Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, acknowledged that Khanmigo, the AI chatbot tutor launched three years ago, was 'a non-event' for most students, with Chief Learning Officer Kristen DiCerbo stating, …
Google has launched its Gemini Student Hub in Pakistan, introducing AI study tools for coursework, exam prep, research, and career planning, with study notebooks rolling out globally. The free tier of…
A 2026 randomized trial in UK classrooms found students using an AI tutor achieved median learning gains more than double those of the in-class group, according to a blog post by an author who has pub…
A developer building an AI tutor details the architecture behind retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and prompt design, explaining how LLMs are wrapped in pedagogical scaffolding to enforce Socratic …
A security researcher discovered a high-severity AI security vulnerability on Khan Academy's Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP). The issue involved prompt injection in an AI agent, allowing unauth…
Coursera announced a $100 million investment in LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup founded by its chairman and co-founder Andrew Ng, giving Coursera roughly one-third equity and a commercial p…
Educators must accept that any assignment completed outside the classroom will eventually be completed by an LLM, forcing all evaluative work to occur in environments where LLMs are inaccessible, acco…
Alpha School, a for-profit AI-focused K-12 private school, has grown from one campus in Austin to more than 15 schools across the U.S., including in New York and San Francisco, joining other AI-centri…
A 30-month study of over 26,000 Chinese students found that using generative AI tools like Alibaba's Qwen boosted homework scores by 18% and cut completion time from 64 to 45 minutes, but monthly exam…
Developers building real-time voice AI applications must abandon synchronous tool loops to achieve sub-second latency, according to engineering patterns from Ello and Khan Academy. Streaming action in…
AI is impacting higher education, but historical tech shocks like the Internet, big data, and MOOCs have had limited transformative effects on core pedagogy, suggesting AI may follow a similar pattern…
Josh Tyrangiel, author of 'AI for Good,' argues that AI's greatest impact comes from practical tools solving real problems, not flashy promises. He highlights examples like the Cleveland Clinic's seps…
Despite predictions that AI tutors would transform education, a Chalkbeat report and a Stanford University study show that student engagement with tools like Khan Academy's Khanmigo remains minimal, w…
Sal Khan and Sam Altman's predictions of an AI revolution in education have fallen short as Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo saw stagnant student engagement despite reaching nearly 1 million students.…
A developer built **mnemo**, a local-first learning-management agent that tracks topics, sequences them by prerequisites, and schedules spaced-repetition reviews using the SM-2 algorithm, all running …
The author spent most of their daily study session on an HTML course from W3Schools, covering topics from Introduction to Formatting while practicing in VS Code. They also created a modified version o…
The article describes a bookmarklet designed to automatically answer questions on Khan Academy by sending a fabricated attempt to the site's API. The provided JavaScript code constructs a request with…
The user spent their sixteenth day of learning completing an Access Control lab and writing two Python scripts: a basic TCP port scanner and a word guesser game. They have shifted from using AI-genera…