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Anthropic's new Claude for Teachers offers verified US K-12 educators a free year of premium Claude access, with teaching skills tied to academic standards in all 50 states and a data addendum written to comply with FERPA.

Instructure says names, email addresses, student IDs and user messages were exposed in a breach disclosed May 1. ShinyHunters then listed the firm on its leak site, claiming 3.65 TB of data tied to 275 million people at close to 9,000 institutions.

A Harvard RCT found AI tutors doubled learning gains over active instruction, but a Wharton-led trial showed unguarded access cut exam scores by 17 percent, exposing the stakes as Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic race to put AI in every classroom.

Shareholders of both Coursera and Udemy voted over 99% in favor of combining into a single platform serving 245 million learners, with FTC clearance already secured and closing expected in the second half of 2026.

The First Lady hosted representatives from over 40 countries at the Fostering the Future Together summit, where a Figure 3 humanoid robot delivered opening remarks and Trump proposed a vision of always-available AI home tutors that drew bipartisan criticism from educators and lawmakers.

Senators Cantwell and Moran introduce federal legislation to fund AI scholarships, create community college Centers of Excellence, and train one million workers, while a Stanford review finds only 20 rigorous studies on AI in K-12 and states introduce competing bills to regulate classroom use.