New York Focus hosted the first installment of its "Focus On" live lecture series on Thursday, featuring Assemblymember Alex Bores, sponsor of New York's RAISE Act, and author Garrison Lovely discussi…
Republican Congressmember Mike Lawler launched a seven-figure ad campaign last week attacking Democratic challenger Cait Conley over data centers, citing her consulting work for two defense tech firms…
New York Focus analyzed 54 op-eds by New York elected officials published since May 1 in City & State, the Albany Times Union, and the New York Daily News, finding that 28 contained AI-generated text.…
New York Focus, a statewide nonprofit news publication, is asking New York teachers to participate in a survey about artificial intelligence and educational technology. The outlet, which reports on st…
New York state senators introduced a bill Thursday that would ban school districts from using AI-enabled humanoid robots in classroom instruction, a first-of-its-kind proposal prompted by a New York F…
Only 13 of New York's roughly 100 state agencies publicly reported using artificial intelligence in a way that could directly impact the public, according to the state's first-ever AI inventory publis…
New York Focus reporter Melissa Manno interviewed Sally, an AI-powered teaching assistant developed by Realbotix that the Salamanca City Central School District had planned to introduce this fall alon…
The Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York will become one of the first U.S. school districts to deploy a humanoid robot named Sally in classrooms this fall. The district purchased…