What Teachers Should Know About AI and News Literacy with Dr. Cathy Collins – Easy EdTech Podcast 365
In the Easy EdTech Podcast 365, Dr. Cathy Collins explains how AI and algorithms now shape news literacy for K‑12 classrooms. She argues that teaching students to spot misinformation is only the first step; educators must cultivate critical thinking habits and let students create their own media. The episode stresses that news literacy belongs in every subject, not just English or social studies, and provides a toolbox of resources—from Canva for Education to a new cross‑curricular textbook. Listeners can access the full transcript and supplemental guides via the show notes.
Can I Opt Out of Having My Doctor Take Notes With AI?
Family physicians are increasingly adopting AI-powered notetaking tools that listen to patient conversations and generate visit summaries within seconds. Cleveland Clinic doctor Eric Boose reports that the technology lets him focus on face‑to‑face interaction, reduces charting time, and lets him...
AI in the Mental Health Care Workforce Is Met with Fear, Pushback — and Enthusiasm
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering mental‑health care, prompting both enthusiasm and alarm. At Kaiser Permanente, staff cuts and the use of lay operators sparked a 24‑hour strike as clinicians fear AI could replace triage jobs. Today, AI tools are primarily...
OpenAI Releases AI Economy Policy Proposals
OpenAI unveiled an "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" outlining a suite of self‑regulatory proposals aimed at steering the rapid expansion of advanced AI. The plan calls for a public wealth fund, treating foundational models as essential infrastructure, and accelerating...
Digest: OpenAI Buys TBPN; CNN International Commercial Builds Agentic Infrastructure; SpaceX To Mandate Grok in IPO?
OpenAI’s purchase of the Technology Business Programming Network marks the AI leader’s first direct foray into media ownership, positioning the three‑hour daily show TBPN under chief political operative Chris Lehane. CNN International Commercial is building an in‑house agentic infrastructure, aiming...
TCS | Donovan Marsh on AI and the Future of Filmmaking
Award‑winning South African director Donovan Marsh is transitioning to AI‑driven filmmaking, using a suite of generative tools to create complex scenes from a desk. He argues that AI collapses traditional production overhead—crew, equipment, locations—into digital workflows while he still directs...
OpenAI Opens Applications for an External AI Safety Research Fellowship
OpenAI announced the OpenAI Safety Fellowship, a paid program for external researchers to address AI safety and alignment challenges. The fellowship runs from September 14, 2026 to February 5, 2027, with applications due May 3 and notifications by July 25....
SecAF Presents Harold Brown Award to NASIC Researcher
Secretary of the Air Force Troy E. Meink awarded the 2024 Harold Brown Award to Richard Borth, a researcher at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). Borth earned the honor for creating an artificial‑intelligence algorithm that automatically detects...
SecAF Presents Harold Brown Award to NASIC Researcher
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink presented the 2024 Harold Brown Award to NASIC researcher Richard Borth for creating an artificial‑intelligence algorithm that detects deployed weapons systems in synthetic‑aperture radar imagery. The award, named for former Secretary Harold Brown,...
Out: Résumés: In: Weeklong In-Office Trials.
Companies are moving away from traditional résumés, opting for week‑long in‑office work trials to evaluate candidates. At Foxglove and other firms, candidates are expected to use AI tools during these trials, allowing both sides to assess real‑world performance. The shift...
Asean Private Sector Seeks Stronger AI Upskilling Amid Surge in Scams
The ASEAN private sector is urging faster AI upskilling for micro, small and medium enterprises after deep‑fake fraud surged 1,500 percent across Asia‑Pacific between 2022 and 2023. Vietnam and the Philippines recorded the sharpest spikes, exposing small merchants to sophisticated phishing,...
AI Agents Are Becoming the Fourth Place of Commerce and OOH Is Shaping Their Choices
AI agents are emerging as a fourth place of commerce, moving beyond stores, e‑commerce, and mobile. These assistants now not only answer queries but automatically select brands based on data signals such as search demand, reviews, and online conversation. Out‑of‑home...
Maidar Secure, Strike48 Bring Agentic AI to the SOC
Maidar Secure has teamed up with Strike48 to embed the latter’s agentic AI platform into its managed security services and SOC operations. The integration promises autonomous threat detection, real‑time attack simulation and machine‑speed incident response, turning traditional reactive defenses into...
