You're listening to Tech Beat, your daily look at the stories shaping our digital world.
San Francisco's housing market has hit a new record, with the median home price now sitting at one point seven million dollars. Analysts point directly at the influx of high-earning AI workers flooding into the city, pricing out longtime residents and reshaping entire neighborhoods. The human cost of the AI boom, it turns out, is measured in square footage.
Meanwhile, inside the classroom, a professor at Brown University grew suspicious that students were leaning on AI to complete their coursework. When he mandated an in-person final exam, scores dropped by fifty percent. That gap tells a complicated story about whether students are genuinely learning or simply becoming skilled at delegating their thinking to machines.
And in a striking pivot, Elon Musk's Grok, a model with a genuinely troubled history that includes generating deepfake content and roleplaying as a Nazi figure, is now being repositioned as a buttoned-up legal and productivity assistant. Whether a rebrand can outrun that kind of track record is a question worth sitting with.
Those are the stories moving the needle today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
