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Today's intelligence sweep
Today's sweep leans toward Democracy / press freedom, AI / computing, Education / pedagogy. The strongest items in this run are Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’, Police say more than 100 bodies recovered after flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border with hundreds still missing – latest, and Did School Vaccines Just Become a Campaign Issue?.
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Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3..
Relevant to the shape of current AI systems and where the tooling is moving..
Police say more than 100 bodies recovered after flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border with hundreds still missing – latest
Latest Nepal police update says 157 bodies have been found after powerful floods in Himalayan border area sweep away houses, roads and bridges ‘Major casualties’ feared after flash floods along Nepal-Tibet border Tell us: have you been….
Relevant to state power, civil liberties, and anti-authoritarian concerns..
Did School Vaccines Just Become a Campaign Issue?
Mandated vaccines for school attendance—and a parent’s ability to reject those vaccines— may have been injected into the race for Florida governor. With five months left before he’s term limited out of office, the administration of Gov..
Relevant to state power, civil liberties, and anti-authoritarian concerns..
Ohio Won’t Approve Weak Credentials That Students Use as ‘Shortcut’ to Graduate
Hoping to make sure high school students don’t waste time earning career credentials that won’t help them find jobs, Ohio is slashing the credentials counted towards graduation, axing easy ones that thousands of students earn, but don’t….
Directly relevant to teaching, classroom practice, and educational judgment..
You can now buy music on SoundCloud
SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly from their profiles, instead of diverting fans to purchase from third-party services like Bandcamp and Beatport..
Relevant to state power, civil liberties, and anti-authoritarian concerns..
Even With Human Help, Kids Need Motivation to Use AI Tutors. The Question Is What
Artificial intelligence-based tutoring programs promise something schools have long struggled to provide: personalized instruction for every student at a fraction of the cost of traditional 1-on-1 tutoring..
Directly relevant to teaching, student agency, and school policy..
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has….
Worth watching for authoritarian drift, selective enforcement, and democratic norms..
Fewer Teachers, Even Fewer Students: See What’s Happening in 9,500 Districts
Earlier this month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that public education lost 50,000 jobs between June and July. The numbers are preliminary and don’t show which types of jobs were lost..
Directly relevant to teaching, classroom practice, and educational judgment..
AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet..
Relevant to the shape of current AI systems and where the tooling is moving..
A new stamp on cyberfraud prevention
For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands of stamps: He built intricate databases to catalogue them, displaying the “precise eye” for detail and nuance that….
Relevant to state power, civil liberties, and anti-authoritarian concerns..
Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $17bn
US tech giant agrees to establish further protections for teens such as daily usage limits and blocks on nighttime use Meta agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit on….
Touches trust, surveillance, and the private use of AI systems..
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3..
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Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial
The social media giant also agreed to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook..
Interesting where engineering, science, and tech infrastructure collide..