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New York City Is Banning AI for Hundreds of Thousands of Students
New York City is taking one of the toughest positions on artificial intelligence yet seen in American education. Starting with the 2026-2027 academic year, the nation’s largest school district will ban more than half a million students from using generative AI, covering children from preschool and 2-K through eighth grade. The move comes as schools…
Dad Learns 3D Printing To Build Arms For Children
Callum Miller was told his 10-year-old son could face an 18-month wait for a robotic arm. Rather than accept the delay, the dad bought a secondhand 3D printer despite having no experience with the technology. Six weeks later, he had built a prosthetic arm for his son Jamie. Then, after seeing another young child’s story…
Someone Hid an AirTag in a Box of Rare Books and It Led to a Facility Where Books May Be Destroyed for AI
Imagine selling nearly 1,000 books to one buyer in a single order. No carefully curated selection. No obvious interest in a particular author or subject. Just an enormous sweep of titles, bought in bulk from the used book market. For almost two years, rare books dealers had reportedly been seeing orders like this and quietly…
AI Companies Are Buying Up Rare Books, And Some Are Being Destroyed
Books are having a bizarre second life in the AI boom. Companies building large language models are reportedly buying huge quantities of old and used books, not to read them or preserve them, but to strip out the pages, scan the text, and potentially destroy the originals. For booksellers, the sudden demand can mean a…
Scientists Warn Modern Life May Be Overloading The Human Brain
The train doors close and within seconds, phones appear across the carriage. One commuter checks a message, another scrolls through a video, someone reads a breaking-news alert while another watches a stranger’s carefully edited holiday unfold on a screen. In the space of a single journey, the human brain can be exposed to war, celebrity…
AI Gave A Farmer Pesticide Advice That Destroyed His Sesame Field
A 67-year-old farmer in China reportedly turned to an AI chatbot for help with a problem that could have cost him a season of work. After following its pesticide recommendation, he watched his sesame seedlings wilt and die within 24 hours. The farmer had used AI for more than a year and had grown increasingly…
Meta Faces Nearly $1 Billion Penalty After Landmark Child Safety Ruling
Meta has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion after a New Mexico judge found that Facebook and Instagram contributed to serious harms affecting children and teenagers. The ruling goes beyond a financial penalty. Meta has also been ordered to change how its platforms operate for younger users, putting some of the biggest social media…
Disney Animator Behind Frozen Makes Powerful Promise With New Free ASL App
Most people know Josh Staub through the worlds he helped create on screen. As an animator and visual effects artist, he contributed to Disney hits like Frozen, Tangled, and Wreck-It Ralph, bringing beloved characters to life for millions of viewers around the world. Yet the project that has captured the most attention recently has nothing…
AI Data Centers Are Turning To Robot Dogs For Around The Clock Security
The artificial intelligence boom has transformed data centers into some of the most valuable pieces of infrastructure on the planet. Companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build enormous facilities that will power everything from AI chatbots to autonomous systems, creating a new race to protect these sprawling digital fortresses. Their latest security…
The FBI Is Exploring AI to Identify Future Criminal Threats
The idea sounds like it belongs in a science fiction thriller. A government agency uses artificial intelligence to identify people who could become threats before they break the law. Yet that possibility is moving closer to reality as the FBI explores new AI capabilities for its Threat Screening Center, triggering fresh debates over privacy, surveillance,…