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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter A senior Texas A&M University System official testing a new artificial intelligence tool this fall asked it to find how many courses discuss feminism at one of its regional universities. Each time she asked in a slightly different way, she got a different number. “Either the tool is learning from my previous queries,” Texas A&M system’s chief strategy officer Korry Castillo told colleagues in an email, “or we need to fine tune our requests to get the best results.” It was Sept. 25, and Castillo…

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Hussain & Marino, NY Post Providence police have identified a former Brown University student and Portuguese national as the suspect in Saturday’s shooting at the Ivy League school.

AI Training Agents: The New Era Of L&D Training is entering its biggest evolutionary shift since Learning Management Systems (LMSs) first appeared. For decades, training relied on human-led sessions, static content, and manual coordination across teams. But the explosion of agentic AI—AI systems capable of autonomous reasoning, task execution, and end-to-end workflow management—is redefining what modern training operations can look like. In 2026, training teams are no longer thinking in terms of “content” and “sessions.” They’re thinking in terms of systems that learn, adapt, and automate themselves. AI training agents now act as digital counterparts to coaches, trainers, and ops…

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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In a keynote speech at the Michigan Literacy Summit, held Tuesday at the Michigan Science Center, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said that improving literacy rates would remain her top priority in her final year as governor. “Helping every child read is tough. It’s a worthwhile goal,” she said. “It’s a long term project that will pay off in decades, not days. It’s a team effort that requires buy-in from students, parents, teachers and policy makers.” She referenced the increased implementation of the “science of reading” law,…

The months since Charlie Kirk’s murder on Utah Valley University’s campus in September have seen a deluge of firings and suspensions of teachers, faculty, and staff across the country for celebrating the assassination, or just for being insufficiently mournful. As the dust settles and court cases proceed, more details are emerging about the political pressures universities faced to punish protected political expression.In Iowa, lawmakers were so incensed by one Iowa State University staff member’s speech about the shooting that they outright dismissed the possibility of a lawsuit. Public records obtained by FIRE through a Freedom of Information Act request show state…

Patrick T. Brown, Civitas Outlook When it comes to daily life, states can – and should – experiment with different approaches to centering families’ needs in public policy.

Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly sent a memo two weeks ago indicating how the federal government intends to target “domestic terrorist organizations.” That memo outlines how the Justice Department plans to implement President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memo 7. To explain what’s wrong with Bondi’s memo, we need to bounce back and forth between it and NSPM-7. Think of it this way: NSPM-7 is an idea, and Bondi’s memo is a checklist in furtherance of that idea. At the same time, the memo isn’t quite a blueprint, because it still omits key details about what the Justice Department intends to do. But what…

Schmidt & Arsenault, NY Times The students face discipline for recording Mr. Summers, the former Harvard president, discussing his ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a Harvard class.