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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 Faces 30 New Lawsuits Over Canada School Shooting, Accused of Choosing Silence Over Safety
Students, teachers and a principal from Tumbler Ridge are suing OpenAI in California, claiming the company knew its chatbot was being used to plan violence and said nothing.
Before AI Can Help, the Data Has to Work: Lessons from a 140,000-Person Manufacturer
Jabil operates more than 100 factories across 30 countries. Getting AI to do anything useful there first meant fixing something far less glamorous: making data flow the same way everywhere.
Adobe buys Indian AI startup Rilo to beef up its marketing automation tools
The six-person team behind Rilo built software that automates marketing tasks like competitor research and sales call analysis. Now they're joining Adobe, and Rilo itself is shutting down.
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 hits a $3.2 billion valuation in five months, breaking Y Combinator's speed record
The AI training-data startup went from a $300 million Series A to unicorn status faster than any company in Y Combinator's history. Its founders are 22 and 23 years old.
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.
Google's August AI Blitz: Gemini 3.7 Flash, Pixel 11, and a Billion-User Chatbot
From a cheaper coding model to a phone built around AI, Google spent August pushing Gemini into every corner of daily life.