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IBL News | New York

Dallas College secured $3.3 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education this month to launch its AI-Enabled Teaching and Learning Initiative, “a comprehensive effort to integrate artificial intelligence across classrooms, curriculum, and workforce training programs.”

Dallas College Obtains a $3.3 Million in Federal Funding to Prepare Learners for AI-Driven Workforce

Institution leaders say the initiative will position Dallas College as a national model for responsible, scalable AI adoption in higher education by combining faculty development, curriculum redesign, industry-aligned microcredentials, and employer validation.

“It will prepare learners for a rapidly evolving workforce, ensuring our students and faculty have the tools to thrive in a digital economy,” said Dr. Justin Lonon, Dallas College chancellor.

Greg Morris, Senior Vice Provost of Academic Services, said, “The award reflects national confidence in Dallas College’s leadership in innovation and workforce readiness.”

“This AI-Enabled Teaching and Learning Initiative places emerging technologies at the heart of our academic programs,” Morris said. “Through our partnership with Workcred, we are aligning education with industry needs and empowering our region to lead in the future of education and work.”

Workcred, a national nonprofit founded in 2014, will work with Dallas College to design, align, and evaluate microcredentials for rapid launch and continuous improvement.

IBL News | New York

OpenAI raised questions about the safety of AI agents operating on the open web, specifically its Atlas AI browser.

The San Francisco-based lab admitted that prompt injections, a type of cyberattack that manipulates AI agents to follow malicious instructions, are often hidden in web pages or emails.

“Prompt injection, much like scams and social engineering on the web, is unlikely ever to be fully ‘solved,’” OpenAI wrote in a Monday blog post, conceding that “agent mode” in ChatGPT Atlas “expands the security threat surface.”

OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Atlas browser in October. Security researchers then showed that writing a few words in Google Docs could change the browser’s behavior.

Also in October, Brave published a blog post explaining that indirect prompt injection is a systematic challenge for AI-powered browsers, including Perplexity’s Comet.

The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre warned earlier this month that prompt injection attacks against generative AI applications “may never be totally mitigated,” putting websites at risk of data breaches.

In a demo, OpenAI showed how its automated attacker slipped a malicious email into a user’s inbox, sending a resignation message instead of drafting an out-of-office reply.