Devexperts Adds In-Chart Trading Assistant to DXcharts
Devexperts has launched an AI‑powered in‑chart trading assistant for its DXcharts library, enabling traders to create and apply custom indicators using plain English. The feature, part of a new DXcharts package, eliminates the need for programming knowledge, shortening learning curves...
Your Next Assistant Is Your PC: How On-Device AI Is Transforming Work, One Workflow at a Time
AI‑enabled PCs are moving from concept to enterprise reality, with Intel reporting that 90% of respondents expect productivity gains and 87% plan upgrades within the next hardware cycle. On‑device AI automates routine tasks—email summarization, note‑taking, translation—and learns user habits to...
FP Markets Adds Acuity AI-Based Trading Signals
FP Markets has partnered with Acuity Trading to launch FP Markets Intelligence, an AI‑powered suite of trading tools for its retail FX and CFD clients. The platform delivers market sentiment analysis, AI‑driven signals and real‑time research, and is fully integrated...
NFuse Raises $2M as Messaging Overtakes B2B Ordering Apps
nFuse, an AI‑driven B2B ordering platform that lets retailers order via WhatsApp, Viber or SMS, secured $2 million from Eleven Ventures and LAUNCHub. The startup claims over 70 percent adoption among enterprise clients, cutting deployment time to eight weeks and driving order...
Kandou AI Raises $225M in Series A Funding
Swiss fabless startup Kandou AI secured a $225 million Series A round led by Maverick Silicon, with SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence and Alchip participating. The funding will accelerate production of its Copper MIMO (chord signaling) chips that aim to double data‑rate capacity while slashing...
HII and GMR Join Forces on Physical AI for Manned and Unmanned Shipbuilding
HII and GrayMatter Robotics (GMR) signed an MOU to embed GMR’s Physical AI into HII’s shipbuilding lines, targeting tasks such as sanding, grinding, blasting, coating and inspection. The partnership will explore autonomous shipbuilding, technology integration, workforce training, and scaling of...
Ahsan Hadi: Using the pgEdge MCP Server with a Distributed PostgreSQL Cluster
Ahsan Hadi demonstrates how the pgEdge MCP Server integrates with a pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL cluster, giving AI assistants like Claude natural‑language access to schema details, performance metrics, and replication status. The server supports full schema introspection, pg_stat_statements, and secure TLS...
First Defeat, Then Half a Billion Losses for Russia. Shield AI Targets Poland
Shield AI CEO Brandon Tseng admitted early UAV failures in Ukraine’s 2022‑23 electronic‑warfare environment, but the company has since fielded AI‑piloted V‑BAT drones that can operate without GPS or communications. With $1.7 billion invested, Shield AI now offers Poland a cost‑effective,...
What Impact Does AI Search Have on the User Journey?
The Department for Education reports that AI‑driven search tools like Google’s AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot are pulling users away from official public‑sector sites. While these assistants deliver faster answers, they often strip away the contextual safeguards and step‑by‑step guidance...
US AI Firms Join Hands to Curb Unauthorised Model Copying by Chinese Rivals
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have joined forces through the Frontier Model Forum, originally created with Microsoft, to combat unauthorized copying of their AI models by Chinese competitors. The collaboration focuses on detecting and stopping “adversarial distillation,” a technique that extracts...
China Is Winning One AI Race, the US Another - but Either Might Pull Ahead
The United States retains a lead in large‑language‑model (LLM) development, driven by its dominance in high‑end microchips and firms like Nvidia, while China leverages its manufacturing strength to outpace the U.S. in robot bodies and humanoid exports. China’s low‑cost DeepSeek...
'Our Teachers Use AI to Mark Mock Exams'
Yorkshire Dales’ Wensleydale School has begun a pilot using artificial intelligence to grade mock exam answers in subjects such as English and history. The AI service costs about £0.45 (≈ $0.56) per extended answer, with the school allocating roughly £600 (≈ $750)...
