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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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Leaders of three U.S. House committees have summoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a closed-door briefing later this month over his ties to Alice Huang, a tech executive reportedly identified as a Chinese spy. The New York Times reported last month that U.S. officials had found the Nvidia CEO had a “close relationship” with a Chinese businesswoman who allegedly shared intelligence with Beijing authorities. The businesswoman, Alice Huang, was an executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. House China Committee Chair John Moolenaar, House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford sent a letter to Jensen Huang requesting him to appear before the three committees for the briefing on Nov. 18. “It is vital that Congress determine the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk,” the leaders said in the letter. #Topic of War #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-jensen-huang-trump.html?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

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

Former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is joining OpenAI to help expand the use of the AI company’s technology in national defense and other military applications. The former government official, who stepped away from his Army post in September after reportedly clashing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is now a “senior counselor” for the AI giant focused on national security modernization, according to his LinkedIn page. OpenAI said in a press release that Driscoll will “work with OpenAI teams and leaders across governments, industry, academia, and allied institutions to advance practical modernization initiatives that support the buildout of democratic AI.” https://openai.com/index/dan-driscoll-joins-openai/?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

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