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Tribal leaders and education advocates said the Education Department failed to meet a statutory requirement by not consulting with tribes before announcing the transfer of dozens of Native American education programs to other federal agencies.This week, the Education Department said it would break off several of its main offices and hand over their responsibilities to agencies like the Department of Labor and the Department of the Interior. Under the plan, those two agencies will run several programs that fund and oversee the education of Native American children and college students. Tribal leaders and Native education organizations said the move will…
Every time you hear a billionaire (or even a millionaire) CEO describe how LLM-based agents are coming for all the human jobs, remember this funny but telling incident about AI’s limitations: Famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy got one-day early access to Google’s latest model, Gemini 3 — and it refused to believe him when he said the year was 2025. When it finally saw the year for itself, it was thunderstruck, telling him, “I am suffering from a massive case of temporal shock right now.” Gemini 3 was released on November 18 with such fanfare that Google called it “a…
So many of us love coffee. It wakes us up, makes mornings bearable, and is comforting. According to the International Food Information Council, a whopping 93% of Americans consume caffeine, with 75% of Americans consuming it every day. Most often, coffee is the preferred delivery method of caffeine, that stimulating substance that helps shake off a morning haze or power a herculean workout—caffeine can aid in athletic performance via a few different mechanisms, including lowering perceived effort. No wonder there is a coffee shop on nearly every city corner. While millions of Americans sip the brew every day, it’s not…
Gemini will replace Google Assistant in Android Auto, the smartphone projection technology integrated into millions of cars, trucks, and SUVs. Google announced the move Thursday, noting that Gemini will start to roll out to Android Auto users who have upgraded from Google Assistant to Gemini on their phone. By bringing Gemini to Android Auto, Google is making it possible for users to speak naturally and have a back-and-forth conversation to complete more complex tasks on the go, according to the company. Android Auto is an app that runs on a user’s phone and wirelessly communicates and projects features like navigation,…
The University of California renewed its policy of annual tuition hikes Wednesday after the UC Board of Regents voted 13 to 3 to approve the measure, despite fierce opposition from undergraduates. Broadly, what undergraduates will expect to pay for tuition doesn’t change once they enroll. The model regents approved still allows the system to increase undergraduate tuition and systemwide fees by as much as 5% annually, depending on inflation, and locks in that rate for students enrolling that year for up to six years. Each cohort of incoming students pays the same tuition, but what they pay is more than…
(Reuters) -The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Thursday urged people eligible for influenza shots to get vaccinated without delay, warning that flu cases are rising weeks ahead of the last two seasons.Influenza detections are rising three to four weeks ahead of the usual schedule in European Union and European Economic Area countries driven by a newly emerged strain, the ECDC said.The agency cautioned that a severe flu season could put extra pressure on healthcare systems, especially if vaccine uptake is low.”Getting vaccinated now is one of the most effective ways to protect yourself and those around you…
We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that something we’re reading was written by a large language model — but it’s remarkably difficult to pin down. For a few months last year, everyone became convinced that specific words like “delve” or “underscore” could give models away, but the evidence is thin, and as models have grown more sophisticated, the telltale words have become harder to trace. But as it turns out, the folks at Wikipedia have gotten pretty good at flagging AI-written prose — and the group’s public guide to “Signs of AI writing” is the best resource I’ve found for…
Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has secured $1 billion from private equity firm TPG as part of a multi-year, $2 billion project to build a network of gigawatt-scale data centers in the country. The project, dubbed “HyperVault,” comes as demand for AI compute is rising faster than companies can build the power-hungry infrastructure needed to support it. The demand-supply gap for AI compute in India is particularly stark: The country generates nearly 20% of the world’s data, but accounts for only about 3% of global data center capacity. Big tech companies and cloud providers have been investing billions…
Voice AI company Wispr’s dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of usage, an average user writes more than 50% of their characters through the app. The company has also reached 270 of the Fortune 500 companies and has signed 125 companies as enterprise customers. That’s why, after just raising a $30 million round led by Menlo Ventures in June, the company has now raised an additional $25 million led by Notable Capital with participation from Steven Bartlett’s Flight Fund, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. With this influx of capital, the company has…
Google is upgrading its image generation model with new editing chops, higher resolutions, more accurate text rendering, and the ability to search the web. Dubbed Nano Banana Pro, the new model is built on Google’s latest large language model, Gemini 3, released earlier this week. The company claims Nano Banana Pro improves on its predecessor, Nano Banana, with the ability to create more detailed images and accurate text, and generate text in different styles, fonts and languages. Image Credits: Google The model also has web searching capabilities, so you can do things like ask it to look up a recipe…