New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing student-facing AI software and companion chatbots for around 600,000 children. Norway banned generative AI in its primary schools in Jun…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future challenge for education. It is already changing how people write, analyze, design, and build. Yet many schools still treat it mainly as a shortcut students might misuse. That response is understandable, but…
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI’s fair use defence in the consolidated publisher copyright cases, arguing that licensing costs would threaten national security. EU law has no fair use doctrine, and the AI Act applies…
Adobe for Slack lets Slackbot turn conversations and shared files into images, video and documents using Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat and more than 70 other tools. Article 50 of the EU AI Act now requires synthetic content to be marked in a ma…
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its third Flash release in six weeks, with the cyber model restricted to trusted testers and governments. Under the EU AI Act every general purpose model placed on the market carries docu…
Coder has announced Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment that lets Cursor’s cloud agents run inside a customer’s own infrastructure, with SpaceXAI as launch partner and the product in private preview. Cursor continues to run inference and p…
Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro’s ECG and atrial fibrillation detection is described as FDA cleared, and EU medical devi…
Wonderful has closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation led by Insight Partners with Salesforce participating, eighteen months after being founded and six months after a $150M round at $2B. Its press release is datelined Amsterdam while Israeli techno…
ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly vice president of enterprise sales at OpenAI, as its first chief revenue officer, as more than half its revenue shifts to enterprise customers. Its core product falls under the AI Act’s synthetic content mar…
Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment and candidate evaluation systems are high risk under …