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‼️🇳🇴 Norway bans the use of AI in primary schools due to declining school results.

A new national recommendation says pupils should largely not use AI in schoolwork. The government's reasoning is sequencing: kids need to master reading, writing and arithmetic first, and it says research shows uncritical use of generative AI lets them skip the hard parts of learning.

The backdrop is a years-long slide in basic skills. The government cites data showing one in four Norwegian pupils now reads below the minimum level, and says it won't repeat the mistake of rushing digital devices onto young children.

🚨MICRON ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC DEAL WITH ANTHROPIC

- Multi-year HBM, DRAM and SSD agreement
- Co-designing memory + storage around Claude’s workloads
- Claude deployed across Micron
- Micron invested in Anthropic Series H

Micron is now Anthropic’s investor, customer, partner, AND supplier.

🚨JAPANESE AI STARTUP JUST MATCHED CLAUDE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS PERFORMANCE.

Japanese AI lab just launched Fugu, a model trained to command other models.

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI startup, was co-founded by researchers including one of the authors of the original Transformer paper, the blueprint that basically every AI model today is built on.

Sakana Fugu is a multi-agent AI system that feels like a single model, automatically orchestrating specialized models behind one API endpoint.

Fugu Ultra is claimed to match Anthropic's Fable 5 & Mythos Preview on the hardest engineering/science/reasoning benchmarks — and to beat Gemini 3.1 Pro, Opus 4.8 & GPT-5.5 on tasks like AutoResearch, mechanical design & financial forecasting.

Everyone's racing to scale ONE giant model but Fugu flips it: an LLM that orchestrates a pool of the world's best models (choosing who does what, delegating, verifying and merging it into one answer), even calling itself recursively.

Think of it as a conductor. You send one request to one API, and Fugu figures out the move: answer it solo, or assemble a squad of expert models and run the whole thing for you.

Sakana AI launched two models:
Fugu - fast, low-latency, everyday coding/chat
Fugu Ultra - max quality on hard, multi-step problems (AI research, paper reproduction, cybersecurity, patent search)

Export controls are hitting frontier models now, but because Fugu's agent pool is swappable, if a provider restricts access, it routes around it.

Both Fugu and Fugu Ultra can be accessed through a unified API, with subscription plans for everyday users and pay-as-you-go pricing designed for high-volume and enterprise workloads.