'No mute button for a toddler.' How thousands of parents juggle remote work and parenting
When 11-month-old Octavia and 3-year-old Matthew wake up between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., Horton feeds them breakfast and prepares for her morning meeting. Hopefully Octavia is back to sleep by then, Horton ...
Four key AI skills anyone can learn
“There are lots of AI tools that you can use very easily for tasks that don’t require you to learn any coding, you just need to be open to trying something new. For instance, Grammarly checks spelling ...
‘Appu is designed to be a personalised tutor’: How this Google-backed AI tool is reshaping education
Appu offers a multilingual, conversational learning experience for children aged 3 to 6, starting with Hindi and expanding to ...
AI-driven interviews with children may boost accuracy in witness accounts
In a first-of-its-kind study published in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers led by scholars from New ...
A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
A mother who is suing both Google and Character.ai over her 14-year-old son's death has discovered AI chatbots based on her ...
AI can rip you off. Here's how lawmakers in one state want to stop price discrimination
The Markup reports how AI can help businesses charge customers more based on how it evaluates their personal history and desires, and California lawmakers want to end that price discrimination.
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Jail for teacher who created indecent images of students using AI technology
A former teacher from Ballakermeen High School has been jailed for 19 months after producing and possessing indecent photographs of children. Liam Paul Taylor was told he’d ‘abused’ his position of ...
Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut parent teams up with Nvidia to integrate AI into drive-thrus
Yum Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, and Habit Burger & Grill, is teaming up with Nvidia to boost its artificial intelligence-powered technology at its restaurants ...
University of Chicago News18h
The science behind raising successful kids, with Ariel Kalil
University of Chicago Developmental psychologist Ariel Kalil has spent her career studying how parents influence childhood ...
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Gen Alpha tweens hold significant sway over parents’ purchases, per study
“Gen Alpha: A cohort of influential tweens” found that this group holds significant sway over purchases made by parents. Over half, 61%, have the final say on which car their parents purchase and 61% ...
Sam Altman says students should master AI tools the way his generation learned to code
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says students should get "really good" at using AI tools as automation reshapes software development ...
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...