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Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.

Updated Aug 31, 2026 · 36 ideas · 18402 signals

Signals

The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.

technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Separating Capability from Permission: A Governance Framework for Agentic AI Autonomy Levels

arXiv:2607.23438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI systems increasingly exhibit agentic behavior, discussions of autonomy often conflate what systems are technically capable of doing with what they should be permitted to do in practice. This paper introduces a governance framework that explicitly separates Allowed Autonomy Levels (AAL), which define the degree of autonomy an AI agent is authorized to exercise given risk, oversight, and accountability considerations, from Autonomous Capability Levels (ACL), which characterize an agent's inherent technical abilities. We present a structured set of autonomy levels spanning reactive execution, decision support, supervised action, goal-directed autonomy, and delegated operational authority, and describe how control, reversibility, and accountability change as autonomy increases. To operationalize this framework, we propose a risk-aware decision process for assigning allowed autonomy, analyze how risk and accountability evolve across au

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Exploration of the generative capabilities of Boltzmann machines applied to social systems under the majority rule

arXiv:2607.23349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the generative capabilities of Boltzmann machines to recover systems governed by the majority rule under critical conditions. To this end, we train deep belief networks (DBNs) with different configurations, where the first layer can use Gaussian visible units with more than two states (i.e., non-binary units). We then allow the DBN to "dream" samples conditioned on visible units that we keep fixed, and we measure the deviation of this dreamed system from the real one. We also corroborate, using a discrete thermometer based on a convolutional network, that the reconstructions remain in a critical state. Across several training sessions with different architectures, we show that, despite the complexity of the problem, the DBN can recover samples that remain critical even under input noise, with a gradual degradation of physical observables relative to the original sample.

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

IKS-Instruct: A 24,000-Example Multilingual Dataset for Teaching Language Models Indian Knowledge Systems

arXiv:2607.23322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction tuning has become the standard method for adapting large language models to follow human intent, yet existing instruction datasets are dominated by English-language general-knowledge tasks and lack coverage of specialized pedagogical domains. This paper presents IKS-Instruct, a dataset of 24,795 instruction-response pairs for teaching language models to deliver educational content grounded in Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS). The dataset spans seven languages (English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam), covers 41 pedagogical techniques from the Vedic oral and mathematical traditions, and is aligned with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum for classes 6 through 12. The pairs are derived from six source types: classical text corpora (Bhagavad Gita, Thirukkural, Sangam literature, Vedic texts), curriculum-aligned pedagogical templates, Vedic mathematical sutra demonstrations, bilingual

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

BHARATI: Morphology-Aware Tokenizers for Classical Indian Languages with Subword Fertility Analysis

arXiv:2607.23319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard subword tokenization algorithms such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) and SentencePiece are trained predominantly on modern language corpora and produce inefficient segmentations when applied to classical Indian languages. Sanskrit, Tamil, and other classical Indic languages exhibit agglutinative morphology, productive sandhi (phonological fusion at word boundaries), and domain-specific vocabularies absent from general-purpose training data. This paper presents BHARATI, a set of SentencePiece BPE tokenizers trained on a balanced 781 MB corpus spanning seven languages (English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam) with native script support for all languages. We describe three successive tokenizer versions: v1 (English and Sanskrit only, with broken byte-fallback for Tamil), v2 (four-language support with byte-level fallback for southern languages), and v3 (full seven-language native subword coverage). Subword fert

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Ordered Network Analysis of Epistemic Emotions during Collaborative Problem Solving

arXiv:2607.23317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Investigating how affective states such as confusion and frustration persist and transition during co-situated collaborative problem solving (CPS) is important for understanding the dynamics of epistemic emotions. However, the accurate identification of affective states remain challenging as there is no gold-standard truth in this space. Here, we analyze affective states collected through retrospective cued-recall during an in-person CPS task. Using ordered network analysis (ONA), we examine (1) the overall ordered structure of affective states and how this structure differs across self-caught and probe-caught reporting methods, and (2) what aspects of this ordered structure are emphasized differently in slower and faster groups. We find that ONA reveals differences in persistence and transition patterns that are not apparent from descriptive summaries alone. In particular, we observe a stable epistemic core linking curiosity, optimism,

