Google to everyone saying ‘company threatened schools over using AI; says: We want to clarify, we are giving more …

A report recently claimed that Google is turning off the AI tools – Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search for K-12 students starting next year. Google’s vice president of education, Chris Phillips, told The New York Times that the company’s AI features are “deeply integrated” into Search, meaning students cannot access one without the other. Soon after the announcement, many politicians and leaders including Bernie Sanders and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani voiced their outrage on social media. “Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools,” Zohran Mamdani wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Bernie Sanders wrote that “Google is threatening schools,” referring to the policy as “extortion.”