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The Snowden archive has quietly faded from public view, and a new investigation is asking why. The trove of documents that once exposed mass surveillance programs has become increasingly inaccessible, with key materials scattered, restricted, or simply gone. It raises uncomfortable questions about who controls history when history is inconvenient.
Turning to AI in the classroom, writer Daniel Lemire argues that artificial intelligence isn't just helping students cheat — it's exposing something more fundamental. Academic credentials have long functioned as a sorting mechanism, separating those who can perform under institutional rules from everyone else. When AI dissolves that barrier, the whole system's logic starts to unravel, and nobody quite agrees on what replaces it.
And Google has quietly released an open agentic orchestrator, a framework designed to coordinate multiple AI agents working together on complex tasks. It's already drawing significant attention from developers. The interesting tension here is openness versus control — Google is betting that putting this infrastructure in the open builds trust, while also cementing its position at the center of how agentic AI gets built.
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