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Only 18% of U.S. K-12 teachers have received formal guidance from school administrators on using AI tools, despite 60% using AI for their work, according to a new Walton Family Foundation and Gallup study. The survey of …
AI data centers in rural America are consuming massive amounts of groundwater for server cooling, directly competing with local farms for finite aquifer resources. The facilities, which support AI workloads and cloud sto…
Anthropic has deployed two new egress gateway certificate authorities for its sandbox environments, with separate production and staging CAs valid through 2036. The production CA, identified by serial number 0e:25:e9:2e.…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," integrates artificial intelligence within Catholic social teaching on human dignity and labor, but theologians and pastors must now extend its principles to address…
A new academic paper argues there is no definitive solution to the challenge artificial intelligence poses to student assessment, classifying the issue as a "wicked problem" with no correct or incorrect answers. The auth…
Character.AI users are flooding Reddit with complaints that recent updates have ruined the popular chatbot app, with many describing the new AI model as "lobotomized" and generic. The company has replaced user-favored AI…
Non-technical "citizen builders" using generative AI tools to rapidly develop applications are creating systemic security exposures, as AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations like public storage access an…
North Korea has conducted its first test of AI-guided missiles, with leader Kim Jong Un observing the launch. The test marks a significant advancement in the country's weapons technology, integrating artificial intellige…
India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has mandated that organizations patch, mitigate, or disconnect internet-facing and critical systems within 12 hours of a vulnerability being exploited. The directive com…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, addressing the moral and social implications of artificial intelligence. The 42,300-word document calls for safeguards to protect human dignit…
A Mercer survey of 12,000 workers, including 825 executives, found 99% of C-suite leaders expect artificial intelligence to trigger layoffs within two years. The share of employees classified as "thriving" dropped from 6…
Wharton visiting scholar Cornelia Walther warned that quantum AI will accelerate capabilities beyond current generative systems and urged leaders to invest in human agency now. Investment in quantum technologies exceeded…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified after Beijing blocked…
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, defends human imperfection as a source of dignity and warns against outsourcing human capabilities to artificial intelligence. The document argues that human limitati…
Henry Farell argued at a Blavatnik School of Government talk that AI should be understood as a "lossy information aggregation tool," comparing it to historical systems like state bureaucracies and markets. Farell critici…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated four-term U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff, making Cornyn the first Texas GOP senator to lose a renomination bid. President Donald Trump endorsed Pax…
YouTube will automatically label videos containing significant photorealistic AI-generated content, moving from voluntary creator disclosure to automated detection. The labels will appear prominently in video description…
South Africa holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves critical to AI infrastructure and hosts the continent's largest data center market, giving it unique leverage over major technology companies. …
YouTube is relocating AI disclosure labels on Shorts and long-form videos to appear directly below the video player and as an overlay on Shorts, making them more visible to viewers. The platform is also rolling out new i…
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten will call for restricting classroom computer use until third grade, banning student-facing AI in elementary schools, and prohibiting social companion chatbots fo…