481. Weekly Pulse Check on Automation & AI News

481. Weekly Pulse Check on Automation & AI News

From Transform NOW by SSNC Blue Prism

May 8, 2026 · 29 min

About this episode

The episode discusses recent news headlines in automation and AI, including educational impacts and technological advancements.

In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI. .News stories covered in this episode:.As AI pushes students to reconsider majors, universities struggle to adapt https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-pushes-students-reconsider-majors-100000151.html .An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem .‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/cost-compute-far-beyond-costs-071100797.html .Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-legal-ai-automation .Google is partnering with XPRIZE and Range Media Partners on the $3.5 million Future Vision film competition. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/future-vision-film-competition-xprize .New pet robot uses local multimodal AI to learn and adapt to human behavior…

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad Hairston, Michael Marchuk

Topics covered

  • automation
  • AI news
  • education
  • technology
  • legal issues
  • robotics

Keywords

  • automation
  • AI
  • education
  • Nvidia
  • Google
  • robot
  • legal
  • technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia, Google, XPRIZE, Range Media Partners

Books & works: Future Vision film competition

Places: China

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