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The educator-controlled system lets teachers create course-specific AI agents for feedback, simulations and problem-solving, following use across Sydney courses and nursing trials in New Zealand Professor Danny Liu, architect of the Cogniti AI education platform. Credit: University of Sydney The University of Sydney has launched its Cogniti AI education platform on Microsoft Marketplac e, extendi…

Research covering 19 international standards bodies finds UK strengths in services and telecoms but weaker representation in hardware, semiconductors, and other foundational technologies. Aston Business School-led research calls for greater UK participation in global standards covering AI, semiconductors, 5G, and 6G Aston Business School -led research has called for a UK Standards Participation F…

The Gemini -based research system matched primary care physicians overall across 100 simulated multi-visit cases but remains outside clinical use. Google Research and Google DeepMind have tested AMIE's ability to manage health conditions across multiple simulated patient appointments. Google Research and Google DeepMind have extended the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) from one-of…

Active Minds, the California Behavioral Health Association, and Child Mind Institute will run projects covering mental health literacy, community resilience, and digital support tools. Second-grade students take part in digital safety games at a Google.org and Highlights for Children event in Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Google.org Google.org has increased its US digital wellbeing fund to more than $5…

A coalition including OpenAI , Google , Microsoft , Arm , and Mastercard will develop open specifications for assessing evidence across the AI supply chain. The Appia Foundation will develop open specifications to support consistent assessment and evidence sharing across the global AI value chain. The Linux Foundation has formed the Appia Foundation to develop open specifications for assessing wh…

The benchmark uses 750 expert-authored tasks to assess scientific reasoning, data interpretation and research decisions across life science workflows. LifeSciBench tests how AI systems perform across applied life science research tasks, including analysis, experimental design and evidence handling. OpenAI has introduced LifeSciBench, a benchmark designed to test whether AI systems can handle rese…

Sixteen professors across 14 US law schools rated AI responses more highly than faculty-written answers and flagged them as harmful less often in a study of first-year contracts tutoring . A Stanford-led study found that law professors preferred AI-generated answers in about 75% of blind comparisons with responses written by fellow instructors. A Stanford University -led study has found that law …

The three-day event will give approved participants access to modular electronics for building AI systems that use sensors, cameras, motors and other physical components. Axiometa and Anthropic are accepting registration requests for a London embodied AI hardware hackathon running from July 17 to 19 Axiometa and Anthropic have opened registration for a London hardware hackathon focused on embodie…

The June 22 event will give selected founders and developers access to product demonstrations, technical workshops and OpenAI’s regional startup team. Attendees at a previous OpenAI Founder Day event. OpenAI will hold its Singapore event on June 22, 2026. Image Credit: OpenAI OpenAI has opened applications for Founder Day Singapore, a half-day event for startup founders, developers and builders f…

Ethicality now checks every manuscript and peer review report for potential paper mill activity , fabricated references, manipulated text and authorship concerns. MDPI’s Ethicality system now screens about 2,000 manuscript submissions each day for potential research integrity concerns MDPI has fully deployed its Ethicality research integrity system across all manuscripts submitted to its journals…

The funding will extend a pilot of the AI Assessment Scale with voluntary secondary schools and support new training, evidence and practical resources for teachers and education leaders. A £25,000 UKRI ESRC award will support the next phase of the AI Assessment Scale pilot in Irish secondary schools Durham University Assistant Professor Dr Jasper Roe and British University Vietnam Associate Profe…

Cabrera will remain at Georgia Tech until November after overseeing a 55% rise in enrollment and annual sponsored research awards above $1.4 billion. Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera will become president and CEO of the Aspen Institute after remaining at the university until November Georgia Institute of Technology President Ángel Cabrera has been selected as the next president and CEO of the…

The global program will provide training, certification and technical support for partners building and deploying OpenAI systems across enterprise organizations. OpenAI is investing $150 million in its new Partner Network and aims to train and enable 300,000 certified consultants by the end of 2026. OpenAI has launched a $150 million global partner program and set a target to train and enable 300…

Web data collection has evolved into a core business function, and organizations across industries depend on it for competitive intelligence, pricing research, and systematic market monitoring. The problem is that doing this reliably at any meaningful volume is considerably harder than it looks. Websites have grown sophisticated about detecting and blocking automated traffic, and that development…

The Jackson County investment includes training for more than 130,000 Alabamians, $550,000 for school STEM kits and a new $2 million energy fund. Google is investing $1.5 billion to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama, alongside digital skills, STEM education and energy affordability programs Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment across 2026 and 2027 to expand its da…

Leiva joins after working on teacher AI use, K-12 evidence and research tools at Stanford University’s AI Hub for Education. Benjamin Leiva has joined OpenAI’s Education team after working at Stanford University’s AI Hub for Education. Image credit: Benjamin Leiva OpenAI has appointed economist and data scientist Benjamin Leiva to its Education team, where he will work on systems intended to make…

Founders, freelancers and side-hustle operators have until July 12 to submit a Canva pitch, with mentorship, networking and promotional support also available. Canva is assessing entries to its 2026 Small Business Pitch Challenge, with five UK and Ireland businesses set to receive £4,000 grants Canva is accepting applications for its 2026 Small Business Pitch Challenge , offering five businesses …

Evidence published by the UK Parliament Education Committee says optional provision is reaching too few students and staff, while separate research across UK- and China-based universities points to learner control and reflection as key factors in AI-supported study . Professor Xue Zhou, Professor in AI in Business Education and Dean of AI at the University of Leicester The University of Leicester…

Encrypted Spaces combines end-to-end encryption , verifiable databases and zero-knowledge proofs for collaborative documents, messaging, file storage and other cloud-based applications. Encrypted Spaces is designed to let cloud servers store and synchronize collaborative data without accessing its plaintext contents Microsoft Research has introduced Encrypted Spaces , an active research project e…

The deal will add secure, customer-controlled cloud environments to Codex , allowing AI agents to continue working after the original device or session closes. OpenAI plans to integrate Ona’s cloud infrastructure into Codex so AI agents can continue working for hours or days beyond a single device session OpenAI has agreed to acquire cloud development infrastructure company Ona as it prepares Cod…