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Agentic AI

Agent platforms, multi-agent systems, harnesses, and the orchestration layer between models and work.

30 editions (showing the most recent 30)

October 30, 2026

Headlines: 6

An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI
How we detect frontier model misalignment
Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready

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UH launches systemwide AI survey for students, faculty and staff
Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel?
How Online Programs Can Close the Workplace Readiness Gap

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October 29, 2026

Headlines: 5

‘A seat at the table’: Cornell expands access to multiple AI tools for faculty, staff, students
Announcing Princeton ChatGPT pilot
Higher Ed Cybersecurity Adapts to Growing AI Threats

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OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows
Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding

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October 28, 2026

Headlines: 4

Ransomware Pressure Moves Beyond Enterprise Systems to Theaten Employees' Families
AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery, Researchers Find
The future of the firm

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How researchers are adapting olmOCR 2 for historical and archaeological archives

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October 27, 2026

Headlines: 6

Sophos Launches Tool to Defend Against Shadow AI
Microsoft Expands AI Security Platform to Address Security Risks from AI Agents
Organizations Report Positive ROI on AI Investments, Yet Data Readiness and Oversight Lag Behind

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NVIDIA Launches OpenShell Reference Architecture for Safe AI Agents
IBM Introduces Identity and Control for AI Agents, Securing Frontier Intelligence for the Enterprise
Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

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October 26, 2026

Headlines: 6

Universities explore how to balance AI development with responsible use
Texas Athletics and McCombs School of Business Launch New Bevo Lab, Bringing Together Sports, AI and Analytics
Federal AI Contracts Face Higher Costs as Subsidies End

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AI Forge: Critical AI Challenges for National Security Report - Cycle 2
UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on AI's economic impact: 'There's very little that we do where we need frontier models'

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October 25, 2026

Headlines: 5

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
NOT-OD-27-011: USG Policy for the use of Super Intelligence
LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape

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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
How AT&T is rethinking in-house legal work with OpenAI

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October 24, 2026

Headlines: 6

How AI Agents Are Helping Campus IT Teams Manage Student Support During Peak Demand
Access to supercomputers under more pressure as AI boosts demand
D2L, WCET and Opened Culture Release Findings from Global Longitudinal Study on AI Governance in Higher Education

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Securing our frontier model training environment
Democratic governance of frontier AI, part II: Empowering cyber defenders
UK and France to pioneer an European federated infrastructure opening new frontiers to AI innovation

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October 23, 2026

Headlines: 6

Higher Ed Owns Plenty of Technology. The Question Is Whether It's Delivering Value.
How Institutions Are Adopting a Human-Centered Approach to IT
Pentagon Research Security Sweep: 30 Universities Done, All Others Now on Notice for Second Wave

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University of Michigan Adopts Six Principles for AI Use
Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilities

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October 22, 2026

Headlines: 5

Unexpected AI Agent Activity Reported by Nearly Half of Organizations in Recent Survey
How Higher Ed Institutions Are Managing Third-Party Risk
OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

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Employers Say AI Will Make College Degrees More Important
Could Tech Sovereignty Free Higher Ed From Big Tech?

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October 21, 2026

Headlines: 5

Employers' Confidence in Higher Education Undaunted by AI
Governor Sherrill Launches NJ Supercomputer Initiative to Drive Innovation, Create Inclusive Economic Opportunity, and Solve Shared Statewide Challenges
Georgia Tech's NSF AI Institutes Enter New Era With $38.4 Million in Renewed Support

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From classrooms to State House: Boston students join nationwide protests calling for AI oversight
FairStress: A deeper evaluation of fairness in LLM decision-making

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October 20, 2026

Headlines: 5

Study Finds Most Organizations Are Not Consistently Measuring AI Value Against Costs
Nearly half of employers say AI will make college degrees more important
Claude AI now available to Emory University community

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CWRU Partners with Google to Expand Campus-Wide AI Access with Gemini Enterprise
Advancing coding in low-resource programming languages

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October 19, 2026

Headlines: 5

ServiceNow Gives Enterprise AI Agents Cryptographic IDs to Enforce Limits at Runtime
An Uncertain Landscape for Science Funding
Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline

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Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin

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October 18, 2026

Headlines: 6

Study Suggests More Guidance Needed in Use of AI Course Assistants
UC Santa Barbara taking a 'base camp' approach to artificial intelligence
Rice launches transformational AI initiative with faculty hiring, new programs and facilities

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Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base
Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta

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October 17, 2026

Headlines: 7

GU Pilots ChatGPT Premium for Faculty in Latest AI Expansion
Harvard logs $100M surplus despite 20% drop in federal research money
University of Alabama among 15 schools launching AI computing partnership

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Mizzou teams up with Google Public Sector to use AI to accelerate research, innovation
Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
400 Scientists Call for Global Body to Contain AI
Before You Replace the Legacy ERP, Learn What It Is Actually Doing

