FIR #462: Cheaters Never Prosper (Unless They’re Paid $5 Million for Their Tool)

A Columbia University student was expelled for developing an AI-driven tool to help applicants to software coding jobs cheat on the tests employers require them to take. You can call such a tool deplorable or agree with the student that it's a legit resource. It's hard to argue with the $5 million in seed funding the student and his partner have raised. Also in this long-form monthly episode for April 2025:

• How communicators can use each of the seven categories of AI agents that are on their way.
• LinkedIn and BlueSky have updated their verification programs in ways that will matter to communicators.
• Onboarding new talent is an everyday business activity that is in serious need of improvement.
• A new report finds significant gaps between generations in the PR industry when it comes to the major factors impacting communication.
• Anthropic -- the company behind the Claude LLM -- warns that fully AI employees are only a year away.
• In his Tech Report, Dan York explains how BlueSky experienced an outage even though they're supposed to operate under a distributed model.

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