Google dramatically expands NotebookLM AI assistant with massive 1 million token context window, 6x longer conversational memory, 50% better response quality, and customizable personas that can act as specialized roles like PhD advisor or marketing strategist.
Google launches Google Skills, a unified learning platform featuring 3,000 courses from across its divisions, gamified experiences with AI-powered labs, and direct job placement connections to over 150 employers including fast-track hiring processes.
European research funding faces a crisis as grant applications surge 65% to record highs while success rates crash into single digits, with scientists now competing against overwhelming odds for static budgets.
South Korea strips AI textbooks of official status after just four months due to technical failures, factual errors, and privacy concerns, with adoption rates plummeting from 37% to 19% amid political turmoil and promises to cancel the $850 million program.
OpenAI establishes an eight-member Expert Council on Well-Being and AI to address mental health concerns following an FTC investigation into ChatGPT's effects on children, implementing new safety controls including age prediction systems and parental oversight features.
Sam Altman-backed college startup Campus hires former Meta AI VP Jerome Pesenti as CTO and acquires his 1.7 million-user learning platform Sizzle AI, accelerating their engineering roadmap by 2-3 years as they disrupt community college education with $7,320 annual tuition.
AI coding tools now write 95% or more of the code for a quarter of Y Combinator's startup clients, raising alarm that junior developers may lose essential problem-solving skills by bypassing traditional debugging and manual coding experience that builds programming expertise.
A shocking new national survey reveals nearly 20% of high schoolers report romantic relationships with AI while schools struggle with surging data breaches, deepfake harassment, and students becoming increasingly disconnected from teachers as AI usage skyrockets.
Qualcomm acquires Arduino's open-source electronics platform while preserving its independence, immediately launching the $44 Uno Q board featuring AI capabilities and Linux compatibility for Arduino's massive 33 million maker community.
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