“Andrew is literally the only person that both Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have worked for. He is going to come up with things that nobody else can come up with.” “We don’t know exactly what those inventions and innovations will look like yet, but I’m highly confident that he is uniquely positioned to come up with things that we wouldn’t have come up with on our own.” That’s Greg Hart, Coursera’s CEO, on the July 29 earnings call, the first one since the Udemy merger, explaining why Coursera p

TL;DR Duolingo reported Q4 2025 revenue of $282.9 million (+35% YoY), closing its first billion-dollar year, breaking estimates again. The stock dropped 22.5% anyway. Again. The company plans to slow down monetization to grow to 100 million DAUs until 2028, by focusing on teaching quality, giving more to free users, and growing non-language courses. Duolingo’s Q4 2025 results confirmed something we highlighted in its 2025 review: growth is slowing. The company crossed a billion dollars in r

In January each year, Class Central publishes a list of the most popular online courses released by major course providers in the previous 12 months. The most popular course in the latest list turned out to be Google AI Essentials, launched by Coursera in April, 2024. More than 900,000 learners have enrolled, more than the combined total of all new courses launched on edX, FutureLearn, and Swayam in the same year. What’s even more surprising is that (unlike the vast majority of Coursera course

2U, the online education giant that acquired edX last year, just saw its stock price drop by half.