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In January 2021, Nevada officials made an announcement that felt almost too good to be true. Every K-12 student learning remotely in the state, they said, now had a computer and an internet connection at home. For anyone who had spent the pandemic watching children crouch outside libraries with laptops…
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Paragraph 1: The story of AI and American elections has taken a troubling turn. Not long ago, experts were bracing for what they called the “first AI election.” In the run-up to 2024, a wave of warnings swept through Washington and Silicon Valley: generative AI might drown voters in deepfakes, fabricate evidence of fraud, and turbocharge foreign interference. Intelligence agencies declassified reports about overseas influence operations experimenting with the technology. Leading AI companies signed grand pledges to fight deceptive election content. Yet, as it turned out, foreign adversaries struggled to use AI effectively in that election, hampered by clumsy execution…
The political temperature in India’s opposition space rose sharply over the weekend as the Congress and the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) exchanged sharp words, exposing fresh fissures within the INDIA bloc just as the country gears up for what promises to be a fiercely contested electoral season. The CJP, a youth-led formation that has captured attention through aggressive street protests and a loud, unapologetic social media presence, is no longer content to be treated as a footnote in the opposition’s larger battle against the Bharatiya Janata Party. Its leaders, visibly irritated by what they see as the Congress’s patronizing attitude,…
