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Student learning should be the primary criterion for if and when AI belongs in K-12 schools.

From one prompt to interactive applications — no coding required

A criminal could be masquerading as a celebrity, web store or family member asking for your money. Detecting scams requires a new approach.

Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundamentally mischaracterizes how physics relates to information. We call this mistake the Abstraction Fallacy. Tracing the causal origins of abstraction reveals that symbolic computation is not an intrinsic physical process. Instead, it is a mapmaker-dependent description. It requires an active, experiencing cognitive agent to alphabetize continuous physics into a finite set of meaningful states. Consequently, we do not need a complete, finalized theory of consciousness to assess AI sentience—a demand that simply pushes the question beyond near-term resolution and deepens the AI welfare trap. What we actually need is a rigorous ontology of computation. The framework proposed here explicitly separates simulation (behavioral mimicry driven by vehicle causality) from instantiation (intrinsic physical constitution driven by content causality). Establishing this ontological boundary shows why algorithmic symbol manipulation is structurally incapable of instantiating experience. Crucially, this argument does not rely on biological exclusivity. If an artificial system were ever conscious, it would be because of its specific physical constitution, never its syntactic architecture. Ultimately, this framework offers a physically grounded refutation of computational functionalism to resolve the current uncertainty surrounding AI consciousness.

We're releasing ten new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, integrations with the Microsoft 365 suite, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance organizations.

Microsoft introduces a new, always-on personal agent, Microsoft Scout, integrated across the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day.

A face is the first impression of an AI human, and until today, every Tavus AI human began with a video recording session. Image-to-Replica changes that. A single image — a real photograph, an AI-generated portrait, an illustrated character, a brand mascot — is now enough to produce a fully usable Phoenix-4 AI human. Same emotional control, same Raven-1 perception, same real-time performance. The set of possible AI humans was bounded by who could record. Now it is bounded by what can exist as a human-like face in an image.

New research on how we've reduced agentic misalignment

Groundbreaking responsible AI tool to launch as paid add-on for Spotify Premium users   Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) today announced landmark recorded music and music publishing licensing agreements enabling Spotify to launch a new tool allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters.   This groundbreaking tool...

Gemini for Science is a new collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

The OpenAI CEO reversed his own dire predictions about AI and employment, but layoffs keep coming.

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.

Teachers in higher-needs schools were less likely than those in wealthier schools to have received guidelines, echoing previous research.

The AFT president is walking a tightrope on AI in education. A year after AFT partnered with OpenAI and Microsoft on teacher training, the union president is now calling for bans on student-facing AI and stronger guardrails around classroom technology.

K-12 teachers are using AI — but a majority lack formal guidance.

You can go further with Claude than what's on the surface: share chats, protect your privacy, create files and visualizations, and more.

Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.

School districts are making consequential AI decisions largely on their own—purchasing tools, training teachers, setting policies for student use, and trying to determine what responsible and effective adoption looks like. Without clear federal guidance or a reliable roadmap, what are the most advanced districts learning, and what does it reveal about what the field needs

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

A.I. can be a crutch that hurts our ability to think creatively.

Even as AI progresses, coders aren’t doomed.

Preview a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT for Pro users in the U.S. Securely connect your financial accounts and get AI-powered insights and guidance grounded in your financial context, goals, and priorities.

FRIDAY, May 15, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Three out of five U.S. teens have tried AI chatbots, turning to the programs for entertainment, advice, friendship – and

Interactive atlas of AI and data center policy across world, regional, and state governments.

Universal Music Group and Spotify are teaming up to create an AI service that will let fans create "covers and remixes of their favorite songs"

One .md file will automatically improve Claude’s outputs and save you hours in the future.