Three world models released in 2025–2026: Marble (World Labs), Genie 3 (Google DeepMind), and Gemini Omni Flash (Google)

Khan Academy's AI tutor flopped — so it launched the Khan TED Institute. What happens when the companies selling AI also build the degrees that certify it.

It leads with the news hook, works in the searchable terms (Khan Academy, AI tutor, Khan TED Institute, degrees) naturally, and the second sentence frames the stakes without clickbait.

Create image Editorial conceptual illustration: a hand holding a red marking pen grading an exam paper, where the exam paper is clearly the same handwriting as the marker — the loop is visible at a glance. The page shows a chart or test labelled with phrases like "learning outcomes," "cognitive ability," "exposure metric." Muted palette: bone white, ink black, single accent of arterial red. Limited shading, clean linework, slight grain texture. Style of a New Yorker or Financial Times weekend essay illustration. No robots, no glowing brains, no circuit boards, no faces. 16:9 aspect ratio, generous negative space for headline overlay.

A diverse group of people — a grad student, a composer in a wheelchair, a young woman with a phone, a doctor with a stethoscope — standing together looking upward at a sky filled with luminous interconnected constellations forming shapes of molecules, weather patterns, and musical notes, warm dawn light breaking through, sense of shared wonder, editorial illustration, cinematic composition, no text

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