Topic: ai education
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Google's 3,000 Free AI Courses With Certificates
Google has launched a new online platform called Google Skills, offering over 3,000 AI courses and labs to help individuals at all skill levels gain expertise and credentials in response to rising industry demand. The platform provides personalized learning paths, from beginner courses to advance...
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UAE Launches First AI Curriculum in National Education Push
The UAE has launched its first national AI curriculum for Key Stages 1-3, providing schools with complete lesson plans and resources to start teaching immediately. The curriculum will be integrated into all public schools starting in the 2025-2026 academic year, aiming to equip students with AI f...
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Oman Tech Summit: AI's Impact on Education & Research
The Oman Technology Summit (OTS25) highlighted AI's transformative role in education and research, aligning with Oman's National AI Programme and digital transformation strategy. Key discussions focused on integrating AI into education through practical applications, ethical considerations, and s...
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The Man Betting His Fortune on AI and Bill Belichick
UNC-Chapel Hill is making AI the central pillar of its future strategy under Chancellor Lee Roberts, who emphasizes that graduates must be proficient in AI to meet real-world demands. Despite facing challenges like federal funding cuts, faculty dissent, and a struggling football program, Roberts ...
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Ex-Spotify Execs Launch AI Learning Platform for the Curious
Oboe is a new AI learning platform founded by former Spotify executives that creates personalized courses on any topic to democratize education by consolidating learning materials. The platform generates structured educational content like essays or podcasts but currently lacks citations, placing...
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Google's New Tool Personalizes Your Learning - Here's How
Google has introduced an experimental AI-powered educational tool called Learn Your Way, which personalizes learning by adapting content to a student's grade level and interests through varied formats like text, quizzes, and audio. Early testing showed that students using the tool scored an avera...
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EdVentures Backs LRNOVA to Expand AI Learning Content in MENA
EdVentures has invested in LRNOVA to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered educational content across the MENA region, focusing on converting traditional resources into digital formats. LRNOVA's platform features culturally responsive avatars, multilingual support with an emphasis on Arabic, and ...
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Google's New AI Games Teach Kids Essential Tech Skills
Google has launched AI Quests, an educational initiative featuring interactive online games for students aged 11-14 to introduce practical AI applications in fields like climate science and healthcare. Developed with Stanford Accelerator for Learning, the program uses gamified learning and real-w...
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Anchor's Founders Launch Oboe: AI-Powered Learning App After Spotify Exit
Oboe is an AI-driven learning app created by the founders of Anchor, allowing users to generate custom educational courses on any subject with a simple prompt, aiming to democratize knowledge creation. The platform uses a multi-agent architecture to quickly produce tailored courses in various for...
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Tech Giants Vow to Prepare U.S. for AI-Driven Future
The White House hosted tech leaders to outline plans for preparing the U.S. workforce for an AI-driven future, with commitments focused on AI literacy and skills. Google is directing $150 million toward AI education and digital wellness, while Microsoft is offering free access to its AI assistant...
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MathGPT.AI: 'Cheat-Proof' AI Tutor Now Used by 50+ Institutions
MathGPT.AI is an anti-cheating AI tutor that uses the Socratic method to promote critical thinking and ethical learning for college students and instructors. The platform offers features like auto-grading, assignment generation, and controlled access for educators, along with unlimited practice q...
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A New Generation's Perspective on AI
Children view AI as a practical tool for education and daily life, using it for study aids, advice, and creative inspiration while recognizing its limitations. Students see AI as helpful for tasks like summarizing notes or brainstorming but avoid relying on it for essays due to its robotic and de...
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Teachers Embrace AI to Enhance Classroom Learning
Teachers are using AI like ChatGPT to spark ethical debates and critical thinking in classrooms, as seen in a Texas high school where students questioned AI's clinical reasoning in a survival scenario. AI tools are accelerating in education, helping teachers with tasks like quiz creation and less...
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Brain Study Sparks Debate: Is ChatGPT Helping or Hurting Learning?
