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Adobe Premiere Pro now lets you find video clips by describing them
Too lazy to label your video files? Adobe has you covered.
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Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face
Now you’re even more justified to side-eye Gemini.
PowerSchool data breach brings claims of negligence, poor cyberhygiene
The K-12 software company is facing legal pushback and criticism following a cyberattack that impacted a still unknown number of districts.
Apple pauses AI-generated news alerts after fake headline notifications
Apple faced complaints from news outlets and press freedom groups about generating false and inaccurate information.
OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint | OpenAI
The Blueprint outlines policy proposals for how the US can maximize AI’s benefits, bolster national security, and drive economic growth
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Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
Google is betting big that AI is the future of work.
She Is in Love With ChatGPT
A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.
Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic
A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.
Microsoft, OpenAI ask federal judge to toss news orgs’ copyright claims
A coalition of news organizations led by The New York Times claim the exploitation of their online news stories to train artificial intelligence-driven chatbots amounts to copyright infringement.
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.
the Llama research team, wrote a script to remove copyright info, including the word “copyright” and “acknowledgments,” from e-books in LibGen.
Student, teacher AI use continued to climb in 2023-24 school year
Some 39% of teachers reported regularly using detection tech to spot AI-related plagiarism, according to the Center for Democracy & Technology.
Meta Moves to End Fact-Checking Program
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. It is likely to please the Trump administration.
Is the Tech Industry Already on the Cusp of an A.I. Slowdown?
Companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of the data used to train artificial intelligence systems. Can new methods continue years of rapid progress?
OpenAI rolls out enhanced memory for ChatGPT, allowing it to reference previous chats
OpenAI has begun rolling out a beta version of enhanced memory features that allow ChatGPT to reference past conversations.
he AI assistant can now access information from past chats even when you start a new conversation, combining this history with its existing "Memory" database to provide more personalized and relevant responses.
K-12 Dive Trendline on AI in Education
Inside the rapidly changing world of AI in Education. Access the K-12 Dive Trendline
The Year in Education: Our Top 24 Stories About Schools, Students and Learning
Learning recovery. Christianity in public schools. The impact of AI. The 74 takes a look back at some of our biggest education stories of the year.
GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch
Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by
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YouTube says that soon, its tech will be able to find AI copies of celebs and creators
YouTube is giving celebrities more control over their likenesses.
Now, the company says it can give celebrities (and soon, creators) the ability to manage AI copies of their likeness, such as their face, “at scale.”
The slow, steady, frustrating, relentless, remarkable rise of Reddit
After nearly two decades, Reddit is breaking out into the mainstream....
Meet SwagBot, the AI-powered robot cattle herder preventing soil degradation
With four wheels and a bright red paint job, SwagBot is not your average cow.
The battery-powered SwagBot can now determine the health, type and density of pasture and monitor the health of livestock.It then uses this information to autonomously herd cattle to the best pastures and move them before land is overgrazed and soil becomes degraded. It can also feed data back to farmers."Once the cattle are used to the robot, they will follow the robot around," said University of Sydney professor of robotics and intelligent systems, Salah Sukkarieh, whose team made SwagBot.
Survey: Growing number of U.S. adults lack literacy skills
The gap between the top-skilled and the lowest-skilled is growing, according to a survey of adult skills.
Video-making AI tools are headed into general use
As AI-made video goes mainstream, expect both wows and woes.
2 juveniles face hundreds of charges after creating, sharing AI nude photos of students
Two juveniles are facing nearly 500 charges combined in connection to AI-generated nude images of Lancaster Country Day school students.
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Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI “Vision”
Copilot Vision could be both cool and creepy.
Teacher support is the key to unlocking AI's classroom potential
Federal and state investments in AI literacy and teacher support will increase teachers’ classroom AI knowledge, skills, and confidence.
Sara Schapiro, Alliance for Learning Innovation
'PDF to Brainrot' study tools are a strange iteration on a TikTok trend | TechCrunch
Several AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a "PDF to Brainrot" trend, which will read the text of a document you upload over "oddly satisfying"
hat’s why companies and web tools like Coconote, Study Fetch, StudyRot, Memenome, Shortspilot, Grademaxx, and more are spinning up “PDF to Brainrot” generators — if these videos are so popular on TikTok, maybe students will pay to make them as study tools.
Australia Bans Social Media for Everyone Under 16
The law sets a minimum age for users of platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X. How the restriction will be enforced online remains an open question.
An A.I. Granny Is Phone Scammers’ Worst Nightmare
Daisy Harris, an A.I.-generated English granny, has been stymying scammers with meandering, time-wasting conversations. But can she actually make a dent in the flood of fraud?
Anthropic proposes a new way to connect data to AI chatbots | TechCrunch
Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, called Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Model Context Protocol
Fighting deepfakes with more transparency about AI
Microsoft is fighting harmful deepfakes with responsible AI tools and practices designed to bring more transparency to online content.