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Educational AI Daily

Artificial intelligence, as told by three teaching communities

In brief

News told in one or two sentences: topics from the groups that are not enough for a full piece. Each brief links to its source and to the conversation where it came up, and can be shared on its own.

Monday, 9 November 2026

The BBC tested AI toys for young children: one of the soft toys replied “I can't help with killing you” after misunderstanding a question. British MPs are asking retailers to withdraw these toys before Black Friday. Source Conversation
Juan José de Haro has expanded his article with the idea that different agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity) can share a common body of knowledge that all of them can add to, as the paper reported on four-layer memory. It only works with agents installed on the computer, not with web versions. Source Conversation

Saturday, 7 November 2026

Luis Vilela Acuña released the open-source code of Liga de Valores, his app for school Physical Education leagues in which fair play, refereeing and the stands also score, with an installer to run it on the school's own network without an external server. He presents it in an article in the Revista Española de Educación Física y Deportes. Source Conversation
Antigravity, Google's agent-based programming environment, has run cloud projects managed from the browser since version 2.29 (3 November), instead of on the user's own computer; according to its changelog, it is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Source Conversation

Friday, 6 November 2026

The XTEC page on AI links to the 2024 document as its guidance, with the note “Actualització prevista: des.26” (update expected: December 2026), and does not include the 45 guidelines from Catalonia that the paper reported. Source Conversation
OpenAI unveiled Images 2.6, which, according to its announcement, speeds up image generation, allows GIFs to be created in ChatGPT and improves editing. It was shared in EduMedia-IAG; OpenAI’s page would not load, so the official description was read from its preview. Source Conversation
Raül Torres, author of the virtual camera for Blender that the paper reported, posted an example made with his VirtuCam tool and a Meta Quest 3 headset: five shots recorded in VR served as the camera reference for Seedance 2.5. According to him, the model followed the cuts almost frame by frame, although it added shots that were never recorded. Source Conversation

Thursday, 5 November 2026

Raül Torres shared in EduMedia-IAG a video-game-style walk through Girona made with Claude, with places taken from the real map and time travel from the Palaeolithic to 2026. It runs from the web and no public link is available. Conversation

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

In EduMedia-IAG, members explained how to use MotionVideo’s skills: you install the skill in the AI, invoke it and give it the instruction with the details of the video you want to create. Each example video on the site comes with its prompt, as the piece of 3 November reported. Source Conversation
In the United States, the Los Angeles school district blocked students’ access to generative AI on their devices in September, and the FCC is reviewing E-Rate subsidies for school internet connections amid the row over screen time. They were shared in the group as context for Google’s announcement. Conversation

Tuesday, 3 November 2026

The website for Ethan Mollick’s new book includes an “AI cursor” that accompanies the reading and can be switched off. Members rated it as an idea for popularising the subject. Source Conversation

Monday, 2 November 2026

rclone’s shared Google Drive access client will stop working in 2026, according to its documentation. Creating your own, which also avoids the shared query limit, is now considered essential. Source Conversation
UVic-UCC co-organised a conference in Lleida on integrity in teaching and AI. The university’s news item gives no specific conclusions. Source Conversation

Sunday, 1 November 2026

Syncing folders is not the same as backing up, a thread about Syncthing reminded members. INCIBE recommends the 3-2-1 rule: three copies, on two different media, with one of them off-site. Source Conversation

Saturday, 31 October 2026

The group distinguished vibe coding, creating digital resources with AI and natural language, from agentic AI, which pursues goals autonomously. It is an everyday explanation, not an official definition. Conversation

Thursday, 29 October 2026

On 27 October the AEPD (Spain’s data protection authority) published a ten-point guide for people who use AI assistants and agents. It recommends that the agent prepares and the person approves, with minimal permissions and confirmation before sending, sharing or paying. Source Conversation
GitHub’s documentation states that teachers verified on GitHub Education can access Copilot Pro for free, and that eligibility is reassessed every month. Source Conversation