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Chinese universities are quietly reshaping their academic landscape, cutting language and humanities majors to redirect resources toward artificial intelligence programs. It's a sweeping institutional bet that AI fluency matters more than cultural and linguistic breadth — a trade-off that will take years to fully understand.
Turning to accountability in that same AI space, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on AI companies to be transparent about their environmental footprint, urging them to, in his words, come clean about the pollution they generate. Data centers consume enormous amounts of energy and water, and right now most companies disclose very little about those costs voluntarily.
And in space, SpaceX completed a successful demonstration of what it's calling Starfall, adding another milestone to a launch program that has redefined what commercial spaceflight looks like. Details remain limited, but the test appears to validate key technology the company has been developing alongside its broader Starship ambitions.
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