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A Blue Robotic Owl Is Helping Israeli Students Catch Up on Missed Lectures
Bar-Ilan University built an AI study agent into its course platform. Students are spending less time hunting for notes and more time actually learning.

Common Sense Media Calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk'
The nonprofit that parents trust for app ratings has told families to keep ChatGPT's teen version away from under-18s. OpenAI launched the product in August, billing it as a safer learning tool. The verdict lands as ChatGPT crosses one billion users.

OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?
A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.

AI tutors are not the answer, say parents and educators. What they want instead.
A trio of academics and educators push back on the idea that artificial intelligence should fill the gaps left by underfunded teaching, arguing the real problem is a political choice, not a technology shortage.

AI wrote my dad's unfinished story in seconds. Here's what parents actually need to know
A researcher and father of three used an AI chatbot to finally tell a childhood story he and his dad never got around to writing. The result was charming, instant, and a little unsettling.

AI Is Reshaping Engineering Jobs. Here Is What Actually Keeps You Employable
The secret is not learning the right coding language. It is learning how to keep learning, whatever comes next.

A Top US Law School Just Banned AI from Almost Every Corner of Student Work
Starting summer 2026, students at one law school can't use AI to brainstorm, draft, revise, or even run a spellcheck on graded work. Here's what the policy says and why it matters beyond the classroom.

Google Adds a Student Hub to Gemini Just in Time for Back-to-School
Flashcards, practice quizzes, deep research reports, and a free year of Google's top AI plan for eligible US students. Here is what is actually on offer.

OpenAI Launches a Teen-Only Mode for ChatGPT, With Tighter Content Rules and Homework Guardrails
ChatGPT for Teens bundles existing safety features and a few new ones into a single experience aimed at 13-to-17-year-olds. What changes, and what stays the same.

AI Cheating Fears and Digital Marking Meltdowns Drive Student Protests Across Three Continents
From Mexico City to Lisbon, exam season turned into street protests this summer as suspected cheating scandals and botched tech rollouts left hundreds of thousands of students in limbo.

AI Writing Detectors Are Ruining Careers. They Are Also Frequently Wrong.
Students have been suspended, book deals have collapsed, and journalists have been harassed, all based on AI detection tools that their own makers admit are not fully reliable.

AI Could Cure Cancer or Cement Autocracy. Which Way It Goes Is Up to Us
Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that artificial intelligence carries two entirely opposite futures inside it, and that education is the place where that choice gets made.

Teachers Are Getting AI Training. Their Union Took $23 Million From Big Tech To Pay For It.
The American Federation of Teachers wants to help its members understand and manage AI in classrooms. Where the money came from is harder to defend.

AI exam proctoring went wrong at Mexico's biggest university, and 58,000 students must sit the test again
Nearly 160,000 applicants took UNAM's entrance exam remotely this year, watched by AI software instead of human invigilators. The results looked nothing like any previous year, and now tens of thousands of students face a retake.

Dave Eggers Told 200 OpenAI Staff Their Chatbot Is 'Silencing a Generation'
The author of The Circle accepted Sam Altman's invitation to speak at OpenAI's offices, then spent the time telling employees exactly what he thinks they've done to teachers and students.