Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
Opinion

AI doesn’t just help us think, it thinks instead of us: what this means for the process of learning

This is why periagoge – turning towards the light – matters more now than ever and why AI threatens it so quietly. Knowledge isn’t merely true belief, it’s true belief held for the right reasons, ...

Q.ANT Runs Generative AI on Photonic Hardware

Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today demonstrated the first complex, production-relevant AI workloads on its photonic hardware. Q.ANT successfully demonstrated a diffusion model ...
CIDRAP

Artificial intelligence could usher in a new era of vaccine development

The COVID-19 vaccine was a triumph of science. Governments, researchers, and vaccine manufacturers worked in tandem to ...
Purdue University

Outcomes and Objectives

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...
NPR

Deep Dive

July 1, 2026 • There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for ...