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NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School

New York City Public Schools is banning generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation's largest…

  • New York City bans AI use for students pre-K to 8th grade
  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced year-long AI study
  • Ban excludes high school students, offers AI literacy classes

Running Apple's On-Device AI From Flutter, With No API Key and No Server

Every "add AI to your Flutter app" tutorial ends the same way: get an API key, add a billing card, send the user's text to somebody else's server, and hope the latency is tolerable.

  • Apple's on-device AI capabilities in Flutter apps eliminate need for API keys and servers.
  • Schema-constrained structured output simplifies integration of AI features.
  • RoomScanController package enables LiDAR-based room scanning with structured geometry data.

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