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TechBullion’s recent roundup highlights ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and GrammarlyGO as among the top AI tools making learning easier for students — a concise list that captures the current mainstream players while missing several specialist tools educators are already using in...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting a new set of study‑and‑play features that turn the assistant from a passive helper into an active quizmaster — users can now ask Copilot to generate quizzes across history, math, science, and pop culture, use interactive Quiz Cards, and even deploy quiz-style...

Christopher Ketcham’s Los Angeles Times opinion — a brisk, apocalyptic meditation that frames AI as the next evolutionary step in making humans intellectually lazier — crystallizes a fear that has migrated from elite theory to everyday worry: the machines that augment our thinking will, if...

The contours of the modern Executive MBA are shifting faster than most curricula can keep up: AI is no longer a future elective tucked into an optional module, it’s becoming an operational competency that executive programs are expected to deliver as a core outcome. Recent industry and academic...

OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered...

Olandria Carthen’s post‑villa momentum took a turn toward purposeful visibility this week as the Love Island USA Season 7 alum reunited two of the most powerful narratives in contemporary culture—HBCU pride and generative AI—by spotlighting Tuskegee University through Microsoft Copilot in a...

Microsoft is giving eligible U.S. college students a free, full 12‑month subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot built in — a time‑limited offer that bundles Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, 1 TB of OneDrive storage and Microsoft’s generative AI assistant into students’...

Microsoft is offering every U.S. college student one year of Microsoft 365 Personal at no cost, a limited-time move that folds the company’s consumer productivity suite and its Copilot AI assistant into a broader education-focused push tied to the White House’s AI Education Task Force and...

The White House’s latest tech summit ended not with a policy white paper but with a photograph: senior executives from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Apple and other Silicon Valley heavyweights gathered at a dinner hosted by First Lady Melania Trump to endorse a national AI education push, pledge...

Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...

Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

President Trump’s Rose Garden dinner with a who’s‑who of Silicon Valley on September 4, 2025 crystallized a new chapter in industry‑government relations: tech executives publicly pledged vast U.S. investments and education initiatives while pressing for lighter regulatory touch on artificial...

Microsoft’s package of education pledges — announced at a White House AI education event and consolidated under the new Microsoft Elevate umbrella — promises a major, fast-moving push to put generative AI into students’ hands: free Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot for every eligible U.S...

Microsoft's latest commitments to the Presidential AI Challenge mark one of the most consequential public‑private pushes to integrate generative AI into American classrooms, community colleges, and federal operations — a coordinated package that pairs free product access, training pathways, and...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider updates bring a welcome accessibility upgrade to Narrator: an on‑screen Braille viewer that displays textual and Braille output in a floating window, making it far easier for sighted teachers, trainers, developers, and testers to follow Braille output...

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now appearing in more campus environments — including announcements from higher‑education IT teams — but at least one university link meant to explain the rollout is returning a 404, underscoring how fast the product is moving and how fragile institutional...

Ohio University’s yearlong pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a pragmatic, measured verdict: the tool can help with routine drafting and information retrieval, especially for communication-heavy administrative work, but the headline productivity payoff is modest and highly role-dependent —...

Canadian universities are no longer debating whether to engage with generative artificial intelligence — they are designing how to manage it. In the last 18 months a clear pattern has emerged across Canada’s major campuses: centrally provisioned, enterprise-grade AI tools such as Microsoft...

Brighton Hill Community School has begun what its leaders call a “reinvention” of everyday teaching by rolling out a campus-wide fleet of Acer TravelMate laptops equipped with Intel processors and Microsoft Copilot, in a partnership involving Acer, Intel and Microsoft that aims to embed...

Microsoft appears to be preparing a new Study and Learn mode for Copilot that would sit in the same mode selector users already use to switch between Quick, Think Deeper and Deep Research — and early evidence suggests the feature is aimed squarely at students, educators and lifelong learners as...