Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out
Google says schools will get fewer switches, not more: to lose AI Overviews next year, they'd have to turn off search itself.
Regulation is reshaping how AI gets built and deployed. Track the EU AI Act, US executive actions, copyright litigation, safety standards, and enforcement decisions — each summarized with the underlying documents and rulings linked for verification.
Google says schools will get fewer switches, not more: to lose AI Overviews next year, they'd have to turn off search itself.
DuckDuckGo courts schools as Google's AI defaults draw educator backlash.
Voters turned sharply against data centers: Of 41 local ballot measures on data center development, nearly all look poised to end in more restrictions.
Google will default off AI tools for K-12 students next year, but schools that block AI entirely will also lose Google Search.
New App Store rules from November 16 force 18+ ratings on dating apps and AI companion apps with sexual or romantic features, plus new location-sharing disclosures.
Surveys, error rates, and source-quality research show chatbots are unreliable guides at the polls.
WIRED's Katie Drummond sits down with New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani at City Hall to talk data centers, AI in schools, and the midterms — ten months into a tenure that has made him both a national progressive symbol
A one-line executive order rebranded AI as “Super Intelligence” — and compliance is already becoming a loyalty signal across Washington.
Anthropic's revised S-1A filing contains new risk-factor language suggesting the lab may be approaching its own threshold for recursive self-improvement.
The New York Times and three other outlets hit Brave with federal scraping suits, accusing the browser maker of indexing publishers' work and reselling it to AI companies.
20 stories, 5 beats: Agents ship as scrutiny catches up.
A WIRED investigation traced a 400-domain network of benign-looking AI apps that secretly serve violent deepfake tools.