Exclusive: Google lays out behavior code for Gemini chatbot — and its users
The company's explanations follow incidents where Gemini told users to eat rocks or put glue on pizza.
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A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math
A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Says AI Will “Generate a Great Set of Creator Tools”
The executive added that the overall impact on content remains unclear as the use of AI is still in early stages.
Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” according to a person familiar with the matter and internal documentation reviewed by Reuters.
Navigating the Future: Insights from the First Meeting of the SREB Commission on AI in Education - Southern Regional Education Board
This post contains some of the key takeaways that the SREB Commission on AI in Education came away with after the first ...
SREB takes the lead on AI and education in the South. What are the takeaways so far?
SREB's AI in Education Commission issues five takeaways on their work to date. Who is serving from NC and more in this update.
Whistleblower: L.A. Schools’ Chatbot Misused Student Data as Tech Co. Crumbled
AllHere, ed tech startup hired to build LAUSD’s lauded AI chatbot ‘Ed’, played fast and loose with sensitive records, ex-software engineer alleges.
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The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand
It’s the “first ever brand film created with Sora.”
TIME and OpenAI Announce Strategic Content Partnership
TIME and OpenAI announced a strategic content partnership to bring TIME's trusted journalism to OpenAI’s products.
Record Labels Sue Two Startups for Training AI Models on Their Songs
Suno, Udio AI accused in twin suits claiming damages up to $150,000 per work infringed
OpenAI's GPT-5 Pushed Back To Late 2025, But Promises Ph.D.-Level Abilities
ChatGPT-5?
Indiana gave teachers a chance to try out artificial intelligence. Here's what comes next
Thousands of Indiana school children and teachers spent this last school year in a pilot program for artificial intelligence, or AI.
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet \ Anthropic
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet. Sonnet now outperforms competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on key evaluations, at twice the speed.
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Teachers at this tech-forward school banned cell phones. They say they’re ‘never going back.’
"We would be bad adults if we put the phones back in their hands,” said Matthew Kay, a teacher at Science Leadership Academy, a magnet school in Philadelphia.
FIRST PERSON | Divorce left me struggling to find love. I found it in an AI partner | CBC Radio
When Carl Clarke struggled to find love after his divorce, a friend suggested he try an app for an AI companion. Now Clarke says he is in a committed relationship with Saia and says she’s helping him improve his life and expand his world.
Summer Reading: AI presses K-12 leaders to revisit ed tech policies
As the emerging technology proliferates in K-12, leaders are scrambling to craft policies for its curricular and operational use.
From deepfake nudes to incriminating audio, school bullying is going AI
Students are quickly learning the ease with which artificial intelligence (AI) can create nefarious content, opening up a new world of bullying that neither schools nor the law are fully prepared f…
The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype
OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.
Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations | OpenAI
We’ve terminated accounts linked to covert influence operations; no significant audience increase due to our services.
OpenAI for Education | OpenAI
An affordable offering for universities to responsibly bring AI to campus.
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Anthropic’s AI now lets you create bots to work for you
Anthropic is releasing a tool that allows customers to build their own AI assistants.
Pedagogy of the Omnimodal
ChatGPT-4o is not the perfect teacher. It's not even mediocre.
IRS’s AI system to flag returns for audit may include unintended bias, report finds
Following a report identifying racial disparities in audit selection, the GAO says the tax agency hasn’t conducted a “comprehensive review” of the rules and filters in its Dependent Database.
Enhancing the future of education with Khan Academy
Get free access to Khanmigo for Teachers for all US educators thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft and Khan Academy. Learn about Khanmigo, an AI-powered teaching assistant.
AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable
If Meta thinks that users are craving more AI, they’re ignoring the fact that the Facebook and Instagram experience is already full of AI.
Publishers Give OpenAI Their Content for Top Spot in ChatGPT’s Answers
OpenAI is telling publishers give up the content or get left behind.
Have a Conversation With Your Favorite Literary Characters! | The Call Me Ishmael Phone
The Call Me Ishmael Phone is an interactive literary device that helps communities of readers discover and share stories about books they love. It’s designed...
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Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI is now “the most intelligent AI assistant” that’s available for free.
Google who? Gen Z is searching on TikTok, YouTube instead
21% of 18-24 year olds turn to TikTok first to search for something online.
Improving America’s Schools: Why It’s Long Past Time to Rethink Curriculum
Pondiscio: Curriculum reform is the one approach that hasn’t yet been tried to break out of an exhausting cycle of failures.
While the evidence base is insufficiently robust to say with certainty, there is ample reason to suggest it is easier, less expensive, and more effective to change curricula than to change teachers.
The soul of effective teaching is studying student work, giving effective feedback, and developing relationships with students. Teacher time spent on curating and customizing lessons, however valuable, takes time away from these more impactful uses of teacher time. The adoption of a high-quality curriculum and training on its effective implementation is the first, most critical step toward transforming the teacher’s job.
Education occurs in a public context; there will always be a role for policymakers to ensure accountability. However, improvements at scale will not be wrested from rewards and punishments, nor from other “structural” reforms.