Research Funding: Canada announced $541M+ for Intake 1 of the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs and Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders, aiming to pull top researchers into applied, real-world work. AI Agents & Coding: OpenAI’s Persistent Codex Agent is moving toward an always-on mode that keeps working until stopped, as engineers spot “continue working” code changes—still in testing. Education & Skills: IIT Delhi opened admissions to its Advanced Data Analytics in Management program, blending predictive modeling, decision science, and Generative AI into business analytics. Healthcare Digital Standards: An ISB study finds hospitals adopting NABH digital health standards improved documentation, discharge flow, and operational efficiency, with some reporting big drops in revenue leakage. Legal Tech: The Ninth Circuit weighed in on agentic AI web access in Amazon v. Perplexity, drawing early lines on who is “accessing” under older computer-access laws. Space Tech Testing: Auburn installed a 200 MeV superconducting proton accelerator for university-led radiation hardening testing of space electronics. Energy & AI Data Centers: South Korea launched 11 electricity pricing zones to cut AI data center power costs, potentially reshaping where new clusters get built. Public Health/Climate Risk: A glacier collapse in Tibet triggered a deadly Nepal flood, with experts explaining how rock-ice avalanches can turn into long-runout debris flows.