Large Tech is paying tens of millions to coach academics on AI, in a push to carry chatbots into school rooms
KEY TAKEAWAYS: AFT and NEA type partnerships with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to coach U.S. academics on AI. Funding will set up AI coaching hubs, together with a flagship in New York Metropolis, aiming to coach 400,000 academics. Educators design…
FCC postpones long-awaited guidelines decreasing ‘outrageous’ jail and jail telephone charges, leaves households paying extra
Costly calls drive households to decide on between paying payments and staying related to family members. For a few years, households of incarcerated individuals have sacrificed fundamental requirements to cowl the escalating value of jail calls. These burdens have been…
Who will find yourself paying for Gov. Jeff Landry’s non permanent Tremendous Bowl homeless shelter?
Gov. Jeff Landry’s non permanent homeless shelter alongside the Industrial Canal is an costly operation. The state pays an estimated $20 million to function the shelter, arrange earlier than Tremendous Bowl LIX to shelter as much as 200 unhoused residents…
New Orleans is lastly paying hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in decades-old authorized judgments
A long time of unpaid cash judgments owed by the town of New Orleans might lastly be paid quickly. New Orleans Metropolis Council on Thursday voted to make funds on quite a lot of authorized judgments together with wrecks that…
Louisiana paying D.C. attorneys $1,000 an hour to defend in opposition to probe into state police
A legislation agency in Washington, D.C. is amassing $1,000 an hour to assist protect the Louisiana State Police from a federal civil-rights investigation. The white-shoe agency, WilmerHale, was given the contract to defend LSP from a sweeping investigation by the…
Paying sheriffs to maintain the children
For roughly 4 years, 17-year-olds in Louisiana have been thought-about juveniles within the eyes of the legal authorized system. They may very well be detained pre-trial in juvenile detention facilities throughout the state. Judges might place them in state custody…