Artificial Intelligence

Here you'll find articles detailing new developments in artificial intelligence and how it's impacting higher education.


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Anthropic Criticizes OpenAI Ad Strategy

Anthropic recently launched a multi-million dollar Super Bowl advertising campaign criticizing OpenAI's decision to start showing ads within ChatGPT.

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Snowflake, OpenAI Partner to Embed AI Models in Enterprise Data Workflows

Snowflake and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership that will make OpenAI models available on Snowflake's platform.

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Microsoft Unveils Maia 200 Inference Chip to Cut AI Serving Costs

Microsoft recently introduced Maia 200, a custom-built accelerator aimed at lowering the cost of running artificial intelligence workloads at cloud scale, as major providers look to curb soaring inference expenses and lessen dependence on Nvidia graphics processors.

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Shadow AI Isn't a Threat: It's a Signal

Unofficial AI use on campus reveals more about institutional gaps than misbehavior.

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2026 Predictions for AI and Ed Tech: What Industry Leaders Are Saying

We asked education-serving industry leaders to weigh in on how developments in AI and ed tech will impact colleges and universities in the coming year. Here's what they told us.

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Apple and Google Strike AI Deal to Bring Gemini Models to Siri

Apple and Google announced they have embarked on a multiyear partnership that will put Google's Gemini models and cloud technology at the core of the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, a move that could help Apple accelerate long-promised upgrades to Siri while handing Google a high-profile distribution win on the iPhone.

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Purdue-Google Partnership to Advance AI-Enabled Education and Research

In a move aimed at empowering the Purdue community to integrate AI across multiple facets of the institution, Purdue University has announced a strategic partnership with Google Public Sector.

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Microsoft Acquires Osmos for Agentic AI Data Engineering

In a strategic move to reduce time-consuming manual data preparation, Microsoft has acquired Seattle-based startup Osmos, specializing in agentic AI for data engineering.

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AI and Our Next Conversations in Higher Education

Ryan Lufkin, the vice president of global strategy for Instructure, examines how the focus on AI in education will move from experimentation to accountability.

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WWT, NVIDIA Introduce Framework for Secure, Scalable, Responsible AI Adoption

Technology services provider World Wide Technology and NVIDIA have jointly developed an AI security framework dubbed AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR), designed to help organizations accelerate AI adoption while maintaining security, compliance, and operational resilience.