AI x Higher Ed Podcast

In this episode of the AI x Higher Ed Podcast, we unpack the latest AI developments shaking up higher education and beyond:-Major AI Model Advances: Memory features in ChatGPT & Claude, and what Sam Altman’s hints about GPT-6 mean for the future.-AI in Research: Proof-of-concept experiments where AI ran the entire scientific process.-Mathematical Breakthroughs: AI solving a decades-old unsolve...

This week’s AIX Higher Ed podcast dives into the fast-moving edge of AI for teaching, learning, and campus strategy. We cover Apple’s live-translation AirPods, big Google updates (NotebookLM + V3 video + AI Search), Anthropic’s in-chat doc editing, ChatGPT’s expanding Voice Mode, fresh research (agentic papers; AI building expert scientific software), UC Berkeley’s ping-pong robot, and how OpenAI’...

What does it really mean to be intelligent in the age of artificial intelligence? Dr. Alan Coverstone joins the AI x Higher Ed Podcast to preview his upcoming University of Mary Washington talk, “Reclaiming Human Intelligence in the Age of AI: Plural Futures for Education and Society.”In this conversation, Coverstone challenges how we define intelligence — arguing that schools and universities hav...

This fast-paced update unpacks the latest AI usage reports from OpenAI and Anthropic, what they reveal about real-world adoption (and automation), and fresh K–12/teacher data summarized by the Allen Turing Institute. We dig into OpenAI’s upcoming age-gating changes, then shift to Google’s just-announced Learn Your Way—a research pilot that turns static PDFs into adaptive, quiz-ready, audio-narrate...

Join Stefan Bauschard and Anand Rao in the latest AI Office Hours podcast as they discuss the most recent advancements in artificial intelligence. This week's topics include:- Gemini in Chrome: A look at how Google is expanding access to its AI assistant by integrating it directly into the Chrome browser [00:01].- Data Center Expansion: The podcast highlights the significant investments from c...

In this thought-provoking conversation, Dr. Andrew Maynard, scientist, writer, and professor at Arizona State University, joins us to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming our understanding of what it means to be human — and what that means for the future of higher education. From his new book AI and the Art of Being Human, Maynard discusses how technology can help us rediscover crea...

This week’s AI x Higher Ed Update unpacks a whirlwind of advances—massive data-center bets (hello, Stargate), a sharp turn toward truly agentic systems (Anthropic’s 4.5, Microsoft’s agent mode), and a fast-rising tide of synthetic media (Sora 2, avatars, AI-only social). We connect the dots to practical campus impacts: teaching and research, safety and policy, and what to prepare students (and sta...

This week’s AI x Higher Ed Update (Oct 7, 2025) covers the rapid AI buildout and “bubble” debate, major agentic AI releases, the latest on video and synthetic realities, and the implications for universities—from budgets and majors to AI literacy. We also touch on sovereign AI, robotics, research trends, and emerging societal challenges educators should be ready to discuss. Chapters00:00 – Welcome...

This October 14 AI Update dives into the hyper-exponential pace of change—from insider signals on self-improving systems and the global compute arms race to agentic commerce, synthetic realities, and what all of this means for education, labor, and policy. We also cover sovereignty/geopolitics, robotics at industrial scale, new “AI scientist” research, and the widening gap between student AI use a...

Faculty silos. Tool-chasing. Rubrics that don’t fit the AI era. Biomedical researcher and AI-ethics educator Professor Tina Austin shares UnBlooms—a non-hierarchical, problem-solving framework she developed that keeps human judgment at the center of learning. We get concrete about assignment design (have students evaluate AI), building measurable rubrics, and overcoming campus adoption hurdles wit...

This week’s update digs into the fast-moving world of agentic AI and what it means for campuses right now. We cover NVIDIA’s push toward serious on-device model work (goodbye, cloud lock-in?), the debut of ChatGPT’s “Atlas” browser and what autonomous actions inside a browser could mean for security and privacy, and a new Future of Life Institute statement urging public buy-in and safety consensus...

A brisk, insight-packed update on the week’s biggest AI shifts—and what they signal for universities, learners, and the future of work. We unpack OpenAI’s new corporate structure and détente with Microsoft, Anthropic’s multi-billion TPU deal with Google, the race for compute and energy, tool updates from OpenAI/Claude/Adobe, adoption data from Wharton, robotics momentum, jobs disruption, policy id...

For centuries, education has prized productive struggle — the deep engagement and persistence that fuel real learning. But AI thrives on eliminating struggle. So how do we reconcile the two? In this thought-provoking conversation, France Hoang, founder and CEO of BoodleBox, joins hosts Anand and Stefan to explore what AI readiness really means for higher education. From reimagining assessment and...