Meta's Gaia2 pushes beyond tool accuracy and user preference to test real-world robustness

Meta released an agentic testing environment, Agents Research Environment, and a new benchmark called Gaia2 to measure ...
Futurism

Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an ...
The Baltimore Sun

MCAP data: View 2025 standardized test results for Maryland, schools, districts

Standardized test results released Tuesday for Maryland public schools show modest gains last year amid lingering disparities among races, student groups and school systems. View new and historical ...
Center for American Progress

The Trump Administration Is Using Americans’ Sensitive Data To Build a Digital Watchtower

The Trump administration’s abusive efforts to repurpose millions of federal records and funnel them into a centralized government database represent a systemic shift toward a consolidation of ...
Geeky Gadgets

MS Excel Copilot Beginners Guide : How to Make Data Analysis Effortless in 2025

Imagine opening Excel and no longer needing to wrestle with complex formulas or spend hours manually analyzing data. What if you could simply type a question, like “What are the top-performing ...
MIT Technology Review

When tech gets religion: How churches use data and AI

Spiritual care and technology are converging across the country, reshaping the theology of trust. Editor’s note (September 4, 2025): We found that this story failed to adhere to our editorial ...
KSDK

St. Charles will use data center to end city's reliance on polluted groundwater wells, officials say

ST CHARLES, Mo. — Hundreds of St. Charles residents piled into a warehouse Thursday night, creating a "sea of red" with signs and shirts depicting a circle and slash through the words "data center." ...
Stars and Stripes

Soldiers at Fort Hood test new program, use military ID to buy meals at on-post restaurants

FORT HOOD, Texas — The Army for the first time this week granted 200 soldiers the power to use their military ID card to buy food outside of the dining facility with their meal entitlements. For the ...
Phys.org

Signs of recent life on Mars could be detected using new simple test

A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using equipment already on the Mars Curiosity rover and planned for future use on the ...
USA Today

Trump is a bully. He's using the National Guard to conquer DC as a test run. | Opinion

President Donald Trump’s activation of the National Guard in Washington, DC, has less to do with an imagined “out of control” crime wave and more to do with conquest. It is more misguided bullying by ...
Fast Company

Data centers use massive energy and water. Here’s how to build them better

In late July, the Trump administration released its long-awaited AI Action Plan, which includes steps to cut environmental requirements and streamline permitting policies to make it easier to build ...