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Instructure (Canvas) says it reached an agreement with the ShinyHunters to prevent leakage of stolen data after a 3.5 TB data breach, with the stolen data returned and no customer extortion expected.
Coursera and Udemy merge into one company, creating the world’s most comprehensive skills platform with 290M+ learners, 18K enterprise customers, 95K content creators, and 315K courses; no immediate changes to pricing or access for learners, but a unified catalog and AI-driven tools are planned.
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft back a bill to fund AI literacy in schools.
Gizmo, an AI-powered learning app, has 13 million users and just raised $22 million in Series A funding.
Oregon schools are implementing or considering a cell phone ban, a regulatory change with claimed benefits to student engagement and teacher morale.
Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in a share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates, following a valuation drop from $3.5B to under $500M.
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