Morning Briefing #37 — May 1, 2026

Morning Briefing #36 — May 1, 2026Your daily look at how world events shape technology and education.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S STORIES🌍 WORLD• US-Israel Iran War enters new phase as Pentagon reports $25B tab• May Day 2026: 3,500+ events as Workers Over Billionaires walkout goes nationwide• South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol gets additional 7 years on top of life sentence💻 TECH• Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 8,750 US employees citing AI shift• Google launches Gemini 3.1 Ultra with 2-million-token context window• OpenAI surpasses $25 billion ARR, eyes public listing by late 2026🎓 EDUCATION• Boston Public Schools to make AI literacy a graduation requirement• Ohio mandates all public school districts adopt formal AI policy by July 1, 2026• Students to lead national AI policy summit this summer with AASA and MIT🤖 AI• Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic in landmark AI deal• OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic join forces against Chinese model cloning• Humanoid robot training farms now collecting millions of human movement videos🔒 CYBERSECURITY• CISA adds 8 exploited flaws to KEV Catalog — federal deadlines through May 8• Critical cPanel authentication bypass carries CVSS 9.8• Glassworm campaign plants 73 sleeper malicious extensions in OpenVSX⭐ AND TO END ON A HIGH NOTE• Renewable energy surpasses natural gas in US electricity generation for first time ever━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCES• US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll tracker — Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on-iran-death-toll-and-injuries-live-tracker• $25bn or $1 trillion: How much has Iran war really cost the US? — Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/25bn-or-1-trillion-how-much-has-iran-war-really-cost-the-us• May Day Protests: Workers, Students Urged to Walk Out — Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/may-day-protests-workers-students-urged-walk-out-across-united-states-11891739• May Day Strong — Official Organizer Site https://maydaystrong.org/• South Korean court sentences ex-President Yoon to 7 years in prison — NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-119165/south-korean-court-sentences-ex-president-yoon• Yoon Suk Yeol Sentenced to Additional 7 Years by Seoul High Court — Vision Times https://www.visiontimes.com/2026/04/30/yoon-suk-yeol-sentenced-to-additional-7-years-in-prison-by-seoul-high-court.html• Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary retirement program — CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-plans-first-voluntary-retirement-program-for-us-employees.html• Microsoft Reshapes Workforce as It Pours Billions Into AI — Inc. https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/microsoft-ai-buyout-9000/91335472• AI Updates Today — LLM Stats https://llm-stats.com/llm-updates• Latest AI News and Breakthroughs 2026 — Crescendo AI https://www.crescendo.ai/news/latest-ai-news-and-updates• LLM News Today — LLM Stats https://llm-stats.com/ai-news• Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic — TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/• CoSN 2026: How K–12 Districts Are Tackling Responsible AI Adoption — EdTech M... https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2026/04/cosn-2026-how-k-12-districts-are-tackling-responsible-ai-adoption• Latest AI in Education News: Policies and Innovations 2026 — Pursuit https://www.pursuit.us/news/ai-in-education-news-policies-innovations• Ohio Model AI Policy for Districts and Schools — Ohio Department of Education https://education.ohio.gov/Topics/AI-in-Ohio-s-Education/Model-Policy• AI in Education Legislation: 2026 State Policy Trends — MultiState(continued in YouTube show notes)