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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters Students don’t have the same incentives to talk to their professors — or even their classmates — anymore. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude have given them a new path to self-sufficiency. Instead of asking a professor for help on a paper topic, students can...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Un punto a favor para los niños de 4 años. Gracias a un ataque incesante de súplicas, halagos, cabildeo y presión pública, Head Start parece haber esquivado el hacha del presupuesto federal, por el momento. El mes pasado, el borrador preliminar del presupuesto del presidente Donald...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Chalk one up for the 4-year-olds. Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being. Last month, President Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of Head Start,...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Uno de cada tres estadounidenses tradicionalmente espera hasta el 15 de abril para presentar su declaración de impuestos. Los residentes de San Francisco y San José, California, ocupan un lugar destacado en la lista nacional de “procrastinadores fiscales”. En una encuesta estatal, California ocupa...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media One out of every 3 Americans traditionally wait until April 15 to file their taxes. Residents of San Francisco and San Jose, California rank high on the list of national “tax procrastinators.” In a survey of states, California ranks 13 with the number of tax procrastinators,...
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Sergio Olmos & Wendy Fry CalMatters Había silencio en la frontera. Un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza llamado James Lee estaba estacionado en la sombra junto a una valla de 9 metros en Calexico. Las ventanillas de su camioneta estaban subidas; el motor hacía ese ruido cuando está parado mucho tiempo...
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Sergio Olmos & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was quiet on the border. A Border Patrol agent named James Lee was parked in the shade next to a 30-foot fence in Calexico. The windows of his SUV were rolled up, the engine making that noise when it’s idle for a...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters Durante la pandemia, Jon Siapno, un veterano consejero universitario y profesional del Área de la Bahía, comenzó a desarrollar un chatbot que pudiera responder las preguntas de los estudiantes de secundaria sobre sus futuras opciones educativas. Estaba usando Watson, el precursor de preguntas y respuestas...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters During the pandemic, longtime Bay Area college and career counselor Jon Siapno started developing a chatbot that could answer high schoolers’ questions about their future education options. He was using IBM’s question-answering precursor to ChatGPT, Watson, but when generative artificial intelligence became accessible, he knew...