Sep 10, 2025

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Andrew Ng and Greg Hart stand at Coursera Connect event with a colorful conference backdrop.
Sep 10, 2025

Knowledge Is Great, Skills Are Greater: Educators are shifting from teaching knowledge to teaching practical skills. A report from the Coursera Connect conference

This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.
Andrew Ng and Greg Hart stand at Coursera Connect event with a colorful conference backdrop.
Sep 10, 2025

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

The Batch AI News and Insights: This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.
Diagram comparing sliding window attention and ATLAS memory, showing wider context tracking in ATLAS.
Sep 10, 2025

10 Million Tokens of Input Context: ATLAS, a transformer-like architecture, can process a context window as large as ten million tokens

An alternative to attention enables large language models to track relationships among words across extraordinarily wide spans of text.
Students at Alpha School working on laptops during AI-assisted personalized learning session.
Sep 10, 2025

2 Hours With AI Versus 6 With Teacher: Inside Alpha School, a Texas-based program using algorithms and video monitors to teach children

A growing private school system replaces the typical 6-hour school day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-assisted education. 
Infographic showing Google antitrust ruling: must share search index, syndicate results, and allow non-exclusive deals.
Sep 10, 2025

Google Must Share Data With AI Rivals: Google must share its search index, but can keep Chrome and Android

AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.
AI chatbot interfaces showing tour guide, outdoor adventurer, and custom characters as Meta and OpenAI add safety controls.
Sep 10, 2025

Meta, OpenAI Reinforce Guardrails: Meta and OpenAI respond to criticism by adding new rules for teens’ chatbot use

Meta and OpenAI promised to place more controls on their chatbots’ conversations with children and teenagers, as worrisome interactions with minors come under increasing scrutiny.

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