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A hacker has obtained personal data belonging to millions of California students, according to the state's education department. The breach raises serious questions about how schools collect, store, and protect sensitive information on minors — a population that can't exactly opt out of the systems their institutions require them to use.
Shifting to robotics, a French research collaboration involving Kyutai, Inria, and École des Ponts has released REKI, a vision-language-action model built for robot manipulation. At two point four billion parameters, it punches well above its weight class, matching systems roughly twice its size on out-of-distribution benchmarks. The weights are publicly available on Hugging Face today.
And over at Anthropic, an internal look at the company's workforce reveals it has grown less junior over the past year, with employees spending more time in meetings. That might sound unremarkable, but for an AI lab that positions itself around moving fast and thinking carefully, it's a telling signal about where the company is in its maturity curve.
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