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Ozarks Tech sets rules for AI use by students and staff - Springfield Daily Citizen

Ozarks Tech sets rules for AI use by students and staff  Springfield Daily Citizen

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Carroll Schools has an AI policy for students, families and staff. Here’s what it says. - Baltimore Sun

Carroll Schools has an AI policy for students, families and staff. Here’s what it says.  Baltimore Sun

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CERT-In flags AI agent cyber risks: Govt urges companies to tighten security, eyes AI regulation - Moneycontrol.com

CERT-In flags AI agent cyber risks: Govt urges companies to tighten security, eyes AI regulation  Moneycontrol.com

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ChatGPT becomes a full Chrome browser assistant that reads and acts on your open tabs

OpenAI's updated Chrome extension lets ChatGPT access open browser tabs, sum up content, and use "Computer Use" in Work mode to fill out forms or compare products across several t…

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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative…

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China plans to tighten export controls on open-weight models and 23 key AI technologies

China plans to restrict exports of 23 key AI technologies, including model weights, source code, and training methods for systems hitting 10^26 FLOPs or 2 trillion parameters. A f…

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China tightens export controls on open-weight models and 23 key AI technologies

China plans to restrict exports of 23 key AI technologies, including model weights, source code, and training methods for systems hitting 10^26 FLOPs or 2 trillion parameters. A f…

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Can voters learn to stop worrying and love Big AI? - The Hill

Can voters learn to stop worrying and love Big AI?  The Hill

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AI safety group pushes for tighter export controls, limits on ‘vastly superhuman AI’ - The Hill

AI safety group pushes for tighter export controls, limits on ‘vastly superhuman AI’  The Hill

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Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks li…

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Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in months

Google Deepmind's Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, making Google the second lab after OpenAI to cross the 95 percent mark. But the results swing wild…

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Why Westchester businesses require federal regulation for AI | Opinion - The Journal News | lohud.com

Why Westchester businesses require federal regulation for AI | Opinion  The Journal News | lohud.com

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Is AI interpretability close to a breakthrough? A new essay has researchers divided

Neural networks may be much easier to read than researchers assumed, with about 90 percent of neurons serving a clear function. That would be big news for AI safety research, sinc…

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OpenAI's new Rosalind Academic Plan gives research labs up to 30 free seats for a year

OpenAI is launching the Rosalind Academic Plan, a free offering that's currently open only to research labs at US universities without an enterprise contract. The article OpenAI's…

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Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices

Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR inside access to review its AI models and safety practices, the company announced. The article Anthropic gives METR inside acces…

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The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives

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. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. T…

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Anthropic co-founder backs 'common sense standards' for AI regulation - Nikkei Asia

Anthropic co-founder backs 'common sense standards' for AI regulation  Nikkei Asia

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Rep. Zach Nunn, Sarah Trone Garriott see federal role in regulating AI - The Des Moines Register

Rep. Zach Nunn, Sarah Trone Garriott see federal role in regulating AI  The Des Moines Register

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Anthropic cofounder renews call for robust regulation of frontier AI - The Economic Times

Anthropic cofounder renews call for robust regulation of frontier AI  The Economic Times

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Market Chatter: SpaceX AI Policy Head to Testify Friday in New York City Council's AI Safety Probe - Moomoo

Market Chatter: SpaceX AI Policy Head to Testify Friday in New York City Council's AI Safety Probe  Moomoo

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Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered.

I don’t remember much about Peppy, my first and only pet cat. I can conjure the sensation of stroking her while she purred, recall how she used to get stuck in trees (just like in…

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Love is infrastructure

I. Meet cute Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren’t close. They traded glimpses and occasional hello…

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This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 5 million people around the world. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The Prima system, which was app…

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SpaceX AI Policy Head to Testify Friday in New York City Council's AI Safety Probe - marketscreener.com

SpaceX AI Policy Head to Testify Friday in New York City Council's AI Safety Probe  marketscreener.com