Google releases AI skills course in education push

Google rolled out a new course on Friday teaching people how to use artificial intelligence tools and announced its philanthropy arm is dedicating $75 million for 1 million Americans to take it for free as part of an initiative to make AI training more accessible.

The Alphabet-owned tech giant said its Google AI Essentials course, developed and taught by its own AI experts, teaches workers basic skills for using generative AI tools — such as Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s ChatGPT — and is product