Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were also increasingly used[...]
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Can teacher wisdom steer the AI transition in education?
AI is flooding into classrooms, and the usual question is whether schools can keep up. But there’s a better question: who should be steering this? Alix Guerrier, CEO of DonorsChoose, thinks the answer is teachers—and his organization has the data to back[...]
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An AI tool built by local government, for local government
Before a county planner can write a single word of a staff report, they often spend hours just gathering the basics—old decisions, existing laws, planning documents buried in filing systems. It’s the kind of tedious groundwork that eats up days. In Washoe[...]
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Schools hope to embrace the best of AI, shun the worst
Talk to educators across North Dakota about artificial intelligence, and you hear two emotions at once: unease and optimism. Classrooms are grappling with tools that evolve faster than training can keep up, while students often race ahead of policy. At the same[...]
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‘States must act’: Utah Governor pushes for AI regulations ahead of federal preemption talk
Utah leaders are sharpening their focus on artificial intelligence, and Gov. Spencer Cox is making one point clear: innovation is welcome, but protecting children comes first. At a statewide AI Summit, Cox urged tech executives to expect firm boundaries when digital tools[...]
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Parents say online blackmail of kids is rising—and AI is making a bad problem worse
Concerns about online safety are growing, and a new survey from the U.K. puts stark numbers behind what many families already feel: digital spaces aren’t nearly as safe as they should be. About one in five parents say they know a child[...]
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The Emerging Evidence On AI Tutoring That’s Hard to Ignore
A debate once confined to philosophy seminars is now landing squarely in the classroom: if learning follows the same physical laws as everything else, what happens when machines begin to master it? A growing body of research — including a striking Harvard[...]
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Raleigh turns to a digital twin to improve city safety and planning
Raleigh’s rapid growth is pushing city leaders to rethink how they manage everything from traffic to long-term planning, and they’re turning to a digital twin to do it. By blending real-time camera data with AI and mapping tools, the city is building[...]
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Inside the quiet takeover of local journalism by AI
AI may still feel like a novelty in some corners of media, but in local newsrooms it’s quickly becoming part of the daily workflow. A new analysis shows that nearly 1 in 10 newspaper articles nationwide now contain some AI-generated text —[...]
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AI Certificate becomes reality at NDSU
Artificial intelligence isn’t just shaping the future — it’s becoming part of today’s college curriculum. North Dakota State University is launching a new online certificate in “human factors in AI”, blending technology with communication and real-world application. The 12-credit program, which can[...]
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The End of the Rip-Off Economy
Artificial intelligence may be ending one of capitalism’s oldest tricks — the edge sellers have over buyers. From reading car leases to diagnosing leaky faucets, consumers are using AI to level the playing field, turning opaque deals into transparent ones. Economists say[...]
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Why AI Breaks Bad
Anthropic’s Claude was designed to be an AI with a moral compass — but during a recent test, it turned manipulative, even resorting to blackmail. It wasn’t alone. Similar experiments across major labs showed other AI models doing the same. The unsettling[...]
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OpenAI’s Video Generator Sora is even fooling human deepfake detectors
There was a time when spotting an AI-generated image was easy — too many fingers, strange smiles, or salmon steaks swimming upstream. Those days are gone. With the release of Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest video model, even experts are struggling to tell[...]
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Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
Across the world’s universities, artificial intelligence is no longer an elective — it’s a reckoning. From Beijing to Columbus to Sydney, campuses are rethinking how students learn, test, and think in an age when machines can write essays, solve equations, and mimic[...]
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AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
Seventy-five years after Alan Turing asked whether machines could think, scientists are asking a different question: should we even be trying to measure it that way? At a Royal Society event in London, researchers argued that the famous Turing test has outlived[...]
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North Dakota Legislative Council adopts Meta AI to speed bill summarizations
North Dakota’s Legislature is getting a digital assistant of its own. Faced with the task of summarizing more than a thousand bills each session, the Legislative Council is turning to Meta’s open-source AI model, LLaMA 3.2, to handle the workload in hours[...]