Comp Ai

Two-year study shows banning AI in classrooms leaves students with worst performance: A law professor's two-year study compared the effects of an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured AI training on student performance. The student group banned from using AI finished last in both years of the study, disproving the researcher's initial assumption that unguided AI use would cause harm.

AI Applications • The Decoder

Perry Weather • Series C

Perry Weather raises $110 million in Series C funding led by Silversmith: Dallas-based weather monitoring software provider Perry Weather has raised a $110 million Series C funding round led by Silversmith Capital Partners. This latest investment brings the company's total funding to approximately $131 million.

OpenAI • OpenAI

Sam Altman rules out OpenAI public offering in 2026: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed during an interview with Fortune that the company will not go public in 2026, calling such a move ill-advised. During the interview, Altman also discussed recursive self-improvement, a recent Hugging Face hacking incident, and AI safety controls.

GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI advises developers to use leaner prompts for GPT-6 Astra