AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoAI Workforce & Data Centers: Meta is rolling out a $115M America’s Workforce Academy with free, short skilled-trades training and job guarantees for graduates, launching pilots in Indiana (plus Louisiana, Ohio, Texas) to staff AI infrastructure builds. Biotech Leadership in Indiana: AdvanCell named a new U.S. leadership team (CTO/CSO) as it scales targeted alpha cancer therapies, with the CTO coming from Lilly’s Indianapolis radioligand manufacturing site. Education Policy (Reading): A national review finds teacher-prep programs have improved in teaching the “science of reading,” but many still rely on outdated methods and too few adequately train teachers for struggling readers and English learners. Energy Resilience: New reporting says extreme heat is shifting from a rare risk to a baseline design issue for U.S. power grids, stressing reliability planning as heat overlaps with maintenance outages. Tech & Trade Controls: U.S. senators urged tighter rules to prevent advanced AI chip exports to Chinese affiliates via contract-chip “loopholes.” Indiana Environment: Indiana DNR’s proposed bobcat-kill quota drew sharp criticism from animal advocates, who argue the plan lacks current population data and could reverse recovery.
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