Different Prices for the Same Ride: How Uber and Lyft Use AI to Get More Money Out of You via @ConsumerReports

Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft use algorithmic pricing to give different consumers very different prices for the same rides.

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

Phone-Free Schools Movement | Protecting Student Well-Being

Join the Phone-Free Schools Movement to create healthier, more focused school days. We help schools implement bell-to-bell phone-free policies that boost learning, safety, and student well-being.

'Life needs to be more like this': Some bars and restaurants are going phone free

It's not just schools that are banning cellphones. Some bars and restaurants are joining the offline trend.

Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.

I went to an underground phone-free party in Brooklyn, and it’s nothing like I expected.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.

It’s Back. Congress Gears Up for Year-End Fight Over Moratorium on AI Laws. | TechPolicy.Press

A proposed federal moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws failed last summer, but lawmakers have resurrected the idea, writes Cristiano Lima-Strong.