A $57,590 Robot Was Supposed to Transform Learning. Instead, It Triggered a Backlash

The move raises concerns about the lack of tested evidence and community support for such an initiative.

The move raises concerns about the lack of tested evidence and community support for such an initiative.
Legacy Edge Advisors, a Syosset, N.Y.-based registered investment advisor with $1.2 billion in client assets, has hired Christopher Weyrauch as its first CEO. Weyrauch had been head of wealth management at Citizens Financial Group from 2021 to 2024, a role he took after a 28-year run at TIAA, where he was the last CEO and…
Nick Reiner, 32, faces two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the December 2025 killings of his parents, acclaimed filmmaker Rob Reiner and philanthropist Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges and remains in custody. A separate legal battle has simultaneously unfolded over his access…
It protects liquidity, manages risk and ensures that businesses can continue to operate through periods of uncertainty. Yet the past 12 months have underscored how quickly the risk landscape can change. Treasurers have had to navigate shifting tariff regimes, conflicts in the Middle East that have disrupted key shipping routes, continued supply chain reconfiguration away…
Baig says that if the Bank of Canada decides that the impacts on unemployment and GDP growth are more severe than the pressure on inflation, they may cut rates and that would signal a drop in CAD. He notes, though, that the BoC has made no noise to that effect so far. He also notes,…
October NY world sugar #11 (SBV26) closed down -0.63 (-3.46%) on Friday, and October London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV26) closed down -9.90 (-1.89%). Sugar prices gave up an early advance on Friday and sold off sharply, as weakness in the Brazilian real prompted long liquidation in sugar futures. The real (^USDBRL) fell to a…
New York City’s public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using generative artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday.The one-year moratorium — part of a broader assessment of how children in the nation’s largest school system interact with the technology — will apply to “all…