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Schools across Europe are grappling with a widening gap between how fast AI is entering classrooms and how prepared teachers actually are to guide students through it. New research from ThinkYoung, paired with insights from OpenAI's EMEA education partnerships, points to a clear need for structured AI literacy programs that support independent thinking rather than replace it.
On the cloud infrastructure side, Google has moved its spend caps for Cloud Billing Budgets into general availability, giving developers a harder stop on monthly costs. The update adds an API, live cost estimates, and automatic monthly resets — though the feature currently covers only four services, and any overages that slip through during enforcement delays are still billed in full.
And a story that sits right at the intersection of trust and tooling — a developer has released an open-source utility called I Access Auditor, designed to let engineers see exactly what their AI coding agents can reach inside a codebase, and revoke that access selectively. It's early and quiet, but the underlying question it raises about agent permissions is one the industry will need to answer at scale.
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