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A retired military officer and behavioral health expert argues that children from military families are frequently misunderstood in US public schools, where teachers may overlook the effects of frequent relocations, parental deployments and family stress on students' behavior and learning. Writing in The Conversation, the author calls on schools to recognize these challenges and adopt supportive practices to help military-connected students succeed academically and emotionally.

The Safety of Robotics Engineering Standards (SRES) community hosted a fireside chat examining how robot safety standards can keep pace with rapid advances in artificial intelligence. The discussion, promoted by the Association for Advancing Automation, focuses on how AI-driven and learning-based robotic systems challenge existing safety frameworks, which were largely designed for machines with fixed, predictable behavior. Industry observers say updating these standards has become urgent as AI-enabled robots move into factories, warehouses and public spaces.

The Biohub research organization has announced a $1.8 billion initiative to develop artificial intelligence models capable of predicting cell behavior. The program aims to combine large-scale biological data with machine learning to forecast how cells respond to disease, drugs and genetic changes. The scale of the funding makes it one of the larger private investments in AI-driven biology to date, drawing attention from scientists tracking the convergence of computing and life sciences.