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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-int…

Microsoft and OpenAI invest millions in AI training for teachers
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence. The tech giants are paying for training for teachers to apply AI skills in the classroom. For the companies, the partnerships are also opportunities to make inroads into schools and win over students in the race for AI dominance. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten says skepticism guided her negotiations, but the…

The International Chess Federation (Fide) said on Wednesday it is examining former world champion Vladimir Kramnik’s public attacks on Daniel Naroditsky,
the American grandmaster whose sudden death at 29 has stunned the chess world and laid bare fissures in the sport’s digital age.
Naroditsky, among the most visible faces of chess’s pandemic-era renaissance,
was one of the most popular players and teachers of his generation,
a Stanford-educated prodigy who won the Und…

Who would have guessed.
Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-teacher-union-microsoft-f7554b6550fb90519dd8129acac8e2…