AI hysteria has a Y2K problem — and the stakes this time could be far higher

Washington’s growing alarm over artificial intelligence is beginning to echo Y2K, experts say, when dire warnings of technological catastrophe prompted a massive scramble to avert failures that ultimately proved far less severe than feared. “You could draw all sorts of scary scenarios with Y2K as well. The financial system was just going to collapse because […]

Former GOP whip, Arizona Sen Jon Kyl dead at 84

Former Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is dead at the age of 84, his family announced Thursday. Kyl was first sworn in to the Senate in 1995, retiring in 2013. He briefly returned to the Senate in 2018 after former Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., died. Kyl announced he was stepping away from public life […]

Powerful teachers’ unions share striking link with states struggling to teach kids to read

States with stronger teachers’ unions tend to have weaker literacy performance and have adopted fewer of the policies credited with improving reading outcomes, according to a new analysis from a center-left think tank. Eight of the 10 states to score among the worst in the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI) assessment of early-literacy policies were home […]

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