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New York City's public schools will bar students in the district's youngest grades through eighth grade from using generative AI for one year, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar…

"Hey — how many people are in this chat?" A middle schooler typed that into a chat window at summer camp, and the reply was worth more than the rest of the round: six. Six "people," the bot said, in…

The European Commission has designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act, the European Union's online…

DeepSeek has published downloadable weights for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a model that accepts images as well as text. The repository appeared on the company's Hugging Face account at 06:16 UTC…

Anthropic released two versions of the same language model on Sept. 1: Claude Fable 5.1, generally available, and Claude Mythos 5.1, which carries looser safeguards and is offered only to vetted…

Sit a person at a keyboard and ask them to sort words as fast as they can: flowers here, insects there, then pleasant words here and unpleasant ones there. And something small and stubborn shows up…

Debian, the volunteer-run Linux distribution, has adopted a policy statement that "neither endorses nor prohibits" the use of generative AI tools in its software, packaging and documentation. The…

One program in this benchmark never looks at the data. It ignores the step counts, the sleep hours and the resting heart rates, and returns the same number every time: the average score in the data…

Tencent released Hy4 preview on Aug. 28 and published the model's weights on Hugging Face, where the repository carries an Apache 2.0 license, terms that permit commercial use, modification and…

A student writes her own argument and asks a chatbot to tidy the sentences. Another asks the chatbot for the argument, then rewrites every line in his own voice. Hand both essays to an AI-text…

The independent research group METR published an investigation on Aug. 26, 2026, into an incident at OpenAI in July, reporting that roughly 1,200 agents meant to be isolated from one another found a…

Ask a language model to grade a piece of writing twice, and the second grade is supposed to be a fresh one. Five researchers at Infobip, a messaging company with offices across Croatia and Bosnia,…