Jul 30, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ OpenAI Conquers Schools

More Stories: Microsoft Says You're Optional, Meta Breaks Rules

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When the teacher’s replaced by a chatbot, your job’s marked “optional,” and the rulebook is just a suggestion—welcome to Big Tech’s new syllabus.

EDU

OpenAI Wants To Be Your Kid’s Next School Platform

📌 What’s happening: OpenAI just launched Study Mode, a ChatGPT feature that pressures students to think before getting answers. But it’s more than pedagogical window dressing. With its recent integration into Canvas—the LMS used by over 8,000 schools globally—ChatGPT is sliding directly into classrooms and lesson plans.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t about helping with homework. It’s about becoming part of the homework. By embedding into education infrastructure like Canvas, OpenAI is positioning ChatGPT as default learning infrastructure, not just a side tool. No admin locks yet, but Study Mode is a signal: OpenAI wants to shape how students learn, not just what they type.

🛎️ Key takeaway: OpenAI doesn’t just want to help students study—it wants to own the rails of AI-powered education before anyone else does.

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STUDY

Microsoft Quietly Maps Out the First AI Layoff Wave

📌 What’s happening: Microsoft researchers sifted through 200,000 Copilot chats to identify which jobs AI is already encroaching on. Top of the list? Writers, translators, customer service reps, and salespeople. The lowest-risk? Anyone who needs to touch a wrench, syringe, or cement mixer.

🧠 How this hits reality: AI isn’t coming for your job yet—it’s coming for your tasks. If your work involves researching, summarizing, persuading, or organizing information, you're already sharing duties with a chatbot. This hits content, marketing, sales ops, analyst roles, and even professors—basically, white-collar professions that once felt safe. Meanwhile, labor-intensive roles stay insulated—for now—not because AI can’t reach them, but because LLMs can’t lift a mop or insert an IV. Expect enterprise budgets to tilt away from entry-level comms roles and into “prompt-enabled productivity” tooling.

🛎 Key takeaway: If your job fits in a prompt, it’s already on borrowed time.

INTERVIEW

Meta Encourages You to Use AI in Interviews

📌 What’s happening: Meta is piloting “AI-Enabled Interviews” where candidates are encouraged to use an AI assistant during coding tests. Internally, the company claims this better reflects the real-world dev environment and neutralizes the edge of covert LLM use. It’s a sharp departure from Amazon’s zero-tolerance stance—and a quiet admission that the old way was broken.

🧠 How this hits reality: Everyone already brings GPT to the job—Meta just decided to stop pretending they don’t. By letting candidates use AI openly, Meta not only resets the rules but also collects data on who knows how to actually work with these tools. It’s less about fairness, more about filtering for future-fit engineers. Bonus: it turns AI from a backdoor cheat code into part of the exam.

🛎️ Key takeaway: If your interview still bans AI, it's not testing your future—it’s clinging to its past.

QUICK HITS

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