A test score can show what a student understands, but it doesn’t always tell the full story.
As a former educator, Michelle Odemwingie learned this firsthand in her own classroom. Now, as CEO of Achievement Network, she’s using data and AI to give teachers clearer insights into student development and help them tailor learning to each student’s unique needs.
Ever wondered what actually makes an AI “agent” different from a basic chatbot? 🤖💡
While standard chatbots just generate text, a true AI Agent can think, plan, use tools, and execute complex workflows autonomously (or alongside humans).
Here is a simple breakdown of how an AI Agent works under the hood:
🧠 The Brain (Reasoning & Memory): It uses LLMs to process information, leveraging short-term context and long-term vector memory to recall instructions and past interactions.
🎯 Planning & Decisions: Before acting, it breaks big goals down into smaller, actionable steps. If it can answer directly, it does; if not, it triggers the action layer!
🛠️ Tools & Execution: It interacts with real-world applications—running code, querying databases, triggering API calls, and reading files to get actual work done.
🛡️️ Safety & Monitoring: Surrounding the whole process are strict guardrails (human-in-the-loop checkpoints, rate limits, content filtering) and observability tools to track accuracy, costs, and performance.
Coffee enemas are a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) promoted by some practitioners and celebrities without credible scientific evidence. Their use is associated with several adverse effects, some of which can be life-threatening, including rectal burns, proctocolitis, intestinal obstruction, and electrolyte imbalances, which are well-documented but under reported. Only a handful of comparable cases exist in the literature, highlighting the need for greater clinician awareness and patient education. We present the case of a 30-year-old obese male with a recent diagnosis of T2 diabetes mellitus who developed severe proctocolitis, a fibrotic stricture leading to subacute intestinal obstruction, and a significant electrolyte imbalance following a self-administered hot coffee enema. The patient required intensive care management and partial colectomy was planned. This case report shows that coffee enema sometimes can cause serious complications. Healthcare providers and patients should be aware of the risk and should use coffee enema with caution.
People who live long enough have a high chance of losing some of their hearing as they grow older. By age 60, about one in three adults has presbycusis, an age-related decline in hearing caused by changes inside the ear, including the loss of sensory hair cells and damage to the auditory nerve. Hearing aids can help bring sounds back into reach, making conversations easier to follow and helping older adults stay connected with the people around them. Some studies have found that hearing loss is linked to a higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia.
A recent study from China explored whether treating hearing loss with hearing aids could do more than improve hearing, potentially slowing the progression from mild cognitive problems to dementia-level impairment.
The researchers designed the two-year CHOICE trial (Chinese Hearing Solution for Improvement of Cognition in Elders) to track changes in cognitive impairment among 703 participants with both moderate-to-severe hearing loss and mild cognitive problems. Participants were randomly split into two groups: One half received hearing aids, and the other half received health education on hearing care and cognitive health.
Live from the Expo West 2026 trade fair in California, US, Nutrition Insight speaks to renowned mycologist and Fungi Perfecti founder Paul Stamets. Featured in the Netflix documentary “Fantastic Fungi,” Stamets spotlights how mycelium’s potential reaches far beyond human immunity, offering a critical defense for bees and livestock against emerging viral threats.
New clinical research has found that a blend of fungal extracts from Fomitopsis officinalis (agarikon) and Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) mushroom mycelia is an effective adjunct supplement that helps reduce side effects from COVID-19 vaccinations. Fungi Perfecti supplied the study with capsules containing the blend, which was cultivated on organic brown rice.
“To the best of my knowledge, this study is the first placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical study ever conducted using a fungal component to enhance the efficacy of vaccines in healthy individuals,” he notes.
Adventurer Hiro Iwamoto is the first totally blind person to cross the Pacific.
On the World Economic Forum’s #MeetTheLeader video podcast, Iwamoto is joined by crewmate Doug Smith to talk through the ups and downs of the incredible story, explore lessons of #leadership, and speak about the purpose revealed to him in a dream: ‘giving courage and hope to others’
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How can leaders move forward when pressure is high and the way is not clear? Blind adventurer Hiro Iwamoto and his ‘seeing eye Doug crewmate Doug Smith sailed across the Pacific in 55 days, from San Diego to Fukushima. The two share key strategies for leaders in taking action despite uncertainty and what’s needed to pick the right partners to make impossible projects a reality. Hiro also shares how he stays calm in moments of extreme adversity, like when whale sank his boat during an earlier attempt leaving him in a life raft for 11 hours amid five-metre waves. Key takeaways:
Courage means moving forward without waiting for 100% information.
Simultaneously, EvilTokens employs a multi-stage delivery pipeline to bypass traditional email gateways and endpoint security through fake CAPTCHA checks and redirection chains that make use of high-reputation “serverless” platforms like Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, and AWS Lambda to blend in with legitimate enterprise cloud traffic and sidestep domain-blocklist triggers.
Statistics shared by Microsoft show that EvilTokens has been linked to more than 12,000 compromised email inboxes across over 10,000 organizations worldwide, indicating the service had gained widespread traction among threat actors in a short span of time.
The highest concentrations of victim activity have been observed in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, India, and France. Targeted organizations include wholesale distribution, construction, financial services, real estate, higher education, and healthcare.
By Chuck Brooks Higher education is being reshaped by rapid technological convergence—AI, quantum computing, robotics, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and advanced communications—which is dissolving traditional boundaries between academic disciplines and professions. As the document notes, “the traditional boundaries between technology and virtually every other profession are disappearing.” Students no longer need to become engineers, but they must understand how technology works, how to use AI effectively, how to protect digital environments, and how to communicate complex ideas. My article argues that future career readiness depends on a blend of AI fluency, cybersecurity awareness, technological literacy, critical thinking, ethics, and human communication skills.
To bridge this gap, researchers have developed greCAPTCHA—a proctored testing system designed to measure an author’s “capacity to verify.” Instead of just checking who wrote the text, greCAPTCHA tests whether the authors possess the deep knowledge and critical reasoning required to understand and defend the core ideas in their manuscript.
School of Computer Science is at the forefront of all facets of computing research and education.
The conversation focused on the unprecedented wave of technological disruption brought about by advances in artificial intelligence, exploring how these innovations are reshaping the social contract, the workforce, and the very fabric of society. One concept discussed was the collapse of traditional pathways—such as the idea that doing well in school and earning a college degree guarantees security and a stable job—in the face of rapidly evolving AI capabilities.
A key theme that emerged was the dual-edged nature of AI’s impact: while automation and intelligent machines threaten to displace conventional jobs, particularly for those unable or unwilling to adapt, new opportunities are arising for solopreneurs, creators, and individuals ready to leverage technology as a force multiplier. The discussion explored the ways gatekeepers have been removed, the costs of entrepreneurship have plummeted, and barriers to innovation are lower than ever before.
Several points were raised, including the psychological and societal turbulence that can result from such rapid change, with concerns about social unrest, especially among younger generations struggling to find their place. The conversation also addressed the promise of AI to solve critical problems in healthcare, science, and education, potentially ushering in an era of abundance—but only if society can adjust mindsets, update educational systems, and encourage purpose-driven curiosity.
Listeners can expect a deep dive into the ethical, economic, and cultural fork in the road humanity faces, as well as practical advice for achieving agency, adaptability, and meaning in a world where the only constant is exponential change.