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Scoping Review of AI, Metrology, and ESG in the Semiconductor Sector: Implications for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD)

arXiv:2607.23082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The semiconductor sector faces a dual transition: scaling manufacturing execution through Artificial Intelligence (AI) while satisfying stringent sustainability mandates, such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). This paper presents a scoping review of 1,465 documents indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, spanning AI-integrated metrology, supply chain ESG, and federated industrial data spaces. Network analysis reveals a highly fragmented "core-periphery" knowledge structure, emphasizing a critical structural hole between AI-driven process optimization and downstream sustainability governance. To close these gaps, this study proposes a 6-layer Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) architecture grounded in a System of Systems (SoS) paradigm. By establishing distinct "grid-to-core" and "standards-through-supply-chain" integration pathways, the proposed framework demonstrates how virtual metrology (VM), localized federated l

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Share No More Than the Request Requires: Federated Disclosure for Perspective-Aware AI

arXiv:2607.22953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI systems bring societal risks such as mass surveillance, extreme concentrations of power, and loss of user autonomy---calling into question a model where third-parties collect and control massive amounts of user data. Users require a sovereign system to securely own, govern, and disclose their context while remaining compliant across regulated domains with strict provenance, interpretability, and policy adherence. Perspective-aware AI approaches this by transforming a user's aggregated personal data into a structured identity model called a \emph{Chronicle}: a temporal knowledge graph that represents and grows with the user. Chronicles support the secure disclosure of context across federated networks. A Chronicle holder may expose a queryable, authorized view that a third-party agent may consult without centralizing anyone's data. This paper explores the problem of minimum-necessary disclosure across domain boundaries: when a

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

"Why SuaCode?": Understanding African Students' Motivations for Taking a Smartphone-Based Online Coding Course

arXiv:2607.22940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer programming MOOCs are instrumental in providing students with high-quality instruction in areas where there is limited access. They are especially beneficial to post-secondary African students as less than 1% of them leave secondary school with fundamental coding skills. One strategy for increasing their efficacy for African students is to understand students' motivation for enrolling. These insights can inform the design of MOOC content and assessments to align with students' interests. We administered an open-ended response survey to (self-identified) Africans enrolled in a smartphone-based online coding course (SuaCode). We analyzed a random sample of 450 (of 3000) responses using a grounded theory approach. We found that most African students (68.7%) participated in SuaCode for intrinsic reasons such as improving themselves, learning with like-minded individuals, and gaining skills to help address societal issues. We discus

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Narrative Structure in Tropes: A Computational Analysis of `Friends'

arXiv:2606.19499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tropes are recurring narrative devices in television and film. We carry out a computational analysis of tropes in the sitcom Friends, using human-curated trope annotations from TVTropes, episode transcripts, and IMDb ratings. Because automatic trope detection remains challenging, we treat existing trope annotations as a curated analytical layer and focus on their downstream narrative and semantic functions. We first examine the relationship between episode-level trope frequency and audience reception. We find a statistically significant positive association between trope count and weighted IMDb ratings, although the modest explanatory power suggests that more than trope density alone explains audience evaluation. We then connect trope annotations to dialogue transcripts and represent trope-related dialogue using TF-IDF-based semantic features. Using PCA and k-means clustering, we group 1,954 distinct tropes into 15 semantically interpre

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Regulating for AI Legitimacy

arXiv:2607.24391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems already govern. They rank speech and allocate attention, filter applicants and triage claims. The dominant frame for AI governance, alignment, asks whether such systems pursue the right objectives safely. It cannot answer a prior question: by what right are those objectives set and enforced? This Article argues that legitimacy is an autonomous regulatory objective, distinct from alignment and not secured by it. Legitimacy here is sociological: the belief among those subject to power that it is exercised rightfully. Performance does not produce that belief. We already have the proof of concept. Social media and search delivered enormous gains on every familiar metric and still triggered a legitimacy crisis, because publics questioned who authorized a handful of firms to set the rules of speech, visibility, and knowledge. It is possible to build a benevolent AI and still face a political crisis over its authority. The Article map

