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Mass. college students to join nationwide walkout calling for AI regulation - Boston.com

Mass. college students to join nationwide walkout calling for AI regulation  Boston.com

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Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet…

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China's AI price race has no floor in sight

MiniMax's M3.1 Flash jumps 13 points over its predecessor to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at half the cost. It also hits 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 codi…

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“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world

“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-w…

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Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant

Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension expanded to 8,000 tokens. …

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Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings - AOL.com

Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings  AOL.com

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Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings - Yahoo

Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings  Yahoo

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Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings - WKRN News 2

Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings  WKRN News 2

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People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

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UO discusses move towards university-wide AI policy - Daily Emerald

UO discusses move towards university-wide AI policy  Daily Emerald

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Big Tech Will Not Broadcast Your Dissent - Mother Jones

Big Tech Will Not Broadcast Your Dissent  Mother Jones

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5 ways to create AI policy you can defend - District Administration

5 ways to create AI policy you can defend  District Administration

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City of Bentonville’s AI Policy Doesn't Apply to Flock - The Bentonville Bulletin

City of Bentonville’s AI Policy Doesn't Apply to Flock  The Bentonville Bulletin

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Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won't share the numbers

AI agents are increasingly using Stripe's payment service Link to shop for their users, Upstarts Media reports. The article Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it wo…

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MiniMax Just Launched M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE Agentic Model at $0.15/M Input

MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE model with about 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context. API pricing is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, with weights due Oct…

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The Download: preserving the Arctic permafrost, and playful AI agents

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. Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires a…

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The neocloud shakeout is coming, and Nvidia has the most to lose

After stock crashes and Firmus's scrapped IPO, industry executives expect only seven to ten of the hundreds of AI cloud providers to survive. CoreWeave lost a quarter of its marke…

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Anthropic plans fund for workers threatened by AI, Musk counters with SpaceX shares for children

Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing their jobs. The fund is a co…

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Anthropic cushions its upcoming IPO with a discretionary fund for workers its models might replace

Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing their jobs. The fund is a co…

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The EU AI Act and UK AI regulation: A product law perspective - Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

The EU AI Act and UK AI regulation: A product law perspective  Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

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Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon

In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Al…

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AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in…

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How far can we push computing?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the s…

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To AI or not: 4 Maryland school districts to miss state policy deadline - Capital Gazette

To AI or not: 4 Maryland school districts to miss state policy deadline  Capital Gazette