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“Through the ‘Five AI Buckets’ classroom discussions, I gained a deeper knowledge of how AI reshapes various aspects of our daily lives,” a College of Business student said in a survey. “The lessons highlighted AI's incredible capabilities, especially in areas like problem-solving, information retrieval, ideation, summarization, and its potential for social good. These classroom discussions also made me aware of the ethical challenges that arise from the general use of AI, such as biases in algorithms and data privacy concerns.”

The Five AI Buckets include:

Information Retrieval – Using AI tools to collect and assess research, evaluate sources, and verify credibility. Ideation and Creative Inquiry – Generating ideas aligned with global challenges through guided AI prompts. Problem Solving – Engaging with public datasets to make data-informed decisions on real-world issues. Summarization – Analyzing and condensing academic research using AI to identify key insights. AI for Good – Creating personal impact plans and reflecting on how AI can support social progress.

Researchers specifically sought to evaluate the quality of AI teacher assistants — such as MagicSchool, Khanmingo, Curipod, and Google Gemini for Education — that are designed to support classroom planning, lesson differentiation, and administrative tasks.

Common Sense Media found that while these tools could help teachers save time and streamline routine paperwork, AI-generated content could also promote bias in lesson planning and classroom management recommendations.

The Thursday release of GPT-5 brings together traditional and "reasoning" models and ups the ante in the race toward so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Driving the news: OpenAI is making the new model available Thursday for free and paid users, with enterprise and educational customers getting access starting next week.

the main improvements in GPT-5 included: fewer factual errors, or hallucinations; better software coding, allowing it to create functional websites and apps; increased capability at creative writing; and, rather than “refusing” a prompt that breaches its guidelines outright, the model will instead try to give the most helpful response possible within safety guidelines, or at least explain why it cannot help.

The agent feature in ChatGPT – which carries out tasks such as finding restaurant availability and shopping online – will also be able to access users’ Gmail, Google calendar and contacts, if given permission.

As with its predecessors, GPT-5 can generate voice, image and text and can deal with queries in those formats too.

OpenAI said the upgraded ChatGPT would be better at answering health-related questions and would be more proactive at “flagging potential concerns” – such as serious physical or mental illness.

Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters.

This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required!

For researchers, scientists, and academics tackling hard problems: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think is here. 🤯

It doesn't just answer, it brainstorms using parallel thinking and reinforcement learning techniques.