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New York City placed a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for all K–8 students, affecting nearly 600,000 children — the most expansive AI restriction ever imposed on a U.S. K–12 district.
Music data firm Luminate reports AI was detectable in 40% of music released in July 2026, with more than half of that volume fully machine-generated — years ahead of industry projections.
One of Houston's largest school districts has implemented a grade-banded AI access framework — banning generative AI tools for elementary students while building structured access through high school.
A Student Voice survey finds college students are adopting AI tools while worrying about dependence, academic integrity, and career disruption — and broadly frustrated by institutions that still haven't published coherent AI use policies.
The Fed, OCC, and FDIC now probe AI governance in every exam cycle. A June 2026 survey found 72% of banks can't demonstrate AI failure controls on demand — and generative AI has outpaced the SR 26-2 guidance meant to govern it.
Ninety-four percent of financial services firms are now running generative AI in core functions — and the compliance frameworks meant to govern those systems weren't designed for what AI can actually do.
Martin Scorsese has joined German AI image startup Black Forest Labs as an adviser, saying generative AI tools help him communicate his film vision more clearly — a statement that has immediately divided the film industry.
California's Senate voted 39-0 to ban generative AI companion chatbots in toys for children 12 and under, sending SB 867 to the Assembly with the nation's strongest child AI safety signal yet.
A 95-minute fully AI-generated film screened at Cannes this week — the first feature-length AI film at any Cannes-adjacent venue — and it shifts the debate from hypothetical to present-tense.
OTB Group — parent to Diesel, Maison Margiela, and Marni — has launched AI-powered virtual try-on using Google Cloud, becoming one of the most prominent luxury fashion deployments of generative AI personalization.
Runway added $40M in ARR in Q2 2026 and is pivoting from AI video tools toward world models — AI systems that learn physics and causality from video rather than text.
Generative AI is powering a new fraud: fake small business storefronts with AI-generated founder personas charging artisan premiums for factory goods.
The 79th Cannes Film Festival has barred films where generative AI served as the principal authoring tool from competing for the Palme d'Or — the most consequential AI content policy from a major cultural institution to date.
The Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC have amended their joint model risk management guidance to explicitly exempt generative and agentic AI, giving banks a compliance green light to accelerate AI adoption—but leaving a governance gap critics say remains unfilled.
Over 400 Berklee students petitioned to remove an AI songwriting elective. The authorship anxiety is real. Removing the course is the wrong response to it.
MIT Technology Review finds generative AI hit 53% global adoption in three years — faster than the PC, internet, or smartphone — with Anthropic leading frontier model rankings as of March 2026.