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A nationwide snapshot released this week shows AI chatbots have moved from curiosity to routine in American teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of U.S. teens say they’ve used an AI chatbot, and about three-in-ten report using one every day. This shift — led by ChatGPT but involving Google...

A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...

Across campuses, Microsoft Teams for Education is no longer just a place for chat and video calls — when deliberately configured and governed, it can act as the central nervous system for student engagement, academic collaboration, administration, telephony, and AI-driven insights that together...

A randomized classroom experiment by Cambridge University Press & Assessment and Microsoft Research confirms a simple but crucial point for educators: traditional note‑taking still outperforms using a large language model (LLM) alone for long‑term comprehension and memory, while LLMs can be a...

California State University, East Bay has quietly begun a campuswide switch from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 (Copilot-enabled) — a planned, phased migration that ITS says will take about 18 months and aims for completion in December 2026. The transition replaces Gmail with Outlook, Google...

Gateway’s 11.6‑inch 2‑in‑1 convertible (GWTC116) is reappearing across retail and refurbished channels as a budget-first, classroom‑ready convertible—packing an Intel Celeron N4020, 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of eMMC storage into a slim, 360° hinge chassis intended for students, remote workers and...

Microsoft’s latest back‑to‑school move hands eligible college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — including the integrated Copilot AI layer — at no cost for a limited time, a promotion that opens the Copilot experience to millions of students but brings important caveats around...

Willow’s announcement that it has been named a finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Education Partner of the Year Award spotlights a fast‑moving intersection of Operational AI, cloud platforms and campus sustainability — and it forces practical questions for education IT buyers about governance...

The shop floor is no longer a separate world of paper logs and two‑way radios; it’s a live, cloud‑connected workspace where alerts, videos, maintenance tickets, and work instructions arrive in the same pane of glass—often inside Microsoft Teams—giving frontline operators, maintenance crews, and...

AI-driven image generation is reshaping how instructors prepare slides, how researchers illustrate concepts, and how universities present findings—moving visual pedagogy from ad‑hoc illustration to on‑demand, data‑aware visual reasoning that can be produced, iterated, and integrated in minutes...

Pasco County Schools will begin a cautious, teacher-led rollout of Microsoft Copilot for high school students on December 1, opening a controlled window for AI-assisted learning while explicitly keeping classroom authority, age gating, and evolving guidelines at the center of its approach...

The last week’s earnings cascade left a stark, simple narrative for anyone watching cloud economics: three companies — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are not just winning the cloud war, they’re printing cash from it in a way that reshapes the balance sheets and strategic choices of nearly every...

Artificial intelligence is not just another productivity tool — early research suggests it may be reshaping how we think, learn, and even speak, with consequences that range from practical classroom challenges to deeper cognitive shifts in memory, attention, and problem solving. New empirical...

Microsoft has reintroduced a face for its virtual assistant — but this time it’s a smiling, color-shifting blob named Mico rather than an officious paperclip — and the move crystallizes a major crossroads for AI on Windows: how to give helpfulness a personality without repeating the mistakes of...

Microsoft’s fresh attempt to give Copilot a face arrives as a carefully engineered echo of a notorious past: the animated avatar Mico is designed to be warm, visible and scoped — a friendly companion for voice interactions, study sessions and group chats, rather than a resurrected, intrusive...

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told interviewers this week that the company is deliberately steering its Copilot family of chatbots in a different direction from many rivals: emotionally intelligent and helpful, yes — but boundaried, safe, and meant to be something parents would feel...

The Framework Laptop 12 is the kind of gadget that forces a rethink about what a mainstream laptop can — and should — be: a genuinely modular, repairable 2‑in‑1 you can buy as a bare‑bones DIY kit, assemble yourself, and run Linux on with official, step‑by‑step support. That combination of...

BoodleBox’s announcement that it will deepen its relationship with Microsoft — migrating its infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, joining Microsoft Elevate, and exploring tighter integration with Azure AI services such as Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Search, and Microsoft Fabric — marks a notable...

Microsoft’s latest teaser suggests the company is about to take Copilot into the classroom in a more visible, multimodal way — a school‑ready “Study and Learn” experience built around a personable tutor avatar called Mico that blends voice, visuals and persistent lesson flows inside Copilot...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly experimenting with a new, tutor‑style experience — an experimental Study and Learn mode surfaced in test builds that pairs a specially styled avatar named Mico (sometimes reported as “Miko”) with voice-driven tutoring, a yellow Copilot appearance, and a persistent...