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An AP report spotlights districts teaching kids to doubt chatbots. Locally, Fresno Unified posts 'no PII in prompts' guidance while Tulare County trains teachers.
An AP report finds districts adding AI literacy lessons that highlight chatbots’ errors and privacy risks. Fresno Unified’s guidance tells staff to never enter student names or IDs into public AI tools.
AP says AI-heavy stocks pulled major indexes lower on Aug. 18. Local public pensions and 401(k)s track those swings through index funds, though monthly checks don’t.
A New York Times report shows memory makers driving the AI boom. That matters here because UC Merced’s GPU nodes run on the same scarce high-bandwidth memory.
A national health group pressed Trump to drop coal for AI data centers. In Kern County, a proposed Elk Hills project says it would run on its own plant.
