1:29:34

S01:E04 Aug 24, 2026

Google Unleashes Gemini on Children

Show Notes Episode Title: Google Unleashes Gemini on Children Recording date: August 21, 2026 Hosts: Danny Caballero & Devin Devin Silvia Quick Summary Danny reads Devin into the week’s biggest K-12 story: Gemini in Google Classroom dropping its 18+ floor and arriving (as a release note, with no PD and no research) as a tutoring system for students of all ages. They walk the adoption pattern (Houston ISD’s elementary AI pilot, North Carolina’s retreat), and the downstream enforcement economy it sets up. Then the hype train makes two stops: (1) Howard Gardner’s “kids can leave at ten” proposal, and (2) Anthropic’s text watermarking, which Danny reads as vendor positioning that starts the cheating-detection industry. And a cool thing: a UNSW team using an LLM to route students to existing lecture video instead of generating answers, deployed to ~900 students and benchmarked against a human instructor. Resources Google Workspace Updates, Aug 4: Gemini in Classroom available to K-12 and higher-ed students of all ages (web Aug 10, mobile Aug 17) https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/08/gemini-in-google-classroom-is-expanding-to-users-of-all-ages-with-contextualized-Gemini-starter-prompts-for-students.html?hl=en Education Week, Aug 18: Rick Hess interview with Howard Gardner, “How AI Will Force Us to ‘Rethink’ Education” https://www.edweek.org/technology/opinion-howard-gardner-how-ai-will-force-us-to-rethink-education/2026/08 Anthropic, Aug 14: “How Claude’s text watermarking works” https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark 404 Media, Aug 18 (Jason Koebler): “Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing” https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/ arXiv:2608.16131 — Tang, Vassar & Renzella (UNSW Sydney): lecture-video segment curation https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16131 Houston Public Media, Aug 12: Houston ISD “Future 2” elementaries piloting TimeBack https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2026/08/12/559265/hisd-back-to-school-mike-miles-special-education-ai-houston/ North Carolina budget: Khanmigo cut from $10M to $500k (from Ep 01 resources) https://goodhuemn.com/premium/stories/new-nc-budget-keeps-khanmigo-contract-but-slashes-funding-from-10-million-to-500000,165807

1:32:28

S01:E03 Aug 6, 2026

Why We Can't Have Nice Things (with Prof. Brian O'Shea)

Show Notes Episode Title: Why Can’t We Have Nice Things? Release date: August 6, 2026 Hosts: Danny Caballero, Devin Silvia Guest: Brian O’Shea, Michigan State University Quick Summary Danny and Devin sit down with Brian O’Shea — computational astrophysicist and director of MSU’s Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER) — to talk about what it physically takes to run large-scale computing at a university: power, water, staff, and the things nobody budgets for. Then they turn the lens on the CSU–OpenAI deal from Episode 02 and ask the question that story never asks: what does $16.9 million actually buy, and what do you own when the contract ends? Related Episodes Episode 02: “Did California Spend Nearly $17 Million on Confusion?” Resources Mentioned or Related ICER — Michigan State University Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research: https://icer.msu.edu/ New York Times Magazine (June 1, 2026): “California’s Public Universities Went All in on A.I. Now They’re Tearing Themselves Apart” by Linda Kinstler — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/magazine/ai-university-college-california.html Introducing ChatGPT Edu — OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-edu/ ASU and OpenAI expand collaboration — ASU Enterprise Technology: https://tech.asu.edu/features/asu-and-openai-expand-collaboration-scaling-ai Cal State Spent $16.9M on AI During a Faculty Layoff Crisis — AI Weekly: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/cal-state-spent-169m-on-ai-during-a-faculty-layoff-crisis Recorded: August 5, 2026

1:06:44

S01:E02 Jul 24, 2026

Did California Spend Nearly $17 Million on Confusion?

Show Notes Episode Title: Did California Spend Nearly $17 Million on Confusion? Release date: July 24, 2026 Hosts: Devin Silvia, Danny Caballero Quick Summary In this episode, Devin guides Danny through Linda Kinstler’s New York Times Magazine article on the California State University system’s $16.9 million AI deal with OpenAI. They explore how AI is being used as a “solution” in the middle of a budget crisis, what that means for faculty labor and governance, and how it sharpens the question of what public education is for in an AI age. Resources Mentioned or Related New York Times Magazine (June 1, 2026): “California’s Public Universities Went All in on A.I. Now They’re Tearing Themselves Apart” by Linda Kinstler https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/magazine/ai-university-college-california.html Cal State Spent $16.9M on AI During a Faculty Layoff Crisis – AI Weekly https://aiweekly.co/alerts/cal-state-spent-169m-on-ai-during-a-faculty-layoff-crisis California University Chaos Caused by AI – The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/128104-california-university-chaos-caused-by-ai-2026-06-05 California Universities’ $16.9M AI Experiment Raises … – LinkedIn post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnbrondum_a-university-system-went-all-in-on-ai-now-activity-7467470936087130112-mKpM ASU and OpenAI expand collaboration, scaling AI to advance … – ASU Enterprise Technology https://tech.asu.edu/features/asu-and-openai-expand-collaboration-scaling-ai OpenAI, Arizona State University partner to expand AI in academia – Reuters https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-arizona-state-university-partner-expand-ai-academia-2024-01-18 Introducing ChatGPT Edu – OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-edu Recorded: July 17, 2026

39:51

S01:E01 Jul 3, 2026

Are we getting Khan-ed out of $10k?

Show Notes Episode Title: “Are we getting Khan-ed out of $10k?” Release Date: July 3, 2026 Hosts: Danny Caballero & Devin Silvia Quick Summary In our debut episode, Danny and Devin unpack Sal Khan’s latest education disruption: the Khan TED Institute, a proposed $10,000 applied AI bachelor’s degree born from partnerships with Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, TED, ETS, and a handful of other corporate giants. We dig into whether replicating campus life through asynchronous online teamwork actually solves the growing crisis of faith in higher education or just commodifies it further. Resources Mentioned Fortune Article (April 15, 2026): This CEO has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey to build an AI degree that could rival Harvard by Preston Fore Student Loan Context: Federal Reserve Bank of New York data cited in article ($39k average balance; 51% Gen Z regret rate) Related Coverage:  Why Sal Khan’s AI revolution hasn’t happened yet, according to Sal Khan New NC budget keeps Khanmigo contract, but slashes funding from $10 million to $500,000 Recorded: July 3, 2026