🤖 AI's Academic Exodus: Students Flee CS Programs While xAI Engineers Head for the Exit

Today's episode reveals a dramatic shift in computer science education as students abandon traditional CS programs for specialized AI majors, signaling a fundamental change in how the next generation views artificial intelligence. Google unveils WebMCP, potentially revolutionizing how AI agents navigate the web, while a compact new text-to-speech model democratizes voice AI. Meanwhile, chaos erupts at Elon Musk's xAI as nine engineers—including two co-founders—depart in a single week amid environmental lawsuits over an allegedly polluting Mississippi datacenter. Plus, Anthropic's massive $30 billion funding round, Hollywood's existential crisis over AI video generators, and the uncomfortable rise of AI dating apps that interview you before setting up matches.

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