Today’s pulse tilts practical: Simon Willison ships a SQLite query plan explainer, Anthropic tightens Claude Code’s contracts (manual verify/review, extended limits), and PrismML debuts a 3.9GB binary 27B. Research leans agentic and robust: ScholarGym, AutoResearchBench, TMLR on VLM TTA and episodic memory, plus fresh evidence on classroom AI dependence.