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British Council libraries in Karachi and Lahore mark ten years of supporting reading, learning, creativity and cultural exchange across their communities.

A new UK student-finance system will support shorter university and college modules, giving adults more options to study around employment and family life.
Edtech startup Imagi has closed a $4.5 million seed round, backing its push to help students learn how to build with AI-assisted coding tools.
A NASA-backed machine-learning model detected signals of emerging solar active regions up to 12 hours before sunspots became visible.
Harry Kane has backed Thomas Tuchel to come through England’s World Cup disappointment stronger, saying the manager will take valuable lessons from the pressures that followed the semi-final loss to Argentina. The…
Twitch users learned that streams, clips, chats and channel media may train Amazon generative AI unless a creator disables the setting.
A volunteer has built a machine-learning tool for NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch to distinguish rare noctilucent clouds from lower-altitude look-alikes.
A monkey that injured 18 people during a two-week series of attacks in a town on Indonesia’s Sumatra island has been trapped, ending a scare that forced schools to close and left residents on alert, according to local…
Grace Farris’s "See One, Do One, Teach One" looks at medical training through anxiety, debt, impostor syndrome, and the strain of balancing life and school.

India's Gen Z protests reveal deep educational and employment crises, posing a serious challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 12-year leadership after nationwide student demonstrations.
As ministers pledge to overhaul adult social care in England, families paying for care at home describe months-long waits for council decisions and mounting costs.
Snap has become the latest major technology company to move out of a lawsuit accusing social media platforms of harming children and young adults, according to TechCrunch. The company has reached a tentative settlement…
AI is moving beyond chatbots into toys, dolls and robots built to befriend children. A leading child-development expert says the technology offers real promise but also risks crowding out human relationships.

Astronaut photographs published by NASA show smoke surrounding Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as major fires affect air quality and communities.
Ryan Beiermeister, who spent roughly two years as OpenAI's vice president of product policy before being fired in February, has joined venture capital firm Founders Fund as a partner, the firm announced. ## Why she left…
PARIS — Generative artificial intelligence is making everyday tasks faster and easier, but a growing body of research is raising concerns that the same convenience could weaken the very mental skills people rely on…

Reading and mathematics scores across OECD countries have fallen to the lowest levels recorded by PISA, raising fresh concern about whether school systems are rebuilding basic skills fast enough after years of…

Teachers across the United States are being pushed to reckon with artificial intelligence in the classroom, and one of the country’s largest labor unions is stepping in with training backed by major technology…
Candice Odgers, a psychologist who has spent 25 years studying adolescent mental health, is pushing back against the idea that banning social media for teenagers is the main answer to online harm. In an interview…
Synthesia is moving its enterprise product strategy beyond generated videos and into interactive coaching tools designed to test whether training actually works. The British startup has launched Roleplay Sessions, a new…

The feared wave of mass unemployment caused by artificial intelligence has not appeared, but quieter changes to hiring and workplace tasks are already visible.

OpenAI launched its first hardware device, the Micro keypad built to pair with ChatGPT, sparking mixed reactions among developers and tech enthusiasts over its price and utility.

A new study suggests that readers may judge some AI-generated stories more favorably than human-written fiction, at least when it comes to simplicity and ease of reading. The research, reported by The Guardian…
Argentina’s route to the World Cup final has been framed not only by results, but by the mentality Lionel Scaloni sees in his squad. In comments highlighted by The Guardian Football, the Argentina head coach said his…