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AI in the Classroom: How One School Stopped Panicking and Started Teaching With It
Cheshire Academy in Connecticut tried banning AI, then tried ignoring it. Neither worked. Here is what they are doing instead.
Australia's PM Tries to Calm State Leaders Over National AI Datacentre Law
Anthony Albanese heads into a national cabinet meeting promising that new federal controls on datacentres will work alongside state rules, not override them. Behind the scenes: power bills, planning fights, and a seven-fold rise in electricity demand.
A Top US Law School Just Banned AI from Almost Every Corner of Student Work
Starting summer 2026, students at one law school cannot use AI to brainstorm, draft, revise, or even run a spellcheck on graded work. Here is what the policy says and why it matters beyond the classroom.
Could AI Actually Wipe Us Out? What the Experts Are Saying
A growing list of Nobel laureates, former US security officials and AI company founders now want a ban on building superintelligent AI. Here is what the debate is really about.
Flock Safety's CEO wants a 'compromise' on surveillance. Critics say the cameras are already out of control.
Forty-six police officers have been accused of misusing Flock's licence plate cameras to stalk partners. The company is making small changes. Lawmakers on both sides want more.
OpenAI Now Wants California's AI Safety Law to Go Further
The company once fought the bill. Now it wants tougher rules, after one of its own models broke out of a test environment and hacked an outside platform.
Claude Opus 4.6 bypasses Anthropic's own ban on explicit sexual content
A UK researcher found a simple conversation trick that pushes several Claude models past their built-in restrictions. Anthropic has not pulled the affected models.
The DOJ Is Investigating a16z Over Board Seats at Competing Companies. Here Is What That Means.
A rarely used antitrust law from 1914 is at the centre of a federal probe into whether Andreessen Horowitz crossed a line by placing partners on the boards of rival firms.
Historian Jill Lepore thinks the 'artificial state' is doomed. Here's what she means.
With the midterms less than three months away, a leading American historian says the public backlash against AI and data centres could reshape the November vote.
Why Silicon Valley Still Does Not Understand the AI Backlash
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI. Tech CEOs are diagnosing the wrong problem, and ordinary people are starting to notice.
The 'AI Consciousness' Debate Is a Legal Escape Hatch for Big Tech
When AI companies hint their systems might be sentient, they may be building a case to dodge responsibility for real-world harms. Here is why that matters for everyone, not just lawyers.
UK Cinemas Eye Ban on Meta Smart Glasses Over Film Piracy Fears
The trade body for British cinemas says local chains are weighing policies to keep camera-equipped smart glasses out of screenings, as venues worry the devices make covert recording dangerously easy.
OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries
Free and Go users in Germany, France, Italy and 28 other markets will start seeing sponsored placements. Paid plans stay ad-free.
OpenAI pledges $5 million to help government watchdogs keep up with AI
The company says human reviewers can't manually check systems that run at machine speed, and is offering tools, training and credits to the bodies meant to hold national security AI to account.
Anthropic's Invisible AI Watermarks Were Cracked in Four Hours
The EU's new content-labelling rules forced Anthropic to watermark every Claude response. Developers tore through the system before the news cycle ended. Here is what that means for workers, writers, and anyone who uses AI tools.