U.S. universities are rapidly expanding AI courses and degree programs beyond computer science as hiring for entry-level software developers slows and computer science enrollment drops 8% this spring,…
College enrollment in computer and information science programs has declined by more than 8% at four-year institutions from spring 2025, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center…
A June 2026 analysis by Kerri J. Malloy, assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at San José State University and a citizen of the Yurok and Karuk peoples, published in Governing…
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University introduced Explorative Modeling (XM), a training method that generates K candidate outputs per example and backpropaga…
Henry Chu, a prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent and editor, has been named curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, effective Aug. 3. Chu, a Harvard graduate and…
A Nature study published July 22 combined ProteinMPNN redesign with laboratory evolution to produce botulinum neurotoxin proteases that were more stable and better able to acquire new functions than n…
Research scientist Daniel Thilo Schroeder at SINTEF Digital warns that malicious AI swarms can spread disinformation on social media, creating 'digital forest fires' that lead to real-world harm, such…
Cornerstone University, a Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has formed a President’s Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board to develop a coherent AI strategy and curriculum, aiming to gr…
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician and junior fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows who works at Anthropic, used Anthropic's Fable 5 large language model to find a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjectu…
Twenty-six former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging the company used artificial intelligence systems to determine which workers were laid off, disproportionately targeting those on legally …
Harvard mathematician Levent Alpöge used Anthropic's Fable model to produce a 216-character counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, an 87-year-old open problem proposed by Eduard Ott-Heinrich Kelle…
A mathematician at Harvard University, Levent Alpöge, has used AI to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, posting a 216-character counterexample on X on 19 July. The solution, which relied on…
Levent Alpöge at Harvard University announced on July 19 that the Jacobian conjecture, an 87-year-old open problem in mathematics, is false, providing a 216-character counterexample discovered with th…
Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore argues in her new book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' out August 25, that systemic measurement and quantification dehumanize…
Shelly Xu Design (SXD), a 15-person startup, has closed an oversubscribed $4.5 million pre-seed round led by Initialized Capital to scale its AI software that eliminates cut-and-sew fabric waste by re…
The University of Chicago Law School is requiring first-year students to keep laptops closed in class this fall to combat AI-enabled cheating and ensure independent thinking, as colleges nationwide gr…
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…