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Three AI Giants Announce Joint Initiative to Train 400,000 Educators
On July 09, 2025 the big Ai tech giant OpenAI is claiming to democratise AI education by launching large-scale initiatives in the United States. The company has partnered with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to launch the National Academy for AI Instruction, a five-year initiative aimed at training four lakh K-12 teachers, nearly one in 10 across the country, to use and teach AI in classrooms effectively.
The initiative is expected to reach approximately 400,000 educators – that is, roughly one in ten US teachers – by 2030.
AI Giant Investment
OpenAI will contribute $10 million to the project, comprising $8 million in direct funding and $2 million in in-kind resources, including access to computing tools and technical guidance. Other partners include the United Federation of Teachers, Microsoft, and Anthropic. The flagship campus will be established in New York City, with plans to scale nationally through regional hubs.
Teachers who join the program will get hands-on workshops and online courses to learn about AI. They’ll also be able to create their own AI tools that work specifically for their classrooms, get help fitting AI into their current teaching methods, and be first in line to try new educational AI features from OpenAI.
This program comes after recent research showed that most teachers are already using AI. A study by Gallup found that 6 out of 10 educators have tried AI tools, and many say it saves them up to 6 hours of work each week.
In a statement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasised the importance of placing teachers at the centre of integrating AI into schools: “Educators make the difference, and they should lead this next shift with AI,” he said. “We’re here to support them.”
Similarly, AFT president Randi Weingarten highlighted the need for responsible deployment and guardrails: “AI holds tremendous promise but huge challenges,” he stated, “and it’s our job to make sure AI serves our students and society, not the other way around.”
ChatGPT is trying out a new ‘Study Together’ tool for students
OpenAI is testing a new feature in ChatGPT called ‘Study Together’ that you can find in the menu. This tool could turn ChatGPT into a helpful study partner. Instead of just giving you the answer right away, it will push you to figure things out yourself so you actually learn.
The name suggests that several students could join the same study session and work together. It looks like OpenAI’s way of competing with Google’s learning tool. OpenAI hasn’t said when everyone will get to use Study Together, or if only paid ChatGPT users will have access.
ChatGPT has already become popular with both teachers and students. Teachers use it to plan lessons, while students use it like a tutor or sometimes to write their assignments for them.
A recent study from MIT found that depending too much on ChatGPT and similar AI tools is making people worse at thinking through problems on their own. With many people worried that AI is hurting our creativity, this new Study Together feature might show a better way to use AI in schools.
YouTube has officially announced the new AI-driven creation tools for generating the unique and best Shorts, according to a recent blog post by the platform.
The new features include a Photo to video converter, generative effects, and access to an AI playground for experimenting with creative outputs.
Photo to video tool
The Photo to video tool allows users to transform still images from their camera roll into animated Shorts. Users can select a photo and apply creative suggestions that add motion, such as animating landscapes, objects or group pictures.
This feature is being rolled out across the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with more regions expected to follow later in the year. For your information, it is available for free.
Both the Photo to video and generative effects are powered by Google’s Veo 2 technology. YouTube said Veo 3 would be integrated into Shorts later this summer.
The feature is currently available in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and can be accessed by tapping the create button, followed by the sparkle icon.
YouTube noted that AI-generated content will include SynthID watermarks and clear labels to indicate that it was created using artificial intelligence.
According to the blog post, the new tools are designed to make the creative process more accessible, while preserving transparency about AI use in content creation.
Google has officially released a series of updates to Firebase Studio aimed at expanding its AI development capabilities and deepening integration with popular frameworks and Firebase services.
For your information, the released features were unveiled at I/O Connect India.
At the core of the update are AI-optimised templates for Flutter, Angular, React, Next.js, and general Web projects. These templates enable developers to build applications in Firebase Studio using Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, with the workspace defaulting to an autonomous Agent mode.
“We’re unveiling new updates that help you combine the power of Gemini with these new features to go from idea to app using some of your favourite frameworks and languages,” said Vikas Anand, director of product management at Google.
Firebase Studio now supports direct prompting of Gemini to integrate backend services. Developers using App Prototyping Agent or an AI-optimised template can simply describe the desired functionality, and Gemini will recommend and incorporate relevant Firebase services, including adding libraries, modifying code, and assisting with configuration.
“You can get assistance from Gemini to help you plan and execute tasks independently without waiting for step-by-step approval,” said Jeanine Banks, vice president and general manager, Developer X at Google.
Nvidia reportedly plans to resume sales to China that’s become part of a global race pitting the world’s biggest economies against each other. The company’s announcement on Monday comes after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump at the White House last week.
AMD AI Chip Plan For China
AMD also planning to restart sales of its AI chips to China. “We were recently informed by the Department of Commerce that license applications to export MI308 products to China will be moving forward for review,” the company said in a statement to CNN. “We plan to resume shipments as licenses are approved. We applaud the progress made by the Trump Administration in advancing trade negotiations and its commitment to US AI leadership.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg in an interview Tuesday that the Nvidia export controls have been a “negotiating chip” in the larger US-China trade talks, in which the two countries have made a deal to lower tariffs charged on one another.
The same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the resumption of Nvidia’s AI chip sales to China was part of the trade agreement with Beijing on rare earths. “We put that in the trade deal with the magnets,” he told Reuters, referring to rare earth magnets.
“In order for America to be the world leader, just like we want the world to be built on the American dollar, using the American dollar as a global standard, we want the American tech stack to be the global standard,” Huang told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday. “We love that the internet is created by American technology and is built on American technology, and so we should continue to aspire to that.”
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