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- 1Tutoring company tells parents to use AI instead●Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
An Australian tutoring company is advising parents to stop paying for tutoring and use AI tools instead, telling families to save their money. The advice, reported by the Australian Financial Review, is drawing debate about whether AI chatbots can genuinely replace personalised teaching, and about a tutoring business undercutting its own industry.
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A new commentary argues that schools redesigning assignments to be 'AI-proof' are chasing the wrong goal. Rather than trying to outsmart chatbots, educators should rethink what and why students are assessed at all, the piece contends. It has struck a chord in ongoing debates among teachers and academics about how classrooms should adapt to generative AI tools.
- 3AI chatbots often wrong on financial questions, report finds●AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
A Financial Times report says AI chatbots give incorrect answers to financial questions most of the time, raising concerns about consumers relying on them for money advice. Readers are debating how unreliable large language models are for financial planning, whether providers should restrict such queries, and what the findings mean for regulators and fintech firms promoting AI assistants.
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Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, is drawing attention for operating a biology lab, raising questions about why an artificial intelligence developer would run wet-lab experiments. Observers suggest the facility may be used to test whether AI models can assist or pose risks in biological research, a growing safety concern as AI capabilities expand into the life sciences.