Alpha School co-founder Mackenzie Price and a junior at the school Elle Kristine join'Fox & Friends' to discuss the benefits of incorporating artificial intelligence into the classroom. At a time when many American students are struggling to keep up, a private school in Texas is doing more with less, much less. At Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day in class, guided by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tutor. But results are impressive: students are testing in the top 1 to 2% nationally. "We use an AI tutor and adaptive apps to provide a completely personalized learning experience," said Alpha co-founder MacKenzie Price during an interview on Fox & Friends.

There's a catch: the author, genre-defining mystery writer Agatha Christie, died 50 years ago, and was thus unavailable to participate. Instead, BBC Maestro used an actress and artificial intelligence to recreate Christie, drawing from the author's own novels, interviews, and letters for the course material. The creators describe the effort as a "world-first," and the "Agatha Christie On Writing" masterclass is available now. Almost as soon as the course launched, critics accused the BBC of making an Agatha Christie "deepfake." Meanwhile, BBC Maestro wants to emphasize the participation of the Christie estate and their high esteem for the late author.

US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria spent several hours grilling lawyers from both sides after they each filed motions for partial summary judgment, meaning they want Chhabria to rule on specific issues of the case rather than leaving each one to be decided at trial. The authors allege that Meta illegally used their work to build its generative AI tools, emphasizing that the company pirated their books through "shadow libraries" like LibGen. Kadrey v. Meta is one of the dozens of lawsuits filed against AI companies that are winding through the US legal system. While the authors were heavily focused on the piracy element of the case, Chhabria spoke emphatically about his belief that the big question is whether Meta's AI tools will hurt book sales and otherwise cause the authors to lose money. "If you are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work, and you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person to use their work to create the product that's destroying the market for their work--I just don't understand how that can be fair use," he told Meta lawyer Kannon Shanmugam.

Google today updated AI Mode, making it a better fit for planning your summer vacation, shopping trip, or learning more about any topic. Plus, if you're interested in trying the tool, access to it just got a lot easier. Google's new AI Mode takes Search's real-time information access and combines it with the best generative AI capabilities -- such as longer natural queries and personalized answers -- to create an AI search engine experience. It is especially helpful for nuanced questions with many criteria, like shopping and trip planning. Also: New Google Labs experiments help you learn new languages in'bite-sized' lessons "We are really enabling, helping you shop and seek local businesses, and plan your travel much better," said Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, the director of Search product management, to ZDNET.

Final exams are stressful for students, requiring intense studying and long nights. However, AI can help ease the load. Since generative AI first surged in popularity, the technology has typically received a bad rap in the education sector, with many believing it threatens academic standards and integrity. However, AI can also be a great assistant capable of helping students optimize their studying. This is especially true as AI tools become better and smarter.

TL;DR: Sterling Stock Picker is an AI-powered Stock guidance tool to help you invest your money, and it's only A 108 for life. When you're first starting out, investing can feel a bit like gambling. You throw your money down, and it's a crapshoot whether you'll get more back or lose it all. Thing is, that's not actually how the stock market works. If you do your research, you can learn how to reduce your risk and make better investments, whether that means they're safer or there's more room to grow.

Google said Thursday that it has begun migrating its "AI Mode" out of its experimental Labs effort and into the real world. Google said that a "small percentage of people" in the "coming weeks" will see what Google calls AI Mode, or entirely AI-generated responses to queries that users ask. It's Google's response to services like Anthropic, which "answer" queries using AI, which slurps up and regurgitates answers that others have already provided. Google first began revamping its search algorithm in 2023, when it started aggregating AI-powered summaries of say, the best laptops. AI has been used elsewhere by Google services like Chrome to sum up web pages, as well.

AI Mode in Google Search is one step closer to public launch now that the waitlist has been removed for U.S. users. In an announcement on Thursday, Google shared that all users over 18 years old can now opt in to trying out AI Mode in Labs, the company's testing ground for new AI features. Google calls AI mode a "new Search experiment that uses advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities to answer even your toughest questions." Google also shared that it's introducing "product and place cards" within the responses for up-to-date information, including images, ratings, reviews, store hours, and availability. For the uninitiated, AI Mode is Google's search feature that combines the Gemini chatbot experience with search results.

Amazon is kicking off the month of May with some pretty impressive deals on top brands like Garmin, Echo, and Bowflex. These are just deals for the sake of deals -- and those are our favorite kind. In a time when everything is getting more expensive, it's a thrill to see brands actually lowering prices. We've rounded up some discounts we think are worth grabbing. Here are our top picks for the best Amazon deals of the day on May 1.

Have you ever wanted a mobile device designed solely to scan your eyeballs? No, that sounds a little creepy? Tools for Humanity, a start-up backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, debuted the Orb Mini this week, a smartphone-sized device with two massive eye sensors on it. The hardware is part of the World project and app, a grand plan aimed at creating a global identification system. The idea is that these sensors, paired with a blockchain registry, could serve as a tool for verifying someone's humanity.