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Norway is drawing a clear line between students and generative AI, announcing a ban on its use for younger schoolchildren starting next academic year. The move reflects a growing tension in education systems worldwide — whether AI tools are accelerating learning or quietly replacing the cognitive struggle that makes learning stick in the first place.
Shifting to a very different kind of tool, a GitHub project called Second Brain is positioning itself as an invisible AI copilot for job interviews, running on Groq and Meta's Llama three. It sits quietly in the background, feeding candidates real-time assistance. Whether that reads as clever preparation or straight-up deception depends entirely on where you sit — and increasingly, employers are starting to sit up and notice.
And from the ancient world, Greece has unveiled a restored section of the Parthenon facade that hasn't been seen in full for two centuries. It's a remarkable intersection of archaeology, engineering, and patience — a reminder that some of the most meaningful reconstruction projects have nothing to do with software, and everything to do with what we choose to preserve.
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