AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoNYC AI in schools: Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for public students in 2-K through 8th grade, affecting about 600,000 kids, with companion chatbots banned across grades; high schoolers get AI literacy classes instead. AI policy meets privacy and health: The move follows months of pressure from parents and teachers over mental health, cognitive development, and environmental concerns, while allowing limited AI for lesson prep and specific assistive uses. Antitrust/ads: A federal judge rejected the U.S. push to break up Google’s ad tech business, ordering changes instead. Copyright fight: The Trump administration backed OpenAI in the New York Times copyright dispute, arguing AI training can be fair use. Biotech breakthrough: Harvard Medical School researchers found that instructions from different genes can combine to create new chimeric mRNAs and functional proteins, opening fresh drug-target possibilities. Music tools: BandM8 expanded its open beta with faster, musician-first tools for generating accompaniment from live playing. Quantum software funding: IBM Ventures invested in BQP to scale quantum-algorithm physics acceleration into deployment.
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