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Tech giants Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI and others have formed a new industry group aimed at promoting AI safety and security standards.
07/19/2024
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OpenAI has announced the launch of GPT-4o Mini, a slimmed down, more affordable version of its flagship multimodal GPT-4o model.
07/18/2024
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The Federal Communications Commission has officially approved an expansion of the E-Rate program that will allow schools and libraries to utilize E-Rate resources to loan out WiFi hotspots to students, school staff, and library patrons who lack internet access at home.
07/18/2024
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Security software company Kaspersky has announced it is closing down its United States operations. The news comes just days before a federal ban on sales of its products was set to take effect, due to concerns about cyber espionage.
07/17/2024
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Google has added a new AI-powered video creation service as part of its Workspace Labs program, where users can try out new AI features.
07/16/2024
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Boxlight has announced the debut of FrontRow UNITY and FrontRow UNITY Campus, a product that unifies solutions for institutional technology, campus communication, classroom audio, and emergency notification and response into a single device.
07/10/2024
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To clarify the potential risks of GenAI and provide "a concrete understanding of how GenAI models are specifically exploited or abused in practice, including the tactics employed to inflict harm," a group of researchers from Google DeepMind, Jigsaw, and Google.org recently published a paper entitled, "Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data."
07/10/2024
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Amazon Web Services is launching a $50 million fund that will give public sector organizations a chance to tap into its portfolio of cloud-based AI tools.
07/10/2024
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Designing games is a powerful way for students to learn transferable and in-demand skills, and teaching it can be as easy as allowing students to demonstrate their learning using tools they choose.
07/09/2024
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Cloud AI services have been downgraded from the "slope of enlightenment" to the "trough of disillusionment," according to Gartner's latest report on AI trends.
07/08/2024
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PowerSchool recently announced the general availability of two new AI-powered education tools, one for students and one for education data managers.
07/03/2024
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Discovery Education is planning to add an AI-powered assessment tool to its Experience platform this fall.
07/03/2024
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K-12 special education and intervention platform Classworks has introduced a new AI-powered learning assistant designed to help create personalized learning experiences for students.
07/02/2024
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Human error is still one of the biggest threats to cloud security, despite all the technology bells and whistles and alerts and services out there, from multi-factor authentication, to social engineering training, to enterprise-wide integrated cybersecurity platforms, and more.
07/02/2024
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A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) found that large language model agents can autonomously exploit real-world cybersecurity vulnerabilities, raising critical concerns about the widespread deployment and security of these advanced AI systems.
07/01/2024
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Samsung Electronics America has introduced new generative AI tools for its WAD series of interactive displays. Dubbed the Samsung AI Class Assistant, the feature will roll out later this year.
07/01/2024
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Effective this fall, the United States government is banning all sales of Kaspersky Lab software to businesses and private citizens due to concerns about cyber espionage.
06/24/2024
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Google is making its Gemini large language model available for free for students ages 13 and up in the United States (age minimums vary by country), via Google Workspace for Education accounts.
06/24/2024