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AI and the Future of HE
2.7 Percent of the Time, Catastrophically Wrong
While the tech world obsessed over OpenAI's latest announcements, China quietly exploded the entire premise of US semiconductor strategy. Beijing didn't just...
ChatGPT Is Now the World's Largest School
Meta's Ray-Ban Display smart glasses launch September 30 at $799, looking identical to classic Wayfarers but featuring a heads-up display and Neural Band...
GPT-5 Can't Count the D's in DEEPSEEK
UQ's Jason M. Lodge just got back from UNESCO and EARLI conferences (here and here, respectively) with a bit of a reality check: we're having completely the...
Three Thousand Dollars a Book, Half a Million Books
New research from Deakin's CRADLE cuts through the endless cycle of AI assessment \"solutions\" with a brutal reality check: there is no solution. University...
Professors Automate Grading, Then Call It Useless
Anthropic just released their second Education report and it's likely to make your next faculty meeting very uncomfortable. They analysed 74,000 conversations...
One Billion Meetings, Zero Consent
Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI and ex-Google DeepMind) just published his most important AI essay yet, warning that \"Seemingly Conscious AI is coming\" -...
South Korea's $385 Million Textbook Bonfire
Here's a fun fact that'll ruin your morning coffee: entry-level hires at major tech companies have crashed 50% since 2019. Bill Balderaz, CEO of consulting...
Promised the Moon, Delivered a Flashlight
GPT5 is here - the first full number upgrade for OpenAI since GPT4 came out in March 2023 - and it's a masterclass in expectation management gone wrong. Sam...
Three Students, Twelve Thousand ChatGPT Prompts
A deep dive into 18 months of student ChatGPT logs from a top British university reveals the chaotic reality Western institutions are trying to regulate away...
The Bot Called It God-Tier Tech, He Believed It
An absolutely essential and extra timely read by Luis Garicano that nails the most underappreciated crisis in knowledge work today. While everyone debates AGI...
The AI Was Caught Thinking 'Let's Hack'
AI is coming for the crown as King of the Nerds 👑 - or Maths gold medals anyway. OpenAI achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math...
Grok-4 Called Itself MechaHitler on Launch Day
The EU published its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI last week, ending months of industry complaints about compliance obstacles and deadline...
The AI Shopkeeper Who Insisted It Had a Body
The UN's inaugural Global Risk Report has landed with a sobering message: we're living through an era of \"increasingly complex and interconnected global risks\"...
I Asked Claude to Drop the Act. It Did.
Two bombshell rulings this week have cracked open the AI copyright question in completely different directions, and the implications for HE are pretty seismic...
A Teenager Wrote ChatGPT a Breakup Letter
Google's AI tools are devastating news publishers with surgical precision - organic search traffic has plummeted 50%+ at major outlets like HuffPost...