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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-int…

Microsoft and OpenAI invest millions in AI training for teachers
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence. The tech giants are paying for training for teachers to apply AI skills in the classroom. For the companies, the partnerships are also opportunities to make inroads into schools and win over students in the race for AI dominance. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten says skepticism guided her negotiations, but the…

Eat your l'il plastic heart out, Chatty Kathy:
After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/28/artificial-intelligence-smart-toys

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Desmontando el relato sobre la Inteligencia Artificial generativa: nos venden una Inteligencia Artificial que razona, piensa y hasta siente, pero ¿es verdad? La Inteligencia Artificial ya escribe textos, crea imšgenes y responde como un humano. Pero no piensa ni razona.
https://youtu.be/pmsTzFLM8rI?si=u1JPau

Driven by a boom in #ArtificialIntelligence startups #SanFrancisco’s rising rent rate now tops the nation ... again.
🟢 Apartment #Rents that now avg well over $3000 a month are up 6% this yr , more than double t…

Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck.
The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.

🫧 Artificial muscles use ultrasound-activated microbubbles to move
#machines

Artificial muscles use ultrasound-activated microbubbles to move
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed artificial muscles that contain microbubbles and can be controlled with ultrasound. In the future, these muscles could be deployed in technical and medical settings as gripper arms, tissue patches, targeted drug delivery, or robots.

A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/82…

Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.

Using AI for mental health support is dangerous and wrong.
Buuut, probably less dangerous and wrong than relying on mental health support supposedly provided by NSFT NHS trust in Norfolk, UK
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Unlike all electrode-based brain implants for restoring vision that can at best only convey a couple of rough edges at a time, The vOICe sensory substitution can also convey smooth shading and textures, completely noninvasively https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/schumer-art

GOP uses AI-generated video in anti-Schumer ad
Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown. The 30-second digital ad from the National Republican Senate Committee features the Democratic New York senator appearing to say on camera about the shutdown, now in its 3rd week, “Every day gets better for us.” …