AI Study Mode, Super Tools & Future Jobs

This episode covers a massive amount of AI-related news and research, especially developments over the past week, including ChatGPT's new "study mode," major platform announcements from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, generative video and music tools, and the implications of AI on jobs and education. The episode also highlights a new Stanford GenAI for Education hub and discusses current AI policy and access initiatives globally.
News ChatGPT Study Mode: openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode • Simon Willison info on the system prompt for Study Mode: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/openai-introduci…
• Dr Philippa Hardman's LinkedIn post on Study Mode: linkedin.com/posts/dr-philippa-hardman-0578511…
Google announced "Guided Learning" mode for Gemini blog.google/products/gemini/google-ai-pro-stud… Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models Google released Gemini Storybooks gemini.google/overview/storybook ElevenLabs dropped a new multi-lingual music generation model elevenlabs.io/music OpenAI giving ChatGPT Enterprise to every US Federal Government department for $1 a year openai.com/index/providing-chatgpt-to-the-enti… Microsoft Copilot released for 13+ students techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/EducationBlog… 18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students' ChatGPT logs theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/27/it-want… The Presidential AI Challenge orise.orau.gov/ai-challenge

Research
GenAI for Education Hub at Stanford University scale.stanford.edu/genai/repository
Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935
Prompting Science Report 3: I'll pay you or I'll kill you - but will you care? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=53…