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Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland voted 6-1 on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, to ban student use of artificial intelligence tools from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, according to TechSpot and Yahoo News. The vote lands just weeks after the district let middle and high school students pilot Google Gemini with teacher permission, making it one…
Six months ago, Delve looked like the future of compliance software: an AI-native startup founded by two MIT dropouts, backed by Y Combinator, promising to compress a SOC 2 audit from months into days. By April 2026, multiple outlets reported that Y Combinator had cut ties with the company following allegations of fabricated audit evidence…
Today, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of the Channels podcast, about the gigantic Warner Bros.-Paramount merger and the future of the company now simply called Skydance. Skydance is owned by David Ellison, son of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed…
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I’m back from parental leave! Part time, anyway. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes…
Gardens Interactive, the Los Angeles studio founded by veterans of Journey and Sky: Children of the Light, has closed more than $35 million in Series B funding, the company confirmed in an October 7 announcement. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and pulls in a investor list that mixes traditional venture capital with…
Type “switch 2 emulator” into Google right now and you will find forum threads, YouTube videos, and GitHub stars climbing by the day. What you will not find, as of October 10, 2026, is a single emulator that boots a commercial Nintendo Switch 2 game. Three public projects are chasing that goal anyway: Pound, oboromi,…
OpenAI’s biggest math announcement of the year lasted less than a day before it needed a correction. On October 6, 2026, the company published 722 preprints to a public GitHub repository, each one claiming progress on one of 372 unsolved or hard mathematical problems, generated with help from an internal mathematical-reasoning system. By October 7,…
Anthropic and Microsoft are fighting over the same desk. One company wants to be the model you reason with. The other wants to be the assistant already living inside Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. As of October 10, 2026, that fight has a name: Claude vs Copilot, a search term that now pulls roughly 1,900…
It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: “Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26.” A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has…
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