Meta awards nearly $2 million in AI Glasses Impact Grants to 30 US organizations
Meta announced the recipients of its AI Glasses Impact Grants on July 27, 2026, awarding nearly $2 million to 30...
Education
Imperial College London launches UK’s first AI, economics and policy master’s degree
Imperial Business School and Imperial College London's Department of Computing launched the MSc AI, Economics and Policy on July 28,...
Harvard researchers build an AI toy to study how it changes children’s play
Researchers at the Harvard Child-Centered AI Lab have built their own AI-enabled toy and started testing it with children in...
EU AI Act’s education deadline arrives, but Digital Omnibus defers most rules to 2027
August 2, 2026 was the date the EU AI Act originally set for high-risk AI obligations to take effect, including...
Osceola County schools give students Microsoft Copilot access, launch AI Fellows Program
The School District of Osceola County, Florida, will give students aged 13 and older access to Microsoft Copilot as the...
IU International University study finds AI lifts student efficiency
IU International University of Applied Sciences, based in Erfurt, Germany, published its "University Experience Study 2026" on July 22, 2026,...
Orange County Public Schools approves first AI policy for classrooms
Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) in Florida approved its first Orange County Public Schools AI policy at a school board...
iHub, Mastercard Foundation pick 12 Kenyan edtech startups for fellowship
iHub and the Mastercard Foundation selected 12 Kenyan startups for the fourth cohort of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, offering...
Laureate Education signs three-year AI deal with Google Cloud
Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAUR) announced on July 29, 2026 a three-year agreement with Google Cloud to deploy artificial intelligence...
Katy ISD limits generative AI chatbots for K-6 students starting 2026-27
Katy Independent School District, a Texas district west of Houston, has adopted a school AI chatbot policy that bars elementary...
Salamanca schools pause “Sally” AI classroom robot pilot after state concerns
Salamanca City Central School District in western New York put its AI classroom robot pilot on hold on July 24,...
imagi raises $4.5 million seed round to expand AI coding platform for K-12 schools
imagi, a New York-based edtech company that builds an AI coding platform for schools, closed an oversubscribed $4.5 million seed...
Ghana revises basic school curriculum to add AI, coding and citizenship education
Ghana's National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) presented a revised basic school curriculum to the Ministry of Education that...
Instructure survey finds 90% of higher-ed students now use AI
Ed-tech company Instructure published a survey on July 21, 2026, unveiled at InstructureCon 2026 in Louisville, finding that 90% of...
Egypt launches national AI competency framework for teachers with UNESCO
UNESCO reported on July 21, 2026, that Egypt's Ministry of Education and Technical Education, working with UNESCO, has officially launched...
Charleston County School District trains teachers under its AI policy ahead of 2026-27
Charleston County School District (CCSD) in South Carolina held teacher training sessions this summer to prepare educators to implement the...
Michigan State backs three AI-Ready Spartans education grants
Michigan State University's College of Education announced on July 15, 2026, that three of its projects were selected in the...
OpenAI moves ChatGPT Study Mode into parental controls for teen accounts
OpenAI has added ChatGPT Study Mode to its parental controls, letting a parent with a linked teen account switch the...
WGU partners with Anthropic on an AI-native model for learning and credentialing
Western Governors University (WGU), the largest nonprofit online university in the United States, is partnering with AI company Anthropic to...
Maryland school districts face a fall 2026 deadline to adopt AI policies under new law
Maryland school districts have a fall 2026 deadline to adopt their own artificial intelligence policies under the Artificial Intelligence Ready...
Digital Education Council survey finds 88% of students and 77% of faculty now use AI, with US and Canada faculty pulling back
A survey of 45,398 students and faculty across 35 countries, published by the Digital Education Council (DEC) in early July...
Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers, giving free access to US K-12 educators
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on July 14, 2026, giving verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium...
UNESCO and LG AI Research launch a global MOOC on the ethics of AI
UNESCO and LG AI Research launched "Empowering Minds: Transforming Lives", a free global AI ethics course, on July 20, 2026...
California launches AI-Ready California, a first-in-nation AI literacy micro-credential pilot
The California Labor & Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) announced the launch of AI-Ready California on July 14, 2026, a statewide...
Realbotix humanoid robot and Optio AI teaching assistant begin pilot at Salamanca City Central School District
Salamanca City Central School District, in Cattaraugus County, New York, is piloting a Realbotix humanoid robot alongside an AI teaching...
AI chatbots linked to less study time and lower math scores in analysis of 3.2 million ALEKS interactions
A working paper analyzing 3.2 million student interactions with the ALEKS math platform found that after ChatGPT's late-2022 release, students...
Illinois issues 400-page AI guidance for schools, drafted partly with AI chatbots
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) issued a 400-page AI guidance for schools on July 9, 2026, giving teachers...
Brown University publishes its first generative AI in teaching report amid an economics exam-integrity case
Brown University's Generative AI in Teaching and Learning committee published its first report on July 7, 2026, setting out how...
AI use in US higher education reaches a tipping point, Time for Class 2026 finds
AI in higher education has reached a tipping point, according to "Time for Class 2026: The AI Tipping Point", a...
UNESCO publishes a practical guide for AI in TVET institutions
UNESCO-UNEVOC published "Integrating AI in TVET: A practical guide for institutions" on July 3, 2026, setting out how technical and...
