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Big Tech Goes to School: Who Decides How AI Enters the Classroom?

September 16, 2026

“The next major AI battleground is the classroom,” Axios reported this year, as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic race to make their tools the ones teachers and students reach for. “Whoever wins schools now could shape how Gen Alpha learns, studies and interacts with AI for years to come.”1 The money confirms that framing. A […]