The UN's AI for Good Summit in Geneva showcased robot dogs, Teslas, and rescue helicopters while grappling with tensions between idealistic goals and concerns over corporate power and inequality. Acti…
AI startup Rilla spends $1.7 million annually on housing stipends, offering employees $18,000 each if they live within a 10-minute bike ride of its Williamsburg office, where studios rent for $4,000 a…
Harvard Business School researcher Francesca Gino, fired for research misconduct involving data manipulation, sued Harvard and the researchers who exposed her for defamation. A judge dismissed her def…
Researchers at Goodfire, Harvard, Stanford, and Brown introduced Block-Sparse Featurizers (BSF), a method that decomposes neural network activations into multidimensional subspaces instead of single d…
Syracuse University's undergraduate enrollment shortfall signals that demographic pressures are now affecting large, well-known institutions, driven by declining high-school graduates, fewer internati…
A new study by Harvard economist Rebecca Diamond finds that women taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are significantly more likely to gain employment, with the employment rate rising 27 percentage points …
Rep. Nancy Pelosi will launch the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at UC Berkeley in January 2027, aiming to strengthen democratic institutions and train future public leaders. The …
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal involving at least 50 students in his advanced mathematical economics course, ECON 1170, who used artifici…
Organizations that thrive in the AI era prioritize human capabilities over technology alone, according to Harvard lecturer Angela Jackson. Her research across 1,700 companies reveals that most firms c…
New research shows that ChatGPT has caused a 30% jump in top university grades since 2022, with at least one in 10 assignments now AI-assisted. The increase is concentrated in writing and programming …
Natural language prompts that enable rapid AI prototyping accumulate 'prompt debt' as applications scale, slowing iteration, incapacitating teams, and locking systems to single models. The imprecision…
Stanford University and UC Berkeley ranked third and seventh, respectively, in U.S. News & World Report's 2025-2026 Best Global Universities list, maintaining top-10 positions amid federal research fu…
Harvard University and MIT Press released a free, open-source two-volume textbook on machine learning systems, covering AI engineering from single-machine to fleet-scale infrastructure. The curriculum…
Harvard University has shown interest in a top AI stock, signaling institutional confidence in the artificial intelligence sector. The move highlights growing academic and investment focus on AI compa…
A survey of 6,000 workers by Glean's Work AI Institute, in collaboration with Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard, found AI automation saved an average of 11 hours per week, but only 13% of respondents…
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Harvard SEAS used the game "Battleship" to test and improve how language models ask questions in uncertain environments. By implementing a Monte Carlo inference strategy t…
International Monetary Fund First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath said AI's massive capital demands are driving up global interest rates and reshaping investment strategies, while rising public…
Comedian Conan O’Brien delivered Harvard University’s commencement address Thursday, mixing humor with criticism of the Trump administration’s policies on immigration and empathy as the Ivy League sch…
Massachusetts leaders are pitching the state as a haven for AI talent fleeing California's proposed ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires' assets. Half of the 20 mo…
Harvard President Alan Garber told the Class of 2026 during his Baccalaureate address Tuesday that human effort retains its value even as artificial intelligence reshapes society. Garber urged graduat…