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Families and educators across New York and the country are pushing back against Google's classroom AI tools, with students and parents joining protests and lawsuits over how artificial intelligence is being embedded into school platforms. The core concern is familiar: who controls the data, and whether children can meaningfully opt out.
Closer to the voting booth, ProPublica investigated a tool built by election deniers that flagged hundreds of voters as deceased and therefore ineligible. Reporters tracked down many of those voters and found them very much alive. It's a sharp reminder that automated systems applied to civic processes carry real consequences when the underlying data is wrong or the methodology goes unchallenged.
And in the corporate world, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stepped down amid a growing scandal, with US lawmakers now seeking to question him over whether one of his alleged personal relationships involved a Chinese intelligence operative. Huang's departure sends shockwaves through the AI chip industry at a moment when Nvidia's technology sits at the center of a global competition for computing dominance.
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