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(Futurism) - As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to reinstate college-entrance exams, The Wall Street Journal reports, claiming that incoming students barely have a middle-school level understanding of math and other subjects.

Their request, made in a letter last week, will be a controversial one. Entrance exams like the SAT and ACT have long been criticized for exacerbating racial inequality. Taking them isn’t free, and nor is participating in rigorous preparation courses, with wealthier and usually white children thirteen times likelier to get a high score on either test than kids from low-income families, one study led by Harvard researchers found.

“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics, and other quantitatively demanding fields,” the faculty wrote, as quoted by the WSJ. “UC has finite resources and can help only so many students.” Read more

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CNN has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, alleging the scraping of over 17,000 stories from its website without permission or proper attribution. This legal action highlights the ongoing challenges and disputes between content creators and AI aggregators regarding intellectual property rights and fair use.

Sources: The Daily Bite by Snack Prompt, The AI Report

AI startup Anthropic has confidentially filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the United States. This move indicates the company's progression towards becoming a publicly traded entity, a significant development in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. The filing suggests growing investor confidence and a strategic step to secure further capital for its advanced AI research and development.

Sources: Superpower Daily, Superintelligence, AI Valley

Senator Bernie Sanders has announced plans to introduce a bill that would grant Americans a 50% public ownership stake in the largest AI companies. Sanders argues that the immense wealth generated by AI, which largely relies on public data, should be distributed back to the public. This proposal represents a significant policy debate about the economic and social implications of artificial intelligence and its equitable distribution of benefits.

Sources: The Neuron

Insights from Shah Rahman, Global Head of Autonomous ML Iteration & Optimization for Ads at Meta, highlight the critical requirements for AI-native engineering. This includes context engineering, spec-driven development, critical verification, and disciplined problem decomposition, all within an "Agentic Development Life Cycle." The framework distinguishes between achieving significant leverage and merely "faster failure," emphasizing crucial security guardrails.

Sources: ByteByteGo

Microsoft has expanded its Copilot offerings by launching "Copilot Health." This new product aims to bring AI assistance to the healthcare sector, though specific details on its functionalities are still emerging.

Sources: Neatprompts - Aadit Sheth

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