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Episode 17 · 21 June 2026 · 20 min

The AI Bill Arrives: What Uber, Microsoft, and Salesforce Are Actually Discovering

The AI bill is finally arriving — and it's revealing something most enterprise AI narratives have quietly skipped: the assumption that AI is automatically cheaper than the people it's replacing has never actually been tested. Dale and Nick work through the math, the real stories behind the headlines, and what any of it means for higher education. [00:00] — Cold open: Mark Cuban's formula, the Uber

Episode 5 · 8 March 2026 · 31 min

If AI Can do it, Why Teach it? The Education Question Nobody Wants to Answer

Dario Amodei has spent the past year writing essays about AI eliminating half of white-collar jobs. Then his company demonstrated it by having 16 AI agents build a C compiler for $20,000 — and published a legal plug-in that triggered a $1 trillion stock market sell-off the same week. Dale and Nick pull apart what actually happened, why the market panic reveals more about AI literacy than AI capabi

Episode 4 · 1 March 2026 · 31 min

China is winning the AI Adoption War. We Just Haven't Admitted It Yet.

In 2025, the AI race quietly split in two: one for building the smartest model, and another for getting everyone to use yours. Chinese labs chose the second race — and the data says they're winning. Dale and Nick break down how DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Kimi captured developers, startups, and soon entire education systems by being cheaper, open, and good enough. They examine why Airbnb ditched ChatGP