The hell of high costs, store closures, and crappier products is coming to school

Districts are struggling to afford all those Chromebooks.

Wealthier schools are at the forefront of focusing on a more human-centered education that in some cases is cutting out AI altogether.

This conceptual article examines the role of speculation in driving responses to generative AI platforms in literacy education and the implications for research, pedagogy, and practice. Our focus on ....

Before we could even take a breath to celebrate Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza’s winning the 2026 Caine Prize for Writing, Vauhini Vara alleged in an article in The Atlantic that Kundizeza had used "AI" to write The Blue Fighter (pdf link). A screenshot of the article in The Atlantic The Caine Prize responded in a statement on their website.

A new lawsuit alleges that OpenAI is manipulating minors into sharing sensitive data without valid parental consent in order to train its AI.

The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising

OpenAI‘s ChatGPT unlawfully took sensitive data from millions of child users who signed up for the AI service without getting parental consent, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday.

OpenAI‘s ChatGPT unlawfully took sensitive data from millions of child users who signed up for the AI service without getting parental consent, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday.

OpenAI‘s ChatGPT unlawfully took sensitive data from millions of child users who signed up for the AI service without getting parental consent, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday.

A New York Focus analysis of roughly 680 school district websites and school board manuals found that more than half lack formal AI policies.

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

It turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026.

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

Our high school kids are not guinea pigs for big tech. They shouldn't be required to beta test AI to line the pockets of billionaires or fuel construction of polluting data centers that threaten their...

Common Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings.

A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.

Florida ​asked a state judge on Wednesday to order changes to Instagram and Facebook to better ‌protect young users, pressing ahead with a lawsuit accusing parent Meta Platforms of harming teens after...

An excerpt from my testimony to Kentucky lawmakers

Our high school kids are not guinea pigs for big tech. They shouldn't be required to beta test AI to line the pockets of billionaires or fuel construction of polluting data centers that threaten their...

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine

Tech Justice Law's Juvaria Shahid says the settlement is not the tech industry’s ‘Big Tobacco’ moment.

OpenAI is pushing back on the assessment.

A new Common Sense Media report found that guardrails said to be included in OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens" aren't working as promised.

The fast-moving technology has some educators, parents, and students worried, even as others argue there’s room for experimentation.

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

Data brokers collect thousands of details about your finances, health and habits. See what’s in your profile, who buys it and how companies use it.

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

David Robinson used to write safety reports at OpenAI and now says its culture is ‘broken’

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.

A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.

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The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem