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A descending three-bar chart (2015→2022→2025) beside the headline shows OECD reading and maths scores hitting their lowest recorded levels, with the 28-point reading drop, 22-point maths drop, and "1 in 5 low performers" stats called out.
🎓 Education Report

PISA 2025: Reading and Maths Scores Fall to Record Lows Across the OECD

The OECD's PISA 2025 assessment of 760,000 15-year-olds in 91 countries found reading and mathematics scores at record lows, with one in fi…

Mustafa Pat · 1h ago · 4 min read
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is the First Model Rated "Critical" for Cyber Capability, but Rivals Match It Elsewhere
🤖 Artificial Intelligence Breaking Report

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…

Mustafa Pat · 13h ago · 4 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…

Mustafa Pat · 1d ago · 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…

Mustafa Pat · 1d ago · 4 min read
🤖 Artificial Intelligence Breaking Report

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…

Mustafa Pat · 2d ago · 4 min read