New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google said Tuesday that Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will be turned off by default for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly switch them on, reversing a default it adopted for classrooms in August.

The announcement followed a Wall Street Journal investigation into Google's AI rollout in schools and a bipartisan Senate inquiry, the Journal reported. Google did not cite the inquiry in its announcement, according to Education Week.

"Access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on," Chris Phillips, Google's vice president and general manager of education, wrote in ...