96 vs. 48: The Brown University AI Cheating Scandal
A take-home midterm at Brown University averaged 96, then the same students averaged 48 on the in-person final, and that gap tells the whole story. Host Emily Laird walks through how economist Roberto...
15 Jul 9min
Apple v. OpenAI
Apple just sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, and the complaint reads less like a spy novel and more like a group chat with subpoena power. Host Emily Laird walks through the two former Apple employe...
14 Jul 8min
Meta's Fake Teen Factory
Meta paid contractors to pose as children, flood rival chatbots with prompts about suicide, eating disorders, and abuse, then log every response in spreadsheets. The company calls it "industry-standar...
13 Jul 7min
Use Case Thursday: Make AI Disagree with You
Host Emily Laird breaks down why chatbots so often agree with your worst instincts, then shows how a pre-mortem prompt turns that people-pleasing machinery against your plan. The stakes are practical:...
9 Jul 10min
Microsoft's 4,800 Layoffs
Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs, and the savings cover roughly two days of its AI infrastructure spending. Host Emily Laird runs the arithmetic the press release skipped: a $190 billion capex bill, an Xbox d...
8 Jul 8min
OpenAI & the $42 Billion Gift
OpenAI just offered the US government a 5% ownership stake, and host Emily Laird checks the receipts on what that $42.6 billion gift actually costs. This episode traces the timeline from frozen model ...
7 Jul 9min
Grok 4.5 & the Closed-Loop Machine
Elon Musk says Grok 4.5 rivals Claude Opus, but there's no public benchmark, no model card, and no outside lab backing the claim. Host Emily Laird peels the branding off and looks at what actually mat...
6 Jul 10min
Use Case Thursday: The Shadow AI Delusion
In this episode, host Emily Laird exposes the massive delusion behind corporate AI bans and the quiet rise of off-the-books model usage. Managers believe a strict firewall stops unauthorized tech, but...
2 Jul 9min
