Digital Transformation

Here you'll find articles exploring digital transformation in higher education.


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Turnitin Adds Customizable AI Assistance to Support Different Assignments, Grade Levels

Turnitin has introduced new customizable settings Turnitin Clarity's built-in AI assistant, enabling instructors to specify AI's role and response complexity for each assignment.

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AI Budgets in Education Show No Sign of Decline

The vast majority of education organizations (98%) expect their AI infrastructure budgets to either increase or hold steady over the next year, according to a recent report from cloud storage provider Wasabi.

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The Wrong Battle: Why Your Institution's AI Policy Is Probably Solving the Wrong Problem

The conversation on most campuses has become consumed with detection: How do we catch students using AI when they shouldn't? The impulse to protect academic integrity is legitimate, but the detection-first approach has a fatal flaw.

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Google Moves AI Agents into the Mainstream

At its recent I/O developer conference, Google presented artificial intelligence agents not as a distant research project, but as a product strategy spanning Search, personal assistants, productivity software, developer tools, and smart glasses.

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IBM Announces New AI-Powered Cybersecurity Tools

IBM has announced an expanded portfolio of AI-powered cybersecurity products, positioning the company to compete more aggressively in a rapidly evolving market where enterprises are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to defend against automated cyber threats.

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Google Unveils Android XR Smart Glasses, Powered by Gemini AI

More than a decade after the commercial failure of Google Glass, Google is returning to the smart-glasses market, this time betting that advances in artificial intelligence, miniaturized hardware, and conversational computing can turn wearable devices into a mainstream platform.

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Microsoft Releases Open Source AI Safety Tools for Agent Development

Microsoft released RAMPART and Clarity as open-source projects intended to help developers test AI agents earlier in the software lifecycle and turn red-team findings into repeatable engineering checks.

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Microsoft Intros New Agentic AI Security Multi-Model Defense System

A new multi-model agentic AI security system built by Microsoft's Autonomous Code Security team helped researchers find 16 new vulnerabilities across the Windows networking and authentication stack, the company anounced in a recent security blog post.

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Report: Global AI Use Rises as Adoption Gap Continues to Widen

AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.

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It's Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Strategy

Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.