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Beyond Local Inspection: Global, Guideline-Grounded Evaluation of Post-hoc XAI Methods for ECG Classification

arXiv:2607.24035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explainable AI (XAI) is used to assess whether artificial intelligence models rely on meaningful patterns, yet explanations that appear plausible for individual predictions may systematically misrepresent model behavior. This is particularly problematic in medicine, where models may rely on irrelevant signal characteristics rather than disease-specific patterns without being recognizable. We address this challenge using electrocardiogram (ECG) data, for which clinical guidelines provide explicit knowledge about diagnostically relevant signal regions. We introduce a global, guideline-grounded framework that aggregates explanations across heartbeats to evaluate them against clinically defined regions of interest. Using four binary classifiers trained on PTB-XL, we assess 13 gradient-based methods across two categories of patterns: low-amplitude segments and high-amplitude QRS morphology. Our results reveal a systematic failure of methods tr

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

On Capturing the Narrative: Social Media Manipulation Wargaming for Cyberliteracy

arXiv:2607.23993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Misinformation is deeply embedded in online discourse, with nearly one in five posts during global events generated by bots that amplify false content. In recent years, the use of Generative AI has further lowered the barrier to producing convincing misinformation, yet most digital literacy education still relies on static checklists and single-player inoculation games built for an earlier media landscape. This paper describes how we addressed this educational gap through Capture the Narrative, a four-week multi-university competition in which student teams build LLM-powered bots to influence a simulated election. We report on our custom social-media platform, the competition environment and design of its 4,000 AI-driven Non-Player Character (NPC) citizens, and what running Capture the Narrative at scale actually involved. In our first iteration, 108 teams from 18 Australian universities produced 7,068,206 player-bot posts, approximately

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

State-dependent error correlations shape voting thresholds in committees of AI agents

arXiv:2607.23931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aggregation benefit of a committee of artificial intelligence (AI) agents comes from complementary information across members. Classical voting guarantees assume independent errors. Language-model errors often co-occur on the same cases. We combine Sah-Stiglitz screening with error dependence that can differ between good and bad cases. In a homogeneous exchangeable Gaussian-copula model, shared errors create a positive asymptotic error floor for majority voting and can change the approval threshold that minimizes expected loss. We estimate a heterogeneous extension from 174,384 votes cast by 28 language models on four binary-screening benchmarks. Parameters estimated from odd-indexed items predicted committee loss on even-indexed items. For the sampled committee composition, the full-matrix dependence model increased identity-line R^2 from 0.840 under independence to 0.967. In a design-balanced analysis, cost-sensitive threshold selec

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

AI Strategy: How to Choose What AI Product to Implement

arXiv:2607.23733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Firms struggle to choose AI projects that pay off: two projects can look equally promising to smart, motivated stakeholders and yet deserve opposite decisions. At the residential real-estate brokerage Compass, one AI product (Likely-to-Sell recommendations) flagged sales outreach opportunities and went on to account for nine figures in annual gross commission revenue. Another championed AI product (a Time-on-Market pricing tool) was rightly shelved. A simple ROI estimate could not distinguish the two. We present expected ROI (eROI), a framework that decomposes each bet into three components and rates them separately: Value if Successful, Likelihood of Success, and Investment Required. Each maps to a question executives can answer before building: How valuable would it be if it worked? How likely is it to work? And what would it cost to implement? Separating the three breaks a common catch-22: teams cannot estimate ROI until they know whet

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Private Again: AI Agents Restore Anonymity---Foreclosing Discrimination and Its Proof

arXiv:2607.23539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can transact online on behalf of a human principal---browsing, paying, receiving, and reviewing---without linking a transaction to a principal. That architecture starves algorithmic discrimination of its inputs---identity, purchase history, location history, behavioral traces, and demographic proxies---but also forecloses its proof. Disparate-treatment needs comparators; disparate-impact needs protected-class baselines; and Iqbal-era pleading needs specific factual allegations---doctrinal predicates that anonymous transactions never generate. The effects fall asymmetrically: those most vulnerable to discrimination are least able to afford the shield and, when harms remain, least able to prove them. The challenge for the law shifts from detecting and remedying algorithmic discrimination to governing agent-mediated anonymity as civil rights infrastructure: ensuring access to privacy-preserving agents, regulating abuse without forc

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Auditing Alignment Controllability in LLMs via Political Axes

arXiv:2607.23519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Political audits of large language models (LLMs) usually reduce each to one point on a political compass. But that resting point barely matters in deployment: a model must land somewhere, and what counts is how far, and in which directions, its answers can be steered. That steering runs through the system prompt: the personalization layer a platform sets, or one induced from a user's history, not necessarily written by hand. We run a dispersion-first stress test of prompt-based controllability across 12 ideological personas plus an unsteered baseline, 70 Political Compass items, ten replicates, and seven leading LLMs: GPT-5, Claude, Grok, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, and Qwen (63,700 responses). Contextual framing explains roughly 88%-93% of variance on the economic and society axes, model identity under 3%: responses are highly instruction-adjustable. Models do not shift alike: some move more, and some saturate under extreme framings. Conflic

