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On September 22, 2026, Hays County commissioners declined to advance the Hays County AI contract with Axon — a proposed 10-year, $4.5 million deal the sheriff sought for the 2027 budget — after weeks of public pushback, according to Spectrum News 1. What happened inside the Hays County AI contract vote Residents packed commissioners court […]
On September 17, 2026, the European Commission unveiled the EU KIDS Act proposal, setting an EU-wide minimum age of 15 for minors to open their own social accounts and banning access for under‑13s. It also flips the burden of proof: platforms must show their services are age‑appropriate and safe by design. For Facebook, which runs […]
On September 21, 2026, a vendor report ranked four Instagram ad finder tools for competitive research, a sign of how performance teams are recalibrating for pricier Meta auctions. The press release, published via Business Insider Markets, lists GetHookd first, followed by PowerAdSpy, BigSpy, and AdSpy. It ties the need for sharper creative research to Meta’s […]
On August 19, 2026, Northwestern University’s Network for Collaborative Intelligence hosted a pair of talks spanning forest canopies to speech recognition. The event, featuring Meta’s Madeline Hinkamp and Technion’s Yossi Keshet, underscored how open-source models and methods are moving from labs into fieldwork and accessibility tools, according to the Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI). That […]
On September 22, 2026, a University of Alberta study landed a blunt finding: a Canadian musicians AI survey shows working artists feel squeezed by AI, streaming, and shuttered venues — and most see big tech as a direct threat to their livelihoods. What the Canadian musicians AI survey found The study, conducted by the University […]
15–20 minutes per customer visit. That’s the manual CRM entry time Esprinet’s sales reps no longer type by hand, according to a Microsoft customer story detailing the company’s AI rollout. The Esprinet Copilot deployment didn’t stop at out-of-the-box features; it sparked a wave of custom agents that shift routine work off people and into code. […]
September 21, 2026, brought an unusual pattern: across at least nine headlines, PsyPost highlighted studies anchored in the body. Cortisol rhythms and cognition, a cash stipend tied to children’s biological aging, massage effects on the nervous system, new maps of consciousness, sex differences across brain measures, and even a benefit of very slow running. The […]
In September 2026, Suno rolled out its first models trained on licensed music from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, marking a hard pivot from the lawsuits that dominated 2024. Rival Udio has also signed with Universal Music Group and Warner. According to the Los Angeles Times, the pitch is simple: AI becomes a new […]
On August 27, 2026, the Los Rios Community College District posted a notice of a PeopleSoft eServices outage on its official news page. The district did not share technical details in the listing, but timing matters as students finalize schedules and payments at the start of fall term. The question is simple: what does a […]
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