California Colleges Spend Millions on Faulty AI Systems as Chatbots Become Outdated

The Markup reports that California colleges have spent millions of dollars on AI systems that may be faulty, underperforming, or already outdated. The article focuses on campus deployments such as chatbots and examines the gap between procurement promises, vendor capabilities, maintenance requirements, and the use of public funds. The available metadata confirms the headline and source, but does not provide the article’s detailed cases, contract values, evaluation methods, or institutional responses. Those specifics should be verified against the original report before drawing broader conclusions about higher-education AI procurement.