TNB Tech Minute: New York City Bans AI in Classrooms Though Middle School

0:00This podcast is sponsored by DataIQ. Most enterprises can't count their AI agents, let alone manage them. DataIQ agent management lets you do both from a single view. Visit dataIQ.com to learn more. Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute, for Wednesday, September 2nd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. New York City is banning the use of AI in public school classrooms through middle school for one year, while officials study the impact of the technology. The ban will cover roughly 600,000 students from preschool through eighth grade. Chatbots will be banned across all grades, and new screen time limits will be introduced. Here's Mayor Zoran Mamdani announcing the policy today. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way. City officials will conduct a study and release recommendations for future school years. New York City will also develop AI literacy classes for high schoolers,

1:03and teachers will still be allowed to use AI for instructional planning. German delivery company, the Leverie Hero, confirmed it is in favor of a $14.8 billion takeover bid from Uber Technologies and advised shareholders to accept the offer. The move would tie up two of the world's biggest food delivery platforms. The Leverie Hero said its management and supervisory boards had independently reviewed the US Giants offer, and said the boards share Uber's view that the combination could speed up innovation and create additional opportunities for all stakeholders. Uber reached an agreement in July to buy the Leverie Hero after steadily increasing its stake to become its largest shareholder. And staying on Uber, the company announced its laying off 3300 employees or about 10% of its workforce to train management layers and streamline divisions. In a letter to employees today, CEO Dara Kuzhr Shahi said the company grew fast over the past few years,

2:04but added layers and management structures that made sense when the business was smaller. He added that the layoffs will allow it to reinvest savings in the future. The restructuring comes after Uber softened its outlook last month. And that's your TMB Tech Minutes. Check back in the morning for another quick tech update. This podcast is sponsored by DataIQ Agent Management. Somewhere in your company, there's an AI agent that used to work exactly the way it was built to work, until it didn't. Nothing broke, but something changed. It just started drifting, one decision at a time, until it started doing something else entirely. The dashboard still says it's healthy, uptime is green. But green lights don't tell you if it's still doing its job. There's never been a good way to see that, until now. Take control of your agent workforce with DataIQ Agent Management. It shows you what's driving ROI, what's drifted, and who's responsible for each agent across platforms and tools, all within a single view.

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