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…
NASA has told Axiom Space to develop a simpler Sortie Suit for the first lunar landings, cutting mass and complexity to support a 2028 target. The same acceleration cancelled the Lunar Gateway, and ESA’s three guaranteed European astronaut flights were…
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…
Uber is cutting about 3,300 roles, roughly 10% of its workforce, and shutting down in Nigeria and Uganda as it redirects spending towards robotaxis. Its internal memo says everyone affected has been notified except where local process applies, which in…
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…
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 …
Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two years moving the other way, onto sovereign suites ch…
Phil Schiller leaving the App Store made Monday’s headlines. The quieter fact underneath it is that Eddy Cue now runs more of Apple than anyone except the new chief executive. Mark Gurman broke the reshuffle for Bloomberg on Monday, hours before John T…
John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the mem…