AI, work and education
How artificial intelligence is entering companies, classrooms and jobs, with attention to what works now and what remains a promise.
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01OPENThe new Copilot wants to do the work for you. Here is what launches now and what costs extra
Microsoft is bringing chat, app creation and persistent agents into Home, Code and Autopilot. Access starts in Frontier, while longer agent tasks will use consumption-based billing.
02OPENClaude can use your private files in Slack. The team may still see its answer
Claude Tag now lets people use personal connectors inside Slack channels. The access remains theirs, but any answer posted to the channel becomes visible to its members.
03OPENYour PDF opens, but AI reads it badly: how to check a scanned document
A PDF can contain text, page images or both. OCR and visual processing handle different parts of the problem, and neither removes the need to check the result.
04OPENHow to check an AI agent’s access before connecting your accounts
Connecting email or Drive can save time, but the permissions may extend to reading or changing data. Here is a practical way to check and revoke access.
05OPENGoogle gives students a free year of Gemini, but only the US gets AI Pro free
Eligible students outside the US get AI Plus for 12 months. Enrolment verification and a payment card are required before automatic renewal.
06OPENElon Musk: 'Money will not matter in 2036.' AI will have surpassed us five years earlier
The xAI founder also believes humans will probably lose control, work will become optional and rival AI labs should inspect one another's models before release.
07OPENChatGPT Work can now use signed-in websites: you log in, then the agent takes over
When a website asks for a password, the agent hands over its remote browser. The session remains available for later tasks—a clear convenience with several risks worth understanding.
08OPENA DOI does not make an AI citation correct: how to check the source
A working link does not prove that a study supports the answer. Check three separate things: whether the publication exists, whether its details match and whether it supports the claim.
09OPENAnthropic gives US teachers Claude for free, and turns lesson planning into AI's next battleground
Claude for Teachers can draft lessons, adapt worksheets and review class data while educators head home. The free year is generous; the contest to become part of school life is much bigger.
10OPENGPT-5.6 is here, and it wants to do the whole job, not just answer questions
OpenAI is launching a model built to research, use tools and complete long assignments. It could save hours, but tracing a mistake across all those steps will be harder.
11OPENAI giants are asking Washington to regulate them. They also stand to gain from it
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind increasingly agree on federal rules. The decisive question is who writes them, how costly they are and which competitors can comply.
12OPENCurrent AI wants a public ChatGPT, and its first demo already works
Alpha Chat already works without an account, shows what it uses to answer and deletes conversations after 30 days. It is only version 0.1, but the coalition behind it has more than $400 million pledged and wants to turn open AI into a public service.
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