Live from MPR News on trial Snyder, York City Mayor is Ron Mombani, says just...
technology is everywhere that does not mean it belongs everywhere.
“At a press conference Wednesday, Mombani announced a generative AI tools will be banned”
for public school students through the eighth grade during the upcoming school year, and that high schoolers will get access to courses in AI literacy. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way.
I have yet to see a study showing that AI is beneficial for students in elementary in middle school, with the exception, of course, of research sponsored by the very corporations that stand to profit. Mombani is describing the policy as the most comprehensive in the country. The Trump administration is backing open AI over the New York Times in a closely-watch
case over how the company builds its AI tech using millions of news articles, and court papers filed this week that Justice Department supported open AI's arguments at training its AI models on writings found on the internet is protected by fair use.
“The Times has the administration inciting with AI companies at the expense of American creators.”
New Jersey, asking the Supreme Court to step in to resolve a case involving the prediction market site, Calshy, and Pierce Bobby Allen reports on the move as 20 states are involved in litigation with the popular betting service. New Jersey has asked the high court to decide who exactly should regulate the booming prediction market industry.
States like New Jersey that rely on gambling, site tax revenue, say they should oversee companies like Calshy and its rival poly market, but the companies counter that the federal government should regulate them not as gambling operators, but as a type of financial investment. From the line is an industry that sees billions of dollars traded every week on everything from elections to wars to the outcome of criminal trials.
The New Jersey case is focused on sports betting, which makes up about 80% of Calshy's total volume. Bobby Allen and PR news.
“Children are returning to school and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite the rapidly”
spreading Ebola outbreak, with more than 6,000 confirmed cases and living stone reports. Within 3,000 people have died of the disease since an epidemic was declared in Congo in May and it continues to spread rapidly. The government resisted calls to shut down the schools because of Ebola and has put in place new measures to try to keep children in the classroom.
All schools must have basic sanitary facilities such as handwashing stations, for example, and where the outbreak is severe, children will follow lessons at home via the radio or TV. The decision is dividing teachers, some of them say they can't guarantee their students safety, but for most whether teacher, parent, or student, there's little choice, but to try to carry on.
For NPR news, I'm Emmett Livingstone. This is MPR News. MBA is coming down hard on Los Angeles Clippers. The league has suspended owner Steve Balmer for one year, has stripped the team of five
first round draft picks, and has imposed a 30 million dollar fine for violating salary
cacts or compulsion rules in a case tied to a co-wide Leonard. MBA says an independent investigation found a pattern of misconduct. A federal judge is ruled that Google does not need to break up its advertising business. It will, however, have to make changes to benefit competitors. A court ruled last year that Google's ad business was an illegal monopoly.
Here's MPR's John Roach. The vast majority of Google's revenue comes from ads, and in a case brought by the Justice Department, a judge ruled last April that Google's ad business amounted to a monopoly. The DOJ sought the breakup of parts of Google's ad tech business, but now the judge has rejected that idea.
The parties are instead ordered to jointly propose a final judgment within 30 days, including changes to Google's ad business that address the monopoly concerns. Google has lost at least two other recent anti-trust cases, but judges have rejected the restructuring as a remedy and outcome that analysts say is a win for the company. John Roach and PR news reviewed sir being paid to two-time Grammy-winning jazz singer
Cassandra Wilson Wilson's manager says she died this week in her native Jackson Mississippi surrounded by family and friends. She was 70 years old, a cause of death is not clear. Jackson's mayor says a city has lost an extraordinary native daughter, and on social media saying her songwriter, John Patisse, said Wilson sounded like the south.
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