August has already been a whirlwind month of work for AI for Education as schools get ready for the new academic year.

Google made a series of big back-to-school announcements last week.

OpenAI released GPT-5 last week with some notable improvements and our team watched the livestream. Here's what we think is most important to know about the update.

Key highlights from Common Sense Media recent comprehensive risk assessment of AI teacher assistants/lesson planning tools.

To help you catch up with another busy week , check out our weekly update on the key highlights in AI + Education news for the week of June 23rd, 2025

To help you catch up with another busy week in AI + Education news, check out our weekly update on the key highlights for the week of June 9th, 2025.

To help you catch up with another busy week in AI + Education news, check out our weekly update on the key highlights for the week of June 9th, 2025.

TeachAI and the OECD have released a comprehensive AI Literacy Framework for primary and secondary education, featuring four core domains (Engaging, Creating, Managing, and Designing AI) with 22 practical competencies that emphasize critical thinking and ethics over technical skills.

A new Stanford and Common Sense Media report finds that popular AI companion platforms like Character AI create serious dangers for minors, including blurred reality perception, harmful advice on major decisions, and mental health risks.

A new Executive Order on "Advancing AI Education for American Youth" aims to embed AI education across K-12, but raises critical questions about implementation. Read our full analysis and the Executive Order factsheet.

New RAND research reveals a growing AI training gap: while overall district AI professional development has doubled, low-poverty districts outperform high-poverty districts, potentially widening the digital divide as AI becomes increasingly central to education.

To help you catch up with another busy week , check out our weekly update on the key highlights in AI + Education news for the week of May 26th, 2025

OpenAI and Anthropic are advancing educational technology with OpenAI's new AI literacy trainings and the introduction of "Claude for Education," a version of Claude designed for higher education. While it aims to enhance critical thinking, there are concerns about its accuracy in solving math problems, highlighting limitations.

OpenAI's new GPT-4o image generator shows significant improvements, including better text rendering and consistent characters, but our AI for Education team found it still falls short on complex tasks like creating accurately labeled cell diagrams, despite being promoted as a "game-changer for educators.

In a recent webinar on AI ethics, our team explored the fascinating and troubling world of voice AI through a conversation with "Miles," a hyper-realistic AI system from Sesame AI. The interaction highlighted critical ethical concerns about AI's increasing ability to sound human, emphasizing the urgent need for AI literacy, transparency, and responsible development.

A new study by METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) shows GenAI systems are getting exponentially better at completing longer tasks, doubling their capabilities every 7 months.

LinkedIn's inaugural "Skills on the Rise" list is out. It ranks the fastest-growing skills that professionals should invest in developing. AI literacy tops the list at # 1.

Our CEO Amanda Bickerstaff has been honored as one of THE AI SHOW @ ASU+GSV's 2025 Leading Women in AI, celebrating her contributions alongside other outstanding leaders in the field.

The past few weeks saw some interesting new updates in the world of GenAI and education, including new releases by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Figure Robotics and the disappearance of some great AI resources from the Office of Educational Technology.

A recent study from Stanford shows that large language models (LLMs) have rapidly affected how we write across multiple domains of society—often in ways we may not fully appreciate.