This year's program is designed to address the most pressing safety and security challenges schools face nationwide, while showcasing innovations in AI, surveillance and cyber-hardening.

AI is being used for more than instruction, including for romantic relationships with the technology, new research suggests.

A national survey found that most Texas teachers used AI tools in math instruction during the 2024–25 school year, but more than one in five said their districts offered no training on how to use them.

The future of thought isn't AI vs. AI—it's humans who know when to use it, why they're using it and what it means in the bigger picture.