🏫 Norway restricts AI use in schools

🏦 Lloyds hires 300 AI staff, hints at job cuts

🎬 Amazon drops nearly finished Sam Altman film

📱 Old iPhones get an unfixable security flaw

🤖 Hyundai buys the rest of Boston Dynamics

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Norway is largely barring generative AI for pupils aged 6 to 13 from late August, citing a risk that children skip foundational learning. Teens 14 to 16 may use it only under teacher supervision, and 17-plus students are encouraged to use it.

The move follows declining national test scores and mirrors Norway's 2024 smartphone ban. The government also plans to fund more physical books in classrooms, reversing a decades-long shift toward tablets, and wants to bar under-16s from social media.

Norway's earlier smartphone ban cut bullying, lifted grades, and dropped psychologist visits about 60%, especially for girls. A school-hours AI rule does nothing about what kids do at home, though.

Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting 300 tech experts to build and run agentic AI by September, joining a planned 1,000-strong AI team. The push comes weeks before CEO Charlie Nunn unveils a new multi-year strategy.

The recruits will work on fraud detection, internal document search, and a more personal app that lets customers ask plain-language money questions. They will deploy models like Anthropic's Claude and build on Google's Gemini.

Generative AI added £50m to Lloyds last year, and the bank expects £100m this year. It won't rule out future job cuts, echoing Standard Chartered, which announced 7,000 cuts last month.

Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished film "Artificial," which stars Andrew Garfield as Altman and dramatizes the chaotic 2023 days when OpenAI's board fired him and then rehired him.

The decision came down from Amazon studio chief Mike Hopkins, four months after Amazon committed $50 billion to OpenAI in a partnership expanding the lab's use of Amazon Web Services. Puck broke the news Friday.

Test screenings reportedly went well, but insiders say the film portrays Altman and Musk as its least likable characters. Shelving a movie about your new $50 billion partner makes the timing hard to ignore.

Researchers at Paradigm Shift published usbliter8, an exploit in the boot code of Apple's A12 and A13 chips that no software update can fix. It covers the iPhone XS through iPhone 11, plus some iPads and Apple Watches.

The flaw lives in a USB controller bug that lets an attacker write to off-limits memory and run code before iOS loads. A11 and A14-and-later chips handle that memory correctly, leaving A12 and A13 in a vulnerable middle.

An attacker needs physical access, a cable, and DFU mode, so this isn't remote. It also doesn't crack the Secure Enclave, meaning your passcode and encrypted data stay safe. The only real fix is a newer phone.

Hyundai Motor Group is buying SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, making the Waltham, Massachusetts robotics firm a wholly owned subsidiary. Hyundai's board is expected to approve the deal on June 22.

The sale follows a put option SoftBank kept when Hyundai took control in 2021. Hyundai paid about $880 million for 80% back then, valuing the company near $1.1 billion, and group affiliates already hold over 90%.

Hyundai plans to put a production Atlas humanoid to work at its Georgia EV plant by 2028. Owning the factories and the robot maker means Hyundai doesn't have to hunt for its first customer.

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