This is one of our biggest arguments: that OpenAI is vampirizing universities for the cachet and legitimacy that affiliation with higher education affords

There may not be a moment to come where the AI bubble 'bursts', even though this sector increasingly looks like it's built on quicksand, with our lives and livelihoods increasingly tied up in backstopping the future of a technology that still has yet to prove it can compete on the merits.

What worries me the most is that we're seeing regulators derisk the portfolios of companies that have made hugely otherwise risky bets on very capital intensive technology. Less like a moonshot, more like a night out at the slot machines with an advance on next month's paycheck.

You have at least four new stops in the llm/ai pipeline: service provider, inference provider, model owner, and infrastructure provider. I wish they would prove that each of these are not just secure for users but that data is being used ethically at each stop!

And for a deeper dive read @hellobrittparis.bsky.social excellent piece in Academe: academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...