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As of 2026, 42 U.S. states and Washington D.C. have passed laws or implemented policies mandating evidence-based reading instruction. The decades-long 'reading wars' are reaching a verdict. Georgia just invested $70 million to place literacy coaches in over 1,300 schools.
READ MOREIn May 2026, Claude Code's Hooks system received a significant upgrade. PostToolUse hooks can now intercept and replace output from any tool (not just MCP), hooks can read the current effort level via effort.level or $CLAUDE_EFFORT, and duration_ms tracks actual tool execution time. A new claude ultrareview subcommand also enables non-interactive code review from CI pipelines.
READ MOREOn May 5, 2026, Notion officially launched Custom Agents out of beta β just three months after more than 1 million agents were created during the preview period. The GA release brings new admin controls for creation permissions, per-agent credit limits, a spending dashboard, and automatic safeguards against unexpected costs.
READ MOREIn early 2026, Obsidian released Bases β a new core plugin that creates table, card, and list views from note properties. It looks similar to Notion databases, but your data stays in Markdown files on your own machine.
READ MOREThe unemployment rate for new college graduates has hit a four-year high of 5.7% in 2026. 82% of companies offer some form of AI training, yet 59% still report an AI skills gap. 87% of graduates wish their college had provided more AI education. The divide between diploma and real-world capability has never been wider.
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