In classrooms, reactions to the rise of artificial intelligence have ranged from abject horror from some educators to excited adoption from others. With ChatGPT approaching its three-year birthday, we’ve seen students and teachers alike issue all kinds of complaints and defenses — and this latest one might take the cake for the more extreme backlash we’ve

That distant ringing? It’s the sound of the Taco Bell death knell, tolling for the restaurant chain’s shambolic AI-powered drive-thrus. We exaggerate, but only a little. The much-maligned tech experiment, which has been deployed at 500 Taco Bell locations across the United States, isn’t quite dead yet. But it’s received enough backlash since being unleashed on

A man murdered his mother and then killed himself after ChatGPT fueled his paranoid spiral. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a 56-year-old man named Stein-Erik Soelberg was a longtime tech industry worker who’d moved in with his mother, 83-year-old Suzanne Eberson Adams, in his hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut following his 2018 divorce. Soelberg, as the WSJ

The New York Police Department is one of the most heavily equipped police forces on the planet. With over 48,000 full-time staff and a budget nearing $6 billion, the NYPD’s access to immense resources put it closer to the military force of entire countries like the Philippines and Iraq than a municipal agency. With that

The vast majority (92%) of marketing professionals are using AI in their day-to-day operations, turning it from a buzzword into a workhorse. According to SAP Emarsys – which took the pulse of over 10,000 consumers and 1,250 marketers – while businesses are seeing real benefits from AI, shoppers are becoming increasingly distrustful, especially when it

Highlights Kore.ai’s comprehensive platform capabilities and business model adaptability in a rapidly evolving market Kore.ai, a global leader in enterprise AI, today announced it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms, 2025. The report noted Kore.ai as a leader for its “Completeness of Vision” and rated it highest

Toki AI has launched its breakthrough AI avatar generator, a revolutionary platform that transforms any single photo into lifelike, talking video avatars without requiring pre-training or additional footage. With this launch, Toki AI aims to overcome traditional challenges in avatar creation. The platform generates highly realistic AI talking avatars with natural facial expressions, smooth lip-syncing, and genuine emotions,

Pollo AI is proud to announce the launch of Google Nano Banana, an AI image generation and editing model also known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Now available with unlimited use for paid users on the Pollo AI platform, Nano Banana delivers a breakthrough experience in AI-generated imagery with unmatched character consistency. Emma Chen, Pollo AI’s Chief Product Officer,

EverestLabs’ Veolia Australia MRF rollout in Perth delivers industry-leading sorting accuracy, boosting recovery rates, enhancing safety records, and enabling AI-driven decision-making for recycling operations. Veolia Australia and New Zealand has selected EverestLabs, a U.S.-based leader in AI and robotics for recycling, to digitize and automate sorting operations at one of its material recovery facilities (MRFs) in Perth—marking the first deployment

The Cloud Content Repository is empowering faster, smarter content management, capable of processing billions of documents at massive scale Hyland, the pioneer of the Content Innovation Cloud  and the leader in open source for enterprise content management and automation, has long demonstrated its commitment to open source through its Nuxeo and Alfresco technologies. Today, Hyland is deepening that commitment