GPT-6 Astra, NYC Bans AI in Schools, Trump Goes All-In on Data Centers & Lawyers Under Pressure to Pass on AI Savings
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Show: The Artificial Intelligence Show
Host / guest: Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput
Focus: Applied Generative AI for Knowledge Workers
Date: September 8, 2026
Duration: 87:30 · No episode time limit
Topics: professional work, AI literacy, services pricing, agent oversight
Summary: Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput discuss GPT-6 Astra, school AI policy, professional-services pricing, education assessment, and practical agent use, with chapter timestamps and a full transcript.
Why it matters: The episode connects frontier capability claims to operating questions for schools, professional services, and everyday agent use while exposing the hosts’ interpretation for readers to assess.
Connection to the brief: Its discussion of AI-assisted professional work, education, pricing, and supervised computer use complements today’s governance and knowledge-work stories.
Coverage: Mandatory and core registered sources were checked. No eligible unused episode was verified in the preceding 48 hours; the documented seven-day boundary fallback was used.
Evidence: Practitioner analysis. The publisher page identifies September 8, 2026, Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput as hosts, and a transcript ending at 1:27:30; podcasts have no duration cap.
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