6 digests on policy.
The Federal Reserve left its policy rate unchanged. Markets treated it as expected. The more useful debate is whether housing has cooled enough to count as a soft landing, or merely frozen in place.
· Federal Reserve, The New York Times, Axios
EU regulators issued the first material AI Act penalties against consumer-facing systems that could not show how high-risk classifications and transparency notices were handled. The law is no longer a calendar invite.
· European Commission, Politico Europe, Financial Times
NASA’s latest Artemis update moved the next crewed lunar timeline to the right. Planetary scientists still want the samples and the south-polar geology. Congressional patience is thinner than the science case.
· NASA, Space News, Science
The first month of the U.S. school year brought a familiar spike in “how to” queries. The ones that stayed were about chronic absenteeism and classroom phone bans, not backpacks.
· Chalkbeat, Education Week, Pew Research Center
Another cluster of avian influenza in dairy and poultry operations put H5N1 back in search trends. Human cases remain rare and occupational. The surveillance argument is about whether “rare” stays true.
· CDC, USDA APHIS, STAT News
Last December’s climate summit produced a headline number for adaptation and loss-and-damage finance. Nine months later, the argument is about disbursement, not the press conference.
· UNFCCC, Carbon Brief, The Economist
