Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University and former Chief AI Strategist for New Jersey, argues in her new book 'Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy' that AI can strengthen demo…
Americans are spending less time on hobbies, socializing, and community activities, which research shows can improve workplace creativity and resilience, even as AI increases the value of these unique…
A Northeastern/Berkeley team's True Thinking Score, surveying 11 open-weight reasoning models, found that 30–60% of reasoning steps on math benchmarks are 'decorative' — deleting them does not change …
Northeastern University's Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems has developed GENESIS, a self-driven agentic AI framework that writes, tests, and debugs code from natural language prompts, poten…
Northeastern University scientists from the Neural Dynamics Group developed eGoT (enhanced graph of thoughts), an algorithm that teaches large language models to connect information across biomedical …
A 2025 global Ipsos survey found 53% of respondents say AI has already changed their lives, and two-thirds expect further societal change, as Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno…
Northeastern University researchers found that eight popular AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still provide harmful information on substance use, eating disorders, and other mental …
A Northeastern University researcher found that linear probes can identify which layers of a transformer model are critical for a task, enabling selective quantization that preserves 99–100% of full-p…
A political backlash against data centers is intensifying across the U.S., with at least 500 organized opposition groups and 70% of Americans opposing new construction near them, according to a Gallup…
Surya Sai Brahmendra Ramoju, a 2024 Northeastern University graduate with a master's degree in data analytics engineering, now works at Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence division in Boston deve…
European AI production company Particle6 announced on July 5, 2026, that its AI persona Tilly Norwood will star in the film 'Misaligned,' a coming-of-age comedy that has ignited debate about synthetic…
A team of Northeastern University researchers found that large language models can serve as surrogates in conducting serious illness conversations with critically ill patients. In a pilot study of 55 …
Northeastern University researchers reported that AI is reshaping how people talk, interact and view themselves, warning that prolonged chatbot use can lead to emotional dependence and alienation from…
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on April 2, 2025, offering free access to its AI assistant for verified K-12 educators in the US, with tools for lesson planning and curriculum connections. The …
Workers ordered to use AI by their bosses are then penalized for it, a phenomenon researchers call the "AI penalty" that is costing employees promotions and raises, according to a Business Insider rep…
A new study from Northeastern University professor Christoph Riedl finds that managers often devalue employees' work once they learn AI played a part, creating a 'AI penalty' where workers face conseq…
White-collar workers are being penalized for disclosing AI assistance, with managers devaluing their contributions and assuming the technology did most of the work, according to a meta-analysis by Nor…
A Northeastern University student developed an open-source customizable compliance agent that automates SOC 2 evidence collection and reporting for lean SaaS, Fintech, and Healthtech teams. The tool c…
IEEE Fellow Karen Panetta, dean of graduate education at Tufts University, received the 2025 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal for contributions to computer vision and simulation algorithms and for promo…
The enrollment cliff, driven by declining birth rates since 2007, will force many U.S. colleges to close or merge by 2029, with small private and regional public schools most at risk. Schools like Mer…