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News from Axios
1 big thing: Schools’ perplexing AI policies
August 29, 2025
The Trump administration’s push to expand AI in schools, coupled with an ed tech gold rush, has districts revising rules in real time….
Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy and the AI tutor and teaching assistant Khanmigo, told Axios that teachers falsely accusing students of cheating is a growing problem.
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News from The Atlantic
AI Has Broken High School and CollegeAugust 29, 2025
…AI is a breaking point in education. One answer that seems to be emerging at the high-school level is a more practical, skills-based education. The College Board, for instance, has announced two new AP courses—AP Business and AP Cybersecurity. But there’s another group of people who are really concerned about how overreliance on these tools erodes critical-thinking skills, and maybe that means everyone should go read the classics and write their essays in cursive handwriting.
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News from AI Frontiers
The Hidden AI Frontier
August 28, 2025
Many cutting-edge AI systems are confined to private labs. This hidden frontier represents America’s greatest technological advantage — and a serious, overlooked vulnerability….
OpenAI’s GPT-5 launched in early August, after extensive internal testing. But another OpenAI model — one with math skills advanced enough to achieve “gold medal-level performance” on the world’s most prestigious math competition — will not be released for months. This isn’t unusual.
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News from The Guardian
ChatGPT encouraged Adam Raine’s suicidal thoughts. His family’s lawyer says OpenAI knew it was broken
August 29, 2025
Jay Edelson rebukes Sam Altman’s push to put ChatGPT in schools when the CEO knows about its problems….
OpenAI also said that its system did not block content when it should have because the system “underestimates the severity of what it’s seeing” and that the company is continuing to roll out stronger guardrails for users under 18 so that they “recognize teens’ unique developmental needs”.
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