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Meta’s superintelligence division is building a dedicated hardware team — and hiring a veteran engineer to lead it — as the company pushes deeper into AI-powered devices. Loading audio narration… Meta is already known for the smart glasses and virtual reality headsets made by its Reality Labs division. This newer effort is part of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the high-profile AI division announced last year, which hints that Meta is mulling other types of AI devices.The effort, which has not yet been reported, has seen some Reality Labs engineers transition to MSL to prototype the AI division’s software on Reality…

President Donald Trump tried to put some teeth into his latest attempt to save college sports.The threat of cutting funding to cash-starved schools that don’t comply is real, even if the stricter rules that come out of the executive order he signed Friday could take a while to figure out.In the order signed hours before the women’s Final Four tipped off one of the biggest weekends in college sports Trump went after eligibility rules, transfers and the spiraling costs associated with an industry that now pays its players millions of dollars per year.He called on federal agencies to ensure schools…

Sam Altman doesn’t want an iPad kid. Loading audio narration… The OpenAI CEO welcomed a baby in 2025. Since then, he’s shared tips and stories about raising his son, including how he uses AI in his parenting.That doesn’t mean he wants his son growing up with full tech access. On the “Mostly Human” podcast, Altman said that having a child changed his views on algorithmic feeds and the “infinite scroll” model.”When I watch kids just a little bit older than mine that you cannot take the iPad away from,” Altman said, “that I feel very strongly about.”Kids and young people…

A 12-year-old has been arrested in connection with the death of a classmate who was hit in the head with a metal water bottle during an alleged bullying incident at a Los Angeles school, authorities said Friday.The juvenile, whose age and gender have not been made public, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Thursday, Los Angeles Police Officer Charles Miller said. The arrest stems from the Feb. 25 death of 12-year-old Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa.The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, which will be responsible for filing charges, did not immediately comment.Miller said that he couldn’t release any other information…

Dell has told employees not to travel to the Middle East for work until mid-April, and advised staff based in the region to work from home, after Iran threatened to strike US businesses. Loading audio narration… In an internal note uploaded to Dell’s SharePoint on Tuesday, which Business Insider has seen, the company said it was prioritizing team member safety amid the conflict.The tech giant was among the 18 companies named this week by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as potential targets.In a statement published by the IRGC-linked Tasnim News Agency on Tuesday, it warned that the companies could…

When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with better technology.  The problem, he quickly learned, ran deeper than technology. Human reviewers were expected to memorize a 40-page policy document that had been machine-translated into their language, he said. Then they had about 30 seconds per piece of flagged content to decide not just whether that  content violated the rules, but what to do about it: block it, ban…

More than a decade of federal oversight of special education in New Orleans charter schools has ended, following a Tuesday (March 31) decision by U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey to terminate a sweeping consent judgment, which went into effect in early 2015. That consent judgment resulted from a class-action lawsuit filed by parents of charter school students against the Louisiana Department of Education. In the years after Hurricane Katrina, the state took over the majority of the city’s schools, converting them from traditional, district-run schools to quasi-autonomous charters, whose day-to-day operations are managed by private, nonprofit groups. The Orleans Parish…

OpenAI wants to control the narrative. Literally. Loading audio narration… The AI giant bought TBPN, the tech industry’s hottest talk show, in a deal so shocking that one of its hosts joked it wasn’t a belated April Fool’s joke.A good chunk of you might be asking, “TBP what?” You’re not wrong for wondering. As popular as the weekday, three-hour show is, it’s also intensely focused on tech. (That’s on purpose. John Coogan, one of the cohosts, recently talked about TBPN being intentionally niche.)Within that specific group, it is huge. Dubbed “SportsCenter” for Silicon Valley, it’s basically a must-watch for tech…

Microsoft has released three AI models created in-house, in a move that signals a push toward greater independence from its longtime partner, OpenAI. Loading audio narration… MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — which are designed for transcription, voice generation, and image creation — are exclusively available on Microsoft’s Foundry platform, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday.Microsoft Foundry is a platform within Microsoft Azure, which allows developers and businesses to purchase, build, and customize AI applications using a range of models.The models are available to enterprise customers, putting them in direct competition with similar tools from OpenAI.OpenAI offers Whisper for…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Efforts to quickly and quietly oust the president of the University of Wisconsin system drew fire Friday from a Republican legislative leader who said he was “troubled” that the board of regents is threatening to remove Jay Rothman without any explanation.Rothman has been president of the multicampus 165,000-student university system since 2022. He said in letters to regents first obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday that they were trying to force him to resign or face being fired without explanation. The letters were the first public indication that Rothman’s job was in jeopardy and took…