Top 10 EdTech stories of February: Google, Anthropic, ASU AI moves | ETIH EdTech News

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•March 10, 2026•Updated June 2, 2026•1 min read•Read source

Top 10 EdTech stories of February: Google, Anthropic, ASU AI moves | ETIH EdTech News

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Top ten EdTech stories of the month: AI policy, research debates, and platform shifts across education ETIH monthly roundup 10 Mar Written By Emma Thompson Funding rounds, policy decisions, research findings, and institutional strategy moves shaped the biggest EdTech developments across schools, higher education, and workforce training this month. February saw artificial intelligence move further into the core of education and skills systems.

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Major AI stories of 2025 include the widespread deployment of AI assistants in corporate productivity suites, the EU AI Act entering enforcement, expanded AI tutoring programs in public school districts, growing regulatory scrutiny of AI bias in hiring and education, and significant advances in multimodal AI capable of understanding images, audio, and text together.

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The best sources for reliable AI news are MIT Technology Review, The Verge's AI section, Wired, and the Axios AI newsletter for mainstream coverage. For education-specific AI news, EdSurge and aiineducation.io cover developments relevant to schools. Google Alerts for "AI in education" captures relevant news across multiple outlets.

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News most relevant to parents and educators covers AI tools children are using, changes to school AI policies, research on AI's effects on student learning, data privacy developments affecting ed tech vendors, and regulatory changes that affect how AI can be used in educational settings. Specialist education technology publications filter for these topics.

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