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Dartmouth's provost spent months warning students that using AI to misrepresent their own work was an integrity violation — then lost his job after doing something strikingly similar himself. The story, reported by Ars Technica, is a sharp reminder that the rules institutions are still writing around AI apply to everyone, including the people writing them.
On a related note, Y Combinator president Garry Tan is spending up to two hundred thousand dollars a year on AI tokens — a figure he shared on Walter Isaacson's podcast. Tan has joked before about a kind of "cyber psychosis" from barely sleeping because he's so absorbed working with AI agents. That price tag puts a very concrete number on what serious AI adoption actually costs at the individual level.
And Apple's foldable iPhone Duo, priced at two thousand dollars, has already sold out — with the company saying it isn't sure when more will be available. It's a notable moment for a product category Apple was late to enter, suggesting that when Apple does move, even hesitant consumers follow quickly.
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