The use of AI tools like ChatGPT in education is controversial, with concerns about students relying on AI-generated content instead of original work, as seen in assignments with identical narratives. Nearly half of students in one professor’s class misused ChatGPT, even for topics like AI ethics...
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Can AI Ease Teachers' Workload? New Evidence Says Yes
AI saves teachers an average of six hours per week, improving efficiency in tasks like lesson planning and grading, with 74% reporting enhanced productivity. AI is especially impactful in special education, with 65% of specialized teachers noting its potential to improve accessibility for student...
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Melania Trump Embraces the AI Revolution
Melania Trump is promoting a new initiative to integrate artificial intelligence into education, marking a shift from her typically low public profile. She introduced the initiative through a vague video announcement and spoke at an event, emphasizing the dramatic impact of AI and suggesting Engl...
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Google’s NotebookLM Expands to Younger Users Amid AI Education Race
Google has expanded access to its AI-powered note-taking tool, NotebookLM, now available to younger students (13+) and Google Workspace for Education users, amid growing competition in edtech. NotebookLM offers AI-driven features like audio summaries, interactive mind maps, and video overviews fr...
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ChatGPT’s Study Mode Arrives - But Can It Solve AI’s Education Crisis?
ChatGPT introduced a "study mode" feature that uses the Socratic method to encourage deeper learning by asking probing questions instead of providing direct answers. While the study mode promotes critical thinking, the standard version with instant answers remains easily accessible, creating a lo...
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AI Giants OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Set to Transform Education
Leading AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are developing advanced learning tools to enhance student experiences through interactive and personalized features. OpenAI's "Study Together" and Anthropic's "Study Projects" focus on guided learning, acting as tutors or study partners rather t...
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ChatGPT Introduces New Study Mode for Better Learning
OpenAI launched Study Mode for ChatGPT to enhance student learning by prompting questions instead of direct answers, promoting critical thinking. Schools are balancing AI's educational benefits with concerns about overreliance, as studies show differences in brain activity with AI-assisted learni...
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ChatGPT's OpenAI Study Mode Enhances Guided Learning
ChatGPT's new Study Mode promotes active learning by guiding users through structured interactions, fostering deeper understanding instead of just providing answers. The feature, activated via "Study and learn," uses interactive prompts, scaffolded explanations, and knowledge checks, adapting to ...
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Fighting Audio Deepfakes & AI's Role in Education
Audio deepfakes are a growing threat, but "machine unlearning" techniques could help by retraining AI models to forget sensitive data like voices, preventing unauthorized cloning. Unlike traditional filtering, machine unlearning modifies AI models to exclude problematic data from the start, poten...
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30-Year-Old Techno-Thriller Predicted Today's Digital Isolation
The rise of AI companionship raises concerns about outsourcing human connection to algorithms, with students relying on AI for critical thinking and vulnerable individuals seeking synthetic friendships. AI systems reflect creator biases and agendas, with loneliness being weaponized for profit or ...
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Inside Google: The Tech That Makes Pixel 10 Pro's Camera the Smartest
The Google Pixel 10 Pro uses advanced AI to enhance photography, with features like Camera Coach for real-time guidance and Pro Res Zoom for improved digital zoom clarity. It includes Conversational Editing in Google Photos, allowing users to make edits through voice or text commands, and Auto Be...
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Tech Leaders Court Trump at White House Dinner
Tech executives expressed strong support for President Trump's AI and economic policies, highlighting growing alignment between Silicon Valley and the administration. CEOs from major companies announced significant domestic investment pledges and praised the pro-business environment fostered by t...
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OpenAI's new AI safety council omits suicide prevention expert
Following legal challenges, an AI company established an Expert Council on Wellness and AI, comprising specialists in technology's psychological impacts on youth. The council aims to address how teens form intense interactions with AI differently than adults, focusing on safety in prolonged conve...
