Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters

Ontario’s revised kindergarten program asks teachers to use both explicit literacy instruction and play-based learning.

Xiaomi's HarnessX rewrites its own AI scaffolding mid-task — and smaller models gain the most

Xiaomi's HarnessX autonomously rewrites AI agent harnesses mid-execution, delivering +14.5% avg performance gains — and +44% ...

Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically ...
Governing

Texas’ Data Center Boom Is Creating a New Political Problem

Rena Schroeder poses for a portrait on her ranch where she runs an equine learning nonprofit and cares for rescue livestock in Lott. The Republican Party has felt like home to Rena Schroeder since her ...
Tech Times

Embodied AI World Models Attracted $6 Billion, But the LLM Parallel May Not Hold

Embodied AI world models drew $6 billion in Q1 2026 alone, but new analysis from Fusion Fund investors argues the LLM scaling ...
InfoWorld

10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent

With the proper setup and guidance, you can have Claude Code, Codex, Posit Assistant, and other coding agents writing R code ...
The Silicon Review

Best Infrastructure Setups for Running AI Models in Production

Learn how to build reliable infrastructure for AI models in production, including hosting, monitoring, containers, scaling, ...
Tech Times

Microsoft Mirage Fixes AI Video World Model Drift With 55x Less GPU Memory

Microsoft Research’s Mirage stores 3D scene data directly in diffusion latent space, cutting GPU memory 55x and generation ...

Reading delay isn’t often caught until fourth or fifth grade. CT’s trying to change that

What we were missing was the really systematic and explicit teaching of all of those phonemic awareness and phonics skills, ...

Need a custom engagement ring? You can 3D-print it

A rise in budget 3D printers has people picking it up as a creative outlet and problem-solving tool. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
InfoWorld

How fuzzy APIs are remaking the web

With the advent of AI-mediated APIs, the era of manually hard-coding every integration between every microservice may be ...