THE WEEKLY BRIEF · A SAMPLE
The weekly brief, instructor edition
A sample of the free weekly email: the AI stories worth teaching in your field, each with a discussion prompt. One email a week, free, one click to unsubscribe. This is what this week's looks like.
No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?
The Guardian — AI · Arts · Media Studies · Original at theguardian.com
Writer Andrew Dickinson turned to AI to produce 'No Big Deal', a YouTube sitcom about angel investors, after bypassing the slow and expensive traditional television development pipeline. The resulting show suffers from severe aesthetic failures, including life
Teach it. Students can examine whether AI tools truly democratize media production or simply bypass the critical collaborative development and human performance necessary for compelling storytelling.
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Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
TechCrunch · Finance · Entrepreneurship · Computer Science · Original at techcrunch.com
Former Anthropic and METR leaders raised $40 million in Series A funding to launch AIUC, a startup providing third-party safety audits and certifications for enterprise AI agents. Drawing inspiration from cybersecurity's SOC 2 standard, the company uses a 5,00
Teach it. This case highlights the tension between technological capability and enterprise adoption, prompting students to debate whether third-party audits can adequately govern autonomous software and whether using AI to evaluate AI introduces systemic risk.
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Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
The Guardian — AI · Economics · International Law · Public Policy · Original at theguardian.com
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned that Europe must develop its own artificial intelligence models and datacentres to prevent trade partners like the US or China from gaining unprecedented leverage in negotiations over tariffs and taxes.
Teach it. Instructors can examine the tension between pursuing rapid economic productivity through foreign technology and safeguarding domestic policy sovereignty against geopolitical leverage.
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AI’s best coding agent fails 60% of the time — and the data backs it up
The New Stack · Computer Science · Data Science · Original at thenewstack.io
Data reported by The New Stack indicates that the industry's best AI coding agent fails 60% of the time. For computer science and data science instructors, this metric highlights the persistent limitations of automated programming tools in complex development
Teach it. Faculty can use the agent's 60% failure rate to spark discussions on why code verification, unit testing, and human oversight remain essential despite advancements in automated generation.
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The ERP reckoning: Decades of customization could block AI value
CIO.com · Information Systems · Operations · Original at cio.com
Decades of bespoke enterprise resource planning (ERP) customization have become a primary obstacle to enterprise AI adoption, as agentic AI models require standardized processes and clean data foundations rather than fragmented legacy code. While some IT leade
Teach it. Students can debate the trade-off between preserving highly customized business processes that offer unique operational differentiation and adopting standard ERP cores required to deploy scalable AI agents.
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