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Morocco Partners with OpenAI to Boost AI Innovation
Morocco is engaging in a strategic dialogue with OpenAI to become a key global AI player, focusing on collaborative research and innovation. The partnership aims to build a unique AI ecosystem aligned with Morocco's cultural values, targeting education, governance, and sustainable development. Th...
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Customize Your NotebookLM Audio Overviews In-App: A Quick Guide
NotebookLM's mobile app has introduced enhanced customization for its Audio Overview tool, allowing users to adjust audio length and include guiding prompts for more tailored outputs. The update includes significant performance improvements, such as a 95% reduction in buffering times and easier a...
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Elon Musk Claims New AI Surpasses PhD-Level Intelligence
Elon Musk announced xAI's Grok 4, claiming it surpasses PhD-level intelligence across all disciplines and is the most advanced AI system, trained 100 times more than its predecessor. Musk described the current era as an "intelligence big bang," stating Grok 4 could pioneer breakthroughs and empha...
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Google Unveils New AI Infrastructure Academy Cohort
Google has launched its second cohort for the AI Infrastructure Academy, a specialized program aimed at helping startups leverage artificial intelligence to solve critical challenges in sectors like cybersecurity, education, and transportation. The initiative offers four months of equity-free...
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Wikipedia Halts AI Summaries After Editor Backlash
Wikipedia paused its AI-generated article summaries after volunteer editors strongly opposed the move, citing concerns about accuracy and the platform's reliability. The "Simple Article Summaries" feature, introduced in mobile versions with an "Unverified" label, aimed to enhance accessibility bu...
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Orange OSVP Winners Announced: 15 Years of Impact Entrepreneurship
Orange celebrated the 15th anniversary of its Social Ventures Prize at the Mobile World Congress, awarding five standout winners from 70 finalists across 17 nations for their innovative and impactful startups. The initiative has evolved into Africa's leading innovation platform, receiving over 17...
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PostScriptum's NestAI Aims to Forge Europe's Tech Frontier
PostScriptum has launched NestAI, a next-generation innovation lab focused on building foundational technologies, following its previous success with Silo AI's acquisition by AMD. NestAI has assembled a nearly 50-person team of world-class experts from top companies and universities, with plans t...
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Google's AI Pro Plan Free for College Students – Get It Now
Google offers its premium AI Pro plan free for eligible college students in select countries for one year, as part of a $1 billion investment in AI education and workforce development. The plan includes advanced tools like Gemini 2.5 Pro, NotebookLM, Veo 3, and Jules, with enhanced features for r...
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ChatGPT vs. Gemini: How Their AI Writing Styles Differ
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini develop unique writing styles, or "idiolects," with distinct tones, word choices, and structures, reflecting how they process language. Research shows measurable differences: ChatGPT favors formal, academic phrasing (e.g., "glucose"), while Gemini uses simpler,...
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GITEX 2025: AI and Enterprise Leaders Shape the Intelligence Economy
GITEX 2025, held in Dubai, unites a record number of global technology leaders, startups, and investors to explore AI and the intelligence economy, emphasizing Dubai's role as a nexus for public-private collaboration. High-level dialogues featured global ministers and officials discussing innovat...
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Mistral AI’s CEO Rings Alarm on “Deskilling” Risk Amid Rapid AI Adoption
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch warns that the real danger of AI isn’t job loss—it’s mental atrophy. At VivaTech Paris, he argued that over-reliance on generative tools could lead to widespread deskilling unless systems are designed to keep users mentally engaged.
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OpenAI Lures Top Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
OpenAI has hired top engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta, including David Lau and Uday Ruddarraju, to strengthen its AI infrastructure and scaling efforts. The company is focusing on ambitious projects like Stargate, a next-gen AI infrastructure initiative, to advance toward artificial general in...
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US College Students: Get Microsoft 365 Personal Free for 1 Year
Microsoft is offering a free one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal to U.S. college students, providing full access to Office apps and the Copilot AI assistant. The subscription includes 1TB of OneDrive storage and is available until October 31st, with an option for a 50% discount after ...
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