It started as an oddity. After Kristyn Manoukian announced the winners of the 2023-24 Tools Competition, a commenter write that "I wanted to test that, but when trying to register with the app, it only accepted the first nine digits of my ten digit US phone number." My first thought was of the irony in that, but the question quickly turned to whether judges had actually tried the application, and from there to the opacity of the judging process. Organized by the Learning Agency and Georgia State University, and in support of the field of learning engineering, the competition awarded more than $8 million in prizes, so it's no small thing. Funding (presumably, but it's not clear) came from supporters such as the Walton Family Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ballmer Group, OpenAI, and more.
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