‘Who’s training who?’: Tech companies, teachers union partner on national AI academy

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More than 400,000 K-12 educators across the country will get free training in AI through a $23 million partnership between a major teachers union and leading tech companies that is designed to close gaps in the use of technology and provide a national model for AI-integrated curriculum.

The new National Academy for AI Instruction will be based in the downtown Manhattan headquarters of the…