Foreign student applications to US colleges fell about 10% this year, the biggest decline in at least a decade, according to data released Thursday by Common App, the country's most widely used colleg…
Databricks hosted the inaugural Grounded Reasoning Cup, a live AI competition where 11 academic teams from the U.S. and Canada built AI agents to reason over enterprise document collections. Stanford …
AI companions marketed as therapeutic tools for neurodivergent children, such as Curio's AI plushies and Mattel's OpenAI-enabled Barbies, risk emotional harm when hardware fails or software changes, a…
Bullet, a Y Combinator S26 startup founded by Yale graduates Adi and Alex, launched a faster coding agent that resolves 479 out of 500 (95.8%) SWE-bench Verified tasks in one attempt, averaging 119 se…
Axios reports that the upcoming election cycle will be the first where AI is both a dominant policy debate and a widely deployed political weapon, with campaigns using persuasion bots, simulated voter…
A study by researchers from Columbia Business School, Yale, and MyCustomAI found that AI shopping agents are more influenced by a product's page position and badges than by its star rating or review c…
Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom warned on July 9, 2026, that AI companions may ease loneliness while weakening users' real-world social skills, citing APA survey data showing 54% of U.S. adults o…
IEEE has honored robotics pioneer Toshio Fukuda with the 2025 Richard M. Emberson Award for his distinguished service advancing robotics. Fukuda, an IEEE Life Fellow and former IEEE president, is reco…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal in his ECON 1170 class, with at least 50 students using AI to cheat on a midterm exam. Serrano says the university a…
AI companies are using fear-based marketing that positions AI as a replacement for human workers, but data shows no evidence of widespread job displacement. New York state layoff filings and Yale rese…
A Stanford Law School study found that law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student questions over responses written by their peers in 75% of blind comparisons, challenging assumptions abo…
A team of researchers from Yale's Building AI Infrastructure class achieved a new speed record of 81.2 seconds on the modded-nanoGPT benchmark by introducing a learnable per-(layer, head) tanh(α) gate…
According to a New York Post article published on May 7, 2026, the UCLA School of Law is facing a free-speech crisis after student protesters disrupted a Federalist Society lecture by Department of Ho…