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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’
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New York City is taking a stand against what officials see as a growing threat to young minds: the unchecked use of artificial intelligence in classrooms. Starting this school year, nearly 600,000 public school students from preschool through eighth grade will be barred from using generative AI tools—including
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In a surprising twist within the healthcare technology debate, a new framework from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) suggests that physicians, not algorithms, may be the primary barrier to wider use of artificial intelligence in patient care. The provocative premise, drawn from a recent