BlueDolphin Launches as the First AI-Powered Business Transformation Platform, Marking Strategic Rebrand From ValueBlue
BlueDolphin, formerly ValueBlue, has rebranded and launched an AI‑powered business transformation platform that unifies strategic planning, architecture management, and solution design. The platform tackles the industry‑wide problem of fragmented tools, offering a single AI‑driven workflow that coordinates strategy, design and...
V2 AI Builds up Databricks Expertise with Silver Partner Designation
V2 AI has achieved Databricks Silver partner status, confirming its baseline performance, revenue generation, and certified expertise in the data‑and‑AI space. CEO Craig Howe said the designation validates the firm’s work building scalable, high‑performance data platforms that turn data into...
Indie Agency Wpromote Dishes On How It’s Testing New Agentic SSP Tools
Wpromote is piloting Kargo’s Project Kera, a chat‑based, agentic SSP that translates campaign briefs into automated, cross‑channel media plans. The closed‑beta tool lets buyers upload assets, set goals, and receive a budget‑split recommendation across Meta, TikTok, CTV and the open...
6 Ways to Automate Avoma with Zapier
Avoma, an AI‑driven note‑taking and revenue‑intelligence platform, now integrates with Zapier to automate post‑call workflows. Users can push transcripts into Notion, Google Docs, Trello, or Evernote, and instantly share concise summaries on Slack or Teams. The integration also updates CRM...
4 Ways to Automate Synthflow AI with Zapier
Synthflow AI’s voice agents now integrate with Zapier to automate outbound calls, log outcomes, and keep assistants current. By linking lead capture tools, CRMs, and content sources, businesses can trigger AI‑driven calls the moment a prospect engages and automatically record...
Ozone’s Platform Tries to Simulate How Publisher Content Appears in AI Answers
Ozone has launched a free experimentation platform that lets publishers simulate how their articles appear in AI answer engines such as ChatGPT. The tool, part of Ozone’s new R&D Labs sandbox, shows content structuring, retrieval and citation to help publishers...
Mondelez Overhauls Its $3.5 Billion Digital Commerce Strategy in Era of AI Search
Mondelez International is revamping its $3.5 billion digital commerce operation to meet the rise of AI‑driven, agentic search. After initially blocking AI crawlers, the company unblocked them and rebuilt its brand sites with clean sitemaps, fast load times and machine‑readable content....
Google Says Its AI-Powered Ads Helped Aritzia Lift Online Sales by 80%
Google announced that its AI‑powered ad suite, particularly AI Max, helped fashion retailer Aritzia boost online revenue by 80%. The company is expanding AI‑driven ad formats in its new AI Mode and testing “direct offers” that deliver real‑time promotions. Google’s fourth‑quarter ad...
America and China Can Make AI Safer
The article argues that the United States and China, as the world’s leading AI developers, must cooperate to make artificial intelligence safer. It highlights how AI can be weaponized to create pathogens, launch autonomous cyber‑attacks, or spread convincing deepfakes, posing...
Retailers Are Bringing AI Into Stores in More Ways
Retailers are experimenting with AI‑driven tools inside brick‑and‑mortar locations, from Vitamin Shoppe's interactive touchscreen advisor to Guitar Center's QR‑based Rig Advisor. Smart fitting rooms equipped with AI screens have rolled out at brands like Victoria’s Secret, while Walmart is testing...
What Local Game Developers Really Think About Using GenAI Artworks as ‘Placeholders’
Game studios worldwide are increasingly using generative AI to create placeholder artwork, but many developers argue these AI‑generated assets hinder creative iteration and often remain in shipped products. The practice has sparked player backlash, with fans accusing studios of laziness,...
From Resilience to Reinvention: The AI Advantage for India’s Small Businesses
India’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) account for roughly 30 % of GDP and employ millions, yet only 35 % have a clear AI roadmap. A NASSCOM whitepaper shows 94 % believe AI can transform their businesses, while 65 % lack knowledge of...
This Nigerian Founder Got an Offer From Elon Musk’s xAI After His AI Startup Went Viral
Nigerian entrepreneur Sulaiman Adewale’s AI‑driven banking assistant Xara, built on WhatsApp, has attracted 45,000 users and processed about $5 million in transactions within ten months. The platform lets users query spending and schedule payments through natural‑language chat, using a fine‑tuned large...
