AI Safety & Compute: Australia’s new AI Safety Institute is already testing frontier models and pushing for safeguards early, with a $29.9M budget and projects aimed at stopping cheating and deception. AI Infrastructure: Qualcomm unveiled full-stack AI data center offerings, including the Dragonfly C1000 CPU and AI300 inference accelerator, targeting better token throughput per watt. Biotech & Drug Discovery: UMass Amherst researchers report two techniques that speed up the search for better tuberculosis drugs by mapping what compounds can cross the mycomembrane. Health Tech: Sant Pau researchers built an AI tool that links clinical, genetic, and transcriptomic signals to better predict thrombosis risk. Public Health Surveillance: Duke-NUS says sampling the environment in live poultry markets can detect a wider range of poultry viruses than testing individual birds. Policy & Governance: South Africa’s Information Regulator is taking the matric results publication fight to the Supreme Court of Appeal. Cybersecurity & Procurement: South Africa’s SITA faces sweeping reforms after a watchdog report flagged governance and procurement failures. Education & Skills: Namibia’s Nedbank expands graduate training and internships to bridge classroom learning and workplace readiness. Science & Society: Malaysia began enforcing bans on social media accounts for children under 16, with families raising data and surveillance concerns.