upGrad's Unacademy Deal Shows What an EdTech Company Is Worth After the AI Reset
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Bruno Digital · 22h ago

upGrad's Unacademy Deal Shows What an EdTech Company Is Worth After the AI Reset

Unacademy sold for about $206 million, roughly 94 percent below its pandemic-era peak valuation of $3.44 billion. The all-stock deal closed after a year of renegotiated terms and is the clearest valuation data point yet for AI-era edtech.

upGrad's Unacademy Deal Shows What an EdTech Company Is Worth After the AI Reset
AI & ML·22h ago

upGrad's Unacademy Deal Shows What an EdTech Company Is Worth After the AI Reset

Unacademy sold for about $206 million, roughly 94 percent below its pandemic-era peak valuation of $3.44 billion. The all-stock deal closed after a year of renegotiated terms and is the clearest valuation data point yet for AI-era edtech.

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AI Agents Are Quietly Taking Entire Online Courses for Students, and Nobody Is Stopping Them
AI & ML·22h ago

AI Agents Are Quietly Taking Entire Online Courses for Students, and Nobody Is Stopping Them

A New York Times investigation found students directing AI agents to log into Canvas and Blackboard, take quizzes, and post discussion replies on their behalf. None of the major chatbots refused, and the platforms have no real way to tell a bot from a student.

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AI & ML·22h ago

Co-op Nearly Doubled Its Crime Solve Rate, and the Fix Was Evidence Logistics, Not AI

A reporting platform called SentrySIS cut police response time from up to seven days to 30 minutes and pushed Co-op's solve rate to almost 60 percent. The lesson for retail security leaders is about workflow, not surveillance tech.

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NRF Says Holiday Spending Will Hit $1.013 Trillion, and the Growth Rate Is the Real Story
AI & ML·22h ago

NRF Says Holiday Spending Will Hit $1.013 Trillion, and the Growth Rate Is the Real Story

The National Retail Federation expects 4.2 percent growth this holiday season, faster than last year's pace even as its own economists warn the gains will land unevenly across income groups.

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OpenAI's Decisions API Bets Enterprises Want Answers, Not Essays
AI & ML·22h ago

OpenAI's Decisions API Bets Enterprises Want Answers, Not Essays

OpenAI's new endpoint skips the chat format entirely and returns typed answers to yes-or-no and multiple-choice questions, ten times faster. A $40 million-funded startup building the same idea just got a very public reality check.

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Anthropic Gives Up Agent Skills, Betting Vendor Neutrality Beats Keeping Control
AI & ML·22h ago

Anthropic Gives Up Agent Skills, Betting Vendor Neutrality Beats Keeping Control

A year after launching Agent Skills, Anthropic handed the standard's name, domain, and GitHub organization to the Linux Foundation, following the same playbook it used with MCP.

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Firmli's AI Co-pilot Will Score International Students by Reading Their WhatsApp Messages
AI & ML·1d ago

Firmli's AI Co-pilot Will Score International Students by Reading Their WhatsApp Messages

Norwegian edtech Firmli plans to launch an AI co-pilot in November that pulls student profiles, documents, emails, WhatsApp messages and call summaries into one enrollment-readiness score, raising the data-governance stakes for every recruitment agency and university that adopts it.

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A Fired Teacher's Lawsuit Tests Whether AI-Written Performance Reviews Can Survive Court
AI & ML·1d ago

A Fired Teacher's Lawsuit Tests Whether AI-Written Performance Reviews Can Survive Court

A Massachusetts kindergarten teacher is suing to overturn her dismissal, arguing her principal used AI to write the evaluation that got her fired, and the case turns on how little anyone can prove about AI authorship after the fact.

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DoorDash Says Its AI Assistant Drives 50 Percent Bigger Grocery Baskets
AI & ML·1d ago

DoorDash Says Its AI Assistant Drives 50 Percent Bigger Grocery Baskets

DoorDash's Ask DoorDash AI assistant now drives grocery baskets 50 percent larger than non-AI orders, and the company is discussing licensing the same technology directly into grocers' own apps.

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Iceland Cuts Shrink 80 Percent in Its Worst Stores With an AI Camera Overlay
AI & ML·1d ago

Iceland Cuts Shrink 80 Percent in Its Worst Stores With an AI Camera Overlay

UK grocer Iceland says an AI monitoring layer from vendor SAI cut theft and shrink by 80 percent across its worst-performing 100 stores, without replacing a single camera.

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Home Depot's Magic Apron AI Assistant Now Covers 2,000 US Stores
AI & ML·1d ago

Home Depot's Magic Apron AI Assistant Now Covers 2,000 US Stores

Home Depot has pushed its Magic Apron AI assistant into more than 2,000 stores, handling millions of questions a month, even as outside survey data shows a third of US shoppers still refuse to use AI assistants at all.

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Adobe Expects AI Shopping Traffic to Jump 130 Percent This Holiday Season
AI & ML·1d ago

Adobe Expects AI Shopping Traffic to Jump 130 Percent This Holiday Season

Adobe's 2026 holiday forecast puts US online sales at 275.1 billion dollars, but the number retailers are actually planning around is the 130 percent jump in AI-driven traffic it expects on the way there.

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