State education officials have long lagged behind tech developments, and now they’re playing catchup on establishing guidelines for AI use in K-12 classrooms. At the same time, polls find declining support for AI in the classroom.
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Brown Stage Capitalism
Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” in 2022, though it was hardly a new phenomenon even then. In granting apps the right to wield the absurdities of intellectual property law to legally bully their users, the government emboldened tech founders to view their companies as exempt from laws and regulations.
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Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
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AI’s $600 Billion Blind Spot
A new report offers a legislative road map for creating a competitive and secure cloud computing market, without forcing policymakers to reinvent the wheel.
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Why Do We Assume TrumpTok Will Succeed?
Oracle has no history of creating compelling consumer-facing products. Their ability to run the most addictive algorithm in social media is questionable.
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H-1B Disruption
Today on TAP: It’s the right target, but a $100,000 visa fee is a characteristically bizarre Trumpian remedy.
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Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a bill allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
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The Oligarchy’s Best Friend
With all of Trump’s alarming moves toward authoritarianism, it’s easy to overlook that he is also an ordinary plutocrat.
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
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What If There’s No AGI?
The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a depression.