Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma”

Kentucky parents are outraged after discovering that horribly inaccurate educational materials handed out to their middle school students were generated with AI. According to local station WDRB, students at Farnsley Middle School in Southwest Louisville were sent home with a packet chock full of AI hallucinations on their first day of the school year. The

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Hexaware bundles its AI services under a Zero Friction Enterprise framework

Hexaware Technologies Ltd. today introduced the Zero Friction Enterprise, a delivery framework that folds the information technology services company’s modernization, cybersecurity, engineering, operations, quality and enterprise software practices into a single offering aimed at the drag that builds up inside large technology estates. The argument behind it is one of accumulation. Aging code, security exposure,

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Palona raises $20M in funding to bring AI automation to brick-and-mortar businesses

Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses, is ready to show what it can do after closing on a $20 million round of early-stage funding today. The Series A round, which included converted simple agreements for future equity, was led by Ardenwood Ventures and saw participation from

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AITECH Cloud Network and Secret Network Bring Confidential AI to Agent Forge

AITECH Cloud Network, formerly Solidus AI Tech, has announced a strategic partnership with Secret Network to integrate confidential computing capabilities into Agent Forge, its no-code AI agent platform developed fully by ACN’s internal development team and launched in April 2025. The collaboration will enable users of Agent Forge to build and deploy AI agents and

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Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of “it’s not X but Y”. But is it about to

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Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Nvidia has disclosed that it owns nearly 123 million shares in SpaceX, further highlighting the chipmaker’s entangled financial relationships with some of its biggest customers. The $5.5 trillion company owned SpaceX stock worth nearly $21 billion at the end of June, according to an SEC filing on Friday. Elon Musk’s rocket conglomerate’s shares have fallen sharply since

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This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

This past weekend saw Monterey Car Week at perhaps its most excessive ever. The auctions set records, including $42.9 million for one of six Shelby Daytona Coupes, and $40 million for Ferrari’s first Luce electric vehicle to reach private hands. Hypercars and restomods with seven-figure price tags filled the Californian peninsula, and yet I know

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Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI

Wispr AI Inc., the developer of a cross-platform, AI-powered dictation platform, today announced it raised $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round alongside existing investors Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, 8VC and MVP Ventures. New investors Acrew, Forerunner, Goodwater, Peak XV, Together Fund, and PLUS Capital

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Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4 billion valuation to scale video and image generation platform

Generative artificial intelligence video and image creation platform for professionals Higgsfield Inc. today announced that it raised $400 million in early-stage funding, quadrupling the company’s valuation to $5.4 billion since its previous funding round in January. The Series B round was led by DST Global, with participation from Tribe Capital, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs

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