OpenAI Releases ChatGPT for Teachers, Providing Them Free Access Until June 2027

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teachers this Wednesday, providing a free K-12 workspace across the U.S. until June 2027. This work builds on the company's partnership with the American Federation of Teachers⁠. Today, three in five teachers use an AI tool, mostly to save working hours. This ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of ChatGPT designed for K-12 educators and school districts, not for students, also includes administrative controls for managers. It supports FERPA requirements. OpenAI requires verification to set up a free workspace for teachers and staff at U.S. K–12 schools or districts. OpenAI is initially launching ChatGPT for Teachers with a cohort of districts that represent 150,000 educators. The startup also released an AI Literacy Blueprint. Leah Belsky, vice president of education at OpenAI, ensured that student data would be protected and that anything shared within ChatGPT for Teachers would not be used to train OpenAI models. This month marks the third anniversary of the launch of its generic ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022. Since then, many teachers and parents have argued that students can use the tool to cheat and avoid engaging in critical thinking. In July, OpenAI released a feature in ChatGPT called "study mode,” built for college-age students and aimed at helping them work through problems step by step before arriving at an answer. According to the company, "ChatGPT for Teachers brings the main tools in ChatGPT —unlimited messages with GPT‑5.1 Auto, search, file uploads, connectors, and image generation—into a workspace where teachers can securely work with classroom materials and student information, collaborate with colleagues, and learn from other educators. Education-grade security & compliance: Anything you share with ChatGPT for Teachers is not used to train our models by default, and the workspace is built to protect student data and help schools meet FERPA requirements. Personalized teaching support: Tell ChatGPT to remember details like your grade level, curriculum, and preferred format so responses feel tailored to your teaching style and classroom. You’re in control of your settings. Connected to your tools: Build presentations with Canva in ChatGPT, and bring in lesson plans and files from Google Drive or Microsoft 365 so every chat starts with your classroom context, saving you time on prep. Examples from real teachers: Discover ready-to-use ideas and prompts from teachers already using ChatGPT, directly under the message composer in your workspace. Collaboration: Use custom GPTs to create templates with other teachers at your school or district, or co-plan lessons and presentations together in shared projects. Admin controls: School and district leaders can claim their domain to bring educators into one workspace with role-based access controls, and secure accounts with SAML SSO."

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Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Faces the Challenge of NYC's Public School System

Fixing the New York City public school system will be an enormous challenge for the mayor-elect, socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani, as he announced plans to recruit more teachers, expand support for homeless students, and pledge free childcare for all babies and toddlers, The New York Times reported. New York has the largest education system in the U.S., with 880,000 students enrolled, 1,500 schools, and an annual operating budget of $41 billion. Zohran Mamdani has been candid about education, acknowledging that he is still learning about this unwieldy system and will rely on guidance from advisers and the teachers’ union, which endorsed him. In this regard, given that Mamdani has to select a school's chancellor by January, Michael Mulgrew, president of that union, the United Federation of Teachers, encouraged the new mayor to retain Melissa Aviles-Ramos, who has run the system since last fall. The union also has a strong relationship with Meisha Ross Porter, a former school chancellor who remains popular among education leaders. New York City was once home to more than 1.1 million public school students, but that number has fallen due to a decrease in birth rates and as families have moved to cities where it is far more affordable to raise children. Projections suggest that the system can lose tens of thousands of additional students in the coming years. Another controversy is that New York schools allow students to use bathrooms that align with gender ideology. Additionally, the system introduced a Black studies curriculum and social studies lessons focused on race, culture, and sexuality. In immigration, New York teachers have banded together to shield migrant children from ICE police. “This is exactly the type of school system that the Trump administration would target,” wrote The Times. In New York City, federal funding accounts for a relatively small portion — 6 percent — of the education budget. But even minor funding disruptions can create chaos for thousands of children and their families. Regarding performance, for decades, New York, like many cities, has consistently underperformed in literacy. More than half of Black and Latino children are not proficient on state tests. The percentage of students who struggle the most rose during the past 15 years.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft Provide Millions to Train Teachers on AI

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft are providing millions of dollars for AI training to the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-largest teachers union. Their goal is to keep teachers relevant and help students use the technology wisely. The common goal is to train America's future workforce. “We are preparing kids for the future. That is our primary job. And AI, like it or not, is part of our world,” say teachers. In exchange, the tech companies have an opportunity to make inroads into schools and win over students in the race for AI dominance. “There is no one else who is helping us with this. That’s why we felt we needed to work with the largest corporations in the world,” AFT President Randi Weingarten said. “We went to them — they didn’t come to us.” Under the arrangement announced in July, Microsoft is contributing $12.5 million to AFT over five years. OpenAI is providing $8 million in funding and $2 million in technical resources, and Anthropic has offered $500,000. With the funds, AFT plans to build an AI training hub in New York City that will offer virtual and in-person workshops for teachers. The goal is to open at least two more hubs and train 400,000 teachers over the next five years. Meanwhile, the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, announced its own partnership with Microsoft last month. The company has provided a $325,000 grant to help the NEA develop AI trainings in the form of “microcredentials” — online trainings open to the union’s 3 million members, said to Reuters Daaiyah Bilal, NEA’s senior director of education policy. The goal is to train at least 10,000 members this school year. The unions own the intellectual property for the trainings, which cover safety and privacy concerns alongside AI skills. The Trump administration has encouraged private investment, recently creating an AI Education Task Force as part of an effort to achieve “global dominance in artificial intelligence.” The federal government urged tech companies and other organizations to foot the bill. So far, more than 100 companies have signed up. Beyond training teachers. Microsoft unveiled a $4 billion initiative to fund AI training and research, and to gift its AI tools to teachers and students. It includes the AFT grant and a program that will give all school districts and community colleges in Washington, Microsoft’s home state, free access to Microsoft CoPilot tools. Google says it will commit $1 billion to AI education and job-training programs, including free access to its Gemini for Education platform for U.S. high schools. In their sessions, teachers generate lesson plans using ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot, and two AI tools designed for schools, Khanmigo and Colorín Colorado. They even find ways to engage bored learners with AI-graded classwork instantly, turning lesson plans into podcasts or online storybooks, or generating images and creating illustrated flashcards in English and Spanish to teach vocabulary.