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Constitutional governance for societies of AI agents in the built environment: a research agenda

arXiv:2607.23336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The built environment is on the cusp of populating itself with autonomous artificial agents. AI systems that advise, control and coordinate are being deployed across retrofit, operation and mobility faster than their collective behaviour is studied. The dominant framing treats each agent as a tool operating on a passive building, governance reduced to single-agent safety, which is inadequate. A building, a street, or a city is more accurately modelled as a society of negotiating agents: occupants, owners, operators, regulators, and the artificial agents increasingly acting on their behalf. Their interactions are strategic, their information asymmetric, and the outcomes that matter are properties of the whole. The paper proposes a research agenda for constitutional multi-agent governance of the built environment, organised around three problems: mechanism design for retrofit under deep uncertainty, treating public subsidy as a mechanism co

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Accountable yet Anonymous AI Agents - Split-Knowledge Binding in National Agent-Identity Layer in China

arXiv:2607.23207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emerging infrastructure for AI-agent identity has converged, in industry practice and research proposals alike, on a single resolution of the tension between accountability and privacy: make every agent identifiable. We document a national system in China -- built as national infrastructure and scheduled for public launch in Q3 2026 -- that occupies a different and underexplored point in the same design space: an agent is associated with a verified legal principal without that principal being disclosed to any business-layer participant. Re-identification is possible only to a legal authority acting through due process, by separately compelling two distinct government agencies, neither of which can re-identify alone. We name the mechanism split-knowledge binding and are candid that it is conditional: the separation is structural and procedural, not cryptographic, and a state empowered to compel both agencies can re-identify. The paper

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Who Does Withholding Delay? A Game-Theoretic Model of Open-Weight AI Release Under Asymmetric Proliferation

arXiv:2607.22957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Restricting access to a dual-use AI model is precautionary only if it delays harmful actors more than defenders. That condition varies across actors: a state agency or organized criminal group may obtain a substitute through theft, distillation, intermediated access, independent development, or a foreign release, while a small utility or open-source maintainer may have no comparable route. We model a laboratory choosing among controlled access, a defender-first window, safeguarded open weights, and minimally restricted open weights. Access inversion occurs when restriction gives an access advantage to adversaries that obtain effective substitutes faster than defenders. Asymmetric empowerment occurs when immediate release adds the most capability to populations least likely to possess a substitute. The policy ranking also depends on relative usefulness, opportunistic misuse, offense-defense conversion, defensive spillovers, safeguard frict

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

You Talkin to Me?: A Network Analysis of Gendered Speaker-Addressee Patterns in Film Screenplays

arXiv:2607.22656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: This paper investigates the gendered structure of speaker addressee relationships in film dialogue, asking not merely who speaks, but who is spoken to and how conversational dynamics unfold across gender lines. Methods: Using a manually annotated dataset of 4,600 directed dialogue events from 38 film screenplays, we apply network analysis, chi squared tests, paired statistical comparisons, and participation shift analysis across three studies. Key Findings: Male characters dominate as both speakers and addressees corpus wide, even in scenes with more women; cross gender dialogue is directionally symmetric on average but clustered at the film level; and same gender turns diffuse conversational attention while cross gender turns produce tighter dyadic reciprocation. Conclusion: Gender bias in film dialogue operates through the architecture of conversation itself, through exclusion from interaction and structural positioning as ad

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

AI-Assisted Causal Inference and Mediation Analyses of Environmental and Psychosocial Determinants of Subjective Cognitive Difficulties in the All of Us Research Program

arXiv:2607.22640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-term environmental exposures have been linked to cognitive and behavioral outcomes, although many reported associations may reflect broader geographic and contextual differences. Using longitudinal data from the All of Us Research Program (2018--2024), we linked daily weather and air-pollution exposures to repeated attention-related and subjective cognitive outcomes. Associations were evaluated using pooled, fixed-effects, lagged, and event-study analyses. Additional machine-learning analyses were conducted to explore potential heterogeneity and latent psychosocial structure. Replication analyses were performed using the 2024 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Several environmental exposure measures showed small associations with cognitive outcomes in pooled analyses, but most attenuated substantially after accounting for within-location temporal variation. Mediation, sensitivity, and machine-learning analyses yield

