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Three numbers — 14%, 86%, 13% — anchor how the International Labour Organization frames the future of work. On its Skills and Lifelong Learning portal, the ILO sets out a compact: governments craft forward-looking rules, schools go digital, employers invest in people, and workers commit to learning throughout their careers. Read together, those figures point […]
TERC has launched TERC Tech Talks, a video podcast built to help educators, parents, and practitioners make sense of fast-emerging AI tools and learning technologies, the nonprofit says on its site. The research group, long known for math and science education work, is framing the series as practical guidance for real classrooms, not marketing demos […]
Serbian-founded media startup Astute has raised $1.2 million to automate B2B creator partnerships with a pair of AI agents, a move that signals where distribution is heading as ad channels crowd. Vestbee reports the oversubscribed pre-seed includes Flyer One Ventures, Silicon Gardens, Marathon Fund, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, alongside strategic angels. The company says its […]
An analysis of 975 sources in a 4,688-article corpus finds the term “AI literacy” drifting from skills-building to citizen self‑defense. According to AI News Social, fewer than one in five sources frame citizens as active participants who can shape AI rules; most teach how to duck harm—spot the deepfake, ignore the scam, survive the feed. […]
On August 17, 2026, Debevoise & Plimpton added two AI-focused counsel — Mari Grace in New York and Kendall Howell in Washington, D.C. — to its Data Strategy & Security practice, according to the firm’s press release. The Debevoise AI hires pair litigation and investigations expertise with financial services governance, and they’re tasked with advancing […]
On August 17, 2026, the University of Alabama said a UA-led team will build an artificial intelligence system to sift vast physics datasets after winning Phase 1 support under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission. The UA AI physics tool was highlighted by the school as one of 278 projects selected from more than […]
On August 17, 2026, The Guardian reported that a report used to support Australia’s proposed teen social media ban contained links to academic articles that do not exist, raising concerns of Australia AI hallucinations in the evidence base. The authors denied that any references were generated by AI, according to The Guardian’s account of the […]
On August 16, 2026, Kyowa Kirin selected Cognizant and Benchling to roll out an AI-enabled R&D platform across its Tokyo and Fuji Research Parks in Japan. According to StockTitan, the Cognizant Benchling partnership will centralize experiment planning, execution, data capture, and AI use under a single contract, with Cognizant delivering setup, migration, implementation, and ongoing […]
Four fresh papers on the Feedzai research page point to a clear direction: faster risk scoring with clearer outputs for investigators and auditors. The mix—uncertainty handling, causal discovery on irregular time series, low-latency feature engines, and AML visualization—reads like a roadmap for real-time payments and compliance pressure converging. What the papers say—and what that signals […]
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