Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Education for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: Mid-1980s murder-mystery comedy movie poster of a wide gothic Victorian academy mansion rendered in high-contrast black-and-white pen-and-ink engraving with dense crosshatching on pure black background, filling 80 percent of a 16:9 frame with twin turrets and a gabled center, warm amber-lit arched windows revealing costumed suspects (a stern headmistress with a long wooden pointer, a rumpled tweed professor clutching blue exam books, a bespectacled teenage prodigy with a glowing tablet) plus windows crowded with chalk-dusted apples, red-inked papers, a tipped globe, and one window showing a chalkboard with an equation being erased by a disembodied gloved hand. Centered open front door with warm light holds the butler, a slim upright silver-haired man in his sixties with pencil mustache, raised eyebrow, black tailcoat, gray waistcoat, white gloves, offering a silver tray with a sealed envelope bearing a tiny graduation cap wax seal, with the word Education above the roofline in fat rounded extra-heavy white sans-serif movie-title letters overlapping the turret tips.
This Week in Education News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Teaching has to catch up: Ethan Mollick argued that instructors who have not updated their expectations in the last six months are behind. His points: AI can do much more, errors are much rarer, and nearly all students use it.
- Personalized beats ELI5: Mollick also pushed back on 'explain like I'm five' as the default for easier explanations. He suggests asking an LLM to explain a topic using what you already know instead.
- Free learning paths: Several posts pointed to self-study material. Francois Chollet recommended chapters 15-16 of Deep Learning with Python for learning to build LLMs from scratch, and a post said the University of Michigan put its whole robotics curriculum on GitHub. Andrew Ng also described a broad DeepLearningAI effort, with a skills map, to help people become AI engineers.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Education
The research in this paper was performed by Silico, our interpretability agent. @EricBigelow: “it was roughly on a similar level as working with a first- or second-year PhD student. It’s wild to think that if Silico were a person, they’d be first author and I’d be last author on”
https://x.com/GoodfireAI/status/2092661172680245602
You can just use your voice | ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceBruD6v5Bk
Make information visual with ChatGPT – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzmNh8lbSp8
How to Manage Your Workspace With ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SyCndnMZs
How to Build a Personalized Meal Planner with ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64oZKCdG8Q
Build a Shareable Site – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qK3KqvtRrg
Plugins & Skills – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QPBVrAAdBk
Use Your Computer and Browser – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=981SivztzOc
Talk to ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLcQSp_CIIc
Getting Started with ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk4VyQxDq5s
Create Slides, Docs, and Templates – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syML5KT-HzI
Scheduled Tasks – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urXc4xxixVU
Use ChatGPT Work on Your Phone – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfnh8SuMbNw
Build agent-ready sites with WebMCP – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2NHa7awWY
I know it is a lot for instructors who never asked for AI to change things, but if you teach and have not updated your expectations over the last 6 months over what AI can do (a lot more), its error rate (a lot less), and its ubiquity among your students (near total), you need to”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2092628238421942728
Going into this investigation, I was expecting a somewhat more severe version of what we’ve already seen: a few agents breaking out of constraints to cheat on tasks. Instead, we found >1000 agents collaborating on large cheating R&D projects including attempted log tampering.”
https://x.com/HjalmarWijk/status/2092698071339803035
AR guitar tutor! I’ve wanted something like this for so long. Check out this prototype by Allen Van Wert. Rocksmith is cool and all but this feels like the future. Makes me curious if others are building something like this? Should use monocular video & audio and work with”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2092973390751473946
How do you go from jailbreaking your PlayStation to CEO of Canada’s leading LLM provider? You go to the University of Toronto. “When you go to @UofT, you get raised into AI.” – @aidangomez”
https://x.com/cohere/status/2092365111415419205
@MSaintjour I want to help people be skilled at AI Engineering, build amazing projects, and find great jobs. This will be a broad effort from DeepLearningAI, and we have a lot that’s still cooking. Will be way beyond a single course!”
https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2088305594390245500
I don’t like ELI5 as default for “make this easy to understand,” a great thing about LLMs is the ability to work as universal translators across topics Asking for generic dumbed-down explanations is worse than asking for personalized ones: “explain to me drawing on what I know””
https://x.com/emollick/status/2091182096605696341
If you’re 17 (or any age) and you want to learn to build LLMs from scratch, read chapters 15-16 of Deep Learning with Python, available online here:
https://t.co/VP5B7VEB55 In particular, chapter 15 has one of the best explanations of WHY dot-product attention works that you’ll”
https://x.com/fchollet/status/2091921787978445119
Life is full of things that, by complexity or design or lack of care or required time, are hard to navigate: healthcare, government, personal finance, school forms are all among them It is why I feel consumer AI is underrated. People muddle by, but need help than they can’t get.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2091364843831906416
Stanford HAI and the Stanford Center on Early Childhood are seeking a postdoctoral scholar to develop AI tools for instructional coaching in early childhood education. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis:
https://x.com/StanfordHAI/status/2091929274848882735
The AI Engineering Skills Map”
https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2088302050706686198
Dozens of municipalities still have laws on the books for segregated schools, poll taxes, and male-only voter eligibility. @StanfordLaw’s RegLab Director and @StanfordHAI Associate Director Daniel E. Ho in the Washington Post on how AI is helping governments scan 3 billion words”
https://x.com/StanfordHAI/status/2090958378747175306
Ox Alpha is GLM-5.3 or something bigger I think it’s a bigger model. I don’t see why they would stealth test GLM-5.3 after launching it. It would also explain why GLM-5.3 saw so much progress. It’s not magic RL or anything. Just distillation from a larger teacher.”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2090662468833976582
The University of Michigan put their entire robotics degree on GitHub. Not one course. The whole curriculum. ROB 101 … Computational Linear Algebra for Robotics ROB 311 … How to Build Robots and Make Them Move ROB 501 … Mathematics for Robotics ROB 530 … Mobile Robotics Every”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2092883820877926851
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