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Anthropic Will Roll Out Its Claude model to Cognizant's 350,000 Employees

Anthropic announced it will roll out its flagship Claude model to Cognizant Technology Solutions' 350,000 employees in one of its biggest enterprise deals yet. The deal comes at a time when Claude is ramping up efforts to sell to corporate clients, while its rival, OpenAI, is focusing on consumer-driven ChatGPT-related apps. San Francisco-based Anthropic stated that approximately 80% of its revenue is driven by corporate customers, and it has more than 300,000 business clients. Anthropic said it has a team of what it calls forward-deployed engineers—or staff embedded within enterprises to teach them how to use AI. Anthropic last month reached a deal with IBM and also announced that Deloitte’s over 470,000 employees will use its models. For Cognizant, a Teaneck, New Jersey–based professional services company, the deal with Anthropic is intended to enhance its software development capabilities, enabling the firm to transition from a system integrator to an AI builder and orchestrate multi-step workflows, with human oversight, across corporate functions, engineering, and delivery teams. Claude Code, along with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent SDK, will be used to accelerate coding tasks, testing, documentation, and DevOps workflows. Cognizant said, "It will deploy Claude models, Claude Code, MCP, and Agent SDK with Cognizant's software development and AI platforms to deliver: Software engineering productivity: Deploying Claude and Claude Code with Cognizant Flowsource Platform (which connects tools and teams across the software development process) to accelerate coding tasks, testing, documentation, and DevOps workflows with MCP-based access to developer tools. Legacy modernization: Combining Cognizant's modernization frameworks with Anthropic's code understanding and transformation capabilities to speed analysis and refactoring across large codebases. Agentification: Using Cognizant Neuro AI Multi-Agent Orchestration (which builds and coordinates multiple AI agents working together) and Anthropic's Agent SDK to design reusable, domain-specific agents and multi-agent systems that operate with explicit policies, approvals, and human-in-the-loop controls. Industry solutions: Developing vertical solutions, beginning with Financial Services, leveraging Cognizant Agent Foundry (which helps enterprises build and deploy AI agents at scale) with Claude to embed agentic workflows into regulated, enterprise environments. Responsible AI: Advancing practices for safe deployment, monitoring, and operations at scale, aligned to enterprise governance needs and open standards such as MCP." Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in enterprise LLM API market share. OpenAI fell from 50% in late 2023 to 25% by mid-2025, which shows that brand alone does not hold share once real workloads start. Anthropic now leads enterprise LLM API usage with 32%, while OpenAI has 25%,… pic.twitter.com/25cfkNVhjT — Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) November 1, 2025 OpenAI lost half their enterprise market in 18 months and the crossover already happened. That blue line going from 48% to 24% is the fastest market leader collapse I've seen outside of actual fraud scandals. We're watching a 50% share erosion in real time while Anthropic went… https://t.co/40ZDvOil8Q — Aakash Gupta (@aakashg0) November 3, 2025

Coca-Cola Released An Improved AI-Generated Commercial for Christmas

Coca-Cola's holiday ads have been enhanced with an upgraded dose of AI following last year's debut of this technology, which drew criticism from creative professionals. San Francisco-based Silverside developed one of the two commercials for "Holidays Are Coming," which will run throughout the season.   The Wall Street Journal commented on the quality of the video ads: "The wheels of the red delivery trucks in Coke’s new commercials look as if they’re all turning, rather than gliding like some did last year. The shiny-faced, spaced-out humans of 2024 have ceded their place to an expanded host of critters, letting Coke dodge the “uncanny valley” where nearly real simulations of people wind up unsettling viewers." Other advertisers have also utilized generative AI to achieve speed and cost efficiencies, despite some people’s distaste for the technology and its potential to render jobs in the creative industries. However, Generative AI ads require considerable work: a team of artists works frame by frame, often pixel by pixel, to refine and tweak images. According to the trade group Interactive Advertising Bureau, 30% of TV commercials, social videos, and online videos this year are being built or enhanced using generative AI tools, up from 22% in 2023. Last month, tech giant Google unveiled its first completely AI-generated ad spot.  

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