Google Makes Schools Choose as OpenAI's AI Builds a Gadget
Google ties school Search to AI settings, OpenAI's model designs a device, Nvidia reportedly caps China cloud business, and Siri opens up to every app.
Sharpen your pencils, homework dodgers, because Tuesday's AI news went straight to school.
Google Makes Schools Pick a Lane
Google says Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will all be switched off for K-12 student accounts until a school admin turns them on. 🏫
- 🔍 Google's education chief told The New York Times that "Search and AI are deeply integrated," so schools that say no to AI also lose Search, as AP and The Verge report.
- 🧩 A new Guided Learning mode walks students through homework step by step instead of handing over the answer, with a Search pilot in select U.S. schools this month.
- 📝 The new controls roll out over the coming months.
Basically: want the library? You get the robot librarian too.
OpenAI's AI Built a Gadget
OpenAI shared how its models help engineers design physical stuff. 🛠️ Two employees used GPT-6 Astra to design a little device for talking to Codex, including the case, the circuit board and the software, in under a week as a side project.
- 🏭 A contract manufacturer built prototypes in under a month.
- 🛑 It wasn't perfect: OpenAI says Astra didn't always account for the factory's production limits, so humans still had to review and iterate.
Like a kid who builds an amazing Lego set but forgets it has to fit in the box.
Nvidia Draws a Line on China
Nvidia has told cloud and data center clients worldwide that at least 51% of their services must go to non-Chinese companies, the Financial Times reported, citing five people familiar with it. 🌏
- 🧾 It reportedly applies only to new contracts, and was delivered verbally, not in writing.
- 💼 Nvidia neither confirmed nor denied it, saying America's AI infrastructure needs to win worldwide.
Siri Opens the Door to Every App
Apple opened Siri AI to all developers in the iOS 27.3 developer preview. 📱 Apps can now let Siri take actions inside them, and new "app skills" can bundle several steps into one request. App Store submissions open in the spring, so it.s a developer playground for now.
Other Cool Things to Know Today
- 📰 OpenAI says ChatGPT's search-style queries now equal about 20% of Google's volume and it has 1.2 billion weekly users, though that's OpenAI's own estimate.
- 👾 Tencent launched Hy4, its newest model, with vision skills for the first time, and plans to release the weights in the coming days.
- 🔥 Anthropic aims to roughly double its computing power to about 7 gigawatts next year, per The New York Times.
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