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• AI-Driven Education Poised for Breakthrough as StudyPal Launches Next-Generation Learning Platform - Yahoo!
  StudyPal, an innovative AI-powered education platform, today announced the launch of its latest suite of AI-driven learning tools, designed to revolutionize student engagement and personalized learning. As the debate over AI in education continues, StudyPal aims to demonstrate how artificial intelligence can enhance comprehension, retention, and accessibility for learners worldwide. AI has rapidly integrated into […]
• 'This has been a game changer' | Educators embrace AI at Texas State University symposium - Jessica Cha, KVUE
  Around 375 higher education teachers gathered at Texas State University this week for their first symposium on artificial intelligence in education as educators strive to keep pace with rapidly evolving technology. The two-day "AI in Teaching and Learning Symposium," which concluded Thursday, was designed to showcase ways to enhance teaching practices by integrating AI into […]
• Online microcredentials: a response to meet the market's demand for soft skills - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
  The demand for professionals with soft skills, such as effective communication, critical thinking and time management, is high in today's job market. "Soft skills are the personal and social skills that enable professionals to work effectively, both on their own or in teams. They're associated with personal behaviour patterns and attitudes such as decision-making, time […]
• Investing in the Future: Preparing Students for the AI Revolution - Teaching and Learning Services, Carleton
  In a world where technology is rapidly evolving, artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere, transforming many aspects of our daily lives. From using smart thermostats or robot vacuums in our homes, to offering virtual reality simulations in university courses, to automating tasks in the workplace, AI is changing the way we live, learn and work. […]
• Virtual Classes and AI Help Students With Some College, No Credential - Abby Sourwine, Government Technology
  Southern New Hampshire University's online offerings and artificial intelligence-powered support tools are re-engaging learners who left college without a degree. More than 40 million Americans have earned some college credit but never finished a degree, according to a report last year from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). It’s a population that continues to […]
• Key Considerations for AI and Accessibility in Higher Education - Emily Cook, Every Learner Everywhere
  Every Learner Everywhere and Teach Access have partnered to publish a new resource titled Where AI Meets Accessibility: Considerations for Higher Education, to support educators and administrators in higher education in exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and accessibility, with a particular focus on the needs of people with disabilities (PWD). Created through collaboration […]
• Which LLM Should You Use for Your Business? [Pros and Cons] - Nathan Lands and Matt Wolfe, Hubspot
  Choosing the right large language model can feel overwhelming with so many options out there, especially if you’re not exactly living and breathing AI. But as we’ve worked through each one, we’ve gotten a real sense of what they’re good at (and where they fall short). So, let’s talk about what to use, when.https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/which-llm-should-you-use
• Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model - Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google
  Gemini 2.5 is a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. Our first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, leads common benchmarks by meaningful margins and showcases strong reasoning and code capabilities. Gemini 2.5 models are thinking models, capable of reasoning through their thoughts before responding, resulting in enhanced performance and improved accuracy. In […]
• Creative Futures Academy (CFA) helping businesses equip their employees with the skills needed to thrive - Creative Futures Academy
  Creative Futures Academy was delighted to feature in 'Business This Week' within The Irish Times as part of a special report on Attracting Excellence in Ireland. Our Director, Louise Allen, and our courses featured across multiple articles focusing on prioritising career development to attract talent, sustainability and EDI considerations and also exploring career stagnation with […]
• Amplified Humanity: How AI Can Expand Our Capacity to Do Good and Be Good - Tawnya Means, University of Illinois Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation, via LinkedIn
  In an era where headlines about artificial intelligence swing between utopian promises and dystopian warnings, we're missing perhaps the most profound opportunity of all: using AI to help us become better humans. This isn't about outsourcing our humanity. It's about leveraging technology to amplify our uniquely human capacities for care, support, learning, engagement, and love. […]
• SUPERAGENCY: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future" - Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, Superagency
  Superagency, by Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, presents an optimistic view of AI's future, focusing on its potential to amplify human capabilities and improve society. Rather than dwelling on dystopian scenarios, the book explores how AI can enhance individual agency, enabling people to achieve more in areas like education, healthcare, and problem-solving. It advocates for […]
• The rise of the AI manager - Tigran Sloyan, Fast Company
  There’s a growing fear that artificial intelligence will soon replace human talent. While it’s undeniable that AI will impact the labor market, as with any disruptive technology, a closer look reveals a different—and far more empowering—future.  Rather than displacing highly skilled professionals, AI is setting the stage for knowledge workers to transition from individual contributors […]
• Innovation and Collaboration in Higher Education During Challenging Times - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  The field of higher education is notoriously slow to change. Yet, when faced with the extraordinary challenges of today, our associations are quick to foster support, collaboration and unity. I just returned from the UPCEA annual conference held in Denver. A record attendance of some 1,300 administrators, faculty and staff from member institutions gathered to […]
• Anthropic just gave Claude a superpower: real-time web search. Here’s why it changes everything - Michael Nuñez, Venture Beat
  Anthropic announced today that its AI assistant Claude can now search and process information from the internet in real-time, addressing one of users’ most requested features and closing a critical competitive gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new web search capability, available immediately for paid Claude users in the United States, transforms the AI assistant from […]
• New ways to collaborate and get creative with Gemini - the Keyword, Google
  Explore Gemini's latest features: Canvas, a new interactive space for refining your documents and code and Audio Overview, which transform your files into engaging podcast-style discussions. Gemini can already help you brainstorm ideas, do deep research and generate content for whatever project you’re working on. And starting today, Gemini can offer even more help, whether […]
• Human Augmentation: The Core Promise of AI - Lee Ott,Tech Crunch
  At the heart of AI is the goal of elevating human potential. When technology manages mundane or repetitive tasks, we are free to focus on creativity, collaboration, and decision-making. By offloading routine tasks to AI, workflows that once took days can be completed in hours, enabling people to think bigger and move faster.  This shift […]
• More than 7 in 10 College Students and Administrators Seek AI Agents to Close Support Gaps, Ease Burnout - Salesforce
  “AI agents offer an incredible opportunity for institutions to scale student support and engagement in a way that will enable them to increase enrollment and retention. Deeply knowledgeable, contextually aware AI agents that are grounded in an institution’s unique data are able to provide students with 24/7 personalized support from the moment they first engage […]
• Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks - Maxwell Zeff, Tech Crunch
  In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report released on Tuesday comes from the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, […]
• AI's Moore's Law: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
  We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months. Extrapolating this trend predicts that, in under five years, we will see AI agents that can […]
• Adobe previews AI generated PowerPoints from raw customer data with ‘Project Slide Wow’ - Carl Franzen, Venture Beat
  For businesses that rely on data-driven decision-making, Project Slide Wow could be a major step forward in simplifying the process of building presentations. If the tool gains traction, it may soon be available as an official Adobe product—potentially transforming how companies use customer data to inform strategy. Until then, CTOs, CIOs, team leads, and analysts […]