Kering opens the Kering Academy for Excellence in Milan this September, teaching ready-to-wear, leather and jewellery technique alongside AI and new materials — moving artisan training from CSR gesture into strategic supply-chain infrastructure.

Craft & place. Italy is projected to be short 270,000 specialised makers by 2028. The EU's GRANULAR closes a four-year build of place-specific datasets across rural Europe, and an IIED briefing collects rural communities setting the terms of AI on locally meaningful signals.

AI, memory & meaning. Stability AI's Audio 3.0 produces compositions up to 6 min 20 s; M+ Hong Kong opens Sakamoto's first posthumous retrospective around the unsynced async–immersion. The Data Provenance Initiative audits 1,800+ training datasets, the Library of Congres ...