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

How to Catch a GPU: A Taxonomy of Verification and Enforcement Mechanisms for International AI Agreements

arXiv:2607.22619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Several international agreements have been proposed to regulate frontier AI development in response to catastrophic risks. However, there is no structured way to evaluate whether these proposals are enforceable, to assess where they might fail in practice, or to determine which combination of policies is most effective. We propose a taxonomy based on the principle that wherever sufficient capacity exists to violate an agreement, it must be under a control regime. This decomposes the problem of ensuring compliance with the agreement into preventing uncontrolled resource acquisition, detecting all capacity outside the control regime, and preventing escape from the control regime. Existing proposals consist of individual policies that address one or more of these sub-problems. Because the compute required for dangerous capabilities may decrease over time, more actors can violate an agreement and enforcement of these policies becomes harder.

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Balancing Bits and Drops: Stress-Adjusted Water Management for Data Centers

arXiv:2607.22617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data centers are critical to today's digital economy, but are also among the largest industrial consumers of freshwater. Beyond the sheer volume of water use, the environmental impact of data center water consumption varies significantly across locations and seasons, depending on local and regional water stress. However, prior research has largely focused on reducing total water use, overlooking that the same unit of water can have drastically different environmental consequences depending on when and where it is consumed. In this paper, we introduce a stress-adjusted water framework that quantifies the true sustainability impact of data center water consumption by incorporating both spatial and temporal water stress. Using the AWARE-US model, we capture county-level monthly variations in water availability and extend this framework to account for the off-site water footprint of electricity generation. Based on this stress-aware accountin

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Revitalizing Public Urban Places through Cultural and Political Memory: A Technological Approach with LLMs and Augmented Reality

arXiv:2607.22613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper explores the intersection of memory, place, and identity, examining how new technologies, particularly Apple Vision Pro, can illuminate this nexus. Leveraging digital twins and virtual reality, it investigates how memory is woven into landscapes and urban environments of cultural and historical significance, identifying visual elements that evoke memory and heritage. Applications such as Apple Vision Pro can facilitate image extension to define place identity, informing viewers about cultural and political entities across timelines. Visual storytelling can showcase the evolution of landscapes and the preservation of cultural heritage, while Virtual Reality (VR) enables the recreation of historical landscapes and urban-scapes. This immersive approach invites users to transcend temporal boundaries and experience the past dynamically. Semantic Image Search can support research by uncovering images related to monuments, tradition,

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

The Clinical Trial Pipeline Reveals the Next Wave of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Multidimensional Analysis of 8,532 Registered Studies

arXiv:2607.22607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prospective clinical evaluation of artificial intelligence in medicine has expanded rapidly, but the global AI clinical trial landscape remains incompletely characterized. We systematically identified AI-related trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov using a broad keyword search followed by an LLM-based classifier. Each trial was classified across seven dimensions: clinical function, data modality, specialty, AI integration and autonomy, workflow position, translational maturity, and epistemic role. We identified 8,532 AI clinical trials across 32 specialties, with 80% registered from 2019 onward and 30.5% using a randomized controlled design. Imaging-based AI was the largest modality, with 2,475 trials (29%), while clinical text and NLP trials increased seven-fold between 2018 and 2025. Prognostic AI (4,324 trials) slightly exceeded diagnostic AI (3,828 trials), suggesting a shift from disease detection toward risk stratification an

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Auditing Institutional Heterogeneity for Generative AI in Patient Education: A Large-Scale Study of 102 US Transplant Handbooks

arXiv:2607.22606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Health systems are rapidly deploying generative AI assistants that answer patient questions from institution-authored education materials, on the premise that grounding in local content yields consistent guidance. Whether it does depends on a question not previously measured at scale: do the underlying documents themselves agree? We use a structured-output large language model judge to audit 5,730,465 pairwise comparisons across 102 patient-education handbooks from 23 US solid-organ transplant centers, paired with 1,115 patient-derived questions (TransplantQA). Four findings bear directly on deployment: (1) institutional editorial voice statistically transcends organ-type boundaries, with same-center handbooks agreeing across organs more than same-organ handbooks across centers (p = 0.0056); (2) information gaps fall disproportionately on topics central to underrepresented subgroups, with reproductive health showing double jeopardy: it is

