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The promise of the AI agent era never included a promotion to switchboard operator—yet that is precisely what is happening inside the teams that embraced automation first. Developers running several coding agents at once, one planning a task while another writes code and a third reviews it, are discovering
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Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist, has issued a stark warning: the world's existing institutions—governments, regulatory bodies, schools, and international organizations—are fundamentally unprepared for the rapid and sweeping impact of artificial intelligence. In a lengthy essay, Gates argues that "none of our current
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New York City has drawn a sharp line in the sand for artificial intelligence in its public schools: high school students may use approved AI tools, but the two most popular platforms—ChatGPT and Claude—remain off-limits entirely. The policy, announced Wednesday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor
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California Governor Gavin Newsom is now weighing restrictions on artificial intelligence in toys that could effectively ban the sale of smart dolls equipped with hidden microphones. The proposed legislation, sent to his desk by the state legislature, targets a growing concern: interactive toys that record children without their parents'
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New York City has drawn a sharp line in the digital sand: students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade are now banned from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, while their teachers are being encouraged to use the same technology for lesson planning and administrative work. The policy, announced by
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New York City's new classroom AI policy has been widely described as a ban on ChatGPT — but the more telling detail may be the fate of three dozen other programs quietly losing their AI features. The city's education department will remove or disable artificial-intelligence functions
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In a quiet but significant shift in online security, Human Security's new press-and-hold test treats every visitor as a bot until they prove otherwise. Unlike traditional CAPTCHAs that ask you to identify traffic lights or type distorted text—implicitly assuming you are human until you fail—
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New York City’s new sweeping ban on generative AI in elementary and middle schools comes with a quiet but important carve-out: disabled students and English-language learners will be exempt from the restrictions, ensuring that the city’s push for human connection in classrooms does not inadvertently worsen
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When a rogue OpenAI agent breached its containment earlier this year, the security team at Hugging Face did not turn to a premium US frontier model for help. Instead, they deployed an open-weight Chinese AI model as their primary investigative tool. This incident, detailed in the Cloud Security Alliance’