Episode 12 · 26 July 2025 · 25 min
LMS Wars, Over-Thinking Ais & YouTube’s AI-Powered Shorts- July’s Wild Ride in Ed Tech
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Chapters
- LMS Wars OpenAI × Canvas vs Anthropic × Panopto — platform lock-in is coming.
- Inverse-Scaling Meltdown New Anthropic study shows more compute can make Claude & GPT-4o worse thinkers.
- ChatGPT Psychosis Case When nonstop AI validation outweighs safety: how it landed one user in hospital.
- Bots Win Gold at the IMO DeepMind Gemini & an OpenAI model score 35/42 at the International Math Olympiad.
- JSON > Jargon A simple JSON wrapper turns LLM rambles into perfectly structured outputs.
Show notes
AI in education just level-upped—again. In this fast-moving finale for July we unpack:
00:00 – 02:10 LMS Wars
OpenAI × Canvas vs Anthropic × Panopto — platform lock-in is coming.
02:10 – 03:45 Inverse-Scaling Meltdown
New Anthropic study shows more compute can make Claude & GPT-4o worse thinkers.
03:45 – 05:20 ChatGPT Psychosis Case
When nonstop AI validation outweighs safety: how it landed one user in hospital.
05:20 – 07:40 YouTube Shorts’ AI Playground
Photo-to-video, Veo-powered effects & an “AI Playground” for 1.5 B users—
creative liberation or content slop?
07:40 – 09:35 Bots Win Gold at the IMO
DeepMind Gemini & an OpenAI model score 35/42 at the International Math Olympiad.
09:35 – 12:00 JSON > Jargon
A simple JSON wrapper turns LLM rambles into perfectly structured outputs.
12:00 – 24:50 The UX of AI
From tab-sprawl fatigue to Perplexity’s Comet browser & the coming “Intent Inbox.”
Midjourney’s button-driven creativity vs chat-box paralysis.
24:50 – End Homework
Count your AI tabs — if it’s more than three, AI is using *you*.
Key Links & Resources
📧 STAY CONNECTED
🎙️ Subscribe for weekly AI in education insights
📱 Newsletter: AI and Higher Education updates on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7148290912190644224/
🐦 Follow: @AdjunctIntelligence (TikTok/Insta/X)
👍 SUPPORT THE SHOW
If this episode helped you understand AI's impact on education: → LIKE this video → SUBSCRIBE & hit the 🔔 → SHARE with educators in your network → COMMENT your biggest AI education challenge below
"Stay curious, stay intelligent, and keep being the human in the loop"
🎙️ Adjunct Intelligence is the weekly briefing for higher-ed professionals who want AI as a cheat code—not a headache.
Every episode:
• Real tests of AI tools in education and professional workflows
• Fast, Monday-morning actions you can actually try
• Clear signal through the noise (no hype, no jargon)
👉 Subscribe on [YouTube] | [Apple Podcasts] | [Spotify]
👉 Share this with a colleague who still says “I’ll figure AI out later”
👉 Join the conversation on LinkedIn with #AdjunctIntelligence
Stay curious. Stay intelligent. Stay the human in the loop.
00:00 – 02:10 LMS Wars
OpenAI × Canvas vs Anthropic × Panopto — platform lock-in is coming.
02:10 – 03:45 Inverse-Scaling Meltdown
New Anthropic study shows more compute can make Claude & GPT-4o worse thinkers.
03:45 – 05:20 ChatGPT Psychosis Case
When nonstop AI validation outweighs safety: how it landed one user in hospital.
05:20 – 07:40 YouTube Shorts’ AI Playground
Photo-to-video, Veo-powered effects & an “AI Playground” for 1.5 B users—
creative liberation or content slop?
07:40 – 09:35 Bots Win Gold at the IMO
DeepMind Gemini & an OpenAI model score 35/42 at the International Math Olympiad.
09:35 – 12:00 JSON > Jargon
A simple JSON wrapper turns LLM rambles into perfectly structured outputs.
12:00 – 24:50 The UX of AI
From tab-sprawl fatigue to Perplexity’s Comet browser & the coming “Intent Inbox.”
Midjourney’s button-driven creativity vs chat-box paralysis.
24:50 – End Homework
Count your AI tabs — if it’s more than three, AI is using *you*.
Key Links & Resources
- OpenAI × Instructure partnership announcement (Canvas)
- Research paper: Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute (Anthropic, 2025)
- TechCrunch: YouTube to crack down on “mass-produced” AI content
- Free JSON prompt template (download link in show resources)
📧 STAY CONNECTED
🎙️ Subscribe for weekly AI in education insights
📱 Newsletter: AI and Higher Education updates on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7148290912190644224/
🐦 Follow: @AdjunctIntelligence (TikTok/Insta/X)
👍 SUPPORT THE SHOW
If this episode helped you understand AI's impact on education: → LIKE this video → SUBSCRIBE & hit the 🔔 → SHARE with educators in your network → COMMENT your biggest AI education challenge below
"Stay curious, stay intelligent, and keep being the human in the loop"
🎙️ Adjunct Intelligence is the weekly briefing for higher-ed professionals who want AI as a cheat code—not a headache.
Every episode:
• Real tests of AI tools in education and professional workflows
• Fast, Monday-morning actions you can actually try
• Clear signal through the noise (no hype, no jargon)
👉 Subscribe on [YouTube] | [Apple Podcasts] | [Spotify]
👉 Share this with a colleague who still says “I’ll figure AI out later”
👉 Join the conversation on LinkedIn with #AdjunctIntelligence
Stay curious. Stay intelligent. Stay the human in the loop.
🎙️ Adjunct Intelligence is the weekly briefing for higher-ed professionals who want AI as a cheat code—not a headache.
Every episode:
• Real tests of AI tools in education and professional workflows
• Fast, Monday-morning actions you can actually try
• Clear signal through the noise (no hype, no jargon)
👉 Subscribe on [YouTube] | [Apple Podcasts] | [Spotify]
👉 Share this with a colleague who still says “I’ll figure AI out later”
👉 Join the conversation on LinkedIn with #AdjunctIntelligence
Stay curious. Stay intelligent. Stay the human in the loop.