Education

Google faces backlash from politicians and antitrust advocates after announcing that K-12 schools using its education software will lose access to Google Search unless they opt in to AI features. In response to criticism that it is coercing schools into adopting AI, Google stated that Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search will be turned off by default and can be enabled individually by schools.

Tianhua Chen has published a 195-page preprint book titled "The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer" on arXiv. The primer provides a derivation-oriented introduction connecting the mathematics of major generative model families, including variational autoencoders, diffusion models, normalizing flows, autoregressive models, GANs, and energy-based models.