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Join us at ASU GSV)!This week on the pod:1) Big Tech Goes All in On AI
- Launch of Google Bard)
- Adobe launches Firefly generative A.I., which lets users type to edit images)
- Microsoft launches Loop, a Notion competitor)
- Where Is the ‘AI Conundrum’ in Education Headed?)
- We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’)
- Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT)
2) Pearson sells OPM Division/OPM Regulation
- Pearson Sells Its OPM Business (PhilOnEdTech))
- **When universities slap their names on for-profit coding boot camps **)
3) How Has COVID Changed Public Schooling?
- Public School Enrollment Dropped by 1.2M During the Pandemic)
- New Mexico terminates 1:1 online tutoring contract with Paper)
- 5 pandemic-era technologies schools don’t want to give up)
4) Skills-Based Hiring On the Rise
- **Accredible Announces the Launch of Skills Pathways **)
- **REPORT: How Skills Are Disrupting Work **)
- Global Survey of 37k School Students Reveals Desire to Modernize Education)
5) The Myth of Education as an Equalizer: Book Review
- **The Myth of Education as Equalizer **)
Funding/M&A:
- BREAKING: Workera's $23m Series B
- Glider AI raises $10M
- Almentor raises $10M
- Trala Raises $8 Million
- AG5 raises €6 million
- Upduo raises $4M
- Maqsad Secures $2.8 Million
- VitalSource Acquires Akademos
- Quottly Joins Parchment)
