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AI is an immensely powerful tool that can provide customized support for students with diverse learning needs, tailoring educational experiences to meet student’s individual needs more effectively. However, significant disparities in AI access and digital literacy skills prevent many of these same students from fully leveraging its benefits.
08/06/2024
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Learning platform Coursera is expanding its Generative AI Academy training portfolio with an offering for teams, as well as adding new generative AI courses, specializations, and certificates.
08/05/2024
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Registration is free for this fully virtual Sept. 25 event, focused on "Building the Future-Ready Institution" in K-12 and higher education.
07/31/2024
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The United States Department of Education recently released a new guide that seeks to inform ed tech developers as they create AI products and services for use in education. We spoke with Kevin Johnstun, education program specialist in ED's Office of Educational Technology, about the ins and outs of the report and what it means for education institutions.
07/30/2024
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OpenAI has introduced SearchGPT, a new AI-powered search engine designed to access information from across the internet in real time. The much-anticipated prototype will provide more organized and meaningful search results by summarizing and contextualizing information rather than returning lists of links.
07/26/2024
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Institutions that do not adopt AI will quickly fall behind. The question is, how can colleges and universities do this systematically, securely, cost-effectively, and efficiently?
07/25/2024
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Google recently unleashed a slough of generative AI technologies, from the next generation of its open foundation model to an open source AI agent platform.
07/25/2024
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Texas A&M University Technology Services recently announced a partnership with managed connectivity solutions provider Kajeet to deploy a private LTE network solution on its campus in College Station, TX.
07/24/2024
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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI and others have formed a new industry group aimed at promoting AI safety and security standards.
07/19/2024
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OpenAI has announced GPT-4o Mini, a slimmed down, more affordable version of its flagship multimodal GPT-4o model, replacing GPT-3.5.
07/18/2024
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Security software company Kaspersky has announced it is ending its United States operations. The news comes just days before a federal ban on sales of its products was set to take effect, due to concerns about cyber espionage.
07/17/2024
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Online students are likely to have certain gaps in their education. Here are five skills they’ll need to fill them.
07/17/2024
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Google has introduced a new AI-powered video creation service as part of its Workspace Labs program, where users can try out new AI features.
07/16/2024
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A new survey of CISOs by Bugcrowd indicates AI is already beating security pros in some areas and is expected to take on a larger role in the future.
07/12/2024
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Technology holds the potential to revolutionize the financial aid process, ultimately bolstering student support — and success.
07/11/2024
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Many questions remain around the role of artificial intelligence in admissions as schools navigate the balance between innovation and integrity.
07/11/2024
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In an effort to clarify the potential risks of GenAI and provide "a concrete understanding of how GenAI models are specifically exploited or abused in practice, including the tactics employed to inflict harm," a group of researchers from Google DeepMind, Jigsaw, and Google.org recently published a paper entitled, "Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data."
07/10/2024
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Amazon Web Services has announced a $50 million fund that will give public sector organizations a chance to tap into its portfolio of cloud-based AI tools.
07/10/2024