A new paper in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence proposes computational hermeneutics — evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology, not a calculator. Benchmarks, the authors argue, miss situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity, where culture actually lives.

Reading in context. California's AB 2013 takes effect, putting training-data lineage into the public record. Tech Policy Press warns the field is scaling synthetic data without shared standards, while Invisible Technologies argues the most capable models still anchor in human truth — the same problem, from opposite sides of the room.

Keeping what stands. IUCN, with Holcim and ARUP, names circular construction as the most powerful urban biodiversity lever. The Bio-Based Materials Collective targets the spec sheet itself, and Technology.org reports mycelium blocks growing in days at roughly ninety percent lower carbon than synthetic foams. Underneath, the Marine Biodiversity Science Center warns ocean deoxygenation is suffocating sea life faster than the field expected.

Listening to the body. Rodríguez and Wilkinson, writing in Counselor Education & Supervision, argue for putting the body-as-lived back at the centre of how therapists are trained — somatic attunement as therapeutic data, not noise.

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