Meta Platforms’ former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was sanctioned by a judge on Tuesday for deleting emails related to litigation over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, despite being told to preserve the messages. The judge, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster, of Delaware Chancery Court, said evidence showed Sandberg […]
Meta Platforms’ former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was sanctioned by a judge on Tuesday for deleting emails related to litigation over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, despite being told to preserve the messages. The judge, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster, of Delaware Chancery Court, said evidence showed Sandberg used a personal account under a pseudonym and erased messages that were likely relevant to the shareholder lawsuit.
The sanction will make it harder for Sandberg to tell her side of the story and avoid liability at the eight-day, non-jury trial scheduled for April. The judge also ordered her to pay the expenses related to the sanctions motion incurred by the shareholders, which include California’s huge teachers’ retirement system known as CalSTRS.
“Because Sandberg selectively deleted items from her Gmail account, it is likely that the most sensitive and probative exchanges are gone,” Laster wrote in his opinion published on Tuesday. Meta and an attorney for Sandberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sandberg had argued she was forthcoming about the personal account and rarely used it for business and when she did, others were copied on the messages so the information was preserved. Laster imposed a higher standard of “clear and convincing evidence,” rather than “preponderance” of evidence, for Sandberg’s affirmative defenses, which are her arguments and evidence for why she should not be held liable. The case was brought in 2018, when it emerged that Facebook allowed data from millions of users to be accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that worked for Donald Trump’s successful campaign for U.S. president in 2016. Shareholders sued the company’s directors and officers for allegedly harming investors by continually violating a 2012 consent order with the Federal Trade Commission to protect users’ data. Shareholders also allege the company’s board bargained to pay a larger fine of $5 billion to the FTC in 2019 so that founder Mark Zuckerberg would not have personal accountability. Zuckerberg is expected to be deposed for a second time before the start of the trial, according to court records. In 2023, Laster refused to dismiss the lawsuit, which he said was a “case involving alleged wrongdoing on a truly colossal scale.” Shareholders also asked Laster to sanction Jeffrey Zients, who was former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff and who also used and deleted personal emails when he was on Meta’s board. The judge said that Zients’ messages were less pertinent because he joined the Meta board in 2018, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and was not a company officer.
When you roll your future TV out of sight into a little box, thank LG Display. (Well they had the competitive help of Samsung also going after this, and both of these companies use TRIZ to come up with these systems - too bad other companies aren't savvy in this way as they too could bring awesome new designs to the world). The leader in big-screen OLED manufacturing, not satisfied to debut the first 88-inch 8K OLED TV, will show off another world's first at CES: a 65-inch 4K OLED display that's, get this, rollable. Although some concept big-screen TVs shown at past CES shows have been bendy, this is the first one that's flexible enough to spin up into tube form. LG's images depict it descending into a little box the size of a sound bar, but the company also talks about making the display portable. The secret, as usual, is its paper-thin organic light emitting diode display (OLED).
Research increasingly shows a variety of habits and hobbies offer a helpful cognitive workout. One recent study linked lifelong learning — things like reading, learning another language, playing chess — to slower cognitive decline, even postponing Alzheimer's for a few years.
Research increasingly shows a variety of habits and hobbies offer a helpful cognitive workout. One recent study linked lifelong learning — things like reading, learning another language, playing chess — to slower cognitive decline, even postponing Alzheimer's for a few years. These activities act as a "cognitive workout" stretching the brain and forcing it to use different cognitive systems, helping to maintain brain health and postpone the onset of dementia. Key Takeaways are: --> Diverse Activities: It's not about one single task, but finding meaningful hobbies you are passionate about, such as reading, writing, learning a language, or playing chess --> Hands-on Engagement: Activities like art or crafting that require using your hands provide different cognitive stimulation than reading alone and foster community engagement. --> Social & Physical Connection: Combining cognitive activities with physical exercise and social engagement provides maximum protection for the brain
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave his most honest interview yet. 10 lessons from 68 minutes on human-level AI, why he left OpenAI, what jobs survive, and where the next investment wave begins.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave his most honest interview yet. 10 lessons from 68 minutes on human-level AI, why he left OpenAI, what jobs survive, and where the next investment wave begin
Quest Diagnostics is launching a chatbot tailored for laboratory test results as it seeks to allow patients the ability to get a handle on their findings and perform deeper dives on their own healt | Quest Diagnostics is launching a chatbot tailored for laboratory test results as it seeks to give patients the ability to get a handle on their findings and perform deeper dives on their own health.
