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NYC will disable AI in 38 school tech contracts and ban student-facing chatbots through 8th grade, in what Mayor Mamdani calls the nation's broadest school AI moratorium.

Google rolled out Pics, an AI image generator and editor built natively into Workspace, powered by its Nano Banana model and aimed at Canva- and Adobe Express-style design tasks.

Debian Developers began voting on eight rival LLM-usage proposals August 15, after a corrected ballot replaced the project secretary's first call for votes.

Bank of America has enhanced EricaAssist, the AI agent used by more than 18,000 customer service representatives, with generative AI that delivers guidance in under three seconds.

GCC's Steering Committee will decline copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, carving out exceptions for small changes and test cases.

Debian has opened a General Resolution with four competing proposals on AI-assisted contributions, from an outright ban to conditional acceptance, with no vote date set yet.

Codeberg e.V. members voted 358-144 to prohibit AI-generated 'vibe-coded' projects and to commit that Codeberg will never train AI on hosted code, citing soaring hardware costs and community trust.

OpenAI is extending Codex into finance and legal work, weeks after Anthropic expanded Claude for Legal with 12 plugins and 20-plus integrations.

Spotify and UMG announced a licensing deal enabling Premium users to create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists' songs, with revenue shared back to rights holders.

Roblox unveiled an agentic upgrade to its Studio Assistant on April 16, adding a Planning Mode, natural-language Mesh Generation, code-driven Procedural Models, and a playtesting agent that reads logs and uses inputs to find bugs.

UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley told investors the insurer will spend roughly $1.5 billion on AI in 2026, with a target of 2:1 returns, even as the STAT+ investigation puts the total bet at $3 billion and questions what the shift means for patients.

Voice AI company ElevenLabs has released ElevenMusic, a free iOS app that lets users generate up to seven songs per day using text prompts, marking the company's entry into the competitive AI music generation market following its $500 million funding round at an $11 billion valuation.