artificial intelligence

Where did U.S. humanities grants go? To projects from a baseball film to AI research

5:00am April 10, 2025

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

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Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner

11:53am April 09, 2025

The White House was expected to ban sales of the high-performance AI chip to China. Chinese companies had been stockpiling the chip but now the Trump administration is backing off.

Opinion: Art fair flyers should showcase human creativity

8:00am April 05, 2025

Organizers of Oakland's First Fridays art festival made a flyer promoting the event using AI, and are facing backlash for not using an actual artist. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

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Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward

5:07pm March 26, 2025

The legal fight could have far-reaching implications for the media and artificial intelligence industries.

Why an acting voice coach isn't angry about Adrien Brody's AI-assisted Oscar win

4:09am March 04, 2025

by Michel Martin

Adrien Brody's performance in The Brutalist got an assist from AI. We asked a voice coach what she makes of it.

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Christie's AI art auction inspires protests – and more art

5:00am February 17, 2025

by Chloe Veltman

The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.

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Vance to attend international AI and security summits as Ukraine war and tariffs loom

5:01am February 11, 2025

Vance will likely use the summits to resist further AI regulation while reiterating a common Trump refrain: that military allies need to further ramp up spending that supports NATO and Ukraine.

Education

Davidson County Schools moves forward with state-funded AI school safety program

3:59pm February 05, 2025

by Amy Diaz

Davidson County Schools approved a $2 million contract with Eviden, a technology company headquartered in France, to pilot an artificial intelligence safety program.

National

6 unsettling thoughts Google's former CEO has about artificial intelligence

4:10am February 05, 2025

by Steve Inskeep

Neither the public or the tech giants pushing artificial intelligence understand its long-term implications, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

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International regulators probe how DeepSeek is using data. Is the app safe to use?

2:22pm January 31, 2025

The Chinese chatbot took the world by storm and rattled stock markets. But lost in all the attention was a focus on how the company is collecting and storing data.

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