Stanford University is tapping alumni who are company founders to help sponsor its sports teams, including its football and basketball teams, in the race to generate revenue for the ever-changing world of college athletics.

Stanford just got caught using AI to swap a Hispanic student out of a promotional photo and replace him with a Black woman. Billy Ramirez says he was "immediately baffled" when a friend sent him the altered image. Then he looked closer. "Seeing my identity changed and being left out of the picture made me feel, in a way, silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me." Stanford confirmed AI was used and says both the alteration and lack of disclosure violated university policy. See what else was changed in the photo and how the university is investigating:

Stanford just built a fake biotech company staffed entirely by AI agents & put a chief scientific officer in charge of it. 37,075 agents, organized into divisions like target identification, trial design & the usual org chart. The CSO assigns the work. Each agent got exactly one late-stage clinical trial to analyze, out of more than 55,000 trials across a huge range of conditions. The finding that came out of that pile: drugs targeting proteins that are active in specific cell types were nearly 50% more likely to reach market than other drugs. A structural predictor of trial success, pulled from data that was already public and already sitting there. Then they pointed it at a real question: is CD276 a good target for lung cancer? The system confirmed the target from existing data & designed an approach: an antibody that recognizes CD276, tethered to a cancer drug. Outside reviewers called it promising. Here's the part to keep honest about. Nothing was tested. No experiments, no trials, no validation in a lab. A very sophisticated literature-and-data analysis produced a plausible plan & plausible plans fail in pharma all the time. The lead author's own framing is that this is about how far agent teams can go, not that they've arrived. Still, 37,000 agents reading 55,000 trials in parallel is a thing no research group could do any other way.

Stanford once again ranked No. 1 in Bloomberg’s list of the Best Business Schools in the US, for its close ties to Silicon Valley as well as opportunities for networking and entrepreneurship. See the full list here:

Stanford Professor Francis Fukuyama's 1989 essay “The End of History?” argued that liberal democracy would not only defeat communism, but that its partisans might miss the “courage, imagination and idealism” that defined the ideological battle. @FukuyamaFrancis joins @tracyalloway and @TheStalwart on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how his argument has evolved since the end of the Cold War and what's driving today's extremist ideology. Listen at or watch at