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ALT Google will automatically turn off its AI products for K-12 student accounts, requiring school administrators to manually opt in before students can use the technology, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. But there’s a big catch: If schools choose not to enable AI, students won’t be able to access Google Search.
ALT “Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools,” Mamdani wrote in the Tuesday post. “No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children. Our public schools exist to serve students, not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.”
ALT In her work, Xu found that seeking information using traditional search engines, as opposed to AI models, involves different processes, ranging from how students formulate queries to how they evaluate information to how they integrate it from multiple sources.
ALT Experts caution that educators can’t count on tech platforms to police themselves. Because AI tools are now permanent fixtures, schools must shape their own path forward. The primary hurdle is an uneven playing field, where wealthier districts have the resources to adapt, leaving underfunded systems struggling to keep up.
ALT OpenAI was previously reported to be raising $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, and then at a $1.25 trillion valuation, ahead of a planned IPO. But The Financial Times reported Friday that the company has subsequently lowered its funding target to $20 billion, with a first close that’s expected to be even lower than that.
ALT TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for comment. The company’s reported funding challenges could be blamed, in part, on bad timing, as Wall Street investors have become wary of heavy AI infrastructure spending, leading to a major sell off of tech stocks. And Anthropic’s planned IPO could be facing challenges, too.
ALT Summary Google is expanding ads in AI Mode to 10 countries and introducing “multiturn ads” in follow-up queries with commercial relevance. Lily Ray warns this reduces publisher traffic and organic clicks as AI Overviews and AI Mode satisfy users directly.
