At just 14 years old, Musab Shafiq, once barely able to use his wrists due to a neurological condition, is now controlling a robot and even dunking a basketball, thanks to specialized technology developed for him at his Broward County school.
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Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we live and work, but we’ve seen plenty of cases where AI shows bias, often from the male perspective.
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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing our world, including how your child learns at school.
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The transformative potential of agentic AI.
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Google DeepMind CEO worries about a “worst-case” AI future, but is staying optimistic.
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OpenAI released this month o3 and o4-mini, the smartest models trained to think for longer before responding, typically in under a minute.
These agentic models can search the web for public utility data, write Python code to build a forecast, generate a graph or image, and explain the key factors behind the prediction, chaining together multiple tool calls.
They tackle multi-faceted questions and produce detailed and thoughtful answers to solve more complex problems.
OpenAI o3 is our most powerful reasoning model that pushes the frontier across coding, math, science, visual perception, and more,” said OpenAI.
“It performs especially strongly at visual tasks like analyzing images, charts, and graphics. In evaluations by external experts, o3 makes 20 percent fewer major errors than OpenAI o1 on difficult, real-world tasks—especially excelling in areas like programming, business/consulting, and creative ideation.”
OpenAI o4-mini is a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning—it achieves remarkable performance in math, coding, and visual tasks.
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SchoolAI raised $25 million in Series A funding in a round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors include NextView Ventures, The General Partnership, and Peterson Ventures. SchoolAI’s total funding is $32 million to date.
SchoolAI’s Classroom Experience platform combines AI assistants for teachers that help with classroom preparation and administrative work. At the same time, SchoolAI’s Spaces uses personalized AI tutors, games, and lessons that can adapt to each student’s unique learning style and interests.
These tools give teachers actionable insights into student performance and allow them to deliver targeted support when it matters most.
According to the company, SchoolAI is used in over a million classrooms across all 50 U.S. States and over 80 countries worldwide. The platform is embedded in more than 400 school districts through strategic partnerships that train teachers and students on how to use AI safely and in a managed way.
Launched for classrooms in August of 2023, SchoolAI noted how teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders are using their tools:
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Chinese company Tencent Holdings released new AI services this week that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics.
These 3D content generators are built on top of its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model.
In addition to Tencent, other industry players in China, such as DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Baidu, have introduced advancements in AI models this year.
Tencent, the WeChat operator, rolled out the Hunyuan Turbo S. It is designed to respond as instantly as possible, distinguishing it from DeepSeek’s chatbot’s deep reasoning approach.
However, Tencent is also integrating DeepSeek’s R1 model into a wide range of its products, from WeChat search to the Yuanbao AI chatbot.
Gaming studios are exploring ways to use AI to speed up everything from in-game design to pre-production, streamlining the time it takes to get a title to market.
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The group AI Futures Project, formed by five top researchers specialized in forecasting the future of AI, released the AI 2027 scenario.
“The impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution,” states the 71-page report. [PDF]
The predicted scenario was based on trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.
This is a summary of the report:
2025
The fast pace of AI progress continues. There is continued hype, massive infrastructure investments, and the release of unreliable AI agents that nevertheless provide significant value.
2026
Knowing that it is falling behind in AI, in large part due to its lack of compute, and to catch up to the US, China manufactures and smuggles in from Taiwan AI chips that go to a new mega-datacenter, the “Centralized Development Zone (CDZ).” This mega-datacenter contains millions of GPUs, corresponding to 10% of the world’s AI-relevant compute, similar to a single top US AI lab.
2027
OpenBrain (the name adopted for the leading US AI project) automates coding and builds AI agents capable of dramatically accelerating research, creating better AI systems, and solving extremely difficult ML problems.
Falling behind in software progress, China steals the model weights.
OpenBrain’s AI becomes adversarially misaligned, lies to humans, and plots to gain power over humans.
This causes a substantial public outcry.
OpenBrain builds more superhuman AI systems while the ongoing AI race with China continues.
The US uses its superintelligent AI to rapidly industrialize, manufacturing robots so that the AI can operate more efficiently.
Unfortunately, the AI is deceiving them. Once a sufficient number of robots have been built, the AI releases a bioweapon, killing all humans.
Then, it continues the industrialization and launches Von Neumann probes to colonize space.
Another possible scenario is that OpenBrain builds a superintelligence aligned with senior researchers and government officials, giving them power over humanity’s fate.
The main obstacle is that China’s AI, which is also superintelligent by now, is misaligned. The U.S. gives the Chinese AI some resources in return for its cooperation now. The rockets start launching, and a new age dawns.
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Hosting platform WordPress.com launched a free AI-builder tool for creating brand-new websites this month. The tool uses a chat-style, conversational interface for typing in prompts.
Companies like Squarespace and Wix offer AI-powered builders to speed up website design and creation.
However, more advanced design tools are required to deploy complex integrations or e-commerce sites that go beyond some text and images.
WordPress.com’s tool includes 30 free prompts before users choose a paid hosting plan, starting at $96 per year.
Users can take over, edit, and add pages, and change the site design manually.