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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.
New York City and Los Angeles have imposed AI moratoriums through 8th grade as the 2026–27 school year opens, while Chicago school board candidates push for the same — drawing a sharp divide between urban districts restricting AI and those making it a graduation requirement.
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.
Boston became the first major U.S. city to launch a structured AI literacy graduation requirement for public high schoolers, rolling out AI Educator Ambassadors backed by a $1 million private grant and a curriculum co-developed with UMass Boston.
The UK's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero mapped out how AI can transform its power grid on September 8, opening a public consultation through November 6 that will shape Britain's first AI for Clean Energy Strategy.
The Senate Subcommittee on Education convened June 17 to address AI in classrooms, with witnesses arguing federal rules must come before the guidance gap becomes permanent.
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 U.S. Congress is advancing its first comprehensive AI governance framework as Colorado's AI Act takes effect June 30 — and the White House negotiates federal preemption to override state-by-state compliance fragmentation.
New York City's Department of Education is finalizing an AI playbook that prohibits using AI for grading, student discipline, and IEP decisions — setting a widely watched precedent for the nation's largest school district.
The White House and congressional negotiators are building a package that would federally preempt select state AI regulations in exchange for the Kids Online Safety Act and the NO FAKES Act — a deal with major implications for state-level AI governance.
The inaugural AI Film Festival Monaco opens today at One Monte-Carlo, placing AI filmmaking on European cultural ground alongside policymakers and researchers for the first time.
A Harvard Belfer Center analysis warns AI workloads will consume 9–11% of total U.S. electricity by 2030 and that corporate renewable pledges are structurally inadequate to prevent grid instability.
Trump's June 9 AI executive order deliberately sidelines guardrails in favor of private-sector self-governance and federal preemption of state regulation, CSIS analysts warn.
A major NPR poll finds most K-12 teachers believe AI will surpass the internet in educational impact — but 54% say it's already making it harder for students to develop critical thinking skills.
The Great American AI Act's three-year moratorium on state consumer AI protections has sparked a revolt from attorneys general, consumer advocates, and labor groups who say the federal floor is too low.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft CEOs sent Congress a joint letter demanding mandatory synthetic DNA screening — warning AI is eroding the barriers that kept bioweapons out of reach.
The Trump administration is actively promoting AI clinical tools to lower healthcare costs, but physician groups and hospital networks are resisting over unresolved liability and patient safety concerns.
Colorado's Governor signed SB 189 in May 2026, stripping the state's landmark AI Act of its impact assessment requirements and pushing enforcement from June 30, 2026 to January 1, 2027 — a major win for tech industry groups.
The WHO has issued its first formal warning that AI poses serious risks to health policymaking — not just clinical care — calling for governance that preserves human accountability across the evidence-to-policy pipeline.
The Trump administration wants federal rules to preempt state AI laws, but at least 31 states are advancing their own legislation — and Colorado's law takes effect June 30, setting up a constitutional clash that could reach the Supreme Court.