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Google launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered desktop app for teachers in India, developed with NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission, piloting in 100 schools with plans to scale to 10,000 schools. At its I/O Connect India…
AI chatbots that make learning feel too easy may actually impair long-term retention, according to a randomized trial with about a thousand high-school students published in PNAS. Students who used a plain chatbot scored…
Major UK recruitment firms Hays, PageGroup, and Robert Walters are slashing costs as a combination of the Iran war and AI-driven automation freezes permanent hiring across Europe. Robert Walters posted a 4% drop in secon…
A potential Wikipedia outage could create knowledge gaps in AI models like ChatGPT on cryptocurrency topics, as the platform's structured data is a key training source for large language models. The Wikimedia Foundation …
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the cost of running AI tools per engineer could soon rival their salary, projecting that within a year or two, "the burn rate of a strong engineer might be the same as their salary or the…
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, a free offering for verified K-12 educators at US schools, with a promise not to train models on student data. The program includes access to Claude, Claude Code, the Cowork agent …
India's Supreme Court has released draft regulations governing AI in the judiciary, explicitly banning algorithmic adjudication while permitting AI for administrative and assistive tasks. The draft, open for public comme…
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr warned on February 17, 2026, that uneven access to artificial intelligence could slow productivity growth, with gains concentrating among firms that can afford adva…
Google has quietly updated its search privacy settings to automatically opt all customers into allowing the company to use their images, voice searches, and videos to train AI models, including large language models. Use…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order Tuesday imposing a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale AI datacenters exceeding 50 megawatts, making New York the first U.S. state to enact such a pause. The ord…
Twenty-six former Meta employees sued the company Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, alleging that AI-assisted performance metrics used in layoffs unfairly targeted workers with disabilities and those who ha…
Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing the company, alleging it used AI tools including an internal assistant called Metamate and AI agents to unfairly target workers on medical or parental leave for layoffs in May, …
A 2025 Gartner report predicted that by 2027, 60% of data and analytics tasks will be automated, up from 25% in 2023, as AI agents absorb tribal knowledge and democratize technical skills. Analytics professional Rashi De…
Bun shipped an AI-driven rewrite from Zig to Rust in eleven days, spending about $165,000 in API costs to generate over a million lines of Rust that passed Bun's assertion suite at 100 percent. Zig creator Andrew Kelley …
Researchers found that the general-purpose language model LLaVA 1.6 can simulate speech errors of aphasia patients with high accuracy, matching six of seven error types for 97.8% of 278 individuals and all seven for 79.5…
Researchers have found that the multimodal language model LLaVA 1.6 can replicate six of seven categories of naming errors seen in stroke-induced aphasia, matching real-world clinical data in 97.8% of configurations, tho…
Elon Musk's xAI has deployed 59 natural gas turbines without required Clean Air Act permits to power its Colossus 2 supercomputer and data center project near Memphis, Tennessee, triggering lawsuits from the Southern Env…
Meta is rationing AI tokens for its engineers after internal spending spiraled out of control, with Instagram chief Adam Mosseri revealing that token budgets are becoming as real as payroll. Meta employees consumed 73.7 …
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 62 on Monday, imposing a one-year moratorium on state environmental permits for data centers consuming 50 megawatts or more of power, making New York the first U.S. s…
Hachette Book Group, Cengage, Elsevier and author Scott Turow filed a lawsuit against Google LLC on July 10, alleging the company violated copyright law by using their copyrighted works to train its Gemini AI without per…