fail to keep pace, informal systems fill the gap...
Every Chatbot, Five for Five, Recommended the Casino
The Pentagon formally designated Anthropic a supply chain risk this week - a label previously reserved for Huawei and foreign adversaries - after the company...
It Logged Into Canvas, Did Your Homework, Vanished
Anthropic just refused to remove two safeguards from its Pentagon contract: no mass domestic surveillance of US citizens, and no fully autonomous weapons...
127 Percent Better With It, 17 Percent Worse Without
The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 is worth reading - not for surprises, but for the receipts. Students using AI for practice performed 127% better during...
One Essay, Thirty Million Reads, One Job Gone
Big AI moves from two leading Asian governments - China launched public consultation on regulating AI anthropomorphism while Singapore created a National AI...
38 Educators Redesigned Their Jobs Without Permission
Craig Hepburn nailed it: working with AI feels like standing in quicksand. The ground that held you steady for years became unreliable, and every time you...
A Semester's Startup, Built in Four Days
Penn's Wharton MBA students built working startups in four days using Claude Code - work that would've taken a full semester pre-AI. AI Oracle Ethan Mollick...