Kering opens the Kering Academy for Excellence in Milan this September, teaching ready-to-wear, leather and jewellery technique alongside AI and new materials — moving artisan training from CSR gesture into strategic supply-chain infrastructure.
Craft & place. Italy is projected to be short 270,000 specialised makers by 2028. The EU's GRANULAR closes a four-year build of place-specific datasets across rural Europe, and an IIED briefing collects rural communities setting the terms of AI on locally meaningful signals.
AI, memory & meaning. Stability AI's Audio 3.0 produces compositions up to 6 min 20 s; M+ Hong Kong opens Sakamoto's first posthumous retrospective around the unsynced async–immersion. The Data Provenance Initiative audits 1,800+ training datasets, the Library of Congress archives 250th-anniversary oral histories, and ConnectWise names passive backups as the largest preservation risk.
Climate & nature. Frontiers in Marine Science projects Pacific OMZ shifts of more than 100 m in fish diel-migration depth by 2100; Edinburgh identifies the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as the main driver. A bioRxiv preprint turns reef-restoration observer dependence into a stated design decision. And phys.org puts a number on Amazon forest loss: cleared patches run 3 °C hotter in dry season.
Kering opens Kering Academy for Excellence in Milan, fusing craft with AI — Made in Italy 2026Stability AI's Audio 3.0 generates compositions up to 6 min 20 sec — TechCrunchModeled Pacific OMZ shifts fish diel-migration depths by 100+ m — Frontiers in Marine ScienceAMO drives tropical Pacific oxygen variability (Edinburgh) — U. of Edinburgh GeoSciencesCoral restoration reshapes reef soundscapes; ML and manual analyses disagree — bioRxivAmazon deforested patches run 3 °C hotter at the surface in dry season — phys.orgEU GRANULAR closes four-year build of place-specific rural datasets — GRANULAR (EU)Library of Congress archives 250th-anniversary oral histories; expands By the People — Library of CongressM+ Hong Kong: first major posthumous Ryuichi Sakamoto retrospective — M+ Museum Hong KongData Provenance Initiative audits 1,800+ AI training text datasets — arXiv (DPI)ConnectWise: 'set-it-and-forget-it' backups are the largest preservation risk — ConnectWiseIIED: rural communities setting the terms of AI on locally meaningful signals — IIEDHosted by Oli. Original sources at sorah.io.
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