Google will automatically turn off its AI products for K-12 student accounts, requiring school administrators to manually opt in before students can use the technology, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. But there’s a big catch: If schools choose not to enable AI, students won’t be able to access Google Search. In
Some rivers began receding in the flood-weary Southwest on Monday, including in a Colorado tourist town that has to alter its Election Day voting plans, while others were still rising, keeping residents on alert as rain began to move out of the area. Heavy weekend rainfall produced flash flooding and mandatory evacuations across a swath
The global tech selloff is spilling beyond stock markets, prompting some of the AI boom’s biggest beneficiaries to rethink plans to raise money through public listings. On Friday, South Korean memory-chip giant SK Hynix said it was abandoning a review of a potential US initial public offering of its Solidigm subsidiary, citing market volatility and
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has said she can no longer live in her Washington DC home after it was searched by federal agents last week, fearing her address has been exposed after the raid. “With the death threats that I deal with, it’s not, it’s no longer going to be feasible to be in that
TOLEDO, Ohio — A chemical tank exploded in Toledo, Ohio, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes or shelter in place due to fears of a toxic release, and the mayor warned Wednesday that it may still be explosive. A sheriff’s deputy was injured when he responded to the explosion around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday
For months, Wall Street debated whether AI spending had become too much, too fast. Now, after calls by some of the industry’s biggest names to slow frontier AI development, investors are asking whether AI spending could slow, too. “Does a “pacing slowdown” necessarily imply a spending slowdown? We don’t think so,” Bernstein analysts wrote Monday,
