4 major Canadian school boards say TikTok, Meta, and Snapchat have ‘rewired’ students’ thinking in new lawsuit

[ad_1] Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario said Thursday they launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning. The lawsuits claim platforms like Facebook and Instagram are “designed for compulsive use, have rewired the way children think, behave, and learn” and…

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How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Sentence Compares With Other White-Collar Cases

[ad_1] Two years in prison for tax and securities violations. Eleven years for deceiving investors. A 150-year sentence for the largest Ponzi scheme in history. The country’s most notorious white-collar fraudsters — like Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes — have received a range of punishments for their crimes, from relatively short prison terms to effectively…

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Books focused on AI, the internet are finalists for first-ever Women’s Nonfiction Prize

[ad_1] The Women’s Prize for Nonfiction has announced six finalists, including works addressing the impact of the internet and artificial intelligence. The $38,000 award aims to address the gender imbalance in nonfiction publishing, open to women writers globally. Winners of both fiction and nonfiction prizes will be revealed at a London ceremony on June 13….

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New AI test measures how fast robots can respond to user commands

[ad_1] An artificial intelligence group has released a new set of results assessing the speed of hardware in running AI applications. Two new benchmarks measure the speed of AI chips and systems in generating responses from data-packed AI models. One new benchmark also evaluates the speed of question-and-answer scenarios for large language models. Artificial intelligence…

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