Inside Higher Ed: independent research on AI in education is scarce

Fathom has over 400,000 monthly active users and 1 million+ meetings recorded; it raised over $30M and was valued at $94M in 2024. Superhuman tested its own notetaker internally before buying a finished product.

AI coding tools delivered 25% more output per dollar of spend, but code duplication rose 81%, per an analysis of industry data. Rippling has added an anti-tokenmaxxing AI spend console as scrutiny of AI coding costs grows.

Reddit users in r/SunoAI say the V6 update produces worse output, with one poster reporting that every suggested prompting method failed to restore prior quality.

A r/LocalLLaMA user set up a REAP version of Qwen 3.8 Next on a 16GB VRAM / 32GB RAM system, calling it a challenge that might help others with limited hardware. No benchmarks yet against Qwen 3.8 27B QK4.

Laurie Voss argues the cost of writing code has collapsed and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following. What remains is finding out what people want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use — a per-software cost that doesn't transfer.

Colossal Biosciences co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm joins a Real World AI Stage fireside chat, "Can We Engineer Nature's Comeback?", at Disrupt 2026, held October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The session covers AI's role in genetic analysis and biological modeling for de-extinction.

A r/Singularity post titled "While USA 'Slows Down', China Just Open Sourced RSI Roadmap BTW" links to an r/accelerate thread. No article, official announcement, or corroborating source accompanies the claim.