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☕️ xAI poursuit un utilisateur de Grok pour création de deepfakes sexualisés
xAI, maison mère du réseau social X et du moteur d’IA générative Grok, poursuit en justice un homme de Caroline du Sud au motif qu’il aurait utilisé Grok pour créer du contenu représentant des agressions sexuelles sur mineurs (Child sexual abuse material, CSAM). L’homme, Terry Harwood, a été arrêté plus tôt dans l’année pour des […]
Measuring How Students Rely on Generative AI in Academic Writing: Development and Multi-Source Validation of the Generative AI Reliance Types Scale (GenAI-RTS)
arXiv:2607.14301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As generative AI (GenAI) becomes increasingly embedded in undergraduate academic writing, how students rely on these tools, rather than simply whether they use them, has become a central question for learning, academic integrity, and educational equity. Existing measures of reliance were developed inductively, focused on discrete problem-solving tasks, and validated mainly with homogeneous samples. This study developed and validated the GenAI Rel
Bringing Shared Heritage into the Classroom: East Asia’s Three-Year Journey Culminates in Nanjing
From 6 to 9 July 2026, the third workshop on “Teaching and Learning with East Asian Shared Heritage” was successfully held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Jointly organized by UNESCO Regional ...
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to change the admission period in the F, J, and I classifications from duration of status to an admission for a fixed time period, and additional changes to admission and extension requirements. This final rule will provide additional protections and oversight of these nonimmigrant categories and will allow DHS to better evaluate whether these nonimmigrants are maintaining status while temporarily in the United States. This fi
China’s AI Summer Camps Tap Into Parents’ Worries
As parents push to equip their children with AI skills, companies seeking to exploit their anxieties around the new technology are exaggerating claims about what they can teach their children.
Trump Administration Limits the Duration of Student and Journalist Visas
Under a newly finalized rule, student visas will be capped at four years and those for members of the media at 240 days.
How a Blind Professor Saw Through His Students’ Cheating
This is the end of the university as you know it
xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
Frontiers of AI in Negotiation and Conflict Management
Hannah Riley Bowles Appointment Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management Mailing Address 1 Harvard Kennedy School Mailing Address 2 79 ...
The Nation’s Largest School System Is Expanding Special Education for Its Youngest Learners
Preschoolers with disabilities in New York City will gain access to an unprecedented set of programs and services thanks to a major expansion in special education announced Tuesday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels. The nation’s largest school system is investing $67.5 million in special education as families […]
AutoSynthesis: An agentic system for automated meta-analysis
Evidence synthesis is crucial for turning primary research into reliable knowledge for science, medicine, education, and policy. Yet, quantitative evidence synthesis remains largely manual and difficult to scale. Here, we introduce AutoSynthesis, an end-to-end multi-agent system for automated meta-analysis. Given a research question in natural language, AutoSynthesis formulates a search strategy, retrieves scientific literature, screens candidate studies, assesses full-text eligibility, extracts
EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
The Chocolate Factory is not amused
Report: Education Department Scaled Back Special Education Monitoring
Federal teams charged with making sure states are doing right by students with disabilities appear to have visited fewer than half of the states originally scheduled for review in 2025 and 2026. That information comes from U.S. Department of Education documents compiled and analyzed by the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, a group that […]
UK investigates TikTok for alleged age-verification lapses, exposing kids to online harms
“Age checks are a cornerstone of the UK’s online safety laws,” said Ofcom’s Chief Executive, Melanie Dawes. “Too many services have no or inadequate age checks in place, which is not good enough.”
Identifying the Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to Popular Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes of Women
This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and New Zealand news site The Press. You can read The Press’ piece here. Content warning: This article discusses non-consensual sexually explicit content and child sexual abuse material. In 2024, a former track and field coach in Boston, Massachusetts, was sentenced to five years in jail for attempting […] The post Identifying the Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to Popular Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes of Women appeared first on bellingcat .
Harvard cancer researchers earn retraction for image duplication
A group of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have lost a paper for image duplication following an investigation by the two institutions. The paper, published in September 2019 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, described a treatment for tumors caused by a disorder called tuberous sclerosis complex. Several … Continue reading Harvard cancer researchers earn retraction for image duplication
Relocation of Education Department to Facilitate Redevelopment
Relocation of Education Department to Facilitate Redevelopment Katherine Knott Thu, 07/16/2026 - 11:30 AM ED will be leaving its headquarters regardless of where Energy is housed. We supported this resolution to pave the way for Washington to convert unused federal real estate into housing and greater tax revenue. Byline(s) Letters to the Editor
Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material
Case is one of first brought by an AI company against a user for allegedly using a tool to generate child abuse material Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging he misused the company’s AI system Grok to create child sexual abuse material. xAI alleged in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Texas on Tuesday, that Terry Harwood violated the company’s terms of service. The ca
Homeland Security Limits How Long International Students Can Stay in U.S.
Homeland Security Limits How Long International Students Can Stay in U.S. Katherine Knott Thu, 07/16/2026 - 11:00 AM International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy. Byline(s) Johanna Alonso
Musk's xAI sues man accused of using Grok to create explicit material
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI is suing a South Carolina man, accusing him of using its generative chatbot Grok to create child sexual abuse material. The suit, filed in a federal court Tuesday in Texas, alleges Terry Wayne Harwood had at least two Grok accounts using false identities to create and distribute explicit material....
Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, is investigating TikTok's child safety measures
The regulator is assessing whether the platform is doing enough to protect children from harmful content.
The Massive Collapse in College Confidence Isn’t Getting Any Better
America’s collapse in confidence in higher education — with support for colleges falling four times as much as for other government and civic institutions — doesn’t appear to be getting better anytime soon. Gallup polls over the last decade have shown a decline in support of colleges and universities from a high of 57% of respondents having […]
TikTok facing UK investigation amid fears over age checks and harm to children
Ofcom concerned TikTok’s age verification is ineffective, leaving some exposed to posts on suicide, self-harm and pornography TikTok is under formal investigation over concerns it has failed to protect children from harmful content, the UK’s online regulator, Ofcom, has announced. The social media platform’s approach to checking the ages of users has sparked “particular concerns” at the watchdog, almost a year after measures to protect children from the worst of online content came into effect u
Opinion: A Step-by-Step Guide to AI in Schools — How Much to Use and When
Every few years, a new technology enters schools. Television beamed lessons from the best teachers into classrooms. Computers and the internet gave students access to a wealth of information, right at their fingertips. Interactive whiteboards, tablets and Chromebooks were sold as the future of education. Now, it is artificial intelligence. And educators must ask: What […]
TikTok faces Ofcom investigation over child age checks
It follows a review by the regulator in May that criticised the platform for not being "safe enough" for children.
Trump administration’s new rule will limit foreign students to four-year stays
International students and exchange visitors may struggle to finish their degrees without visa extensions under a new DHS rule.
Exclusive: Study Finds Boston Charters Fell Off in 2010s, Recovered During COVID
Charter schools in Massachusetts have significantly accelerated student learning over the last quarter century, a newly released study shows. Compared with their counterparts in the state’s traditional public schools, charter students earned higher marks on state exams and the SAT, with particularly large gains in cities like Boston. Notably, however, these effects fluctuated over time. […]
TikTok tests AI-generated spam detection in SA
The social media platform rolls out new AI transparency tools and education initiatives for South African users.
How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter
The post How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter appeared first on ProPublica .
VPN use in UK doubles as people circumvent porn laws
Regulator Ofcom finds evidence of children using the technology to get around age checks
Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars
The post Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars appeared first on ProPublica .
New national blueprint for embedding data-centric engineering skills in higher education
Before we ban: South Africa and the age-verification trap
As local policymakers consider whether SA should join the global rush to ban social media for children, we must consider the risks of a nanny-state mentality.
The Rise of the Nontraditional College Student
The Rise of the Nontraditional College Student Joshua.Bay Thu, 07/16/2026 - 03:00 AM In this week’s Voices of Student Success episode, IHE senior reporter Sara Weissman explores how higher ed demographics have changed and what institutions must do to adapt. Byline(s) Joshua Bay
Gen-mentor: A human-in-the-loop instructional framework for dental radiography using generative AI
Publication date: Available online 14 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Yiyun Dong, Chuanyang Peng, Yichen Wu, Shihui Shen, Xiaodan Sun, Tiannan Chen, Shanbin Guan, Changquan Wang, Ersheng Ni, Tianbin Huang, Jiang Tao
Balancing AI Responsibility with Privacy, Safety, and Utility: Unlearning in Large Language Models for Mathematics Education
Publication date: Available online 14 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Chenglu Li, Gökhan Gülfidan, Yinqi Zhang-Kopf
‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health
She has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years and fears the debate obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregivers The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice Odgers believes. Men are the biggest perpetrators of sextortion and most likely to spread misinformation, she says. Odgers is not recommending this as a po
Designing Safety-Constrained LLM Systems for Public Health Information Access
arXiv:2607.13038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the design and implementation of a safety constrained large language model (LLM) system for public health information access, focusing on maternal and child health (MCH) resource navigation. While LLM based systems offer flexible and natural interfaces for information retrieval, their deployment in healthcare contexts introduces risks related to safety, trust, and uncontrolled generation. This work explores practical design patterns for
Learning Engagement Assistant (LEA): Cross-Course Scalability and Classroom Evaluation of an Agentic AI Tutoring System
arXiv:2607.13370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper is an extension of a paper presented at the ICAART 2026 conference, which introduced LEA (Learning Engagement Assistant), an adaptive AI tutoring agent combining course-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with structured Knowledge Component (KC) models across integrated Chat, Tutor, and Quiz modes. That prior work validated LEA on a single STEM course (CMP511) exclusively through simulation, using synthetic learner agents. This
L2-Bench: An Evaluation Benchmark for Measuring LLM Capabilities in Second Language Education
arXiv:2607.08842v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite rapid AI adoption in education, rigorous evaluation of AI-powered educational (AIED) systems remains critically underdeveloped, particularly in second language (L2) education, one of the most common yet least evaluated AI applications. We introduce L2-Bench, an open-source benchmark of 1,000+ task-response pairs to aid the pedagogy-led evaluation of LLM capabilities relating to language learning and assessment. Crucially, L2-Bench measu