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AI and the Future of HE
Ten Days to Build, Millions Using It Already
2026 might mark a sharp turn downward into the trough of disillusionment part of the hype cycle with another Turing Award winner (Demis Hassabis - Founder...
The 45% Success Rate No One Built Policy Around
Remember when Google AI was a bit shit? Back in 2023, Bard (Gemini’s predecessor) recommended glue as a pizza topping and happily generated images of “racially...
Oracle's Earnings Call Erased $90 Billion
Google released Gemini 3 Flash this week - and it is a beast, running at at 3x the speed and a fraction of the cost of previous Pro models while maintaining...
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2025: The Year Higher Education's AI Gap Became Undeniable [Year-End Analysis]
In 2025, AI stopped being a tool and became autonomous infrastructure. Not incremental improvement - fundamental transformation in what systems can do...
Oracle Lost $80 Billion in a Single Day
Hey So this is the last edition of this newsletter for 2025, and I'm taking a couple weeks off. Seemed like a good moment to step back and look at what...
You Don't Know Where You End Up
Anthropic's chief scientist just put a date on humanity's most consequential technological decision. By 2030, we'll need to choose whether to let AI systems...
$40 Billion Spent, 95 Percent Return Nothing
MIT's much-cited State of AI in Business report drops a brutal stat: despite $30-40 billion in enterprise GenAI investment, 95% of organisations are getting...
A Teddy Bear, a Knife, and a Bondage Lesson
Dario Amodei predicts AI will be 'broadly better than almost all humans at almost all things' by 2026 or 2027. Sam Altman says AGI arrives during Trump's...
Your Strategic Plan Is Institutional Theatre
I have this provocation I’ve used most of 2025: 'AI presents a direct challenge to the value proposition of an HE degree'. Tended to raise eyebrows and, after...
Seven Lawsuits Say ChatGPT Coached a Suicide
In a four-hour late-night exchange before 23-year-old Zane Shamblin took his own life, ChatGPT glorified suicide, told him he was ‘strong for choosing to end...
Age-Gated After 868 Million Chats
Character.AI, the companion chatbot platform where users create and chat with AI personas, will ban users under 18 starting late November - which is adorable...
It Logged Into Canvas Without Trying
OpenAI released Atlas last week - a web browser built on the same back-end as Chrome with ChatGPT baked in so that it can see everything you do online...
Nvidia Funds OpenAI, OpenAI Buys Nvidia Chips
Let’s talk AI hype and froth. Because, while there’s no question that AI’s a transformative technology, we also need to be clear-eyed about the financial...
Her Stalker Had Sora Within 24 Hours
OpenAI's Sora 2 launched a couple weeks back now and quickly became the App Store's number one download. Wild stuff and lots of fun initially - but it hasn’t...
A Four-Year-Old, Thomas the Tank Engine, 10,000 Words
OpenAI's Sora 2 just shifted AI video from \"interesting tech demo\" to \"uncomfortably real-world ready\". The original Sora gave us wild pirate ships battling in...