- The New York Times reported that Russian attack drones used in a July strike in Ukraine carried Nvidia Jetson Orin chips running small AI models, suggesting humans designated only a target area and type while the weapon picked its own mark (Mitch)
- The gain over older jam-proof guidance may be modest for now, but AI versions could better handle concealment, anti-drone netting, and swarm attacks, and one drone in the Zaporizhzhia strike killed three civilians in an apartment building (Mitch)
- Because the chips cost only a few hundred dollars and are widely resold, cheap autonomous drones could become a favored tool for terrorists and rogue states against soft targets that are hard to defend (Mitch)
- The start of the school year brought a Kentucky district charging families for work packets full of garbled AI output, including invented state names and a periodic table with errors (Mitch)
- Education Secretary Linda McMahon said parents should be able to opt out of AI teaching, while a New York Times column argued for the humanities; a former teacher notes custom curricula are hard for one teacher to deliver and suggests teaching for intrinsic value (Mitch)
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