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New York City Will Ban AI Tools in Public Schools Up to Year 8
Nearly 900,000 students across NYC's public schools will face new technology limits, as the district moves to keep AI out of classrooms until high school.

AI Security Startup HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million as Companies Race to Protect Their AI Systems
Annual revenue grew more than tenfold in a year. Now HiddenLayer wants to be the security guard standing between your business and the people trying to hijack its AI.

OpenAI Enfrenta 30 Demandas por Tiroteo en Escuela Canadiense, Acusada de Elegir el Silencio sobre la Seguridad
Estudiantes, maestros y un director de Tumbler Ridge están demandando a OpenAI en California, alegando que la empresa sabía que su chatbot se estaba utilizando para planificar violencia y no dijo nada.

Antes de que la IA pueda ayudar, los datos deben funcionar: Lecciones de un fabricante con 140.000 empleados
Jabil opera más de 100 fábricas en 30 países. Para que la IA resultara útil allí, primero tuvo que arreglar algo mucho menos glamoroso: hacer que los datos fluyeran de la misma manera en todas partes.

Adobe compra la startup de IA india Rilo para potenciar sus herramientas de automatización de marketing
El equipo de seis personas detrás de Rilo creó software que automatiza tareas de marketing como investigación de competidores y análisis de llamadas de ventas. Ahora se unen a Adobe, y Rilo cierra sus operaciones.

The UK Government Has No Idea What Its Biggest Data Centres Are Actually Doing
A freedom of information request revealed that ministers cannot say who is using the UK's largest data centres or why. With AI driving a surge in electricity and water use, that gap in oversight matters.

IBM and Confluent Bring AI Forecasting Directly Into Live Data Streams
A new partnership lets businesses run AI predictions on data as it arrives, without a data science team or months of setup.

Scottish MPs Want to Pause AI Data Centre Building. Here's Why It Matters.
The SNP and Scottish Greens are backing a freeze on new AI data centres across the UK, where around 450 already exist. The political fight is sharpening fast.

30 Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting That Killed Eight
Victims and their families allege OpenAI's chatbot influenced the shooter who killed eight people, most of them children, in rural British Columbia in February.

Freelancers Are Drowning in AI Slop Cleanup Work, and Now They're Walking Away
A graphic designer in Spain spent most of 2024 fixing broken AI-generated logos for low pay. Her story captures a quiet crisis spreading across the freelance economy.

The 24-Person Brooklyn Startup That Can End a Book Deal
Pangram says it can tell whether writing is human or machine-generated. Publishers are listening. Writers are furious. The question is whether the tool is actually reliable.

Communities Around the World Are Pushing Back Against AI Data Centres
From Scotland to India, local groups say the giant buildings that power AI are eating too much energy and land. Governments are starting to listen.

University of Sydney staff walk out over AI fears as trust survey hits zero
Hundreds of staff picketed and thousands more joined a 24-hour strike after an internal survey found not a single arts faculty member trusted the university to act in their interests.

UK's Former AI Strategy Chief Joins Anthropic in Senior Role
Matt Clifford, the tech investor who shaped Britain's artificial intelligence policy under two prime ministers, has taken a senior position at the US company behind the Claude AI assistant.

Australia Proposes Its Biggest Privacy Shake-Up in Years. Here Is What Sparked It.
Facial recognition in shopping centres, 'pervert glasses' on sale at Kmart, and ad-targeting that poisons your social feeds. Australia's proposed Privacy Act changes are a direct response to all three.

Faster cancer-slide AI cuts computing cost by 50 times, Microsoft Research says
Two new open-weight models shrink the hardware needed to scan thousands of cancer tissue slides, bringing large-scale pathology research within reach of labs that can't afford supercomputer budgets.

Google Is Offering Hollywood Hundreds of Millions to Train Its AI on Movies and TV Shows
The tech giant wants studio libraries. The studios want the money. But the workers and audiences caught in the middle may pay the real price.

Anthropic's New Claude Models Are Cheaper and Less Likely to Refuse Your Questions
Two updated models promise stronger performance at lower cost, fewer frustrating refusals, and a privacy option that keeps business data off Anthropic's servers entirely.

AfterQuery alcanza una valoración de 3.200 millones de dólares en cinco meses, rompiendo el récord de velocidad de Y Combinator
La startup de datos de entrenamiento de IA pasó de una Serie A de 300 millones de dólares al estatus de unicornio más rápido que cualquier empresa en la historia de Y Combinator. Sus fundadores tienen 22 y 23 años.

AI test scores are hiding something. A new tool from Allen AI just exposed it
Researchers built software that looks inside AI benchmark tests, question by question, and found that some widely trusted scores are measuring very different things than advertised.

El acelerón de IA de Google en agosto: Gemini 3.7 Flash, Pixel 11 y un chatbot con mil millones de usuarios
Desde un modelo de codificación más barato hasta un teléfono diseñado en torno a la IA, Google dedicó agosto a llevar Gemini a cada rincón de la vida cotidiana.