Saturday, July 26, 2025

Microsoft Pledges $4B for AI Education, Teacher Training - Alex Halverson, The Seattle Times

Microsoft Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team, will devote resources to helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials. The generative AI boom transitioned into agentic AI, artificial “agents” running through rote work and making decisions across the digital landscape on behalf of the user. Microsoft sees a lucrative future with agentic AI.