Quest Diagnostics is launching a chatbot tailored for laboratory test results as it seeks to allow patients the ability to get a handle on their findings and perform deeper dives on their own healt | Quest Diagnostics is launching a chatbot tailored for laboratory test results as it seeks to give patients the ability to get a handle on their findings and perform deeper dives on their own health.
Salesforce is building out its library of pre-wired artificial intelligence agents to take on manual, administrative work on behalf of payers, providers and public health organizations. | Salesforce is building out its library of pre-wired AI agents to take on manual, administrative work on behalf of payers, providers and public health organizations.
Salesforce is building out its library of pre-wired artificial intelligence agents to take on manual, administrative work on behalf of payers, providers and public health organizations. | Salesforce is building out its library of pre-wired AI agents to take on manual, administrative work on behalf of payers, providers and public health organizations.
Very useful PDF download - Includes research findings from 12 studies - The Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI - How will the role of a teacher evolve in a world transformed by AI? https://www.ed3global.org/portraitofateacher Very useful PDF download - Includes research findings from 12 studies - The Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI - How will the role of a teacher evolve in a world transformed by AI? https://www.ed3global.org/portraitofateacher
Very useful PDF download - Includes research findings from 12 studies - The Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI - How will the role of a teacher evolve in a world transformed by AI? https://www.ed3global.org/portraitofateacher
The DfE published its updated Generative AI Product Safety Standards on 19 January 2026. They are, in principle, exactly what education needed. Guardrails for AI in schools. Protections for children. A clear statement that developers can't just ship consumer AI into classrooms and hope for the best. And overnight, they've made the AI tools most…
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.close
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.close
Quiet quit your TEFL job? Here's how to fall back in love with teaching using Action Research - turn your classroom into a laboratory and rediscover curiosity.
Until a few months ago, for the vast majority of people, “using AI” meant talking to a chatbot in a back-and-forth conversation. But over the past few months, it has become practical to use AI as an agent: you can assign them to a task and they do them, using tools as appropriate. Because of this change, you have to consider three things when deciding what AI to use: Models, Apps, and Harnesses.
Until a few months ago, for the vast majority of people, “using AI” meant talking to a chatbot in a back-and-forth conversation. But over the past few months, it has become practical to use AI as an agent: you can assign them to a task and they do them, using tools as appropriate. Because of this change, you have to consider three things when deciding what AI to use: Models, Apps, and Harnesses. - Worth some of your time to get a better understanding of what you are using or should use.
Why you should not use VSMs (Value Stream Mapping) to try and find the bottleneck in your factory. VSM is a powerful and widely used tool. It can be used to improve the speed and efficiency of the production of one product. But is is not the right tool to identify the bottleneck or capacity constraint in a production system. This short video explains why.
Learn why and how teachers can use generative AI to streamline lesson planning, personalize explanations, and automate retrieval practice—without losing instructional control.
Learn why and how teachers can use generative AI to streamline lesson planning, personalize explanations, and automate retrieval practice—without losing instructional control.
Following a privacy-preserving framework, an open-source platform allows for continuous monitoring of a wide range of smartphone-based signals, including moment-by-moment capture of screenshots, application usage logs, interaction histories and phone sensor readings.
Following a privacy-preserving framework, an open-source platform allows for continuous monitoring of a wide range of smartphone-based signals, including moment-by-moment capture of screenshots, application usage logs, interaction histories and phone sensor readings.
