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Friday roundup: Unis hiring AI officers, OpenAI on jobs and Nano Banana

Broadcom touts a $10 billion order from a mystery client, believed to be OpenAI. — Not much is known about the custom chips Broadcom will make for OpenAI, scheduled for next year. (Picture: Adobe)

OpenAI will make custom chips with Broadcom
With Nvidia lurking in the background, more companies are working on their custom AI chips. Now OpenAI has entered the fray, said to produce their own chips with Broadcom next year. It will be for internal use, and won’t be released broadly. They have a long history with this, having first entered talks with TSMC last year. Broadcom said on its earnings call this Thursday that it had secured a $10B order for AI chips without naming from whom, and now the Financial Times is reporting that it is, indeed, OpenAI, who has no comment on this.
More at: Financial Times (Paywalled) and Reuters.

Amazon lens lets you shop for anything you can see
The latest feature in the Amazon Shopping app on iOS lets you simply point your camera on anything you like, and shop for the same or similar items in real-time. It partners with Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, to also answer questions about the products in the shop. It should «roll out to more customers in the coming weeks,» meaning there’s likely an Android version in the works.
More at: Amazon’s product page, and The Verge.

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85% of US college students say they use generative AI, 25% use it to cheat

AI use at colleges has reached critical mass, but most usage is above board. — Hardly anyone abstains from using AI in colleges in 2025. (Picture: Adobe)

The 2025–26 Student Voice survey, an annual poll of student attitudes by Inside Higher Ed, was devoted to artificial intelligence in its latest edition — and discovered some fascinating results.

Overall usage of generative ai has reached a critical point, with almost every student using it for coursework. But what they use it for is equally interesting.

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OpenAI debuts «Study Mode» to help students learn, not just copy

OpenAIs Study Mode will teach you the problems - and not just provide you with answers. — Study mode can help learn iteratively, instead of just spewing out answers. (Picture: OpenAI)

The new feature is available across almost all plans, including the free tier — and might just help with the ChatGPT cheating epidemic in schools and universities.

The general idea behind the mode is that it can ask Socratic questions to assess your knowledge levels and guide you step by step through problems — to help you learn instead of just giving you a quick fix.

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Cluely AI app will let you «cheat on anything»

Cluely AI is a "hidden" window over your browser that gives you the answers you need. — Cluely AI is a “hidden” window over your browser that gives you the answers you need. (Picture: Cluely)

The new AI startup is founded by Chungin “Roy” Lee and Neel Shanmugam, who recently made waves for using AI to cheat at Columbia University and at Amazon. Now they are going pro with a new app, hidden from even screen recorders.

AI cheating is, of course, a huge problem at schools and colleges and even for remote job interviews already, with many returning to in-person, written exams, and now these two are taking it to the next level.

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Khrono: Tre tatt, syv undersøkes for ChatGPT-juks i høyere utdanning

Noen brukte Grammarly, en tjeneste som gir perfekt engelsk, og fikk oppgavene sine godkjent. ChatGPT-tekster er derimot juksing. (Bilde: Skjermdump.)

Av 300 000 studenter på norske høyskoler og universiteter er det bemerkelsesverdig få som er tatt i AI-juksing hittil i år, i følge en oversikt innhentet av utdanningsavisen Khrono

Mange mener det er store mørketall, eller at studentene har lært å bruke generativ AI som en assistent for å få oversikt over et emne— og ikke til å levere inn hele oppgaver.

Det er imidlertid «ingen som vet» hvor mange det er som har klart å lure sensorene.

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