Report: 93% of Students Believe Gen AI Training Belongs in Degree Programs The vast majority of today’s college students — 93% — believe generative AI training should be included in degree programs, according to a recent Coursera report. What’s more, …

National U Launches Student Support Hub for Non-Traditional Learners National University has launched a new student support hub designed to help online and working learners balance career, education, and family responsibilities as they pursue their education. Called “The Nest,” the …

University of Pittsburgh Partners with AWS on Cloud Innovation Center The University of Pittsburgh is teaming up with Amazon Web Services to establish a new Cloud Innovation Center focused on health sciences and sports analytics. The project aims to “leverage …

Survey: Generative AI Surpasses Cybersecurity in 2025 Tech Budgets By John K. Waters 05/13/25 Global IT leaders are placing bigger bets on generative artificial intelligence than cybersecurity in 2025, according to new research by Amazon Web Services (AWS). …

Report: Identity Has Become a Critical Security Perimeter for Cloud Services A new threat landscape report points to new cloud vulnerabilities. According to the 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report from Fortinet, while misconfigured cloud storage buckets were once a prime …

AWS Updates AI Offerings with Amazon Nova Premier, Llama 4, Anonymous User Q Business Chatbots Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a number of AI moves to maintain its position alongside fellow cloud giants Microsoft and Google. New developments include: …

Duolingo Embraces AI in Push for Scalable Learning By John K. Waters 05/06/25 In 2012, Duolingo co-founder Luis von Ahn defied the prevailing wisdom of building desktop-first experiences and pushed his nascent language learning startup onto mobile. A year …

Study: Data Privacy a Top Concern as Orgs Scale Up AI Agents As organizations race to integrate AI agents into their cloud operations and business workflows, they face a crucial reality: while enthusiasm is high, major adoption barriers remain, according …

OpenAI Launches GPT-4.1 with Upgrades in Coding, Context Processing, Efficiency By John K. Waters 04/23/25 OpenAI has announced GPT-4.1, offering stronger performance across software development, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. The newly introduced lineup — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, …

Microsoft Announces Security Advancements Microsoft has announced major security advancements across its product portfolio and practices. The work is part of its Secure Future Initiative (SFI), a multiyear cybersecurity transformation the company calls the largest engineering project in company history. …