Education Companies That Upped Their AI Game In 2025

AI features and platform upgrades. Let's explore the ten AI companies that made waves in classrooms around the world.

Microsoft helps WA students try AI, will give schools new tools

Microsoft's one-hour lesson in Bellevue aimed to introduce kids to fast-evolving AI and helping them use it responsibly.
Wall Street Journal

First Brands Requests Access to $250 Million in Customer Receipts

Bankrupt auto-parts seller First Brands has requested access to $250 million of customer receipts as it seeks to improve its liquidity and restructure in chapter 11. The company, which filed for ...
Reuters

First Brands seeks access to customer payments held up in bankruptcy

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Auto parts maker First Brands said on Friday it had filed a request for expedited approval to access about $250 million as part of its bankruptcy restructuring. First Brands said ...
GeekWire

Tech Moves: Expedia names first AI chief; Textio founder joins Microsoft; T-Mobile exec departs

Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: [email protected] by Lisa Stiffler on Dec 1, 2025 at 10:26 am December 1, 2025 at 10:35 ...
Diginomica

An important lesson from Microsoft - how you can obtain a return on investment from DEI initiatives in an AI age

At last week’s Business Disability Forum’s Global Conference, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vice President and Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft, indicated three key ways to get a payoff from DEI: ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Rachel Maddow Sets First New Podcast at MS NOW: ‘Burn Order’ (Exclusive)

The primetime host will debut the new podcast Dec. 1, tackling the series of events that led to the U.S. to incarcerate Japanese Americans at the beginning of World War II. By Alex Weprin Senior ...
Boston Herald

MS-13 gang leader first arrested in Foxboro now deported to El Salvador

An MS-13 gang leader wanted for murder in his home country of El Salvador has been deported after being arrested in Foxboro, but had been allowed to stay by seeking asylum during the Biden ...
Microsoft

The agentic future: How we’re becoming an AI-first frontier firm at Microsoft

Empowering our employees to build and deploy AI agents hinges on good governance, strong implementation practices, measuring impact, and enabling effective support. The rate of change for AI tools and ...
ZDNet

First major Windows 10 ESU update is here - with 66 fixes (some critical)

The first major update is here for Windows 10 PCs with ESU. The update fixes a couple of bugs that affected ESU registrations. The update also patches 66 security flaws for Windows 11 and 10 with ESU.
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft releases KB5068781 — The first Windows 10 extended security update

Microsoft has released the KB5068781 update, the first Windows 10 extended security update since the operating system reached end of support last month. On October 14, Microsoft released the final ...