Interesting new paper by Shöneberg, Caldéron, and Lesgourgues showing that the DESI anomaly is resolved in early-time models addressing the Hubble tension, such as NEDE, without the need for additional late-time dynamical dark energy: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.07654 .

This is nicely consistent with our earlier findings, see for example figure 5 of “Dark Acoustic Oscillations as an Early-Universe Explanation of the DESI Anomaly” https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15870 and figure 4 of ” The End of the First Act: Spectral Running, Interacting Dark Radiation, and the Hubble Tension in Light of ACT DR6 Data” https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26541 .