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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.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/use-microsoft-copilot-7-settings-i-changed-right-away-to-protect-my-privacy…

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 …

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…

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.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/notebooklm-mobile-app-can-now-turn-your-docs-into-videos-using-googles-ai…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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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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 …

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, …

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…

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, …

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…