Microsoft: Free Year of Copilot for U.S. Students

If you’re a U.S. student, you don’t want to miss out on these:

• Students: One free year of Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot (sign-up window through Oct 31, 2025; community colleges included).

• K–12 & higher-ed: Expanded access to Copilot via Microsoft Elevate for students and teachers (safe, age-appropriate rollout).

• Educators: $1.25M in prizes via the Presidential AI Challenge to reward AI-powered teaching.

• Students & teachers: Free LinkedIn Learning AI courses that lead to LinkedIn certifications.

• Community colleges: No-cost AI training/certifications for faculty & staff (with AACC and NAAIC) plus grants to 30+ colleges across 28 states.

• Job seekers: ~100 AI courses across 15 new LinkedIn Learning paths + a 5-day nationwide AI Learning Challenge starting Sept 29.

Visual Search Goes Real-Time in Amazon’s iOS App

Amazon — what you get (shopping AI):

• Point your camera and get real-time matches in a swipeable carousel; tap to focus an item.

• Add to cart (+) or save to wish list ❤️ without leaving the camera view.

• Rufus, Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, shows quick product summaries, suggested questions, and answers right under the carousel.

• Rufus is available to all U.S. customers in the app and on desktop.

Other News

• Anthropic: signed the AI education pledge and tightened regional sales restrictions.

• GitHub Copilot: code review supports path-scoped instruction files.

• GitHub: launch agent tasks from the new Agents panel; model routing deep dive Under the hood.

• NVIDIA DRIVE: AGX Thor Developer Kit now available (dev overview here).

• Mistral: Memories (beta) for long-term context + EU data/model hosting.

• xAI: fast coding model Grok Code Fast 1.

• Databricks: reference stack, New Foundation for Enterprise AI.

• Perplexity: new plan with publisher rev-share, Comet Plus.

AI Tool of the Day

• SEOPital: Our top pick for SEO-optimized articles.

• HeadshotPro: Perfect for professional headshots.

• Leonardo.ai: Photo-realistic image generator. Rivals Midjourney.

• Watermarkly: Create custom watermarks to photos, videos, and documents.

• Invideo: Generate videos with voice-overs.

Prompt Tip of the Day

Tell it what not to do and what to keep clean.
Example: “Realistic skin texture, no extra fingers, no text, no watermark, clean edges, minimal noise.”