Category: Artificial Intelligence

Google’s Gemini for Education expanded dramatically in 2025, now used in over 1,000 U.S. higher-ed institutions and reaching more than 10 million students, with over 150 new AI features launched globally. Educators worldwide report major time savings and transformative impacts, …

OpenAI is testing a “confessions” system that trains new AI models to openly report their own mistakes, rule-breaking, uncertainties, and possible hallucinations through a second output channel. It’s not a ChatGPT feature yet, but early research suggests it could become …

New UK research finds ‘extremely personalized’ AI math tutors don’t hallucinate or produce unsafe messages in sessions with kids.

AI Tutors, With a Little Human Help, Offer ‘Reliable’ Instruction, Study Finds

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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…

Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6…

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…

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 …

Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students, but with the right AI tools, personalized learning could soon become a reality.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03915-7…

A Pi Zero 2 W with a Whisplay HAT avoids the flaws of smartphones and failed AI gadgets by being a fully DIY, open, fixable AI chat device you actually own. Its modular design lets you swap AI backends freely, …

Coursera is turning to AI because its peer-assessment system is failing and the platform must keep scaling to attract investment. The question is whether AI stabilizes its declining credibility or ends up accelerating that decline.

https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-peer-assessment-still-broken…

AI is increasingly shaping education, with some US private schools replacing traditional lessons with personalised, AI-assisted learning on laptops. Meanwhile, experts warn that online scams are rising worldwide, sharing how victims are deceived and what to watch out for.

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct6zpr…

AI has leapt from “chatbots that write poems” to agents that plan, code, research, analyze data, build websites, and produce full academic papers with minimal guidance. Gemini 3 shows that AI is shifting from tool to digital coworker, one that …

Agentic AI uses multiple specialized agents that must share context, memory, and knowledge to work effectively together. A shared internal knowledge base keeps these agents aligned, improving consistency, accuracy, and coordination as their interactions grow more complex.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4091400/anatomy-of-an-ai-agent-knowledge-base.html…

Generative artificial intelligence is raising big questions in higher education, from how students apply it to their everyday work to how universities should respond with academic programs and institutional studies.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/artificial-intelligence-education-college-learning/3850198…

Most people use ChatGPT not for work, but for everyday life — planning trips, learning languages, getting advice, or simplifying daily tasks. It has evolved from a chatbot into a practical digital companion that boosts productivity and helps users navigate …