Technology

There is talk from several of the law enforcement agencies pausing their use for the Florida legislature and other groups to enact regulations before bringing the surveillance technology back into use.

The company will make what were once optional guardrails mandatory. Among them: Law enforcement customers will have to implement an audit tool intended to flag abnormal search behavior.

Alpha School, an AI-powered private school model, advertised opening a K-8 campus in Tampa in the fall of the 2025-2026 school year.

Pasco and Hillsborough district leaders say they want to reduce excessive technology use, so that it enhances rather than displaces hands-on learning.

A college professor never gave up searching for answers to a chronic condition many doctors didn’t recognize. After finally receiving a diagnosis, she created a tool to help others with similar symptoms.

Jude Odu, a health technology expert and former United Healthcare employee, discusses the dangers of outsourcing medical claims decisions to artificial intelligence.

Rovex has an office at St. Petersburg-based incubator spARK Labs by ARK Invest.

With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps — with little evidence they work and few regulations.

Gallup found that people often use AI chatbots for quick answers, additional information or research before or after seeing a doctor. However, concerns about accuracy and privacy persist.

Local and national media experts at a recent forum warned that, in the age of AI, emotionally charged and false content spreads significantly faster on the internet than accurate information.

A revolt is afoot in both red and blue states against the use of artificial intelligence in health insurance determinations — and against efforts led by President Donald Trump to tie states’ hands.

The findings reflect the commercial boom that ChatGPT sparked for artificial intelligence tools that can write emails and computer code, summarize long documents or help answer questions.