In late 2025, the technology world watched a familiar pattern repeat at a new and striking scale. Meta announced that it had acquired Manus, a Singapore-based developer of general-purpose #AI_agents, in a transaction that news outlets, citing the Wall Street Journal, valued at more than two billion United States dollars. What made the deal remarkable was not only the price tag but the speed of the rise. Manus had launched its first general-purpose agent only months earlier an

The recent report that an #AI_System helped solve a version of Erdős Problem 124 in only a few hours has attracted attention far beyond mathematics. The case is important not only because it relates to a difficult problem associated with the work of Paul Erdős, but also because it shows how #Artificial_Intelligence may change the speed, cost, and organization of #Research_and_Innovation. For many years, advanced mathematical and scientific problems depended almost entirely on

In modern research, knowledge is not produced only through ideas, experiments, publications, and citations. It is also supported by systems of #research_identity, data management, reporting, funding administration, and institutional coordination. These systems are often invisible to the public, but they shape how research is recognized, evaluated, and connected across countries, disciplines, and organizations. Within this context, ORCID can be understood not only as a technic

Universities are not only places of teaching and research. They are also complex #knowledge_economies where time, funding, reputation, human talent, and institutional attention are constantly allocated. Every decision about hiring, promotion, publication, funding, ranking, and recognition has an economic meaning because it directs resources toward some activities and away from others. In this context, the Declaration on Research Assessment, widely known as DORA, offers an imp