Overview

• U.S. officials recently met with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic to plan classroom integration that includes financial incentives, free courses and accessible certifications for students, parents and teachers.
• Anthropic said in a San Francisco court filing it will pay $1.5 billion to resolve a collective lawsuit over training on roughly half a million books, a deal that awaits Judge William Alsup’s approval and requires destroying downloaded copies.
• McKinsey reports more than 75% of companies now use generative AI in at least one function, yet only about one in five sees clear financial impact, even as IDC tracks growing focus on automated, agentic solutions.
• A recent MIT analysis highlights that many AI pilots stall before production and that external partnerships raise success rates, echoing calls from industry leaders to shore up real‑time data, infrastructure and governance.
• Search behavior is tilting toward AI assistants, with HigherVisibility finding daily AI‑tool use rose to 29.2%, Google’s share of general‑info searches fell to 66.9%, and ChatGPT’s share tripled to 12.5%, spurring new SEO‑for‑AI strategies.