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US House Passes Bill Forcing Large AI Data Centers to Pay Their Own Grid Costs
The US House voted 417-3 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, pushing state regulators to make large data centers cover their own grid-upg…
ILO's 2026 Youth Employment Report Finds Unemployment Rising in Most of the World's Subregions
The ILO's Global Employment Trends for Youth 2026 report found the global youth unemployment rate rising to 12.4% in 2025, with joblessness…
Two 2026 Surveys Show AI Use in Higher Education Nearly Doubling, With Guidance Lagging Behind
Two 2026 datasets — an OECD teacher survey and a 35-country higher-education poll — show AI use surging past the training, assessment redes…
DeepMind Publishes Precomputed Predictions for All 9 Billion Possible Human DNA Changes
Google DeepMind has published precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter human DNA changes in a new, searchable Alpha…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is the First Model Rated "Critical" for Cyber Capability, but Rivals Match It Elsewhere
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is the first model to cross the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under the company's own safety framework, discoveri…
More Than 25 Countries Sign UNESCO's AI-in-Education Statement, But Guidance Still Lags Behind Classroom Use
At UNESCO's Digital Learning Week 2026 in Paris, more than 25 education ministers signed a non-binding statement on AI in schools. UNESCO's…
Sakana AI Releases Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, Models That Orchestrate Other Models Instead of Being One
Sakana AI's Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 route tasks across pools of smaller, often open-weight models instead of relying on one large networ…
A Verified Version of SWE-Bench Pro Shows Coding Agents Were Reading Answers Off Git History
A new SWE-Bench Pro Verified benchmark closes git-history and web-lookup leaks that let coding agents fetch hidden solutions instead of sol…
DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash With a New Encoder-Decoder Architecture and MIT-Licensed Weights
DeepSeek's new 552-billion-parameter model splits prompt processing from response generation across separate encoder and decoder stacks, cu…