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Guidelines sent to Dartmouth's undergraduate faculty on 29 September 2026 name Pangram as the only authorised AI detector and attach conditions on notice, privacy and discipline. What the rules say, the study behind them, and what students and teachers can take from it.
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An MIT committee says generative AI is changing how its students learn, and that the answer is to redesign assessment, not to police students with detection software. What the report says, when it came out, and what students and teachers can take from it.
One Russell Group university is leaving Turnitin and students' unions at several others want guarantees, after the company proposed licence terms covering the use of student work to develop AI tools. A dated timeline, what each side has said, and what students and staff can check.
On 2 September 2026 New York City announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI from 2-K to 8th grade, with small supervised pilots in high schools and new screen time limits. What the policy says, who it affects and what it leaves open.
From September 2026 the University of Bath sorts every assessment into a closed lane, where generative AI cannot be used, or an open lane, where it is permitted. Coursework is now open lane by default. What changed, and what it means for students and staff.
A paper posted to arXiv on 27 August 2026 ran 13 publicly available AI detectors over manuscripts written by non-native English speakers. On texts from before ChatGPT, false positive rates ranged from 0.0% to 100.0% depending on the detector, and human editing moved scores in opposite directions.