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US schools are limiting AI and other classroom technology as parents increasingly favor low-tech education. Anti #Edtech Innovation or #Digital Wellness 📱🧘 ? #For Teachers By Teachers #ScholER #Artificial Intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/23/ai-us-schools-students

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OpenAI announced on Wednesday that Paul Christiano, a senior technical advisor at the U.S. Commerce Department’s AI center, would be joining the board of the OpenAI Foundation, the charity that has a 26% stake in the company. Christiano will also be a non-voting observer on the board of OpenAI’s for-profit company. #REAL Truth Christiano previously worked at OpenAI as a member of its technical staff until 2021, when he created the nonprofit Alignment Research Center. He joined the Biden administration’s AI Safety Institute in April 2024 as the head of safety. The institute was renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation under President Trump amid a restructuring, and Christiano remained as a senior technical advisor. According to his LinkedIn profile, Christiano returned to the Alignment Research Center as executive director in July, though he still lists his White House advisor position as current. OpenAI said that Christiano will join the safety and security committee of the foundation’s board, which provides governance across all of OpenAI. “AI capabilities have advanced very rapidly in the last year and alignment remains a difficult technical problem,” he said in a statement. Other board members include BNY CEO Robin Vince, Carnegie Mellon professor Zico Kolter, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. https://openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board/?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

The Trump administration declined to produce key documents related to its voluntary AI testing framework, despite an agreement struck in September with the nonprofit Protect Democracy Project after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. In a letter sent to the nonprofit on Friday by the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director, the Trump administration’s FOIA office cited national security and commercial exemptions to argue that it did not have to share a full draft of the framework, as well as related documents including records of companies and other organizations allowed early access to frontier AI models. The letter did provide some details on the White House’s “trusted partner” program, as well as the scope of the framework. The framework, which was created by a June executive order, has been a source of consternation for AI companies producing models or using other labs’ models. It lays out a process for frontier AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI to submit their new models for government review before releasing them to the public. Still, after finalizing the framework in early August, the White House has only briefed a select group of companies and refused to share details more broadly on how the process works. That has left unanswered questions for many companies on key aspects of the framework, including which companies qualify as “trusted partners” and can receive advanced access to frontier models before their wide release. The Office of the National Cyber Director’s letter sent on Friday does provide some answers. In a list of documents that it produced in response to the FOIA lawsuit, the White House details a “voluntary AI framework” consisting of a seven-page word document. The majority of the rest of the documents are emails from the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Commerce Department to AI labs and vendors identifying trusted partners cleared for pre-release access to frontier models, signaling that the government is approving a “white list” of organizations for the trusted partner program. “The federal government is asking the public to trust a framework for reviewing AI models before they’re released, but only the government and AI companies know what the framework says,” said Vivian Dong, a director at the Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, in a statement. “That isn’t acceptable, and we’ll keep fighting in court until the public can see it.” The White House did not respond to a request for comment. https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Civil-Action-No.-26-3064__Production__10.30.2026_Redacted.pdf?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

Are China’s increasingly powerful open-weight AI models a cybersecurity threat, or could restricting them ultimately make the internet less secure? #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 #Topic of War The dilemma has become a growing concern as Chinese developers including DeepSeek, Z.ai (https://z.ai/) and Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China Morning Post – continue to challenge their American rivals by releasing models that anyone can download, modify and deploy. The growing impact of advanced AI on global cybersecurity has also forced governments and cybersecurity agencies across the world to scramble to shore up their digital defences, with this week’s uncovering of critical vulnerabilities in the internet programming language PHP just the latest example. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3371961/weapon-or-armour-contentious-debate-over-chinas-open-weight-ai?utm_source=cm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GME-O-enlz-uv&UUID=f9aaf50d26626de042873bfe2733d91d&utm_content=20261027_Tech_FW&CMCampaignID=f5682737da118d24de78a3e2fefff0d3

Andrew Tate and other online influencers telling young men that reading is "for losers" while they rack up 9 hours of screen time a day is wild. How do we shift the cultural perception so reading isn't seen as uncool or "feminized" for young guys? #Digital Wellness 📱🧘 #The Book Club 📚 https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/when-boys-stop-reading-something-else-fills-the-void-9f9eb8afaf22

Interesting to see tech giants using obscure special purpose entities and middleman developers to keep huge data center lease commitments off their main balance sheets. Is this just smart structured finance, or are we quietly building systemic credit risk in the tech sector? if you hold a standard high-yield ETF in your 401(k), you're probably already funding the physical real estate behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia without knowing it. https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-information-finance/ai-data-center-debt-showing-everywhere?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&utm_campaign=%5BClaude%5D+%5BNL%5D+RTSU%3A&utm_content=15444&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=10615&rc=gzsl71