Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on generative AI tools for roughly 600,000 New York City public school students through eighth grade, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year. High schools are exempt and can run monitored AI pilot programs, while teachers may still use AI for lesson planning and administrative tasks. The policy also sets non-mandatory daily screen time guidelines of 30 minutes for elementary students and 45 minutes for middle schoolers.
Huawei has unveiled the Watch D3, a smartwatch that monitors sleep and exercise like typical wearables but stands out for its built-in blood pressure sensor. Instead of relying on optical estimation methods common in other smartwatches, the device inflates a small cuff mechanism on the wrist to take a more direct pressure reading.
The federal government filed a letter in court supporting OpenAI and Microsoft against the New York Times' 2023 copyright lawsuit over AI training data. The filing argues that using copyrighted articles to train large language models qualifies as fair use because it is 'extraordinarily transformative' and doesn't directly compete with the Times' journalism.
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest in New York federal court supporting OpenAI's argument that training AI models on copyrighted news content qualifies as fair use. The filing addresses lawsuits brought by The New York Times and Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, which accuse OpenAI of infringing their copyrighted material to build ChatGPT.
Director Dave Green and voice actor Eric Bauza discussed how the late Mel Blanc, the original voice behind Looney Tunes characters, shaped their approach to the hybrid live-action/animated film 'Coyote vs. Acme.' Bauza, who currently voices several classic Looney Tunes characters, described drawing on Blanc's vocal techniques and comedic timing to bring authenticity to the film's depiction of Wile E. Coyote.
A contributor for Entrepreneur argues that small business owners who initially manage marketing themselves often hit a ceiling as their companies grow and technical demands multiply. The piece describes how tasks like website maintenance, SEO, video editing and social scheduling can overwhelm a single in-house coordinator, leaving no time for strategy or new campaigns.
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-tier model release in just six weeks, alongside a specialized variant called Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber aimed at vulnerability detection and mitigation. The company touts it as its strongest reasoning and coding model to date, with introductory API pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through year-end before doubling.
Torani, the 101-year-old San Leandro syrup company, has never laid off an employee, and CEO Melanie Dulbecco says that record will hold even as generative AI reshapes entry-level work. Dulbecco, who has run the company for 35 years and grew it from $700,000 in revenue to a projected $800 million, wants to use AI to redesign jobs rather than eliminate them.
An early build of Google's Device Intelligence app, discovered ahead of the Googlebook laptop launch, reveals an opt-in feature that automatically groups related local files into topic-based collections, such as trip planning documents. These collections can be viewed through desktop widgets, and Google states the sorting happens on-device without files leaving the machine or being used for AI training.
Anthropic notified users that a threat actor used common infostealer malware—including Vidar, LummaC2, StealC, RedLine, Acreed and Atomic Stealer—to steal browser session cookies and replay them into paid Claude accounts, bypassing login and two-factor checks entirely. The company signed out affected sessions, removed stored payment methods, and refunded fraudulent charges tied to the campaign.
New York City has imposed a temporary ban on artificial intelligence use in classrooms through middle school, while also setting new limits on student screen time. High school students, by contrast, will gain access to AI literacy courses under the new policy.
The Trump administration filed a 20-page brief supporting OpenAI in its copyright dispute with The New York Times, arguing that training large language models on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use. The filing cites an executive order calling for the US to maintain global leadership in artificial intelligence, and warns that restricting AI training practices could harm American innovation and economic competitiveness.
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