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A 76% donut gauge and a lit/dim region tag row (Europe, N. America lit; Latin America dim) illustrate how funder open-access mandates are spreading unevenly across the 26-million-paper dataset.
Latest 📈 Policy & Business

Three 2026 Reports Find Research-Funder Open-Access Mandates Spreading, but Adoption Still Splits Sharply by Region

Three 2026 reports — a 26-million-paper bibliometric study, a funder policy survey and a European Commission review — find open-access mandates from research funders multiplying worldwide, but compliance, infrastructure and indexing still lag sharply outside Europe, especially i…

EduFabTech · 4h ago · 4 min read
A stylized bacteriophage docking on a drug-resistant bacterium illustrates the new consensus guideline, backed by stats on its 60+ recommendations, 20 organizations and 18 expert authors.
🩺 Health Report

First International Consensus Guideline for Personalized Phage Therapy Published in Nature Medicine

An international working group coordinated by Germany's DGI has published the first consensus guideline for personalized bacteriophage ther…

EduFabTech · 4d ago · 4 min read
A ring of GPU nodes shows one rank failing and the process group reconfiguring in place instead of restarting, alongside key stats from the PyTorch 2.14 release.
🤖 Artificial Intelligence Report

PyTorch 2.14 Adds a Fault-Tolerant Distributed Backend and Native Linear Algebra for Apple Silicon

PyTorch 2.14 ships a preview NCCL backend that lets distributed training jobs survive a machine failure without a full restart, plus native…

EduFabTech · 19 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A reversing trend line shows the global out-of-school population falling by a third to 2015, then rising for a 7th straight year to 273 million in 2024.
🎓 Education Report

UNESCO's 2026 Monitoring Report Finds Out-of-School Numbers Rising for a Seventh Straight Year

UNESCO's 2026 Global Education Monitoring Report — the first in a new Countdown to 2030 series — finds 273 million children and youth were …

EduFabTech · 16 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A DNA double helix with a highlighted variant callout illustrates DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas, which precomputes effects for all 9 billion possible human DNA changes into a searchable, ~1-petabyte database.
🤖 Artificial Intelligence Report

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…

EduFabTech · 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
🤖 Artificial Intelligence Breaking Report

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…

EduFabTech · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
🤖 Artificial Intelligence Breaking Study

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…

EduFabTech · 12 Sep 2026 · 4 min read