Anthropic reveals how teachers are using Claude AI

Plus: a16z reveals which AI apps rule your phone.

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Welcome Humans🤖,

Here is what we have Today:

  • 📚 Anthropic study exposes teachers are secretly using AI more than students.

  • 📺 Microsoft's Copilot becomes your animated TV companion.

  • 👑 a16z data shows Gemini and Grok gaining ground.

  • 🎨 Meta licenses Midjourney's image tech to battle OpenAI.

  • 💼 New Job Opportunities

Anthropic

📚 How Teachers use Claude?

Teachers aren’t just grading papers anymore—they’re grading AI.

Anthropic just analyzed 74,000 conversations between educators and Claude. The findings? Professors are leaning on AI for the busywork, but grading remains the hot-button issue.

Image source: Anthropic

📊 What Anthropic Found

From 74,000 educator conversations with Claude:

  • ✏️ 57% → Curriculum design

  • 🔬 13% → Research support

  • 📑 7% → Evaluating student work

🛠️ Creative AI Use Cases

Professors built custom tools with Claude’s Artifacts:

  • 🧪 Interactive chemistry labs

  • Automated grading rubrics

  • 📊 Visual dashboards

🔄 What Gets Automated

  •  Yes: Admin chores (financial planning, record-keeping)

  • ⚠️ Less: Teaching & advising

⚡ The Big Debate: Grading

  • 🤔 49% of grading chats showed heavy automation

  • But grading = rated as Claude’s weakest skill

🎓 Why It Matters

AI in the classroom isn’t just a student trend.
Educators are experimenting too — and with adoption rising fast, AI’s role will look very different from one classroom to the next.

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Microsoft

📺 Microsoft Copilot Lands on Your TV Screen

Your TV is about to get a brain.

Microsoft just announced that Copilot will be built directly into Samsung’s 2025 TVs and smart monitors. But this isn’t just text on a screen — Copilot shows up as a friendly animated blob that lip-syncs and reacts in real time as it answers you.

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👾 Meet Your Couch Buddy

  • Copilot shows up as a fun animated blob that lip-syncs & reacts to you.

  • Ask for movie picks, episode recaps, or even the weather.

  • Works by voice 🎙️ or remote 📲.

Features at a Glance

  • Built into Samsung’s Tizen OS, Daily+

  • Suggests shows for groups 🍿

  • Gives spoiler-free recaps 🤫

  • Everyday help: planning, weather, more ☀️

  • Remembers chats & preferences for signed-in users 📝

💡 Why It Matters

This isn’t just about TV.
It’s the first step toward AI in every corner of your home — from screens to appliances to cars.

🔮 The Big Picture

Today: movie recs + small talk.
Tomorrow: a true smart-home ecosystem with AI as your always-on companion.

👉 Question for You

Would you let an animated blob pick your next show?

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Trending Today
  • Google Vids now lets users bring their images to life with AI avatars that speak naturally, creating polished videos without having to record live. Google is also adding its Veo 3 image-to-video-generation tool to Vids, which will let users create short clips from still images using prompts. A free consumer version with limited features is now available, while advanced features can be accessed with paid Workspace plans.

  • a16z, VC firm (founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz), published the 5th edition of its AI report - The Top 100 AI Consumer Apps - which showcases 2.5 years of data about how consumers are using AI products, from general assistance and companionship to image and video editing. Interestingly, it looks like Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok are closing the gap on OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

  • OpenAI is retiring its Assistants API, giving developers until August 26, 2026, to migrate to the newer Responses API. Assistants were the company’s early approach to building AI agents, but with Responses reaching feature parity, OpenAI has folded the best elements, including code interpreter and persistent conversations, into the new system.

  • Meta has just licensed Midjourney’s generative image and video models, bringing the startup’s distinctive “aesthetic technology” into Meta’s future AI stack. Announced by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, the deal complements Meta’s in-house work on Imagine, Movie Gen, and DinoV3 while positioning it to better compete with OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Veo, and Black Forest Labs’ Flux.

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