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October 16, 2026

Headlines: 5

Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
K-State advances AI governance amid growing use across campus
University of Alabama among 15 schools launching AI computing partnership

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Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely
Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity

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October 15, 2026

Headlines: 6

Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models
HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

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How admissions officials are navigating the academic year ahead
Before You Replace the Legacy ERP, Learn What It Is Actually Doing
Review: Cohesity DataProtect Ensures Steadfast Backup and Recovery in Higher Ed

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October 14, 2026

Headlines: 7

ASU provides access to AI-supercomputing for all
Why Workload Placement Determines AI ROI in Higher Ed
Phishing Attacks Increasingly Exploit Remote Management Tools and AI E-mail Assistants, Reports Find

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Owned, not licensed: Why community colleges should build their own AI infrastructure
Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
The EU's next chapter in AI is agentic
Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B

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October 13, 2026

Headlines: 6

Georgia Tech Opens Supercomputer to Researchers Nationwide
SailPoint Rolls Out New Capabilities to Address Agentic AI Identity Security Challenge
Leading the Next Era of Internet2

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Trump administration announces $6B in science initiatives, anchored by AI compute commitments
AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit
White House restores UK access to frontier AI models after 17-day freeze

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October 12, 2026

Headlines: 6

Higher Ed Tech Officers Navigating "Age of Perpetual Change"
Cheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that's Jensen Huang's best-case scenario
Report: Convergence of AI, Quantum Risks Impacting Cybersecurity

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How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails
How Leaders Overcome IT Staffing Shortages Through Retention and Upskilling

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October 11, 2026

Headlines: 6

2027 EDUCAUSE Top 10 Spotlights an Age of Change
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Offers Model-Switching Cybersecurity Safeguards
Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters

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Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
UMD experts compare university guidelines, Maryland's new state AI framework
Flashpoint Patents Ransomware Risk Model, Tying Vulnerabilities to Likelihood of Attack

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October 10, 2026

Headlines: 5

Federal AI Research Push Raises Questions About STEM Funding and the Future Scientific Workforce
Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters
How Higher Ed Institutions Can Rethink Cyber Risk in Terms of Financial Exposure

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Report: Convergence of AI, Quantum Risks Impacting Cybersecurity
Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol

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October 9, 2026

Headlines: 6

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Offers Model-Switching Cybersecurity Safeguards
EDUCAUSE '26: AI Exposes Gaps in Data Governance
Utah's Redtail AI Factory Puts Statewide AI Ambitions on a Supercomputing Foundation

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Advanced workload shifting social demonstration project launched – aiming to realize a "virtual hyperscaler" by integrating control of communications, power, and computing resources
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak

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October 8, 2026

Headlines: 6

OpenAI Introduces Dots, AI Agents that Continue Working Between User Conversations
Survey Reveals Data Governance Enforcement Gap for Agentic AI Tools
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

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What IT Leaders Need To Know Before Deploying a Campus Mental Health Platform
Survey: Lack of Specialized Infrastructure Is a Top AI Adoption Challenge
Now in Nature: Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

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October 7, 2026

Headlines: 5

Frontier AI challenges enterprise controls
Ohio State, Google partner to accelerate research and AI Fluency
Garber Announces $150 Million for Harvard Research Amid Federal Funding Uncertainty

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Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action

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October 6, 2026

Headlines: 5

OpenAI Discontinuing Custom GPTs and Moving to Plugin Architecture
Report: AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem
Our approach to EU text provenance rules

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Inside UNLV's Student-Powered Security Operations Center
Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance

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October 5, 2026

Headlines: 6

EDUCAUSE '26: Top 10 Reflects 'Age of Perpetual Change'
EDUCAUSE '26: Reflecting on AI in Higher Ed, 4 Years Into ChatGPT
Controlling agents a joint priority for data, AI governance teams

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Cohere's North 2 puts AI agents on a budget and gives them a memory
The great enterprise AI rewrite is starting
A model guide for the GPT-6 family

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October 4, 2026

Headlines: 5

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
New in IBM watsonx Orchestrate: Expanded third-party agent management and Agent Identities
4 Key Takeaways From the U.S. News Future of Higher Education Forum

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Let's Stop With the Pearl-Clutching and Roll Up Our Sleeves
The latest AI news we announced in September 2026

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October 3, 2026

Headlines: 6

Students offered an AI tutor got lower grades and disengaged from course materials, University of Maryland trial finds
UNC Greensboro launches Spartan AI
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents

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Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta
A model guide for the GPT-6 family
Higher Ed's Path to Advanced Cybersecurity Maturity

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October 2, 2026

Headlines: 5

AI Leads 2027 Educause Top 10
California Community Colleges wants AI funded to tune of $195M
Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign

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Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents

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October 1, 2026

Headlines: 6

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Introducing dots
Industry Alliance Targets Common Security Model for AI Agents

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Redesigned Copilot Will Build Apps and Work on Its Own
California Community Colleges wants AI funded to tune of $195M
AI Leaders Warn of Security Risks at United Nations Briefing

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