New York City Public Schools is cracking down on AI.

Now, as school districts and states across the country—including Los Angeles, second only to New York in district size —respond to a tidal wave of anti-technology backlash by restricting tech use and AI in schools, the district, under a new mayor and chancellor, has executed yet another about-face.

The Trump administration is wading into a legal fight between OpenAI and the New York Times, backing the ChatGPT-maker’s argument in a closely watched case over how it builds its AI technology by ingesting and processing millions of news articles.

New York City’s one-year moratorium on generative AI through 8th grade affects 600,000 students and disables AI features in 38+ approved edtech programs.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Generative AI has been suspended by New York City's schools. The city's Department of Education imposed a one-year moratorium on the use of AI in elementary ...

Whether the law becomes a model for other states may depend on what happens in these early test cases.

Around 100 Jewish-American and Israeli-American participants developed tools for reporting antisemitic incidents, mapping elected officials and connecting community allies as anti-Jewish hate crimes i