AI-powered Alpha Schools expands to 50 campuses

This AI school is spreading across America.

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Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

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Selling Burritos Back to Mexico: Chipotle’s Bold Expansion

As the Mexican-inspired American chain makes its debut in Mexico, it faces a major hurdle: convincing Mexicans to buy an Americanized take on their own national cuisine.

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How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.

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Ep. #736: Erin Brockovich, Scott Galloway, Peter Hamby

Podcast Episode · Real Time with Bill Maher · August 1 · 1h 1m

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Seattle’s Police Chief Resigns Under Pressure After Festival Shooting (Gift Article)

The decision followed days of criticism over how the department handled the release of information about a shooting that killed three people.

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Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.

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What Is Open-Weights A.I.? (Gift Article)

As Silicon Valley debates how artificial intelligence software should be created, “open weights” have been a major part of the discussions. Here’s what to know.

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OpenAI Close to Landing $500 Billion Data Center With Backing From Nvidia (Gift Article)

The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.

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Anduril unveils first autonomous fighter jet at Central Ohio facility - Columbus Business First

Anduril’s first completed product has rolled off the production line at Arsenal-1.

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Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.

Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.

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How to Use ChatGPT and Gemini Prompts to Find Out What They Know About You

It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.

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Shrinking student populations cause spike in public school closures across U.S.

Limited funds and low enrollment forced districts to close more than 1,000 schools in 2025-26.

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Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal (Gift Article)

A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.

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Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.

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75 Years Later, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Remains a Great American Novel (Gift Article)

Sure, “Catcher in the Rye” has its detractors. But the influence of its wised-up yet winningly innocent hero keeps it among the Great American Novels.

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Column | The 10-mpg RV has met its all-electric successor

Millions of Americans venture into the great outdoors in RVs, and new technologies aim for fuel efficiency and automation.

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Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

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Ohio #1 State for Business + $1.65M Dublin Home + PopUp Bagels Boom

Columbus economic, real estate, and culture data reveals a state that just got national confirmation of what the ground has been telling us all along — the growth here is real, it's ranked #1, and it'...

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How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I.

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Trump Promised a Foreign Investment Boom. It’s Getting Harder to Deliver.

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Anthropic shines a light into the Claude AI black hole

New visibility into why a model acts as it does could reshape enterprise AI strategy, especially when developing purchase criteria.

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Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet

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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin

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$22,000 Per Hour: Assistants Use a Legislative Loophole to Outearn Surgeons

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Hospital emergency rooms see boom in patients around the Fourth of July

Independence Day is a national celebration of freedom, fireworks and frankfurters. It's also, by one measure, the most dangerous day of the year.

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