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. -- Read the full article at: www.noemamag.com (Via Complexity Digest)
Perché la coscienza è più probabilmente una proprietà della vita che del calcolo e perché creare un'intelligenza artificiale cosciente, o anche solo apparentemente cosciente, è una cattiva idea.
Researchers tested whether generative AI could handle complex medical datasets as well as human experts. In some cases, the AI matched or outperformed teams that had spent months building prediction models. By generating usable analytical code from precise prompts, the systems dramatically reduced the time needed to process health data. The findings hint at a future where AI helps scientists move faster from data to discovery.
Researchers tested whether generative AI could handle complex medical datasets as well as human experts. In some cases, the AI matched or outperformed teams that had spent months building prediction models. By generating usable analytical code from precise prompts, the systems dramatically reduced the time needed to process health data. The findings hint at a future where AI helps scientists move faster from data to discovery.
These AI guidelines for teachers, now with checklists, are part of a series of steps designed to address that gap. The British Council is committed to supporting teachers with the skills, tools and resources they need for managing their classrooms and keeping up to date with key developments. These AI guidelines offer principles to help teachers make responsible choices when using AI in teaching or for continuing professional development. While primarily designed for English language teachers, these guidelines may also be useful for other subject teachers in English-medium education. We hope the guidelines are a valuable resource for teachers, empowering them to take an informed, ethical and context-specific approach to integrating AI into their teaching.
These AI guidelines for teachers, now with checklists, are part of a series of steps designed to address that gap. The British Council is committed to supporting teachers with the skills, tools and resources they need for managing their classrooms and keeping up to date with key developments. These AI guidelines offer principles to help teachers make responsible choices when using AI in teaching or for continuing professional development. While primarily designed for English language teachers, these guidelines may also be useful for other subject teachers in English-medium education. We hope the guidelines are a valuable resource for teachers, empowering them to take an informed, ethical and context-specific approach to integrating AI into their teaching.
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Meta Platforms’ former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was sanctioned by a judge on Tuesday for deleting emails related to litigation over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, despite being told to preserve the messages. The judge, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster, of Delaware Chancery Court, said evidence showed Sandberg used a personal account under a pseudonym and erased messages that were likely relevant to the shareholder lawsuit.
The sanction will make it harder for Sandberg to tell her side of the story and avoid liability at the eight-day, non-jury trial scheduled for April. The judge also ordered her to pay the expenses related to the sanctions motion incurred by the shareholders, which include California’s huge teachers’ retirement system known as CalSTRS.
“Because Sandberg selectively deleted items from her Gmail account, it is likely that the most sensitive and probative exchanges are gone,” Laster wrote in his opinion published on Tuesday. Meta and an attorney for Sandberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sandberg had argued she was forthcoming about the personal account and rarely used it for business and when she did, others were copied on the messages so the information was preserved. Laster imposed a higher standard of “clear and convincing evidence,” rather than “preponderance” of evidence, for Sandberg’s affirmative defenses, which are her arguments and evidence for why she should not be held liable. The case was brought in 2018, when it emerged that Facebook allowed data from millions of users to be accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that worked for Donald Trump’s successful campaign for U.S. president in 2016. Shareholders sued the company’s directors and officers for allegedly harming investors by continually violating a 2012 consent order with the Federal Trade Commission to protect users’ data. Shareholders also allege the company’s board bargained to pay a larger fine of $5 billion to the FTC in 2019 so that founder Mark Zuckerberg would not have personal accountability. Zuckerberg is expected to be deposed for a second time before the start of the trial, according to court records. In 2023, Laster refused to dismiss the lawsuit, which he said was a “case involving alleged wrongdoing on a truly colossal scale.” Shareholders also asked Laster to sanction Jeffrey Zients, who was former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff and who also used and deleted personal emails when he was on Meta’s board. The judge said that Zients’ messages were less pertinent because he joined the Meta board in 2018, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and was not a company officer.