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The debate over whether AI belongs in schools is heating up, and Google says it’s giving schools more control over the tech. But there’s a pretty big catch. Google announced Tuesday that it’s changing how schools manage access to its AI products, including Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search. Under the new policy, these products will be turned off by default for K-12 student accounts unless school administrators enable them. But

Following President Trump’s lead, the Republican Party has been developing close ties with Silicon Valley, insisting the United States must remain the global leader in artificial intelligence—no matter the cost. Tuesday’s midterms were a thunderous affirmation of what numerous polls leading up to election season had already begun to suggest: Americans just aren’t all that thrilled about AI. Not enough to justify the construction of new data centers in thei

On Tuesday, the internet and politicians responded in outrage to a New York Times report saying that Google would effectively ban students from accessing Search if their schools banned AI entirely under a new initiative. “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” Google’s vice president for education Chris Phillips told the New York Times, reportedly adding that if a school banned access to its AI services, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was simply taken out of context when he said that all the DRAM in the world should belong to AI firms like his so he can charge people to use it, you see. Altman made the wildly unpopular suggestion last week on John Collison’s Cheeky Pint podcast, making the point that it’s “quite terrible” that DRAM is allocated to consumers rather than data centers where it could be used for “maximum utilization in the cloud” (read: generate profit

Imagine initiating an AI system one time, and then getting billed $1,213,430 when the run finishes. No really, OpenAI wants you to imagine it. The company has published an intriguing blog post about “an autonomous vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline” that spawns countless agents that hunt down a massive number of software vulnerabilities, prove they’re scary, and create the code that would eliminate them. It sounds a little like a

One of the key questions in the IT market in 2026 is this: if a junior with AI completes tasks almost as quickly as a senior, and an inexperienced analyst gets ready-made SQL and a polished dashboard from the model, then why pay for experience? There is a well-supported rationale for this question. In a study of 5,172 support employees, an AI assistant increased productivity by an average of 15%; less experienced employees gained in both speed and quality,

Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Ever since ChatGPT's debut in 2023, concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) potentially wiping out humanity have dominated headlines. New research from Georgia Tech suggests that those anxieties are misplaced. "Computer scientists often aren't good judges of the social and political implications of technology," said Milton Mueller, a professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy. "They are so focu

Distribution shift condition experiment verification using four types of samples. Credit: Advanced Science (2025). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202515694 The power that makes electric vehicles travel farther and smartphones last longer comes from battery materials. Among them, the core material that directly determines the performance and lifespan of a battery is the cathode material. What if artificial intelligence could replace the numerous experiments required for

Credit: Energy (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2026.139934 Scientists from the Departments of Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the University of Malaga participated in an international collaboration that has optimized, through artificial intelligence, the process of producing bio-hydrogen from wastewater. It is a consortium involving researchers from countries such as Vietnam, South Korea, India and Taiwan. Their work is published in the journ

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Have you ever had the experience of rereading a sentence multiple times only to realize you still don't understand it? As taught to scores of incoming college freshmen, when you realize you're spinning your wheels, it's time to change your approach. This process, becoming aware of something not working and then changing what you're doing, is the essence of metacognition, or thinking about thinking. It's your brain monitoring its o

Banners for Pinterest, displayed to mark the fifth anniversary of the company's listing, hang on the front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, May 15, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File Pinterest plans to lay off under 15% of its workforce, as part of broader restructuring that arrives as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to artificial intelligence. In a Tuesday securities filing, San Francisco-based Pinterest said it was m

LLM may consider emoticons that humans use to express emotions as part of the instructions, ultimately leading to catastrophic consequences (such as deletion of critical data). Credit: Jiang et al. Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, are now widely used by people worldwide. These models have proved to be effective in rapidly sourcing information, answering questions, c

People can develop emotional closeness to Artificial Intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. Credit: Heinrich/Schiller/Kleinert, created with ChatGPT People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of

Optical and electrical characteristics of the MBN. Credit: Nature Electronics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01529-5 Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that perform well on various tasks, including the analysis or generation of images, videos, audio recordings and texts. These systems power various highly performing software, including automated transcription apps, large lan

Distribution of HLE questions across categories. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09962-4 How do you translate ancient Palmyrene script from a Roman tombstone? How many paired tendons are supported by a specific sesamoid bone in a hummingbird? Can you identify closed syllables in Biblical Hebrew based on the latest scholarship on Tiberian pronunciation traditions? These are some of the questions in "Humanity's Last Exam," a new benchmark intr

Regular screening is vital to identifying early signs of breast cancer. Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans, a world-first trial found Friday. The results suggest countries should roll out programs taking advantage of AI's scanning power to ease the workload of short-staffed radiologists, the Swedish lead researchers said. Well before the release of ChatGPT in 2022 raised global awareness about

After pretraining a large language model on synthesizability information for inorganic materials, materials predicted to be difficult to synthesize are redesigned into synthesizable forms. This process implements a human-like "learn and redesign" strategy in which knowledge is acquired and then applied. Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society A research team led by Prof. Yousung Jung of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seou

Basin extent and hydrological characteristics across High Mountain Asia, and the lightweight deep-learning framework employed in this study. Credit: AIRCAS A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia (HMA), widely known as the "Asian Water Tower." This critical water source, which sustains agricultural irrigation, urban water supplies and ecological security for hundreds of millions of peo