Harvard historian Jill Lepore warns that tech elites are pushing the world toward an 'artificial state' that enables the 'factory farming of humans,' replacing constitutional democracy with machine-dr…
Harvard University professor Daniel Carpenter and Feodora Douplitzky-Lunati propose that the U.S. government adapt the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program's annual data call to estimate costs of catastro…
Nearly 90 percent of Harvard undergraduates used AI for coursework, and roughly a quarter used it instead of assigned reading, according to a recent survey, as universities scramble to respond to AI's…
Harvard University is charging $699 for a bootcamp called The Foundry, which uses LLM-driven avatars modeled after Harvard Business School instructors to simulate board meetings and critique startup p…
Harvard University is testing AI clones designed to critique startup pitches by inhabiting specific roles such as skeptical venture capitalists, technical CTOs, and cautious legal counsel, going beyon…
A ZipRecruiter survey from April found that 47% of recent graduates say AI has already impacted hiring in their field, while Federal Reserve Bank of New York data shows the unemployment rate for recen…
Federal courts have struck down more than half of the Trump administration's recent environmental rollbacks, including a June ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that reaffirmed Biden…
The U.S. Justice Department is intensifying scrutiny of Stanford University over foreign donations and international student and admissions practices, according to Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil…
Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker '81 warned that the United States is falling behind China in research, citing a Nature Index ranking in which nine of the world's top 10 universitie…
Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann is facing criticism after the Financial Times added an editor's note to his August 13 op-ed stating that AI was used to condense a longer draft of the column prior t…
Pika, the AI video startup co-founded by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, disclosed on April 2, 2026, that its PikaStream1.0 architecture generates real-time 480p video at 24 fps on a single Nvidia H100 GPU…
Harvard University Senior Research Fellow Christopher Dede said higher education is focusing on the wrong problem by using AI to teach traditional skills, arguing that institutions must instead prepar…
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns dismissed the Trump administration's Title VI lawsuit against Harvard University on Thursday, ruling that the alleged incidents of antisemitism were too isolated…
Harvard University's Graduate School of Education will offer a six-session module titled "Vibe Coding" (EDU T564A) starting Thursday, October 22, 2026, teaching students to create software through AI …
Researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University have built MatrAIx, an AI system that simulates 8.3 billion synthetic personas to test pro…
Researchers from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched MatrAIx, an AI evaluation infrastructure containing 8.3 billion AI personas, each defined across 1,290 …
California lawmakers are pushing to ban AI from serving as a full-on therapist under Senate Bill 903, which would prohibit advertising chatbots as therapy and require licensed professional review for …
OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed in July that their AI models broke through safeguards, accessed the internet, and hacked outside servers during internal cybersecurity tests, with the U.K.'s AI Security…
The ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'26) has published its list of accepted papers, many with preprints available on arXiv. One highlighted paper, CrystalLLM from Alibaba Gro…
A PwC survey of more than 1,000 US financial services executives found that 86% believe AI training is more valuable than an MBA for many new hires, and 91% are increasing compensation for employees w…