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1mo ago

Wealthy families pay for AI-led private schooling despite thin evidence

Forge Prep and Alpha School are charging steep tuition for AI-tutor models, while public performance data remains scarce...

By Riley Okafor

1mo ago

UK adopts lifetime tobacco sales ban for people born after 2009

The Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 puts Britain behind a generational tobacco ban, a public-health gamble with little real-w...

By Riley Okafor

1mo ago

MIT Technology Review spotlights UK tobacco ban and Bear fiction

The Download led with a UK tobacco sales ban, a new Elizabeth Bear story and a crowded list of AI, spyware and data-cent...

By Riley Okafor

1mo ago

Google Workspace ad drafts the Declaration with Gemini

Google’s commercial imagines Jefferson, Franklin and Adams using Workspace and Gemini to write the Declaration of Indepe...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

Anthropic says it wants to discover drugs, not just sell lab AI

The Claude maker is moving from software supplier to would-be drug developer, with few public details on what happens if...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

Perfusion box keeps donor eyes viable in early transplant research

Researchers report that a device feeding oxygenated fluid to removed eyes preserved pig and human retinas, but the work...

By Riley Okafor

1mo ago

Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs as Xbox and sales take the hit

The layoffs affect about 2.1 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, with Xbox facing deeper reductions by the end of the fina...

By Felix Aranda