#12 - AI in the News - April 2026

The AI landscape shifted a lot over the last quarter, and this episode breaks it all down. We cover OpenAI quietly shutting down Sora, their AI video generator, and what that move actually signals about where the company is heading. NVIDIA’s $20 billion acquisition of Groq’s inference hardware IP is on the table too, and why the race to win inference economics might be the most important battle in tech right now.We get into the Anthropic Claude Code hackathon where a lawyer with zero coding experience beat out hundreds of software developers, and what that genuinely means for the future of the profession. Is knowing how to code still the point? Or has the real skill shifted to systems thinking, clear requirements, and knowing how to prompt well?From there the conversation goes deeper. We talk about the Einstein AI tool that does your homework for you, whether AI tools are actually helping people learn or just helping them skip the hard parts, and how the pressure to “adapt or fall behind” mirrors every major technological revolution in history, from the printing press to the Industrial Revolution.We also get into something that gets skipped in most tech conversations: the human side of all this. What do you lose when you can look up anything instantly? What does it mean to sit with not knowing something? And how do you use powerful tools responsibly when evil, as one of our professors used to say, is catching?This one covers a lot of ground, from AI product news to philosophy to what the next five to ten years might actually look like for workers in every field.#AINews #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #TechPodcast #AITools 0:00 Intro & St. Augustine’s Trinity analogy3:35 Today’s episode intro: AI & tech news recap10:45 OpenAI shuts down Sora — why it matters15:09 NVIDIA acquires Groq for $20 billion16:17 The race to win inference economics & the agent era20:43 Context rot & why bigger token windows aren’t the answer21:56 Google’s Gemini vs. using Perplexity for research27:50 xAI merges with SpaceX & upcoming IPO28:47 AI layoffs & the hard market for software developers31:31 Anthropic Claude Code hackathon — a lawyer beats 500 developers33:29 The future of coding: systems thinking over syntax36:29 Einstein AI does your homework — ethics of AI in education38:58 What we lose when we can look everything up instantly43:44 Sphere of influence & getting your own house in order47:26 “Evil is catching” — using AI responsibly49:02 The horse-and-car meme: adapt or get left behind49:35 AI & the Industrial Revolution — Pope Leo XIV connection52:28 What the next 5–10 years might look like53:21 Closing thoughts & takeaways