Texas A&M joined Google’s three-year, $1 billion AI education accelerator, hosting free student and faculty training as part of a broader push to integrate vendor-led tools into campus instruction. The initiative is one of more than 200 higher-education partnerships Google says it has established to train students and educators on tools like Gemini and NotebookLM. Colleges are pairing vendor training with campus guidance on ethical use and assessment as professors warn against letting AI become a shortcut. Higher-education leaders told reporters they want students to learn to use AI for problem solving and verification rather than as a content substitute — a balance institutions say requires structured faculty training and policy.