It's Thursday in New York City, where strict limits or outright bans on most uses of artificial intelligence are in effect across the public school system.
But students say they've noticed teachers and administrators using AI for slideshows, quizzes, posters and schoolwide emails.
And at one high school, students were met with a particularly unsettling change: A large, AI-generated poster of their school mascot, a hawk, is now hanging.
"Me and a lot of my friends were like, 'This sucks. We don't want this up here,'" said 17-year-old senior Juno Hayes.
More than 1 million New Yorkers have left the state since 2010, in part because of the high cost of living. A new podcast series by WNYC and Gothamist called "New York State of Unaffordability" examines why, starting with a look at the childcare affordability crisis and what the candidates for governor say they'll do about it.
Police have arrested the man they say pushed a 23-year-old mother and their 8-month-old baby girl from a Bronx balcony, killing the woman and leaving the baby in critical condition.
The MTA said it's moving forward with a $1.1 billion plan to eventually install modern sliding-door fare gatesat 150 subway stations.
A Peruvian man at the heart of the summer’s protests at the Delaney Hall federal immigration detention center in Newark was released from ICE custody this week.
New York's biggest rock band, Geese, is made up of kids who met and formed under the auspices of two institutions: The Park Slope Rock School (no relation to the School of Rock, confusingly), and the School of Rock.
The death of a 71-year-old man who fell from his bike on East Drive while trying to avoid an off-leash dog highlights the growing chaos on the park's 6-mile loop.
