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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani enacted a one-year moratorium on generative AI in public schools, affecting nearly 600,000 students from 2-K through eighth grade, beginning in the 2026-27 school year. The policy, desc…
IT leaders should be wary of vendor claims about human-in-the-loop AI systems because many are merely rubber stamps, according to experts speaking at the CIO 100 Awards and Conference. Doug Shepherd, head of offensive se…
WIRED rebuilt Flock Safety's AI-powered search tool from code sent to police browsers, revealing it can monitor multiple cameras for individuals matching written descriptions. The tool, used by law enforcement, raises co…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student use of AI through 8th grade, effective through the 2026-27 school year, impacting nearly 600,000 public school students. The ban restricts all…
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), open-sourced in November 2024, surpassed 97 million installations by March 2026 with over 12,000 MCP servers online, and was donated to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux …
UK ministers are prioritizing Big Tech interests over public transparency in AI adoption, according to a report by the Open Rights Group, which found the public sector awarded over 2,000 AI-related contracts since 2018, …
Belgian company Aaltra and Professor Ruben Verborgh of Ghent University (UGent) unveiled Semek, a prototype AI device that lets users locally label, blur, or filter digital content such as AI-generated images, giving ind…
A university lab has issued a policy requiring all paper first drafts to be written without AI and mandating that lab members be able to answer a first follow-up question about their work without consulting an AI assista…
GitHub Copilot can now formally approve pull requests as of September 1, with the approval counting toward branch protection rules, according to GitHub's changelog. The feature, available in public preview on Copilot Pro…
Anker's Eufy brand unveiled a new AI ecosystem at IFA in Berlin, centered on the MindBase hub, which processes data on-device using an in-house LLM and AI chip, avoiding cloud connections. The hub connects via EasyOmni L…
Norway is considering banning camera-equipped smart glasses that can record people without consent, citing privacy concerns over Meta's plans to add AI-powered facial recognition. Digital Minister Karianne Tung said the …
Perplexity launched Hybrid Compute for Mac on September 1, an AI system that automatically routes sensitive data to on-device processing via its open-sourced PII-Tracer classifier, achieving 0.965 recall on conversations…
David Halbreich, an insurance recovery partner at Reed Smith, discusses how AI companies can address coverage gaps as the industry grows, including straddle claims between tail and go-forward D&O policies after a merger,…
A new arXiv preprint (2609.02092v1) introduces SCOPED-Hiring, a process-aware fairness diagnosis pipeline for LLM-based hiring multi-agent systems, which logged over 311,000 structured decision trajectories and found tha…
Researchers introduced FAIRLENS, a benchmark and evaluation framework for measuring fairness and validity of vision-language models (VLMs) in high-stakes domains including hiring, legal, and healthcare. Evaluating eight …
A new arXiv paper (arXiv:2609.01685v1) argues that future AI systems with integrated capacities for moral reasoning, moral intentionality, and moral reflection would raise novel meta-ethical questions about 'AI's own eth…
A new benchmark called the Fucc Boi Bench scored 40 AI models on 96 messy dating situations, with an AI judge rating replies for honesty, flirting, boundaries, and accountability. Nearly half of the replies scored 7 or h…
Publishers are turning to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to develop a machine-readable vocabulary for signaling preferences about how crawlers, including AI crawlers, may use their content, amid disputes over…
A developer released Human Tool for Claude Code, a satirical MCP server that treats humans as high-latency, stochastic tools for AI coding agents, inverting the typical agentic loop. The project, available on GitHub, use…
New York City public schools will ban elementary and middle school students from using generative AI tools for the 2025-2026 school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday, marking the most expansive prohibition i…