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📌 The Australian federal government announced an investment of 225.2 million AUD (approx. 151 million USD) for the deployment of AI in the public sector over the next 4 years. The focus is on the GovAI program – AI services hosted on sovereign infrastructure, used across all government agencies. GovAI includes a shared AI platform, training programs, and a secure AI assistant named GovAI Chat. 166.4 million AUD is allocated in the first 3 years to expand the GovAI platform and to design, build, and test GovAI Chat.

📌 OpenAI announced FrontierScience, a new benchmark evaluating AI’s expert-level scientific reasoning in three core fields: physics, chemistry, and biology, marking a shift from knowledge memorization to true scientific thinking: hypothesis formation, verification, refinement, and interdisciplinary synthesis. With over 700 difficult questions built by experts, results show GPT-5.2 reaching 77% on theoretical problems but only 25% on open research tasks. This indicates that AI is strong enough to support science, but a large gap remains before it can truly generate new scientific breakthroughs.

📌 President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to limit the ability of US states to enact their own laws regulating AI companies. Trump’s AI order reflects the sharp conflict between the goal of technological leadership and the need for social protection. In the context of a deadlocked Congress, the White House has chosen to centralize AI regulation at the federal level, prioritizing accelerated investment and competition with China. However, nullifying state laws risks creating a “regulatory vacuum,” raising concerns about safety, citizens’ rights, and the role of local control over power.

📌 The Chair of the US Federal Reserve expressed concern that the AI wave in the US could cause more job losses than the number of new jobs created. He emphasized that over the past 200 years, technology has often destroyed some jobs but ultimately created enough new ones, yet this time “might be different.” In the context of the Fed lowering interest rates to 3.75% and forecasting unemployment rising to 4.5%, AI is becoming a new factor altering the balance between growth and labor.

📌 The race for space-based AI data centers is becoming a new technological front between China and the US, tied tightly to national security, economic dominance, and the future of global connectivity. China currently leads in actual deployment with a 5-peta-operations constellation and over 1,000 days of operation, while the US counterattacks with massive capital and a vision of 100 gigawatts of AI in orbit.

📌 The UAE government has officially launched a smart system using AI to manage and evaluate the performance of federal officers and civil servants, with the goal of increasing productivity, transparency, and strategic execution efficiency. The federal-wide implementation from January 1, 2026, combining OKRs, KPIs, and behavioral competencies, along with AI for goal suggestions and training, promises to create a flexible HR ecosystem, reduce bureaucracy, and promote positive competition in the public sector.

📌 California Governor Gavin Newsom harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s executive order on AI, arguing that it promotes “grift and corruption” rather than innovation. While the federal administration wants to block state laws to “protect AI dominance,” lawmakers, unions, and social organizations warn of the risk of removing safety rails and granting excessive power to Big Tech. This controversy shows that the US still lacks a comprehensive federal AI policy framework, making a legal battle almost inevitable.

📌 Warning that the premature adoption of the “one student, one chatbot” model may contradict decades of educational research. Learning science research shows that learning is inherently a social process, not just an individual cognitive activity. In the classroom, discussion, debate, and listening to peers help enhance brain health and learning outcomes. Technology should only support, not erode, the foundations of social learning and the holistic development of children.

📌 Generative AI is giving “superpowers” to small businesses: reducing branding time by 90%, saving tens of thousands of dollars in design costs, and opening a new era – where every founder can become a designer, and brands are formed instantly from the first idea. The 5 fastest-growing AI design sectors include: naming, logo, website, brand assets, and visual presentations.

📌 Saudi Arabia is placing a big bet on sovereign AI by developing the data embassy model, where other nations’ data is stored in Saudi Arabia but remains under the legal jurisdiction of the owning country. Saudi Arabia proposed the “Global AI Hub Law” in April 2025, suggesting three levels of legal protection for data embassies: from full autonomy to hybrid legal protection supported by Saudi courts. If the law is passed, Saudi Arabia will become the first G20 nation to have a specific legal framework for data embassies.