Texas Children's Hospital must openwhat is believed to be the country's first "detransition clinic" and pay the state $10 million as part of a settlement over transgender care for minors, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday.
Why it matters: The settlement marks the latest move by Texas Republicans to restrict transgender rights as the state has enacted some of the nation's toughest policies targeting trans people, including limits on gender-affirming care for minors, sports participation and bathroom access.
The flood of AI-generated writing unleashed by ChatGPT appears to have leveled off — a sign that AI content hasn't overtaken the web after all.
The big picture: The share of online news articles, blog posts and listicles that are primarily AI-generated has held near 50% for more than a year, according to a new analysis from digital marketing agency Graphite.
WASHINGTON – STEM education may not be as valuable as it once was because of AI's ability to code on its own, Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) said at an Axios Live event.
The big picture: AI is reshaping every industry and is directly tied to economic growth, increasing pressure on schools and employers to equip the workforce with AI tools and skills.
Axios' Courtenay Brown and Ashley Gold hosted conversations with Young and Anne Kress, president of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). The May 12 event was sponsored by Amazon.
What they're saying: "Having a certain command of ideas and being able to translate those novel ideas into language that can be sent into the algorithm and having the ability, with precision, to tell an algorithm what you need, describe your circumstances, describe the end state you're trying to arrive at, will be incredibly valuable," Young said.
Zoom in: Enrollment trends are shifting as students rethink which industries will remain resilient in the AI era.
"I heard somebody say once, 'if you're in a profession where you're fixing things or fixing people, you're probably on a good path,'" Kress said.
NOVA has seen a decline in students in computer science, but a major uptick in health care, trades and education, she added.
"Students who come out ready to learn how to learn, to continually skill, re-skill, up-skill, cross-skill, they're going to be fine."
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In a View From the Top conversation, Holly Sullivan, vice president of worldwide economic development policy at Amazon, said AI should be viewed as a tool that will augment, rather than replace, how people work.
"It's about upskilling everyone to be able to not only utilize but deploy and understand AI," she said.
"We've had robotics in our facilities for many years … so we have evidence that AI and robotics do not replace people. They make people safer. They provide efficiencies and increase productivity."
Pope Leo XIV is expected to sign his first encyclical later this month, positioning artificial intelligence as the defining moral and labor challenge of a new industrial revolution.
Why it matters: The document, reportedly titled "Magnifica Humanitas" ("magnificent humanity"), would become the Catholic Church's clearest attempt yet to place human dignity, labor rights and ethics at the center of the AI race.
