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How to Improve Student Retention: AI-Powered Early Intervention That Works in 2026

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 64% of students who begin a bachelor’s degree complete it within six years. For a mid-sized university with 10,000 students, that’s 3,600 students who never graduate. Universities track these numbers closely. Most have sophisticated analytics identifying at-risk students: declining GPAs, attendance patterns, financial aid status. The

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Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications

Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ because it runs as a library inside your application and does not require any external service or daemon. It is designed for retrieval augmented generation (RAG),

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Will the Gulf’s push for its own AI succeed?

Tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta to collectively invest $600bn on artificial intelligence this yearHello, and welcome to TechScape. Today in tech, we’re discussing the Persian Gulf countries making a play for sovereignty over their own artificial intelligence in response to an unstable United States. That, and US tech giants’ plans to spend more

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Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with the matter. Alphabet

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