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Mamdani announces comprehensive AI policy for public schools - cairnspost.com.au

Mamdani announces comprehensive AI policy for public schools  cairnspost.com.au

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Mamdani announces comprehensive AI policy for public schools - News.com.au

Mamdani announces comprehensive AI policy for public schools  News.com.au

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Mamdani announces comprehensive AI policy for public schools - Toowoomba Chronicle

Mamdani announces comprehensive AI policy for public schools  Toowoomba Chronicle

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Pangram's biggest flaw is users turning its scores into public shaming

Pangram hired an "attack dog" to shame alleged AI users on social media. But the campaign blurs two things that aren't the same: Pangram only somewhat reliably measures whether AI…

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Mayor Mamdani announces NYC’s first-ever comprehensive AI policy for public schools - The Australian

Mayor Mamdani announces NYC’s first-ever comprehensive AI policy for public schools  The Australian

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Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon

Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. …

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Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved. The article Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royal…

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AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness

More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. The article AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and …

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G20 on AI policy, Snowflake earnings, Ford's production push and more in Morning Squawk - CNBC

G20 on AI policy, Snowflake earnings, Ford's production push and more in Morning Squawk  CNBC

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The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout

Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it u…

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Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails …

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AI Weekly: New York City's AI policy for children, Anthropic's court win - Reuters

AI Weekly: New York City's AI policy for children, Anthropic's court win  Reuters

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The Fight for Serious AI Regulation Just Won a Big Victory in Massachusetts - The Nation

The Fight for Serious AI Regulation Just Won a Big Victory in Massachusetts  The Nation

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Agriculture relies on fossil fuels. It’s costing us.

If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for the…

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Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise

As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and o…

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Mamdani Announces NYC’s First AI Policy, Restricts Generative AI In Grades 2–8 - NDTV

Mamdani Announces NYC’s First AI Policy, Restricts Generative AI In Grades 2–8  NDTV

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US strikes light-touch AI regulation accord with G20 members - The Star

US strikes light-touch AI regulation accord with G20 members  The Star

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Maharashtra announces AI Policy 2026 to boost industry, governance and public services - News On AIR

Maharashtra announces AI Policy 2026 to boost industry, governance and public services  News On AIR

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UCT research warns SA cannot delay AI regulation - ITWeb

UCT research warns SA cannot delay AI regulation  ITWeb

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Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal

Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda …

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Writing a Law Firm AI Policy: A Practical Structure - Legal Desire

Writing a Law Firm AI Policy: A Practical Structure  Legal Desire

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Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon

Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. Built in Rust with custom Metal kernels for one model on one chip family…

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DOJ Says Training AI on IP 'Is Exceedingly Transformative' - Digital Music News

DOJ Says Training AI on IP 'Is Exceedingly Transformative'  Digital Music News