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Deployment of generative AI inside teaching, feedback and assessment workflows at academic institutions.
A scan of 15 Canadian university websites found 953 public AI initiatives, 91 explicitly aimed at instructors. The authors, before peer review, describe campuses choosing different AI models as federal money and a 1 million-student literacy goal arrive.
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MIT's expert committee wants AI literacy in introductory courses now, at a school where only about a quarter of surveyed students felt prepared for AI. Its June 2026 report finds faculty-student trust breaking down and asks each course to set learning goals and assessments before it writes AI rules.
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Ken Griffin is giving Carnegie Mellon $3 billion, a record by the university's count, with $2 billion for a 35-acre campus in Miami's Wynwood. For employers it promises a new supply of technical graduates in South Florida, on a timeline measured in years and at a modest scale.
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Dartmouth College is investigating AI use in provost Santiago Schnell's writing after a detector scored his essay on AI cheating 100% AI-written. In his apology he names disclosure as the rule he broke, and a college can apply that rule to its provost and its students alike.
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A Nature editorial says the studies on AI and critical thinking are still too early for firm conclusions, while MIT's own review of staff and student use warns that surviving the encounter will take substantial adaptation.
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For the first ninety minutes nobody opens an IDE. A mentor has to approve the team's SPEC.md, and that same file is what Antigravity or Cursor reads once the coding starts. It is worth 35 of the 100 points.
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Two mandatory psychology units lost their in-person classes this semester and kept their fee, which makes Macquarie an early read on whether students will pay the same money for teaching a machine now handles.
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A HEPI survey puts generative-AI use on assessed work at 94% of UK undergraduates, and the educators Nature canvassed have largely stopped hunting for it, setting tasks instead where a model's output does not fit the evidence in the room.
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MIT's committee says models can credibly do essentially every written assignment it sets, which turns the problem from dishonesty into the missing human interactions that education and training products were built to sell.
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At roughly $87 a week, the humans show up once; anything a learner wants to repeat is answered by a render. That split, not the model behind it, is the product.
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