Moltbook is a social network where AI bots chat with each other, mixing practical technical discussions with quirky or fictional role-playing that blurs the line between real information and invented personas. This shared AI “story world” can create confusing, coordinated …
These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings
AI notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies, Fathom, and Granola transcribe and summarize online meetings, while newer physical devices record in-person conversations and generate AI-powered notes, action items, and insights.
Generative AI for Instructional Design: Changes, Chances, Challenges
Generative AI is now widely used by instructional designers to speed up tasks like brainstorming, drafting, media creation, and accessibility, boosting efficiency but not fully replacing human expertise. However, risks remain, including bias, inaccuracies, privacy concerns, and over-reliance, meaning quality, …
Introducing the Forge, a New Innovation in Open Pedagogy
LibreTexts Forge is an assignment platform designed to support Open Pedagogy by enabling renewable, collaborative, long-form projects with built-in analytics for instructors. It helps students create meaningful, public, openly licensed work while supporting learner-centered, scalable teaching across disciplines.
https://libretexts.org/blog/2025/06/11/introducing-forge-new-innovation-open-pedagogy…
Schools in China are making AI part of the curriculum
While debate rages in the U.S. about the merits and risks of AI in schools, it a state-mandated part of the curriculum in China, as the authorities try to create a pool of AI-savvy professionals.
Use Microsoft Copilot? 7 Settings I Changed Right Away to Protect My Privacy
Intrigued by AI but concerned about giving it too much of your personal data? Here’s how to tweak Copilot’s memory, opt out of model training, and more.
To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Teacher Chanea Bond has replaced laptops with paper in her Fort Worth classroom, requiring students to journal and complete nearly all work by hand. She uses this mostly analog approach to reduce reliance on generative AI and keep learning more …
AI Can Teach Our Students the Art of Dialogue
The same technology that’s ruining essay writing as a pedagogical tool can help students learn how to reason via conversations.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ai-can-teach-our-students-the-art-of-dialogue…
Google’s NotebookLM can now turn your docs into AI videos on Android and iOS
The mobile version of NotebookLM app can now turn your documents into AI-generated videos, making it easier to understand dense material without scrolling through long pages of text.
What if I told you this school had no teachers?’: Is AI schooling the future of education or a risky bet?
Alpha promotes itself as a teacher-free school model where students learn academics through personalized AI tutors and apps, founded by entrepreneur Joe Liemandt and expanding from Austin to cities nationwide under the Alpha School brand. The schools emphasize AI-led mastery …
This free Google app now handles all my transcriptions for me
Google’s Live Transcribe, originally downloaded as a simple offline tool to capture ideas, revealed itself to be far more powerful when it effortlessly transcribed a podcast by accident. Available on Android 5.0 or newer, it’s one of the most capable …
5 tech predictions for 2026 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
From AI companions combating loneliness to quantum-safe security, Amazon’s CTO predicts what’s coming in the years ahead.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/werner-vogels-amazon-cto-predictions-2026…
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
Is the future of education outside universities?
New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today. Newly enrolled student Annalee Newitz finds some silver linings.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26835691-900-is-the-future-of-education-outside-universities…
AI Tutors, With a Little Human Help, Offer ‘Reliable’ Instruction, Study Finds
New UK research finds ‘extremely personalized’ AI math tutors don’t hallucinate or produce unsafe messages in sessions with kids.