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A Brookline mother and daughter joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about their experience with limiting screentime. It comes as Beacon Hill looks to push a bill that would ban K-12 public school students from accessing their cellphones at schools across Massachusetts.

New England has dozens of small data centers like this, some of them decades old. With the increasing use of artificial intelligence, these facilities could get upgraded to handle AI computing.

Hasbro, the toymaker behind G.I. Joe, My Little Pony and Monopoly, is relocating to Boston's Seaport after more than 100 years in Rhode Island.

Under the second Trump administration, Massachusetts scientists have lost billions in funding, and curtailed more than a dozen clinical trials in the state. Ahead of the midterms, many scientists hope a new Congress will restore stability to federal support and get grant money out the door.

The number of universities nationwide offering an AI undergraduate major in a computing department now exceeds 100, according to a database maintained by Northeastern University researchers. Massachusetts institutions are part of the growth.

MIT Media Lab composer Tod Machover’s “already and not yet” puts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in dialogue with a live AI system that responds to each musician's performance. Even players wary of AI say this one leaves the music in human hands.

In much of the country, the AI boom is driving the construction of hyperscale data centers. Not so much in New England. But change is coming. Here's how some in the region are preparing.

Families can stay at the home for one week for free, with no agenda.

Towns and cities across the region are using tools of local control to slow or stop data center development within their borders.

Low, 67, plans to stay on the job until the end of June 2027 and announced the decision in an email to staff Tuesday. She will join WBUR’s Board of Directors the following fall.