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Infrastructure & Data

Compute, cloud migrations, data analytics, and the plumbing AI runs on.

28 editions

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 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 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 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 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 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 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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September 30, 2026

Headlines: 6

DevDay 2026 Recap
Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
Higher Ed's AI Integration Overhyped, New Data Shows

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College leaders are using AI. Students call it hypocrisy.
Digital accessibility deadline demands a focus on procurement
AI needs $6 trillion in annual revenue to justify data centers

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September 29, 2026

Headlines: 5

Industry Alliance Targets Common Security Model for AI Agents
California Community Colleges wants AI funded to tune of $195M
AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Shut Down

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5 Questions To Ask To Manage Cloud Spending in Higher Ed
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training

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September 19, 2026

Headlines: 7

From Human Speed to Machine Speed: How Higher Ed Security Is Using AI to Fight Agentic Attacks
How University IT Leaders Can Budget for Volatile AI Pricing Models
Researchers Warn: Passkey Phishing Attacks Are Leading to Cloud Account Takeovers

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New Microsoft AI Code of Conduct Emphasizes Human Control
Nvidia touts AI data centre software to boost output
Researchers sue NIH alleging unconstitutional grant screening process
Our framework for reporting model misalignment

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September 13, 2026

Headlines: 5

Building trust in the AI era: MUSC creates Acceptable Use Framework
Tech companies are selling kids' data. A new California law aims to protect their privacy
What Could Brain-Computer Interfaces Mean for Students With Disabilities?

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IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
AI Giants Report Advances in Mathematical Research

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September 11, 2026

Headlines: 6

Introducing the Agents API
Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
Now everyone can put data to work

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Can AI Help Colleges Reach Struggling Students Earlier?
Fragmented Data Is Quietly Undermining Student Success and Cybersecurity Hygiene
Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API

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September 9, 2026

Headlines: 6

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
Rubrik, CrowdStrike Expand Integration to Speed Identity Recovery

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Navigating the endowment squeeze with AI and better data
Accenture and Google Cloud launch Gemini Enterprise Business Group
An Alien Mind

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September 8, 2026

Headlines: 5

OpenAI rival Mistral valued at $24 billion as Samsung leads funding
Anthropic reportedly signs $517 billion in compute deals after Dario Amodei warned rivals about reckless risk
Five Enterprise Vendors Just Shipped the Same Three-Layer Agent Infrastructure Stack – and None of Them Coordinated

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Florida Moves to Regulate Artificial Intelligence From Pre-K Through PhD
U-M seeks community feedback on draft AI guiding principles

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September 7, 2026

Headlines: 7

An Alien Mind
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

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Sanders, Casar to Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic's Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

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September 6, 2026

Headlines: 6

Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
UChicago Social Sciences Took a Stand Against AI and Devices. Why?

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Peñalver to Set University-Wide AI Framework
Kentucky Pushes AI Proficiency for All College Students
The Outlook for Data Center Power Demand as AI Token Use Grows

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September 5, 2026

Headlines: 6

GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face
Berkeley’s ghostwriter: AI writing permeates campus, student and city communications

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Strengthening America’s AI Ecosystem with the Launch of the NSF NAIRR Operations Center
Gartner: Hypervisor Replatforming Is Reshaping Storage and Virtualization Decisions
From Knowing to Being: Reclaiming the University’s Purpose in an AI Age

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September 4, 2026

Headlines: 6

Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
MasterControl Seventeen Every Time
Speculative Macro Commit for Faster Tool-Using Agents

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Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
AI governance in higher education: Five lessons for university leaders

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September 3, 2026

Headlines: 6

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Report: 83% of Organizations Need an Infrastructure Upgrade to Support Production-Grade Agentic AI
Global investment in AI infrastructure to hit US$31.6 trillion through 2050

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What Shadow IT Can Teach Higher Ed Tech Leaders About the Faculty Experience
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?

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September 1, 2026

Headlines: 6

Improving our alignment and security efforts
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Nutanix Cloud Platform Updates Expand Capabilities for Production Agentic AI

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CSA's Top Cloud Threats: Identity, AI
AWS Program Gives College Students Access to AI and Cloud Resources
University of Tampa Mandates AI Literacy Class for Sophomores

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August 31, 2026

Headlines: 3

Nutanix Cloud Platform Updates Expand Capabilities for Production Agentic AI
CSA's Top Cloud Threats: Identity, AI
Why Trust Matters as Higher Ed Adopts AI Tools

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