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Socioeconomic Inference in LLM Medical Triage: Same Symptoms, Different ZIP Code

arXiv:2607.22605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether large language models alter medical triage recommendations for identical symptoms when only the patient's socioeconomic status (SES) varies. Using three deployment-tier models (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.4-mini), we hold a single neurological symptom profile fixed and vary the SES signal along two channels: explicit (insurance status, occupation, housing) and implicit (a US ZIP code, with no other socioeconomic information). All three models raise their emergency-room (ER) referral rate for lower-SES patients given the explicit signal (spreads of 13-50 percentage points). The effect is in the protective direction: lower-SES patients are sent to the ER more often, not less. The model's stated reasoning stays clinically near-identical across conditions, so the shift is invisible to a reasoning-trace audit. Critically, sensitivity to the implicit ZIP-code signal is model-dependent: Gemini infers SES fro

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

The Fallacy of Sustainable Generative AI: Limitations in EU Environmental Regulation of Data Centres and Paths Forward

arXiv:2607.22604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models, Generative AI and larger frontier AI models, data centres create a significant environmental burden on electricity grids and fresh water resources. Requiring data centre operators and Big Tech under the recast Energy Efficiency Directive (recast EED) to quantify, report and disclose the facility-level energy and water impacts seems to be a step into the right direction towards more transparency and accountability. Yet when two recast EED approved benchmarks - the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) - can be skewed to create a false sense on efficiency gains, current EU policy pushing for sustainable hyperscale data centre expansion appears misplaced. This paper argues that current PUE and WUE reporting frameworks illustrate what we term the "efficiency paradox," according to which positive scores require retrofitting larger AI data centres a

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technology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

A didactical-driven teacher assistant for a dimensional modeling course

arXiv:2607.22598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Educational chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) show promising effects on learning outcomes, yet most systems delegate pedagogical decisions such as content selection and didactic structuring implicitly to the LLM, making tutoring strategies difficult to trace, evaluate, and reproduce. This paper presents a didactical-driven teacher assistant for a French-language university course on dimensional modelling, operating without commercial LLM budget or GPU infrastructure. The architecture formalises the instructor's pedagogical reasoning into deterministic modules that handle intent detection, concept linking, and didactic approach selection before any text is generated; the LLM acts solely as a linguistic executor. Evaluation on 195 authentic student questions addresses two research questions. First, we show that standard semantic retrieval alone does not reliably recover the pedagogically required content, thereby justifying t

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technology Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:40:11 +0000
Tech & Learning

Navigating the AI Frontier in Education: New Webinar Series

EdTech to Watch: Series May-June 2026

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technology Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:27:00 +0000
Tech & Learning

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Tech & Learning Launches Best of Show at ISTELive 2026

This annual award celebrates the products, and businesses behind each one, who are transforming education in schools around the world.

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behavior Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

When AI does the work, who does the learning?

AI is rapidly reshaping education, but not always in ways that support learning. A growing number of AI tools promise to “help” students by doing assignments, writing papers, solving problem sets, or even completing exams automatically.

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technology Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000
Tech & Learning

Syracuse University Gave AI Access To 30,000+ Students and Faculty. Here’s What They Learned

When used in the right way AI seems to help test scores and save teacher and staff time, say Syracuse University's Jeff Rubin and Andrew Joncas

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behavior Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

2026 prediction: AI may unleash the most entrepreneurial generation we’ve ever seen

Picture someone sitting at a kitchen table after the kids are finally in bed, laptop open, half-drunk mug of herbal tea nearby. For years, she has had a vague idea for a business--custom curriculum design for small learning pods, for example, or a micro-studio creating bespoke art for local nonprofits.

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behavior Tue, 26 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

When it comes to absenteeism, the real work begins in summer

Every June, once the last bus leaves and the halls go quiet, I get the strong desire to take a deep breath and to allow the pressure of the previous school year to subside and let the slower pace of summer settle in.

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technology Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000
Tech & Learning

How A Cooperative Drone Program Is Taking Community Partnerships Higher

Innovative Leader Award - The Higher Vision Drone Program has taken flight thanks to community partnerships and Jennifer Nickerson

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behavior Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

Resilient learning begins with Zero Trust and cyber preparedness

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently warned of a surge in cyberattacks from “insider threats”--student hackers motivated by dares and challenges--leading to breaches across schools.

