🎓Trump’s Executive Order Will Reshape U.S. Education

AI doesn’t take weekends off — and neither should we.

This week, President Trump signed an executive order to make AI education part of every American student’s future. Adobe upgraded Firefly into a full creative AI powerhouse with new image, video, and collaboration tools. Fireflies.ai dropped 200+ mini-apps to automate meetings into self-managing workflows. And Google launched an open-source kit to help anyone build multi-agent AI systems from scratch.

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^{– Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft}

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Politics

Trump Signs Executive Order to Prepare the Next Generation for an AI Future

This week, President Trump signed an executive order to embed artificial intelligence education directly into K-12 schools — aiming to teach American students not just how to use AI tools, but how to understand, build, and innovate with them. The initiative, called "Advancing AI Education for American Youth”, sets a framework for reshaping STEM curricula around AI, machine learning, and emerging technologies. The goal: create a generation that isn't just consuming AI — they're leading it.

🔑 Key Highlights:

• Mandatory AI Curriculum – Federal push to integrate AI education into elementary, middle, and high school programs across the country.

• Teacher Training Programs – New funding for preparing teachers to deliver AI, coding, and machine learning lessons.

• AI Literacy Requirements – Benchmarks set for basic AI literacy by high school graduation, including ethical use and responsible AI practices.

• Public-Private Partnerships – Collaborations encouraged between schools, universities, and tech companies to provide real-world AI tools and resources.

• Career Pathways Focus – Emphasis on preparing students for future careers in AI, robotics, cybersecurity, and emerging tech industries.

• Federal Investment – Expanded funding and grants to accelerate AI education initiatives and infrastructure at the local level.

AI is reshaping every industry, and future careers will demand fluency in it. It’s not just in tech, but across healthcare, finance, education, and beyond. Trump’s executive order pushes to make AI education a basic skill set, as essential as reading or math.

China is already making AI education mandatory in many schools. With global competitors moving fast, the U.S. is making it clear: the race for the future starts now.

👉 Read the Full Executive Order Here

Adobe

Adobe Firefly Is Now a Full Creative Engine

The latest Firefly update brings sharper 2K image generation with Firefly Image 4 Ultra, full 1080p video creation from text prompts, live team collaboration through Firefly Boards, deep integration with Creative Cloud apps, and new support for OpenAI and Google models — making Firefly faster, smarter, and more flexible for creators everywhere.

🔥 Live Now:

• Image Model 4 & Ultra — Generate high-resolution 2K visuals with better structure and realism.

• Video Model — Create 1080p video clips from text, complete with camera moves and effects.

• Firefly Boards (Beta) — Brainstorm and organize projects using AI-generated assets.

• Third-Party Model Integration — Tap into OpenAI and Google models for broader creative flexibility.

• APIs for Developers — Build custom tools with text-to-image, avatar, and video generation.

👀 Coming Soon:

• Firefly Mobile App — Full creative suite coming to iOS and Android.

• Expanded Vector Tools — Editable logos, icons, and packaging designs generated by AI.

• Content Credentials (Beta) — Attach ownership metadata to AI-generated work for transparency and trust.

Firefly isn’t just a design tool anymore. It’s becoming Adobe’s full creative AI platform. Solo creators can build faster with sharper assets. Agencies can streamline workflows with integrated AI tools. Enterprise teams can generate, customize, and collaborate at scale. Firefly gives every creator the power to build, design, and innovate at the speed of imagination.

Start Creating with Firefly Here

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Fireflies Drops 200+ AI Apps to Turn Meetings Into Action

Fireflies.ai, the AI-powered meeting assistant, just launched 200+ agentic AI apps to turn meeting transcripts into actionable insights. It has evolved into a full meeting intelligence platform that automatically generates tasks, CRM updates, project plans, and key decisions from every call. With this launch, meetings aren’t just recorded — they’re converted into real outcomes that move work forward.

⚡ What’s New:

• 200+ AI Apps: Built for sales, marketing, recruiting, and operations teams to automate follow-ups, extract insights, and streamline next steps.

• Super Summaries: Automatically generate action items, meeting overviews, outlines, and keyword highlights post-meeting.​

• AskFred Automation: Set up AI-driven prompts to extract specific information from meetings, such as blockers or next steps.​

• CRM & Project Management Integration: Seamlessly sync meeting insights with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, and Jira.​

• Magic Soundbites: Create and share short audio clips of key meeting moments for easy reference and distribution.​

• Topic Tracker: Monitor and flag mentions of specific topics, such as competitors or pricing discussions, across meetings.​

• Custom AI App Builder: Design personalized AI apps using custom prompts to suit specific workflow needs, no coding required.​

• Mobile App Enhancements: Record, upload, transcribe, and analyze meetings directly from the Fireflies mobile app.

Fireflies is redefining meetings to make them actionable, automated, and connected across your workflows. With AI Apps, every conversation becomes a driver of real outcomes.

Explore Fireflies AI Apps Here

AI Agents

Google Drops Agent Development Kit to Build Smarter Multi-Agent Systems

Google dropped an Agent Development Kit, a new open-source framework that makes it way easier to build and manage AI agents that work together. If you’ve ever tried building complex AI workflows, ADK takes care of the hard parts — like messaging between agents, memory management, planning, and task execution.

It’s built to support everything from simple chat agents to full-blown multi-agent applications, and it’s designed to scale with your needs. Developers can create agents that reason, collaborate, and coordinate with minimal setup — all while integrating cleanly with Gemini models.

Explore the Code: Official ADK Documentation

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