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Emma Roth

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    Three California community colleges are spending up to $500K per year on AI chatbots that don’t work that well.

    The AI chatbots, which are supposed to help students with questions about financial aid and admissions, often answer “general questions correctly but struggled with more specific ones,” CalMatters reports. “East Los Angeles College’s bot couldn’t even correctly name its own president.”

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    Emma Roth
    Samsung is still planning to launch its first smart glasses in 2026.

    We still don’t know much about the AR glasses Samsung is building with Google, but Jay Kim, Samsung’s EVP of the company’s mobile division, tells CNBC the device will connect to your phone and have a built-in camera at “your eye level.”

    Kim added that Samsung aims to launch the product this year, echoing what the company said in January.

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    Emma Roth
    FCC Chair Brendan Carr is pushing for US-based call centers.

    Carr says the FCC will hold a vote this month on reforms to encourage companies to bring call centers to the US. The agency will also look into a proposal that would “require call takers to be proficient in American Standard English.”

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    Emma Roth
    FBI and Europol shut down LeakBase hacking forum.

    LeakBase had more than 142,000 members and a database containing “hundreds of millions” of stolen account credentials, according to the DOJ. US law enforcement worked with Europol to seize LeakBase’s data and take over two of its domains.

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