📌 Summary: With Mistral 3, Europe launches a comprehensive open-source AI ecosystem that can run on everything from phones, drones, and robots to enterprise systems. The 10 diverse models – ranging from 3 billion to 675 billion parameters – allow AI to run “everywhere,” helping businesses reduce costs, increase autonomy, and pave the way for an era of distributed intelligence, where AI is not just big – but ubiquitous.

📌 Summary: The South Korean government terminated the “AI Digital Textbook Promotion Plan” just four months after implementation, following the chaos the program caused in schools. The government invested $850 million, and publishers contributed an additional $567 million to produce and deploy the books across 4,095 schools nationwide. However, the AI textbooks were plagued with serious flaws upon teaching. The program ended in failure: over 50% of schools withdrew, thousands of technical errors occurred, and teachers and students were exhausted. The incident highlights the consequences of hastily applying AI in education.

📌 Summary: The Australian Department of Home Affairs is establishing a new security platform to allow government agencies to use generative AI with sensitive data, classified from “OFFICIAL” up to “PROTECTED” level. Currently, only 18 AI vendors, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), and Google (Gemini), are permitted to access “OFFICIAL” data. The Department of Finance recently announced a policy requiring all public servants to have access to safe generative AI directly on their laptops. All government agencies must appoint a Chief AI Officer before July 2026 to oversee security policy compliance and practical implementation.

Contrary to fears that AI will replace humans, leading law firms like Allens and King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) are recruiting more lawyers to verify and supervise the results generated by AI. According to a survey by The Australian Financial Review, 70% of the 53 law firms questioned reported an increase in non-partner lawyers by more than 5%, reaching nearly 18,800 people, while the number of partners grew by 3% to 4,600. At Allens, the number of non-partner lawyers increased by 11% to a record high of 1,078, despite a slight decrease in partners to 157. The firm uses over 6 AI tools, including Arlie (an internal version of…

📌 Summary: Contrary to fears that AI will replace humans, leading law firms in Australia are recruiting more lawyers to verify and supervise the results generated by AI. The race by law firms to build proprietary “AI tech stacks” is creating a new wave of demand for lawyers, as courts require meticulous verification of AI outputs. Instead of cutting staff, AI is redefining the legal profession, transforming lawyers into “AI trainers”—both performing legal checks and leveraging technology to make more precise and creative decisions.

📌 Summary ICLR 2026—the world’s premier machine learning conference—is facing a shock as 21% of its peer reviews, equivalent to nearly 16,000 reviews, were found to be written entirely by generative AI. The received reviews contained incorrect data, bizarre phrasing, and missed the central focus of the research, which are characteristic features of feedback generated by generative AI.

Speaking at the U.S.–Saudi Investment Forum in Washington D.C., Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argued that instead of causing unemployment, AI will fundamentally change the nature of work and lead people to work more. He said: “Every job will be different. When you become more productive and the hard stuff becomes easy, you will have more time to pursue more ideas.” Huang cited the example of radiologists—thanks to AI, they can now process more images than ever before. However, the reality suggests that the productivity gain is largely driven by a severe labor shortage, which AI companies are leveraging for massive…

The Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy – the way a startup brings its product to market – is undergoing profound change in the AI era. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Max Altschuler (GTMfund) suggested: “AI enables businesses to do more with less resources,” but emphasized that foundational knowledge in marketing and industry expertise remains indispensable. Alison Wagonfeld, Vice President of Marketing at Google Cloud, affirmed: “Even with AI, the marketing profession still requires human empathy – from researching behavior and emotions to content creation.” She stated that AI helps teams deploy campaigns faster, measure performance from multiple dimensions, and optimize messaging based on real-time data. According to…

📌 Summary: The US is facing a fierce conflict between the federal government and states as 38 states have passed over 100 AI laws, while Big Tech and the White House seek to block states’ authority to enact AI laws. Over $100 million has been raised to lobby Congress to pass federal AI laws, and Congress is preparing Representative Lieu’s over 200-page AI bill to create a national standard. The debate revolves around speed, authority, and the level of consumer safety in the AI era.