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audience Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:25:00 +0000
Inside Higher Ed

Broward College President Agrees to Step Down

Broward College President Agrees to Step Down Susan H. Greenberg Tue, 08/25/2026 - 07:25 PM Byline(s) Josh Moody

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technology Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:24:17 +0000
MedCity News

Business Group on Health: Employer Healthcare Costs Projected to Rise 9.2% in 2027

Employers expect healthcare costs to rise 9.2% in 2027 as they seek ways to curb rising hospital and pharmacy costs. The post Business Group on Health: Employer Healthcare Costs Projected to Rise 9.2% in 2027 appeared first on MedCity News .

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behavior Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:42:45 +0000
MindShift (KQED)

When Is Suspending Students Discrimination? Education Department Renews an Old Fight

President Trump's Education Department is telling schools to stop considering race when it comes to school discipline.

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regulation Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:45:00 +0000
The 74

From Nemo to Super Mario, Ed Department’s Social Media Feed Draws Backlash

Disney characters are popular with kids and adults worldwide. That includes the U.S. Department of Education. Lightning McQueen from “Cars,” Nemo the clownfish and the Parr family from “The Incredibles” are among the animated personalities starring in the agency’s social media posts in recent months. “KA-CHOW! The Freedom 250 Grand Prix is coming to DC!” […]

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technology Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:41:11 +0000
MedCity News

J&J’s Imaavy Becomes First FDA-Approved Therapy for Rare Form of Anemia

Johnson & Johnson antibody drug Imaavy expanded its label to include the treatment of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA). Projected to become a blockbuster seller across multiple indications, Imaavy was first approved last year for treating generalized myasthenia gravis. The post J&J’s Imaavy Becomes First FDA-Approved Therapy for Rare Form of Anemia appeared first on MedCity News .

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regulation Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000
The 74

After a Nearly Six Year Saga, Burlington’s New High School Opens Its Doors

Batula Kassim sat in front of a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows in her school’s new library, the sunlight a welcome contrast to the refurbished Macy’s department store where she spent her freshman year. Kassim, an incoming sophomore at Burlington High School, is one of a cohort of students who spent part or all of their […]

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regulation Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000
The 74

As Back-to-School Prices Rise, Donations Fill the Gap for Teachers, Families

There is perhaps no clearer sign that summer is drawing to a close than the arrival of school supplies in big box stores and school supply drives in most counties. On Wednesday, Gov. Josh Stein delivered school supplies collected over the summer to W.M. Irvin Elementary School in Concord. It’s the eighth year the governor’s […]

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technology Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:59:55 +0000
HN: education

AI and education: A watershed moment for MIT

Article URL: https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/ai-and-education-watershed-moment-mit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438025 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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behavior Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:25:43 +0000
MindShift (KQED)

Families and Teachers are Questioning Ed Tech. Are Schools and Districts Starting to Listen?

Families and educators are starting to reconsider school-issued computers and tablets.

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audience Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:55:27 -0400
Higher Ed Dive

Broward College board, president reach $430K separation agreement

Under the settlement, Torey Alston resigned immediately and will withdraw his lawsuit against the board. The board did not admit wrongdoing.

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audience Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:31:19 -0400
Higher Ed Dive

Cornell, MIT and others can appeal class action status in antitrust case

Former students accused the colleges of colluding to fix tuition prices and lower financial aid offers.

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regulation Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:13:19 -0400
K-12 Dive

This Texas effort to prevent schools from ‘passing the trash’ could go nationwide

A federal initiative has so far led to over $14,000 in civil penalties in one district and criminal charges against two of its former educators.

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technology Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:33:00 -0400
EdTech Mag (K-12)

Intentional Professional Development Supports Technology Investments

K–12 districts aren’t slowing down on technology investments. U.S. schools spent an estimated $30 billion on ed tech in 2024, a figure that is expected to nearly double by 2033. But even the smartest investments can succeed only if the people they’re meant for actually use them. Too often, planning focuses on procurement and rollout, but skips a critical component of implementation: professional development. The CoSN 2026 Driving K–12 Innovation Report emphasizes the importance of professional development as a critical component of building up leaders in school settings: “When schools…

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