
The Guardian - 42 min 24 sec ago
Teachers and parents have warned against AI use in schools over concerns of cognitive surrender' New York City will ban students' use of artificial intelligence in public schools through eighth grade, typically age 13 or 14. The prohibition is scheduled to be announced Wednesday and will go into effect next week. The change is part of a sweeping overhaul of the use of technology in the US' largest school district, which enrolls roughly 900,000 students a year. In another policy shift...

The Hill - 1 hour 10 min ago
OpenAI's forthcoming artificial intelligence model Astra is the company's first to meet its "critical cybersecurity capability" threshold and will require stronger safeguards before release, the AI firm said Tuesday. In a blog post, OpenAI said Astra can find and exploit previously unknown security flaws across "many well-protected systems" without a human prompt to do so....

New York Magazine - 1 hour 28 min ago
The nation's largest public school system will ban the use of artificial intelligence from preschool to eighth grade.

The Boy Genius Report - 2 hours 2 min ago
The artificial intelligence revolution has driven up the cost of graphics cards, but AI and gaming aren't the only reasons good GPUs are in demand.

TechRadar - 3 hours 42 min ago
Fitbit users are complaining about Google Health's food tracking The AI tool has reportedly been logging inaccurate metrics One user described the mistakes as almost dangerous' If you've used any kind of artificial intelligence (AI) tool , chances are you might have seen it hallucinate wildly inaccurate answers to your simple questions. Most of the time the results are largely harmless, but what about when these problems start having the potential to affect your health and wellbeing?...

The Guardian - 4 hours 4 min ago
As more companies turn to AI, they're hiring freelancers to cleanup its mistakes rather than create original work Lisa, a freelance graphic designer based in Spain, noticed a shift in her work after the release of ChatGPT in 2022. She went from receiving slow one-off jobs creating logos and packaging to an onslaught of requests asking her to fix versions that were generated by artificial intelligence from sharpening fuzzy images for printing to turning flawed designs into usable files. By 2025...

New York Times - 14 hours 38 min ago
During the upcoming school year, younger students will be barred from using artificial intelligence, though its use will be permitted in high schools.

Nature - 16 hours 4 min ago
Progress in physics has long been driven by ingenious experiments conceived by human experts. Recently, design methods driven by artificial intelligence (AI) have begun to move beyond tuning a handful of parameters to proposing entirely new experimental layouts. The discovered configurations often challenge established design conventions while matching or even exceeding the performance of human-designed set-ups. We frame experimental design as a search for optima over a vast space of hardware configurations...

New York Times - 16 hours 6 min ago
Film buffs are complaining that the podcast host Bill Simmons used artificial intelligence to approximate the opinions of the critic Roger Ebert, who died in 2013.

The Guardian - 20 hours 46 min ago
Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m The top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial intelligence policy, who reaped profits earlier this year of up to $24m selling his private investment in Elon Musk's AI company, has now sold his holdings in another AI company for between $5m and $25m, according to records seen by the Guardian. (Federal financial records show ranges...

CNBC - 21 hours 21 min ago
A Gallup survey released in May found that "seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area."...

Variety - 21 hours 23 min ago
A group supporting the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is using artificial intelligence to help pressure California Attorney General Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust lawsuit. The group, which uses the neutral-sounding name Neighbors for Strong Communities, uses AI to craft letters that are sent to Bonta's office, but says that the senders are all real people. […]...

Techrepublic - 22 hours 11 min ago
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO after Tim Cook, inheriting challenges involving artificial intelligence, hardware costs, services, and supply chains. The post Apple After Tim Cook: John Ternus Inherits an AI and Hardware Test appeared first on TechRepublic .

CNBC - 23 hours 56 min ago
A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows.