Google invests 75M to teach one million Americans how to use AI

Google announced Friday that it is releasing a course aimed at teaching one million Americans how to use artificial intelligence tools. As part of the rollout, the tech giant also announced that its charitable arm, Google.org, The new AI skills course will be available for 49 on Coursera, a for-profit online course provider. The announcement comes after Google scrapped its rules requiring suppliers and staffing firms it works with to provide good pay and benefits to their employees - along with laying off thousands of employees despite turning record profits. Google announced two new initiatives: One is a self-paced course on AI skills, the other is a grant program for AI job skills training.