Teachers need active support, not just recognition, to uplift education for all children.
“They need people to uplift education. Not just for some children, but for all children, no matter what their zip code is.”
education
30 tracked signals on education.
OpenAI is expanding support for journalism through new tools and training.
Product engineering is a durable skill software engineers need to master by 2026.
“Learn the durable skill of product engineering.”
Trinity is an AI-driven solution for personalized transition planning for students with disabilities.
Andrew Ng relaunches DeepLearning.ai with a dedicated focus on AI Engineering skills.
“an analysis of over 10,000 job postings; carrying out dozens of structured interviews with AI experts, hiring managers, and recruiters; gathering data through surveys; and synthesizing other online data”
OpenAI expands ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 U.S. school systems, reaching 100,000+ educators
Andrew Ng says the easiest way to build software in the AI era is to prompt AI, not write code.
“The easiest way to create software in the AI era is no longer to type out code yourself. Instead, you should tell AI to do it for you.”
a16z is launching Horowitz and Jason Academy, a new school redesigned for the AI era.
“everything that we've built to train you was built for a world that is soon to no longer exist.”
Randomized study of 1,000+ students examines ChatGPT's impact on critical thinking and academic performance
Nathan Lambert publishes definitive RLHF post-training textbook, free online with 12-hour course
“This is the book I wanted to read when I was getting started a few years ago!”
OpenAI launches education plugins for ChatGPT and Codex targeting K-12 and college users
Bruce Schneier argues AI use for learning tasks causes critical thinking skill atrophy
“The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work tasks. I ask them to write policy memos not because the world needs more policy memos. I assign them because the very act of writing, which includes thinking and outlining and drafting and editing, making and criticizing and revising arguments, will help develop the critical thinking skills they will need in their future careers. And without this constant mental exercise, those skills will atrophy.”
OpenAI expands Education for Countries program with new school partnerships and teacher training globally.
OpenAI and Thailand's MHESI launch eight-week accelerator for 10 AI startups
OpenAI positions ChatGPT as a tool for continuous, beyond-classroom learning
OpenAI partners with CodeAI to build AI literacy in students
Berkeley CS professor frames Anthropic's CCA exam as a career roadmap for agentic AI engineering
“Anthropic knows how people are using their system and what the issues are going to be.”
DeepLearning.AI launches AI code review course built with Codium
“I basically do not review any of my AI generated code manually. There's just too much of it to look at. Instead, I get AI to do it for me.”
Hugging Face launches a recurring live tutorial series on fine-tuning coding agents for continual learning.
“I think you could come from from zero here.”
DeepLearning.AI launched a course on building fast, reliable voice agents in partnership with Vocal Bridge.
“Voice is an under-exploited frontier.”
DeepLearning.AI and AWS launch a Professional Certification Program in Data Engineering
Google Search adds AI-powered study and test-prep features for learners
Microsoft QDK integrates GitHub Copilot as an AI tutor for in-editor quantum computing education
Hugging Face is teaching GRPO reinforcement learning for agent training in a live stream series
“it's pretty straightforward to learn from the available options and you can apply it on most use cases”
Hugging Face hosts advanced local AI education series on inference engines and quantization
“Everybody should know about this and they should know how to do this.”
Databricks is expanding its Free Edition to give more people access to data and AI learning.
“Today, more people than ever want to learn data and AI”
YDUQS used Databricks to achieve 90% productivity gains across 1.3M students
“we can bring context to our IAIS, to our agents, who are IAIS who understand our business, who understand our students, who understand our employees and our teachers”
A growing percentage of Gen Alpha students cannot read, write, or do basic math
“I don't know if there's something wrong with my cerebel cortex, but I can't read, bro.”
Chess.com CEO says AI acts like a pocket professor for accelerating skill acquisition
“you can literally get into, you know, whatever AI program you're using and you can start researching something and it can walk you through and it can help you get exposure to ideas, refine ideas”
GitHub offers students free Copilot access via the Student Developer Pack education program
“we're going to learn how to create your first ever application with co-pilot and no code”