AI-Assisted Fraud Makes Big Debut in FBI's Cybercrime Stats
The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Complaint Centre report introduced AI‑assisted fraud as a distinct category, documenting $893 million in losses. Overall cybercrime losses topped $20 billion, a 26 percent rise from 2024, with investment scams leading at $8.6 billion. AI‑generated content fueled business‑email‑compromise, voice‑cloning,...
Digital China Posts Higher Revenue as AI Business Expands
Digital China reported FY2025 revenue of RMB 143.8 billion ($20.9 billion), a 12% increase, with AI‑related sales climbing to RMB 33 billion ($4.8 billion), up 48%. Growth was driven by its Smart Vision AI platform, KunTai computing products, and a surge in electronic components distribution tied...
AI Data Centre Startup Firmus Eyes Off Another $725 Million Raise as It Readies to IPO on the ASX
Sydney‑born Firmus Technologies announced a $505 million USD (A$725 million) strategic equity raise led by Coatue with Nvidia participation, lifting its post‑money valuation to roughly $5.3 billion USD (A$8 billion). The funding will accelerate the rollout of its "green AI factories" across the Asia‑Pacific...
Like Having A Digital Specialist Who Lives In A Mac Mini: Time Under Tension Partners With OpenAI To Boost AI...
Sydney‑based generative AI agency Time Under Tension has joined the OpenAI Services Partner program, giving Australian businesses direct access to OpenAI’s latest models and pilot agentic AI systems. The firm will leverage its three‑year track record in AI strategy, custom...
Kargo Launches Closed Beta For Agentic Media Buying & Creative Engine
Kargo has opened a closed beta for Project KERA, an AI‑driven media‑buying and creative engine that turns a single campaign brief into a fully executed, performance‑ready plan. The platform unifies planning, creative development, activation and real‑time optimisation across CTV, mobile,...
Former Tenstorrent Execs Launch AI& to Build Japan’s Full-Stack AI Infrastructure
Former Tenstorrent executives David Bennett and Shimpei Hara have launched AI&, a vertically‑integrated Japanese AI company. The startup secured $50 million in seed funding and $2 billion in infrastructure capital to build a full‑stack AI platform, including data centers, orchestration software, models...
Anthropic Is in Takeoff, Altman Gets Farrow'd
Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, is experiencing rapid growth after securing new funding and expanding its enterprise customer base. At the same time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced heightened scrutiny following a controversial public incident dubbed “Farrow’d.” The newsletter...
Skills: The Common Language of Human-AI Collaboration
AI is moving from a speculative tool to a daily colleague, prompting HR leaders to rethink their function as "Hybrid Resources" that manage both people and AI agents. A recent Cornerstone OnDemand webinar highlighted that 77% of employees already use...
Tradie AI Receptionist Startup Banks $900,000 in Pre-Seed
Australian startup Chime Labs secured $900,000 AUD (~$600,000 USD) in a pre‑seed round led by 500 Global and supported by angel investors. Founded by former Googlers Alexis Griveau and Mathew Pretel, the company offers an AI‑powered receptionist that answers calls...
GitLab Duo CLI: Agentic AI for the Development Lifecycle, Now in the Terminal
GitLab has launched the Duo CLI in public beta, extending its AI‑driven Duo Agent Platform to the terminal. The tool offers two operating modes—a chat‑based interactive mode and a headless mode for scripts and CI/CD pipelines. It integrates security guardrails...
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Why Harness AI Uses a Knowledge Graph, Not Raw APIs
Harness AI agents now rely on a schema‑driven Knowledge Graph instead of raw Model Context Protocol (MCP) API calls. By modeling entities, relationships, and field metadata, the platform can answer multi‑module queries with Harness Query Language (HQL) in just two...
AI Agent Observability: The Developer's Guide to Agent Monitoring
AI agents require observability that goes beyond traditional APM metrics, capturing every LLM call, tool execution, and sub‑agent handoff. The OpenTelemetry `gen_ai` semantic conventions provide a standardized span model—`gen_ai.request`, `gen_ai.invoke_agent`, and `gen_ai.execute_tool`—enabling structured tracing and unified dashboards. Sentry’s auto‑instrumentation supports...