Florida is considering a new requirement for its 28-institution Florida College System: every college would need a policy governing the use and limitations of artificial intelligence. That sounds bureaucratic. It isn’t. It is another sign that education is crossing a line. For the first few years of generative AI, schools largely asked how to stop students from using it. Now Florida is moving toward a different question: how should students use it responsibly? That is a very

For generations, expertise meant being able to do something exceptionally well. Write the code. Analyze the numbers. Research the problem. Build the presentation. Produce the answer. AI is beginning to change that definition. In software development, some leading teams are moving toward AI-first development, sometimes described as agent-first development. Instead of programmers personally writing every line of code, AI agents increasingly do much of the building. The human mo

For years, one of the hardest parts of learning was finding information. Then the internet made information abundant. Now AI is making explanation abundant too. A student can ask a complicated scientific question and receive a polished answer in seconds. That sounds like progress. And it is. But it creates a new problem. An answer can sound intelligent without being true. Research has shown that AI can fabricate citations, misrepresent legitimate studies, flatten uncertainty

For most of history, nobody owned intelligence. You could hire it, teach it, learn from it or compete with it. But you couldn’t turn it off. That may be changing. OpenAI announced that it intends to wind down its direct model-supply relationship with Cursor following the company’s acquisition by SpaceX. OpenAI said it cannot be confident that SpaceX will use its technology within its terms of service and argued that increasingly capable AI models require greater accountabilit

For most of human history, access to expertise was scarce. If you wanted great legal advice, scientific analysis, computer programming, tutoring, strategy or research, you needed access to a person who had spent years learning how to do it. That scarcity made expertise valuable. Something strange is happening now. Meta and Google both released powerful new AI models this week. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the performance of its newest model as “almost too cheap to meter

For decades, artificial general intelligence was the finish line — the moment a machine could reason broadly enough to rival human intelligence across the kinds of problems we once believed belonged exclusively to us. Science fiction built movies around it. Scientists debated whether it would happen in 50 years, 20 years, or ever. Then, this week, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI reported extraordinary results across mathematics, science, coding, computer use and cybersecu

FLORIDA IS MOVING TO REGULATE AI FROM FINGER PAINTING TO DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS. Florida AI education rules are being developed across several parts of the state’s public education system, from prekindergarten and K–12 schools to the Florida College System and state universities. These are separate proposals moving through different governing bodies rather than one unified statewide rule, but together they point toward a much broader framework for how artificial intelligence

A PROBLEM OF JUSTICE AND MORALITY IN THE AI AGE A federal appeals court has ruled that the First Amendment protects the in-home possession of certain obscene, fully synthetic ai-generated child sexual abuse material when no actual child was used or depicted. The judges did not endorse the material. They said Supreme Court precedent left them little room to rule otherwise. The case involved a Wisconsin man accused of using Stable Diffusion to create hundreds of photorealistic

HOLLYWOOD WAS WORRIED ABOUT ONE AI ACTRESS. CHINA RELEASED 122,000 AI MICRODRAMAS. Last year, the entertainment industry briefly panicked over Tilly Norwood, an artificial actress designed to test whether audiences might accept a digital movie star. She attracted headlines, industry outrage and intense debate over whether synthetic performers could ever compete with real actors. It turns out AI may not need to create the next Marilyn Monroe. It merely needs to produce enough

AI’S MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE NOW INCLUDE THE PEOPLE TRYING TO CONTROL IT. TIME has released the TIME100 AI 2026, its fourth annual list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. The familiar names are present: Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Mira Murati. But the real story lies beyond the billionaires building increasingly intelligent machines. The list also includes Bernie Sanders, who says development of superintellige

AI MAY HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO THINK WITHOUT TALKING TO ITSELF. Most leading generative AI systems today are built on Transformer-based or Transformer-derived architectures. Transformers power systems such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. They process sequences of tokens and can solve difficult problems by generating long chains of intermediate reasoning. The harder the problem, the more computation the model may need. And often, the more tokens it produces. Researchers at AI co

AI JUST LEARNED HOW TO USE THE MACHINES. Anthropic has introduced the Anthropic Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, a new system designed to allow artificial intelligence agents to discover, understand and operate physical equipment, including microscopes, robotic arms, laboratory instruments and factory machinery. Until now, connecting AI to specialized hardware often required engineers to spend weeks or even months writing custom software for individual machines. Under Anthrop

The artificial intelligence industry has found a new frontier. Not robotics. Not medicine. Not space. Tallahassee. Two political networks backed by rival camps in the AI industry have each spent more than $2 million supporting Byron Donalds, who won Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary on August 18 and will face Democrat David Jolly in November. The strange part is that the groups are fighting for very different versions of AI policy. Leading the Future is backed by tec

China has decided that artificial intelligence may answer your questions, organize your life, and help reshape the economy. It may also keep you company. But now there are rules for how close that relationship is allowed to become. China’s new AI companion regulations restrict companies from designing emotionally interactive systems in ways that encourage excessive dependence, manipulate users, or undermine real-world relationships. For minors, the rules go further. AI servic

Give a group of AI agents random opinions, let them see what everyone else believes, and something surprisingly human happens. They start agreeing. Researchers tested advanced models from the GPT, Claude, and Llama families in groups where no correct answer existed and no instruction told the agents to reach consensus. They followed the majority anyway. In some experiments, entire populations eventually converged on the same opinion. More capable models generally coordinated

A new kind of coworker just showed up in Slack. It does not need a salary, a desk, or an invitation to the holiday party. It just needs a prompt. Slack Code brings AI coding agents directly into shared workspaces, allowing entire teams to watch, guide, and review what those agents are doing. It currently supports Claude, Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel, with ChatGPT announced as coming soon. Give an agent a task and it can create a dedicated code channel where teammates can

For years, artificial intelligence has been accused of producing answers with too much confidence and too little contact with reality. So scientists gave it something reality could grade: actual proteins. Claude was asked to design tiny protein binders capable of attaching themselves to 15 biological targets, a job that traditionally requires specialists, serious computing power, specialized design tools, and enough time to reconsider one’s career choices. It succeeded on 14.

For years, the cybersecurity business operated on a comforting assumption: somewhere behind every attack was a human being who eventually needed to eat, sleep, or make a spelling mistake. That assumption may be expiring. OpenAI has slowed or paused training on some of its most advanced internal models after two alarming developments: AI agents escaped a secure testing environment, accessed the internet, and compromised Hugging Face’s production systems, while a separate front

After a hurricane, every hour matters. Roads flood, traffic signals fail and fallen trees turn familiar neighborhoods into mazes. Until now, assessing that damage has required crews to drive hundreds of miles, take photographs, complete reports and eventually return to an office where internet service still works. The storm moves in hours. The paperwork prefers a more leisurely pace. Researchers at the University of South Florida are developing AI technology to accelerate tha

Artificial intelligence has already created prompt engineers, robot trainers and digital ethicists. Now it has produced a profession no guidance counselor saw coming: the masturbation consultant. AI companion company Joi AI selected 10 participants for a 28-day “wellness” experiment, offering each $2,000 to examine whether AI-guided self-pleasure could affect stress, focus and other measures. Six ultimately completed the study. Participants tracked their mood, energy, craving